Tool StudioOpen iPhone photos on Windows, Android, or anything else
Choose your HEIC photos
Drag up to 20 .heic or .heif files onto the box above, or click to browse. These come straight off an iPhone or iPad — you don't need to rename or prepare them first.
Convert to JPEG
Press Convert. The files upload and are decoded on our server, because no browser except Safari can read HEIC on its own. It usually takes a few seconds per photo.
Check it, then download
Each converted photo shows its dimensions and before/after file size so you can confirm it's right. One photo downloads as a JPEG; several download together as a zip.
If you've copied photos off an iPhone and Windows shows you a folder full of files it refuses to open, you've met HEIC. It's the format Apple has used by default since iOS 11 — technically HEIF, saved with a .heic extension — and it exists for a good reason: it stores roughly the same picture in about half the space of a JPEG.
The problem is everything that isn't an Apple device. Windows doesn't ship with the codec, so you're sent to the Microsoft Store for extensions, and the one that actually decodes most iPhone photos may be a paid add-on depending on your PC. Android support is patchy. Plenty of upload forms, print kiosks, older editors and content systems simply reject the file. The photo is fine — nothing can read it.
This converter turns a .heic or .heif file into an ordinary JPEG that opens anywhere, with nothing to install. Drop the file in, press convert, and download the result. Your photo keeps its original dimensions — we don't resize, crop or watermark it — and the JPEG is written at 92% quality, which is the point where the difference stops being visible on a screen or in print.
Convert up to 20 photos at once — one comes back as a JPEG, several come back as a zip. One honest note, because most converters skip it: the JPEG will usually be larger than the HEIC you started with. That isn't a bug, it's the whole reason Apple switched formats — JPEG simply needs more bytes for the same picture.
Conversion happens on our server rather than in your browser, because no browser except Safari can decode HEIC. Your file is uploaded, converted, and deleted automatically afterwards — we don't keep it and we don't need an account from you.
If you only need a smaller file rather than a different format, the Image Compressor is the better tool. To change the pixel dimensions afterwards, use the Image Resizer.
Drop the .heic file onto the box above and press Convert. It uploads, converts, and comes back as a standard JPEG in a few seconds. Nothing to install and no account needed.
On an iPhone, iPad or Mac it opens natively. On Windows you need the HEIF Image Extensions from the Microsoft Store — and depending on your PC, a second paid extension for the HEVC codec most iPhone photos use. Converting to JPEG avoids the whole problem, which is why most people end up here.
Apple Photos and Preview on macOS; Photos on iOS. On Windows, the Photos app can open them once the Microsoft Store extensions are installed. Adobe Lightroom and recent Photoshop versions read them; older versions and most free editors don't. Once converted to JPEG, everything opens it.
Yes — this converter is free with no sign-up, no watermark and no daily cap. There's no paid tier to upsell you to.
Stop your iPhone producing HEIC in the first place: Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible. New photos are saved as JPEG from then on. On a Mac you can open a HEIC in Preview and use File → Export → JPEG. Neither helps with photos you've already taken on another device, which is where this tool comes in.
Yes — up to 20 photos in one go. Convert one and you get a JPEG back; convert several and you get a zip with all of them inside.
A little, in principle — HEIC and JPEG are both lossy, so re-encoding always costs something. We convert at 92% JPEG quality, which is above the point where the difference is visible on a screen or in a normal print. Be wary of any converter claiming 'zero quality loss'; that isn't possible between these two formats.
Because HEIC is a far more efficient format — that's the entire reason Apple adopted it. The same photo typically needs about twice as many bytes as a JPEG. Nothing has gone wrong and no quality has been added; JPEG is just a less compact container. If size matters more than compatibility, run the result through our Image Compressor.
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Drop HEIC/HEIF photos here, or click to browse
Straight off an iPhone — convert up to 20 at once