HEIC → JPG
Convert HEIC to JPG
JPG — also written JPEG — is the format everything opens: Windows Photos, Word, every website upload box, every printing shop. This is the conversion to pick when you just need the photo to work somewhere else.
Convert your files
How it works
Why your iPhone photos are HEIC in the first place
Since iOS 11, iPhones save photos as HEIC because it stores roughly the same picture in about half the space of a JPG. That is a real benefit while the photo stays on the phone. It stops being a benefit the moment you email the file to someone on Windows, upload it to a form that only accepts JPG, or open it on a computer that has never heard of the format.
Converting to JPG trades some of that efficiency for the thing you actually need right now: a file that opens anywhere, with no plugin and no explanation.
About quality
JPG is a lossy format, so converting does discard some data. The quality slider above controls how much. At the default of 88 the difference is not visible at normal viewing size for most photographs; lower it if you need smaller files for email, raise it toward 100 if the photo is going to be printed or edited further. Your original HEIC file is never modified.
Questions
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No. The decoder is a WebAssembly module that downloads to your browser once, then does all the work locally. After the page has loaded you can disconnect from the internet entirely and conversion still works.
Does this work on Windows?
Yes. The conversion happens in your browser, so Windows never has to understand HEIC at all — it only ever sees the JPG that comes out.
How many photos can I convert at once?
There is no fixed limit. Files are processed one after another rather than all at once, which keeps memory use flat, so a large batch takes longer but will not crash the tab.
Is JPEG the same thing as JPG?
Yes — they are two spellings of one format, and this page produces both. The three-letter .jpg extension is a leftover from older versions of Windows, which could not handle four-letter file extensions. Nothing about the file differs.