Your photos stay on your device
HEIC files are usually personal photos: your kids, your home, your ID card, a medical document you photographed for an insurance claim. Most HEIC converters upload them to a server to do the work. This one does not. The decoding runs inside your browser (natively in Safari, with an open source WebAssembly build of libheif everywhere else), the JPG is encoded on your device, and nothing is sent anywhere. You can load the page, switch off Wi-Fi, and convert a hundred photos.
How to convert HEIC to JPG
- Drop your .heic or .heif files on the box above, or click to choose them. Select as many as you want.
- Pick the JPG quality. 90 percent is visually identical to the original for photos and about half the size of 100 percent.
- Decide what happens to the metadata (see below), then download each file or all of them at once.
The first file takes a couple of seconds longer while the decoder loads (about 1.5 MB, once). After that each 12 MP photo converts in roughly a second.
Location and EXIF: you choose
Every iPhone photo carries EXIF metadata: date and time, camera model, lens, exposure, and, unless you turned it off, the GPS coordinates of where it was taken, accurate to a few meters. When you send a JPG to a stranger, a marketplace buyer or a public forum, that location goes with it. Here you get three options:
- Remove all metadata (the default). The JPG carries only the pixels.
- Keep date and camera, remove location. Useful for your own archive or for a photo library that sorts by date.
- Keep everything, GPS included, for when the location is the point.
Each converted file tells you whether it had location data and whether it was removed. The orientation is applied to the pixels, so the JPG is upright everywhere, even in apps that ignore rotation tags.
Why iPhones save HEIC at all
HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container, the HEIF format with HEVC compression) stores a photo in roughly half the space of a JPG at the same quality. Apple made it the default in 2017. It is a fine format on Apple devices, but Windows needs an extension to open it, many websites and government portals reject it, and older software has never heard of it. JPG opens everywhere.
To stop your iPhone from creating HEIC in the first place, go to Settings › Camera › Formats and choose Most Compatible. On a Mac you can also convert with Preview or a Quick Action; our guide on how to change HEIC to JPG on a Mac walks through every built-in method.
Limits
Very large batches are processed one file at a time to keep memory in check, so a hundred photos take a minute or two. Live Photos convert as the still image. HEIC files with depth maps or multiple images convert the primary image. If a file fails, it is usually not a real HEIC: try opening it in the WebP to JPG converter or the AVIF to JPG converter instead.