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HEIC to JPG converter for iPhone photos
Add your iPhone photos and ToolHero writes JPGs on your device, upright and with their colours kept. It reads HEIC with a decoder your browser already has: Safari’s own, or in Chrome the device’s video decoder where there is one. If your browser has neither, the photo says so and links to your system’s steps.
Which browsers can open HEIC here
HEIC photos are compressed with HEVC, a licensed video technology. ToolHero doesn’t bundle a decoder for it. It borrows the one your browser or computer already has, and the photos never leave your device.
- Safari on a Mac, iPhone or iPad opens HEIC by itself.
- Chrome can’t open HEIC as an image, but ToolHero hands each part of the photo to the computer’s HEVC video decoder. On a Mac with Apple silicon, that converts a 12-megapixel photo.
- Firefox couldn’t decode HEIC in our tests. Where a browser can’t, the photo shows a short note instead, with your system’s built-in way to get a JPG.
Whole folders of photos, or a browser that can’t open them? The ToolHero desktop app for Mac and Windows is on the way.
Upright the first time
An iPhone stores a portrait photo sideways, plus a note saying how to turn it. ToolHero applies that turn once, so the JPG stands upright and carries no rotation tag that another app could apply a second time.
Big photos are split into tiles inside the file: a 12-megapixel shot holds 48 of them. Safari reassembles them itself. In Chrome, ToolHero decodes the tiles one by one, puts them back together and trims the edges to the photo’s real size.
Colours that match the phone
iPhones capture in Display P3, a wider range of colours than most JPGs use. The JPG keeps the photo’s Display P3 profile, so a red flower stays as red as it looked on the phone instead of turning dull.
The size changes too. HEIC packs a photo better than JPEG at the same quality, but the JPG’s size follows the quality you pick: on our test picture the JPG at quality 75 came out at less than a quarter of the HEIC.
Why convert HEIC to JPG?
How it works
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Step 1:Add your HEIC photos
Drop them here, choose them from your device or paste them. Photos straight off an iPhone keep their .heic ending, and that’s fine.
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Step 2:Convert to JPG
JPG is picked already, at a quality of 75. Raise it for prints, then press Convert.
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Step 3:Download
Save each JPG on its own, or all of them in one .zip.
HEIC vs JPG at a glance
How the two formats compare, so you know what to expect.
HEIC
Your filesThe format iPhones and iPads save photos in. It packs a photo into less space than a JPG, but plenty of apps, sites and computers can’t open it.
Best for Keeping photos small on the phone that took them.
JPG
What you getThe classic photo format. Every phone, computer, app and website has opened JPGs for decades.
Best for Photos you want to share anywhere: email, chat, print services and older software.
| HEIC | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossy (HEVC) | Lossy |
| Transparency | Rarely | No |
| Animation | Rarely (image sequences) | No |
| Photo file size | Smaller than a JPG | The baseline |
| Opens in | Apple devices and most Android phones; Windows needs extra codecs | Everywhere |
Questions, answered
Why do my iPhone photos end in .heic?
Since the iPhone 7, the Camera saves photos as HEIC by default because it takes less space than JPEG. In Settings, Camera, Formats, choosing Most Compatible makes new photos JPGs instead.
Why can’t a normal Chrome tab show HEIC photos?
Chrome has no HEIC image decoder. Many devices do give it an HEVC video decoder, though, and ToolHero feeds the photo’s tiles to that one by one. That’s how HEIC converts here in Chrome even though Chrome itself won’t display the file.
Does a HEIC lose detail as a JPG?
A little, since JPG compresses again on top of the HEIC’s own compression. At the default quality of 75 it’s hard to spot; choose 90 or more for prints and close crops.
Can I convert HEIC to JPG on Windows?
Try it: add a photo here. If your browser can decode HEIC, it converts straight away. If not, the photo says so and links to the Windows way, which needs Microsoft’s HEIF and HEVC extensions.
Are my photos sent anywhere?
No. ToolHero reads and converts them inside your browser, on your device, and there’s no account to make.
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