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HEIC to JPG

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Convert HEIC to JPG — the iPhone photos Windows won't open, turned into files everything reads.

  1. Drop in the .heic photos from your iPhone — one, or the whole folder
  2. They convert on your own computer, which takes a moment each
  3. Download the JPEGs, or save them to your account
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    About this tool

    Your iPhone saves photos as HEIC, and almost nothing else opens them. Windows shows a grey box and asks you to buy an extension from the Microsoft Store. Word refuses to insert them. Half the websites you try to upload one to say the file type is not supported. The photo is fine — it is just written in a format Apple adopted in 2017 and much of the world never followed. This is the step where you change heic to jpg — or heic to jpeg, which is the same format spelled the longer way — and JPEG is the one thing every phone, laptop, printer and website already understands. Drop in one photo or a hundred, and they come back as JPEGs at the same size and dimensions, ready to email, print or upload. The conversion happens in your browser. The photos are decoded and re-encoded on your own computer and never sent to us, which matters more here than on most tools: these are usually pictures of people, and a holiday album is not something to hand to a website in exchange for a file conversion. One honest caveat, because it is the thing people notice afterwards. JPEG is a lossy format and so is HEIC, so converting is a second generation of compression on a photo you cannot re-take. At the quality this uses the difference is invisible on screen and in print — but the original HEIC is still the better file, so keep it if you have room. Convert the copy you need to send, not the copy you are keeping.

    Frequently asked questions

    Why can't Windows open HEIC files?

    Apple made HEIC the default on iPhones in 2017 because it stores the same picture in about half the space. Microsoft never shipped the decoder with Windows — it is sold as a separate extension in the Microsoft Store, and licensing is the reason. So a photo that looks fine on the phone arrives on a PC as a file nothing will open — which is why “open heic on windows” is such a common search, and why “iphone photo won't open” is usually the same problem wearing different words. Converting it to JPG sidesteps the whole problem.

    Does converting HEIC to JPG lose quality?

    A little, and it is worth understanding rather than worrying about. Both formats are lossy, so re-encoding is a second generation of compression. This converts at a high quality setting where the difference is invisible on screen and in print. The original HEIC remains the better file, so if you have space, keep it and convert the copy you are sending.

    Why is the JPEG bigger than the HEIC?

    Because HEIC is a much newer and more efficient format — that is the whole reason Apple chose it. The same photo as a JPEG is often roughly twice the size. Any heic converter makes the same trade, whichever one you use: you are trading file size for a format that everything can open, which is usually the trade you want when you are sending a picture to somebody.

    Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

    No. The conversion runs in your browser, on your own computer, and the photos never leave it. That is not a promise about our servers being careful — there is nothing for our servers to be careful with, because they never receive the file.

    Can I convert a whole folder at once?

    Yes. Drop in as many as you like and they convert one after another, with a bar showing how far along it is. How many at once depends on your plan, and the page tells you the number rather than silently stopping.

    What about Live Photos — do I get the video part?

    No, and no converter can give you that from the .heic alone. A Live Photo is two files: the still image in HEIC and a short .mov beside it. This converts the still. If you want the moving part, copy the .mov off your phone separately — it is already a format everything plays.

    Does it keep the date the photo was taken?

    The image is converted, not the metadata around it, so treat the dates as unreliable after conversion. If the original date matters — for a claim, a court, or simply keeping an album in order — keep the HEIC as well. Our EXIF remover is the tool for the opposite problem, when you want that information gone before sharing.

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