HEIC to
JPG.

Why convert HEIC to JPG?

• Universal compatibility. Windows, Android, most CMSes, and a lot of email clients still can't open HEIC. JPG opens everywhere.
• Right-side-up output. iPhone HEICs lean on an EXIF orientation tag instead of rotating the pixels. Tools that ignore the tag render photos sideways — we rotate the pixels for you.
• Smaller is fine — but only if it opens. HEIC is roughly half the size of an equivalent JPG, which is great when it's an iPhone-to-iPhone life. The moment it leaves Apple's ecosystem, you need JPG.

Note: HEIC and JPG are both lossy formats. A single conversion loses a tiny amount of quality; the difference is hard to see on a photograph but visible on very flat colors or gradients.

How it works

1. Open the converter. Go to the Formatly converter — no signup required.
2. Drop your HEIC files. Drag and drop one or more .heic files into the upload box (up to five files, 20 MB each).
3. Choose JPG as the output. Pick JPG from the dropdown. We honor the EXIF orientation so the photo comes out the way you took it.
4. Convert and download. Click Convert; a download link appears for each JPG as it finishes, usually within a few seconds.

Good for

• Sending iPhone photos to a Windows or Android friend who can't open the .heic file.
• Uploading photos to a CMS, web form, or job-application portal that rejects HEIC.
• Bulk-converting AirDropped photos before importing into a non-Apple photo manager.
• Preparing iPhone photos for OCR or a downstream image-processing pipeline.

FAQ

Why can't Windows open my HEIC photos? HEIC is Apple's default photo format since iOS 11 — it uses the HEVC codec, which is patent-encumbered, so Windows doesn't ship the decoder by default. You can install Microsoft's HEIF and HEVC extensions from the Store (the HEVC one is paid), or convert the file to JPG once and stop fighting the format mismatch. Most people pick the second option.

Will I lose quality converting HEIC to JPG? Both formats are lossy, so any single decode-then-encode pass loses a tiny amount. At our default JPG quality (around 85%) the difference is hard to see on a photo — flat skies sometimes show very mild banding. If you plan to keep editing, archive the original HEIC and treat the JPG as a delivery copy.

Does the converter preserve EXIF / date taken? We use the EXIF orientation tag to rotate the image right-side-up, which is the main thing that breaks when iPhone HEICs land on a non-Apple system. Other EXIF fields (date taken, GPS, camera model) are preserved by Pillow's default save path on most photos but aren't guaranteed; if you need bulletproof EXIF, use exiftool to copy tags across after the conversion.

Is HEIC the same as HEIF? Close enough for everyday use. HEIF is the container format (High Efficiency Image File Format); HEIC is the specific flavor that wraps HEVC-compressed images, which is what your iPhone produces. Both extensions go through the same converter here.

Is the HEIC to JPG converter free? Yes. No signup, no watermark, no payment. Up to 5 files per upload at 20 MB each — fine for most iPhone photos, which typically run 1–4 MB as HEIC.

Related

• HEIC → PNG → when you need transparency or lossless
• HEIC → PDF → bundle iPhone photos into one document
• JPG → PNG → further conversion after the HEIC step
• Image → Text (OCR) → extract text from an iPhone screenshot
• PNG vs JPG vs WebP: which to choose →
• All supported formats →