Convert HEIC to PNG
Convert HEIC to PNG free in your browser. No upload, no signup, no watermark. Files stay on your device.
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guide
how to convert heic to png
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 Portable Network Graphics. Most conversions finish in a few seconds; large or codec-heavy files (RAW, video) can take longer.
Download the PNG file
When the conversion finishes, the PNG file is ready to download. Save it anywhere on your device.
FAQ
common questions
Why convert HEIC to PNG instead of JPG?
PNG is the right choice when you plan to re-edit the photo, when you need transparency around an extracted subject, or when you want screenshots or line-art images preserved pixel-perfect. JPG is smaller but lossy; PNG keeps every pixel exactly so saving and re-saving never degrades the image.
Will the PNG be larger than the HEIC?
Significantly larger — typically 5–10× the size. HEIC compresses photos to a few megabytes; PNG stores every pixel without lossy compression and a typical 12 MP iPhone photo lands at 15–30 MB as PNG. The trade-off for PNG's losslessness is that it isn't size-competitive with HEIC for photographic content.
Will my iPhone photo's EXIF / GPS metadata transfer to the PNG?
Partially. PNG has no native EXIF block — the converter writes camera, date, and orientation as generic tEXt chunks where most readers will find them, but some apps and websites that consume EXIF (e.g. mapping tools that read GPS) may not surface PNG metadata the same way. If GPS or camera data is critical, keep the HEIC alongside or convert to JPG instead, which carries EXIF natively.
What about Live Photo motion, depth maps, and HDR?
Those don't transfer. The Live Photo motion clip, Portrait-mode depth, 16-bit colour, and Apple's wide-gamut HDR are HEIC-specific and have no equivalent in PNG. The output is a plain 8-bit PNG of the main frame; everything else is dropped.
Does the PNG preserve transparency from the HEIC?
Yes when there is any — but iPhone photos almost never have transparency to preserve. HEIC can carry an alpha channel, and PNG can too, so any transparency in the source survives. Photos straight out of the camera are fully opaque; transparency typically only appears in HEIC files that have been edited (e.g. by removing a background).