HEIC to JPG Converter
Convert HEIC files to JPG instantly and privately. File Transmute runs entirely in your browser, so your HEIC is never uploaded to any server.
Reviewed by Ismail Sab Ajnalkar · Updated July 2026
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Converting HEIC to JPG makes your iPhone photos open everywhere. HEIC (also called HEIF) is the high-efficiency format Apple uses by default — it stores great-looking photos at about half the size of JPG — but many Windows apps, websites, and older devices can't open it. JPG is universally supported, so converting is the quickest way to share or upload an iPhone photo without compatibility problems.
Photos are personal, and that's exactly why doing this in the browser matters. Most online HEIC converters upload your images to a server to process them; File Transmute decodes the HEIC on your own device, so the photo never leaves your computer. There's no sign-up and no limit, and you can convert many photos at once.
The conversion preserves the image's quality and its dimensions — you simply get a JPG you can drop into any document, email, or website. If you need a lossless result or want to keep a transparent background, convert to PNG instead.
If you'd rather stop your iPhone creating HEIC files in the first place, open Settings → Camera → Formats and choose "Most Compatible" — new photos will be captured as JPG. For everything already saved as HEIC, convert it here, privately.
Best for
- Opening iPhone photos on Windows or older apps that reject HEIC
- Uploading pictures to a form or website that only accepts JPG
- Sharing photos with someone whose device can't read HEIC
Good to know
HEIC to JPG converts to a widely-supported format; because JPG is lossy, you can choose the quality level. HEIC's transparency and some metadata aren't carried into JPG — use HEIC to PNG if you need transparency.
Why iPhones save photos as HEIC
Since iOS 11, iPhones store photos as HEIC by default. It uses the HEVC codec to pack a picture into roughly half the size of an equivalent JPG at the same quality — which is genuinely clever, and saves a lot of space on your phone. The catch is that HEVC is patent-encumbered and not supported everywhere, so the same file that looks fine in your camera roll becomes a problem the moment you send it to a Windows PC, upload it to a website, or share it with someone on an older device.
Open HEIC photos on Windows
Windows 10 and 11 cannot open HEIC out of the box — double-clicking one usually shows a codec error. You have two options. You can install Microsoft's HEIF Image Extensions from the Store, which in turn depends on the HEVC Video Extensions (historically a paid listing), and hope every app you use honours it. Or you can convert the photo to JPG here, which fixes the file itself — so it opens for everyone you send it to, not just on your own PC once you have installed the right extensions.
HEIC to JPG for websites and upload forms
Plenty of upload forms still accept only JPG or PNG: job portals, university submission systems, government and visa applications, older content management systems, and print-shop uploaders. They will reject a .heic file, and some do it silently so you never learn why your photo did not attach. Converting to JPG first sidesteps all of that — JPG is the one image format you can rely on being accepted anywhere.
Does converting reduce quality?
JPG is a lossy format, so converting re-encodes the picture once. At a high quality setting the difference is invisible on a normal photo — you can choose the level to balance quality against file size. Two honest caveats: the JPG will usually be a bit larger than the original HEIC (that is the price of universal compatibility), and you should avoid converting, editing, and re-converting the same image repeatedly, because each lossy save costs a little more detail.
Orientation is handled for you. HEIC stores which way up the photo should be as a separate rotation flag; the conversion applies it, so your photos come out upright instead of sideways. Note that some metadata — such as location and capture details — may not carry across to the JPG. That is usually a plus when you are sharing a photo publicly, but keep your originals if you rely on that information.
Convert a whole camera roll at once
You can select a whole folder of .heic files and convert them together rather than one at a time. Because nothing is uploaded, there is no waiting for hundreds of megabytes of holiday photos to transfer to a server and back — the batch is decoded on your own device as fast as it can read the files.
Private HEIC conversion without uploading
The HEIC is decoded and re-saved entirely in your browser. The live privacy panel on this page shows 0 bytes uploaded while it runs, and it keeps working with your Wi-Fi switched off after the page has loaded. That matters more for photos than for almost any other file type: the pictures people convert are family photos, ID and passport images, and photographed documents — exactly the things you would not want passing through someone else's server just to change the file extension.
What this tool does
- Input format
- HEIC / HEIF (iPhone photos)
- Output
- JPG, with an adjustable quality level
- Where it runs
- In your browser — nothing is uploaded
- File size limit
- Bounded by your device's memory, not a server cap
- Batch
- Yes — convert a whole folder of photos at once
- Orientation
- Applied automatically, so photos come out upright
- Transparency
- Not preserved — use HEIC to PNG if you need it
- Works offline
- Yes, once the page has loaded
- Browsers
- Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari — desktop and mobile
- Typical time
- Near-instant per photo
How to convert HEIC → JPG
Drop your HEIC file into the converter above — it stays on your device.
Choose JPG as the output. File Transmute picks the smartest settings automatically.
Click Convert and download your JPG file instantly.