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HEIC to JPG

Convert iPhone HEIC photos to JPG in any browser, in a batch, without uploading them.

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Processed in this browser · HEIC · up to 50 at a time

90

Lower is smaller; above 90, files grow quickly for little visible gain.

Turns iPhone and iPad photos saved as HEIC into JPG, which every computer, website and app opens. It works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, on Windows, Android and Apple devices alike. Add up to 50 photos at once and download them singly or as a ZIP. Photos are converted on your device and never uploaded.

How to use it

Every HEIC photo is saved as JPG. Files in other formats are listed with an error and left as they are; the Image Converter takes them.

Quality (1–100, default 90): at 90 most photos show no visible difference; lower values give smaller files with more visible blur. Background colour fills transparent areas, which JPG cannot hold.

Keep metadata (off by default) copies the photo's camera details into the new file. With it off, the file carries none. Keep location also keeps the GPS position where the photo was taken.

Each file shows its size before and after and any notes, such as a file that grew, with what would make it smaller. Drag the divider on the preview to compare the result with the original, and zoom to 100% or 200% to see detail at its real size; drag the zoomed image, or use the arrow keys, to move around it. Changing an option redoes the files, the one on show first. Downloads are named after the original with -converted added; with several files, Download all saves them as one ZIP. Options are remembered on this device, and Reset options puts them back to the defaults.

What happens to the photo

Each image is decoded, drawn upright and saved afresh in the new format. The orientation the camera recorded is applied to the pixels, and the colours are converted to standard sRGB, so a photo in a wide colour space (Display P3, as recent iPhones record) can look slightly less vivid. Transparency is kept in PNG, WebP and AVIF.

With Keep metadata on, the EXIF block (camera and lens, exposure settings, date taken) is copied into the new file and corrected to fit it: the orientation is reset, since the pixels are already upright; the pixel dimensions are updated; the colour space is set to sRGB. The embedded preview image, the maker notes (the camera brand's private data) and any XMP or IPTC metadata are left out. Without Keep location, the GPS position is removed too. AVIF files are saved without metadata.

Most browsers cannot read HEIC, so the first HEIC photo you add loads a decoder (libheif) from this site; Safari decodes HEIC itself.

Examples

Keep the date taken, not the location

Keep metadata
On
Keep location
Off
Note on the result
Metadata kept, without the location.

The JPG keeps the camera, settings and date taken, so photo apps still sort it by date, while the GPS position stays out of anything you share.

Frequently asked questions

iPhones save photos as HEIC (High Efficiency Image Format) by default, since it stores a photo in less space than JPG. Windows, many websites and older apps cannot open it. To have the iPhone save JPG instead, set Settings → Camera → Formats to Most Compatible. To convert while copying to a computer, set Settings → Photos → Transfer to Mac or PC to Automatic.
A Live Photo is a HEIC still with a short video saved beside it as a separate file. The still is converted to JPG; the motion is in the video file, which this tool does not read.
Slightly, as any re-saving of a photo does. At the default Quality of 90 the difference is rarely visible; raise it to 100 for the least loss, at the cost of a larger file. The JPG is usually larger than the HEIC either way.
Yes, by default: converted files carry no metadata at all. With Keep metadata on, the camera details are copied but the GPS position is not, unless Keep location is on as well. The result says when a location was removed.
No. Your browser reads, converts and saves the images on your device; they are not sent to CornerTools or anyone else. To check, open the browser's developer tools at the Network tab and add an image: no request carries it. The first HEIC photo you add downloads a decoder from this site: a download to your browser, not an upload of your photo.

See also

  • Image Converter — for other formats: WebP, PNG and AVIF, in either direction.
  • Image Compressor — to bring the JPG under a size limit in KB.
  • Remove EXIF Data — to see and remove a photo's location, camera details and other metadata.