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HEIC to PDF

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iPhone photos in one PDF, straight from the camera roll.

or paste with CtrlV HEIC or HEIF, plus JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, TIFF, ICO, PSD or SVG

Your files never leave your device

About this tool

Turn iPhone HEIC photos into a PDF

This tool puts iPhone HEIC photos into one PDF in your browser, a page for each. 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. Each photo goes in upright as a high-quality JPG, and nothing leaves your device.

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 your photos never leave your device.

Safari on a Mac, iPhone or iPad opens HEIC by itself. Chrome can’t open it as an image, but ToolHero hands each part of the photo to the computer’s HEVC video decoder, when there is one. In our tests Firefox couldn’t decode HEIC. Where a browser can’t, the photo says so and links to your system’s way to get a JPG, and it stays out of the PDF while the rest go in.

Why your HEIC goes in as a JPG

PDF readers understand only a few kinds of picture, and HEIC isn’t one of them. So each photo is decoded on your device and saved as a JPG at quality 90, a level at which it looks the same as the HEIC did, and that JPG becomes the page.

HEIC is built to be small, and a JPG needs more bytes for the same look, so how the PDF compares with the photos you added depends on the photo and the quality its HEIC was saved at. Our 3.9 MB 12-megapixel test photo made a 2.6 MB PDF in Safari and a 2.6 MB PDF in Chrome, within 0.3% of each other. It is a plain synthetic scene, so a busy photo with fine detail can come out larger than its HEIC.

Upright, with the phone’s colours

An iPhone stores a portrait photo sideways, plus a note saying how to turn it. ToolHero applies that turn once, so the page stands upright and nothing can turn it again.

iPhones capture in Display P3, a wider range of colours than most JPGs use. The page keeps the photo’s Display P3 profile, so a red flower stays as red as it looked on the phone.

Pages in your order, at the size you pick

Each photo gets its own page. Drag the photos into order, then pick A4, Letter or each photo’s own size, and a margin if you like. The tool starts on A4, or on Letter where your browser’s language uses it, and looks nothing up to decide.

The PDF is named after the first photo, like IMG_4021.pdf. To keep the photos as pictures instead, turn them into JPGs with HEIC to JPG.

How it works

  1. Add your HEIC photos

    Drop them in or choose them from your device. Photos straight off an iPhone keep their .heic ending, and that’s fine.

  2. Order them and pick a page

    Drag them into order, then choose A4, Letter or each photo’s own size, and a margin if you like.

  3. Press Convert, then save

    Your PDF is made on your device in moments. Download it, or save it from the share sheet on an iPhone or iPad.

Questions, answered

How do I put iPhone photos into a PDF?

Add the photos here, put them in the order you want and press Convert. You get one PDF with a page for each photo. You don’t need to change them to JPG first.

Will the PDF be bigger or smaller than my HEIC photos?

It depends on the photo. HEIC packs a photo into less space than a JPG, and each photo goes into the PDF as a JPG at quality 90. A photo with fine detail can come out larger than its HEIC, and a plain one can come out smaller. Nothing else is added except a little for each page.

Can I make a PDF from HEIC photos on Windows?

Try it: add a photo here. If your browser can decode HEIC, the PDF is made straight away. If not, the photo says so and links to the Windows way, which needs Microsoft’s HEIF and HEVC extensions.

Why does a HEIC photo say my browser can’t open it?

Chrome has no HEIC image decoder, and in our tests neither did Firefox, and a device without an HEVC video decoder can’t stand in for it. The photo stays out of the PDF, and the note links to your system’s way to get a JPG, which you can then add here.

Are my iPhone photos sent anywhere?

No. The PDF is written by an engine running inside your browser tab, so your photos are never sent to ToolHero or anyone else, and there is nothing to sign in to.

Everything happens on your device, so your files never leave your computer or phone.

A4 pages, 210 × 297 mm.A4 · No margin

A4 · No margin
HEIC to PDF settings

Page

A4 pages, 210 × 297 mm.

Landscape for wide images, portrait for tall ones.

Margin

The image reaches the page’s edges.

Image on the page

The whole image, as large as the page allows.

Order

Add two or more images to order them.

Add images to make a PDF