iPhones save photos as HEIC, and half the web still can't open them. This converter decodes HEIC in your browser and gives you a standard JPG. Drop in one photo or a whole album; nothing is sent to a server, so your personal photos stay on your device.
What is HEIC to JPG?
Our heic to jpg converter turns the HEIC photos your iPhone or iPad takes into ordinary JPG files that open everywhere. Apple saves pictures as HEIC because it keeps the same detail in roughly half the space, but Windows apps, many upload forms, older Android phones and plenty of websites still refuse it.
The converter decodes each photo on your own device and writes a standard JPEG at the quality you choose. Drop a single picture or a whole album exported from Photos, then save the results one by one or as a ZIP. Your photos never leave your device, which matters when the pictures show your family, your home or your ID documents.
How to convert HEIC to JPG
- Drop your HEIC files, or pick them from Photos on iPhone.
- Choose the JPG quality (90% is visually identical to the original).
- Download each JPG, or get the whole batch as a ZIP.
How HEIC to JPG works
HEIC stands for High Efficiency Image Container. It is Apple's flavour of HEIF, a container that stores pictures compressed with HEVC (H.265), the same codec used for 4K video. HEVC predicts each block of pixels from its neighbours and stores only the difference, which is why a 12-megapixel iPhone photo is often 1.5–2.5 MB as HEIC but 3–5 MB as a JPG of similar quality.
JPG, standardised in 1992, uses an older method. It splits the picture into 8×8 blocks, turns each block into frequencies with a discrete cosine transform and discards fine detail your eye barely notices. Almost every device and program made since the 1990s can read it, which is the whole reason to convert.
Most browsers cannot decode HEIC by themselves, so the first time you convert, the page loads a decoder library (libheif built to run in the browser). Your photo is decoded into pixels in memory, turned upright using its orientation tag, and encoded to JPEG by the browser's own encoder. The library download is code only. Your photos never travel.
Key features of HEIC to JPG
Free for whole albums
Convert one photo or several hundred in a single batch, which counts as one run, with no watermark stamped on your pictures. Batch mode handles a full holiday export in one go, and the ZIP download saves you from pressing Save on every single file.
90% quality looks identical
The default 90% JPG quality is visually indistinguishable from the HEIC on screen, and the slider runs from 40% to 100%. Pixel dimensions stay exactly as shot, and photos are turned upright using their orientation tag, so portraits do not come out sideways.
Processed on your device, no waiting
With no server trip or queue, a typical iPhone photo converts in a second or two once the decoder has loaded. The very first conversion takes a moment longer while that library downloads. After that, speed depends only on your device.
Works right on your iPhone
Open the page in Safari on your iPhone, tap the drop area and pick photos from your library. It runs the same way in Chrome, Edge and Firefox on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, and you can add it to your home screen as an app.
Keyboard and screen reader ready
Every control is reachable with Tab and Enter, buttons and fields carry proper labels, and conversion progress is announced to screen readers through a live region. There are no time limits, dark mode is one click away, and the layout holds up at high browser zoom.
Personal photos stay on your phone
Family pictures, photos of documents and shots of your home never leave your device, and you can confirm it in the browser's network tab. Location and camera details are not copied into the new JPG, so you do not reveal where a photo was taken by accident.
What makes EZ Compress's HEIC to JPG different
Whole albums, one ZIP
Many converters cap you at a handful of files or make each one wait in a server queue. Here a full camera roll export is processed locally, and every JPG downloads together in a single ZIP file with the original file names kept.
GPS stripped by default
Re-encoding writes a fresh JPG without the EXIF block, so the GPS coordinates your iPhone embeds are not carried into files you post, sell with or email. That is a safer default than tools that copy every tag across.
Keeps working offline
Once the page and decoder have loaded, you can switch off Wi-Fi and keep converting. That helps on a train or a metered connection, and it is simple proof that nothing about your photos is being sent anywhere.
Why use HEIC to JPG?
Convert HEIC to JPG when something on the other end refuses Apple's format: a job application portal, a visa form, an older Windows photo viewer, a print kiosk, or a client who just sees a file they cannot open. JPG is the common language for photos, and it is what most forms list as accepted.
It also helps when you move from iPhone to Android or Windows and find your exported library full of .heic files. Use this HEIC converter to batch convert iPhone photos to JPG in one pass, keep the originals as a backup, and share the JPGs anywhere without asking the recipient to install an extension.
Who can use HEIC to JPG?
iPhone owners
Send photos to friends on Windows or Android, or upload them to sites that reject HEIC, without switching your camera to Most Compatible and doubling the size of every new picture.
Job and visa applicants
Turn a portrait or a photographed certificate shot on an iPhone into the JPG that government and recruitment portals ask for, then compress it further if the form sets a KB limit.
Online sellers
Product shots taken on an iPhone often fail marketplace uploads. Convert a whole shoot to JPG at once and get your listings live the same afternoon.
Office and HR teams
Staff often email ID photos and receipts as HEIC attachments. Convert them on a work laptop without handing personal documents to a third-party server.
Estate agents and surveyors
Turn dozens of property photos from an iPhone walk-through into JPGs that listing software, report templates and email clients all accept.
Settings explained
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Quality | Higher keeps more detail but makes a larger file. 80–90% is visually identical to the original for most photos. |
| Background for transparency | Colour used where the source had transparency, since this output format cannot store it. |
| Keep EXIF / location data | Off by default, so GPS and camera data are removed. Turn on to copy the date, camera details and location from a JPG or iPhone HEIC into the JPG output. |