Convert HEIC to JPEG
Free, no sign up, no limit. The conversion happens inside this page, so your photographs never leave your device.
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Why your phone made a file nothing will open
HEIC is what an iPhone saves by default, and it is a good format: it holds roughly the same picture as a JPEG in about half the space, which is why Apple switched to it. The trouble is everywhere else. Send a HEIC to someone on Windows, upload it to a booking form, drop it into an older editor, and a fair amount of the time it simply will not open.
So the conversion is not about quality. It is about handing someone a file they can actually use.
Why this one does not upload your photos
Browsers do not agree about HEIC. Safari decodes it. Chrome and Firefox do not, and have said they do not intend to. That is the reason almost every HEIC converter on the web is a server: it is the easy way round the problem, and it means your photographs are sent to a machine you cannot see.
These are personal pictures, usually of people. This page takes the harder route and ships a decoder to your browser instead, so the file is read where it already is. Nothing is uploaded, and the decoder is only downloaded if you actually drop a HEIC in, so nobody pays for it who did not come here for it.
JPEG, or something smaller
JPEG is the right default here, because the whole point is a file that opens anywhere, and every piece of software made in the last thirty years reads a JPEG.
If the picture is going onto a website rather than into somebody’s inbox, pick WebP or AVIF in the format list above instead. On our own photographs WebP came out 14 to 20% smaller than JPEG and AVIF came out 57 to 58% smaller, which on a page full of images is the difference between fast and slow. The full comparison has the measurements and the files they came from.
A note on what gets lost
Converting re-encodes the picture, which drops the EXIF block: the capture date, the camera settings, and the GPS coordinates if the photo carried them. For sending someone a photograph that is usually what you want. If you need the original data, keep the HEIC as well as the JPEG rather than replacing it.
A whole camera roll rather than one photo?
Resiqo takes the batch, names every file from what is in the shot, and converts and resizes the lot into one zip. Try the naming on 3 images a day with no account, or 20 a month with a free one.