The iPhone photo format nothing else wants
Since iOS 11, iPhones save photos as HEIC by default: brilliant for storage — roughly half the bytes of a JPEG at the same quality — and a recurring annoyance everywhere else. Upload forms reject it, Windows apps shrug at it, and emailing a photo to an Android user can turn into a small project. This converter turns HEIC (and HEIF) photos into ordinary JPGs entirely in your browser, as many at a time as you drop in, at the quality you choose.
How to use this converter
- Drop your HEIC photos onto the box, or click to choose them — multiple files are fine.
- Set the JPG quality: 92% (the default) is visually indistinguishable for normal photos; lower values make smaller files.
- Press Convert to JPG and wait for the list to fill in — decoding happens on your device, so a big batch on an older phone takes a little while.
- Download each JPG, or all of them at once.
What changes in conversion
The converted file keeps the photo's full pixel dimensions and its orientation. What changes is the encoding: JPG is universally supported but lossy and less efficient, so the JPG will typically be larger than the HEIC it came from, and exotic HEIC features — depth maps, Live Photo motion, wide-gamut extras — do not survive into a plain JPG. If your iPhone is set to “Most Compatible” it already shoots JPG and you will never need this page; everyone on “High Efficiency” will, eventually.