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HEIC to JPG converter

Convert HEIC photos from an iPhone to JPG for free, in any modern browser on Windows, Mac or Android, with nothing uploaded. Drop a batch, adjust the quality if you like, and download JPEGs that open everywhere.

Pick a target format. Quality applies to the lossy formats; the others are exact.

What happens to a HEIC photo

HEIC is the format an iPhone saves photos in on its High Efficiency setting. It keeps photos small, but plenty of Windows programs, websites and upload forms still will not open it. This page turns each HEIC into an ordinary JPEG, at quality 0.82 unless you change it, and the JPEG usually comes out larger than the HEIC it came from.

Safari reads HEIC with its own decoder. In Chrome, Edge and Firefox, the first HEIC you open downloads File4Edit's HEIC decoder from this site, and the photo itself never leaves your device. Only the main image in the file is converted, turned the right way up. The JPEG carries no EXIF data, so the camera, the date and the GPS location stay behind. Safari converts the colors of a wide-gamut photo to standard sRGB; the decoder used by the other browsers does not apply the color profile, so the most saturated colors can look a little flatter.

HEIC to JPG converter at a glance

Input
HEIC and HEIF photos, including .heif and the .hif files some cameras write; other image formats convert too
Output
JPEG at the quality you set; several photos download together as a ZIP
What it does
  • Batch conversion with one ZIP download
  • Safari's own HEIC reader, or File4Edit's decoder in Chrome, Edge and Firefox
  • Quality from 0.05 to 1.00, starting at 0.82
  • Photos turned upright using the orientation stored in the file
  • The main image picked out of a HEIC that holds several
  • A HEIC renamed .jpg is still recognized and opened
Who it is for
iPhone and iPad owners moving photos to a Windows PC or a website, or sending them to someone whose software does not open HEIC.
Limits
  • In Chrome, Edge and Firefox the HEIC decoder downloads the first time a HEIC is opened, so that first photo takes a little longer.
  • In those browsers the decoder refuses files over 256 MB, and photos over 100 megapixels are refused everywhere.
  • Only the still image is converted; the motion of a Live Photo is a separate video file.
  • EXIF data, including the GPS location, is not copied into the JPEG.
  • A HEIF image with a transparent background, which camera photos do not have, gets the background color, white unless you change it.
Privacy
The photos are decoded and converted inside your browser and never uploaded. The HEIC decoder comes from File4Edit's own site, and nothing about your photos is sent with that request.

How to convert HEIC to JPG

  1. Drop the HEIC photos Drag .heic files onto the page or click to browse for them. Each photo gets its own row, and in Chrome, Edge or Firefox the first one waits a moment while the decoder downloads.
  2. Keep JPEG selected This page opens with JPEG chosen in the format list. Switch to PNG only if you want a lossless copy for editing.
  3. Adjust the quality 0.82 suits most photos. Raise it toward 0.95 for prints or lower it for email, and watch the first photo's JPEG size change in the strip above the preview.
  4. Apply, then download Press Apply, then Download. One photo saves as a JPEG named with its size, such as IMG_0412-4032x3024.jpg, and a batch arrives as one ZIP.

HEIC to JPG converter: common questions

Does this work on Windows?

Yes. Open the page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on Windows and HEIC photos convert there without installing anything, because File4Edit's HEIC decoder runs inside the browser.

Will the JPEG look the same as the original?

Very nearly, at the default quality of 0.82 or above. JPEG compression drops a little fine detail, and in Chrome, Edge and Firefox the most saturated colors of a wide-gamut iPhone photo can look slightly flatter, because the decoder there does not apply the photo's color profile.

Is the location of my photo kept?

No. The JPEG is drawn from the pixels alone, so the GPS position, the date and the camera details stored in the HEIC are not copied into it.

How do I stop my iPhone taking HEIC photos?

On the iPhone, open Settings, then Camera, then Formats, and choose Most Compatible. New photos are then saved as JPEG; the HEIC photos you already have stay as they are, and this page converts those.

What happens to a Live Photo?

Only the still picture is converted. The moving part of a Live Photo is kept in a separate video file, which this page does not open.