How to Convert HEIC to JPG (iPhone Photos to JPG)
If you have ever moved a photo from an iPhone to a Windows computer and found it would not open, you have met HEIC. It is the format iPhones use to save photos, and it is genuinely good — but most of the world still expects JPG. Here is how to convert it, free, in your browser.
What is HEIC, and why does the iPhone use it?
HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) stores the same photo in about half the space of a JPG, with slightly better quality. Apple switched the iPhone to it because it saves storage. The catch is compatibility: Windows Photos, many websites, older Android phones and a lot of software cannot open HEIC files at all.
Convert HEIC to JPG in three steps
- Open the HEIC to JPG converter. There is nothing to install and no sign-up form.
- Drop in your HEIC files (one photo, or a whole batch from your camera roll). Each file appears with a thumbnail preview, its name and its size.
- Click Convert, then download. Download files one by one, or take them all as a single ZIP.
Your photos never leave your device — the conversion happens entirely in your browser, which matters for personal photos.
What changes in the conversion?
Almost nothing visible. The JPG is a little larger than the HEIC (because JPG is less efficient), and the quality setting lets you choose how much. At 90 percent quality the JPG looks identical to the original. One thing that does not survive is the HEIC container's extra data — live-photo motion and depth information are dropped, since JPG has nowhere to put them. The still photo itself converts perfectly.
Should you change the iPhone setting instead?
You can: on the iPhone, Settings > Camera > Formats > Most Compatible makes the phone save JPGs from then on. But that does not fix the HEIC photos you already have, and it doubles the storage they use. Converting the ones you need is usually the simpler answer.