What Is HEIC to JPG Converter?
HEIC to JPG Converter transforms Apple’s HEIC/HEIF image format into universally compatible JPG files. iPhones and iPads shoot photos in HEIC by default to save storage, but many websites, apps, and Windows programs can’t open them. This tool bridges that gap instantly.
How to Use This Tool
Drop your HEIC files into the tool — you can convert one or many at once. Choose your JPG quality level, then click convert. Each image is decoded and re-encoded as a JPG directly in your browser, and the results download to your device. No files are uploaded to any server.
Why Use HEIC to JPG Converter?
Most HEIC converters upload your personal photos to remote servers for processing. This tool runs entirely in your browser using client-side JavaScript, so your vacation photos, screenshots, and private images never leave your device. It’s free, instant, and handles batch conversions. For a detailed walkthrough, see our step-by-step guide.
Common Use Cases
Sharing iPhone photos with someone on Windows or an older Mac where HEIC support is missing or unreliable. Uploading family photos to a print service whose web app silently rejects HEIC or converts it badly. Importing a vacation roll into an editing workflow that hasn't added HEIC support yet — many older Lightroom plugins, Premiere assets pipelines, and stock-photo submission portals still expect JPG.
Embedding photos in a document, email, or web page where you want consistent behavior across browsers (HEIC support in browsers is still uneven, especially on Linux). Migrating a personal photo archive off HEIC because the format ties you to newer Apple hardware for native viewing — converting to JPG buys long-term, universally-viewable copies at the cost of some file-size savings.
Worked example: what happens to a photo's metadata
We made a 640 × 1184 HEIC test photo carrying EXIF data (camera make and model, a capture date and GPS coordinates for central Paris), converted it with this tool in Chromium, and read the result back with an independent image library:
| Original HEIC | Converted JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Pixel size | 640 × 1184 | 640 × 1184 |
| Camera make / model | TestCam / Model X | none |
| Capture date | 2026:10:11 10:00:00 | none |
| GPS location | 48°51′29″N, 2°17′40″E | none |
| EXIF tags in total | present | 0 |
The tool decodes the HEIC with libheif (compiled to WebAssembly, via the heic2any library), draws it onto a canvas and encodes a new JPG, and a canvas never carries EXIF. So every converted photo is stripped of location and camera data, which is what you want before posting photos publicly and the opposite of what you want for an archive. Live Photos convert to their still frame only.
Measured October 11, 2026 in Chromium with this tool; metadata read with Pillow 12 and pillow-heif. Library: heic2any (MIT; bundles libheif, which is licensed under the GNU LGPL v3; source at the libheif link). Both are loaded unmodified from jsDelivr when the page opens; nothing from them is stored on this site.
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