Convert HEIC to JPG
Convert HEIC to JPG free in your browser. No upload, no signup, no watermark. Files stay on your device.
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Drop your HEIC file
Drag your HEIC file into the drop zone above, or click the box to pick a file from your computer or phone. The browser reads the file directly — nothing uploads.
Click Convert
The page runs heic-to on your device to decode the High Efficiency Image Format and encode it as JPEG. Most conversions finish in a few seconds; large or codec-heavy files (RAW, video) can take longer.
Download the JPG file
When the conversion finishes, the JPG file is ready to download. Save it anywhere on your device.
FAQ
common questions
Why don't my iPhone HEIC photos open on Windows / email / Slack?
Apple introduced HEIC as the default iPhone photo format in iOS 11 (2017), but adoption outside the Apple ecosystem has been slow. Many older Windows builds, email clients, and chat apps still can't decode HEIC and either show a broken image or refuse to attach the file. Converting to JPG produces a file every app made since the mid-90s can open.
Will my photo's camera metadata, date, and GPS location survive the conversion?
Yes. EXIF metadata — camera model, lens, exposure settings, capture date, and GPS coordinates — transfers from HEIC to JPG cleanly. Both formats carry the same EXIF block, so the converter copies it across verbatim. The output JPG will pin on a map and sort by date the same way the original HEIC would.
What about Live Photo motion, depth maps, and HDR data?
Those are HEIC-specific and don't have a JPG equivalent. The Live Photo motion clip, the Portrait-mode depth map, the 16-bit colour, and Apple's wide-gamut HDR information are all dropped during conversion — the output is a plain 8-bit JPG of the main frame. If you need to keep those, keep a copy of the HEIC alongside the JPG.
Will the JPG be much larger than the original HEIC?
Yes — typically about 2× the size. HEIC compresses photos roughly 50% better than JPEG at the same visible quality, so the trade-off for compatibility is file size. A 2 MB HEIC commonly becomes a 4 MB JPG. The visual difference is invisible at the default quality (~90), but the bytes are real.
Will the JPG look the same as the HEIC?
Yes, at normal viewing sizes. The JPG encoder uses a high default quality (~90), where the difference from the source HEIC is invisible to the eye. You'd only see compression artefacts in extreme cases (very large gradients, dark sky regions) and only by pixel-peeping at 100% zoom.