HEIC to JPG Converter

What does converting HEIC to JPG keep, and what does it fix?

It turns the photos your iPhone saves as HEIC into JPG, PNG or WebP files that open anywhere: Windows, Android, upload forms, print shops. And it fixes the three things converters usually get wrong.

• True colors. iPhones shoot in Display P3, a wider color space than the web's sRGB. Converters that ignore this save dull, washed-out JPGs. Here the colors are converted properly, or kept as P3 with the profile embedded if you pick Wide.
• The date stays, the location goes. By default the JPG keeps the date taken and the camera details and drops the GPS position, so a photo you share doesn't reveal where you live. You can also keep everything or remove everything.
• Never sideways. The photo is turned the way it was taken and the rotation tag is reset, so no app rotates it a second time.
• Batch and ZIP. Any number of photos, converted one after another. The ZIP keeps the original names and sets each file's date to the date taken, so folders sort in shooting order.
• No upload, no account, no watermark.

How do you convert HEIC to JPG?

1. Drop the photos on the page, or press Try a sample iPhone photo.
2. Pick JPG, PNG or WebP, and the quality. 90 looks identical to the original.
3. Choose Standard colors for anything you upload or print, or Wide (P3) to keep the full iPhone color range.
4. Choose what happens to the photo info: No GPS (the default), Keep all, or None to remove it all.
5. Download each photo, or Download all (.zip). Changing an option re-converts what is already on the list.

Why do converted iPhone photos look washed out?

Because the colors are read in the wrong color space. An iPhone photo stores its colors as Display P3 numbers, with a profile that says so. If a converter copies those numbers into a JPG without the profile, every screen reads them as sRGB, and saturated reds, oranges and greens lose their punch.

The list under each photo tells you how much of it uses colors beyond sRGB, so you can see when Wide makes a difference.

Why is this converter fast without uploading?

A HEIC photo is compressed with HEVC, the same codec as iPhone video. Most computers and phones have a chip that decodes HEVC video, and this page asks that chip to decode the photo too, so nothing large is downloaded. Our 3 megapixel sample photo converts in about 0.3 seconds on a laptop. Safari can also read HEIC on its own. Only where neither exists, mainly Firefox and Linux, the page loads libheif, an open-source decoder, once. The output was checked against Apple's own decoding: the same orientation and the same colors, within one step out of 255.

How big is the JPG, and what is lost?

JPG compresses less efficiently than HEIC, so the converted file is bigger. Our 2016 × 1512 sample photo, 108 KB as HEIC, came out like this:

The exact ratio depends on the photo, but expect the JPG to be a few times the HEIC and the PNG many times the JPG. Quality 90 looks the same as the original on screen. A few things do not carry over:

• It does not keep HDR. Newer iPhones add a brightness map for HDR screens. The JPG is the standard version of the photo.
• It does not convert Live Photos to video. The still photo is converted; the short video beside it isn't.
• It converts the main image of multi-image files, such as bursts.
• It has a size ceiling. Photos above 120 megapixels need more memory than a browser tab gets.

After converting, the image compressor makes the JPGs smaller for email, and the image resizer sets exact dimensions.