🖼️ Convert HEIC to JPG

Why convert HEIC to JPG?

The single most common photo problem there is: pictures from an iPhone that Windows, a web form or a colleague simply cannot open.

What is HEIC?

HEIC is what an iPhone has been saving photos as since iOS 11. It uses the HEVC video codec to squeeze a picture into roughly half the size of an equivalent JPG, and it can hold depth maps, live photos and transparency. Its problem is everything outside Apple: Windows needs an add-on, many web forms reject it outright, and older software has never heard of it.

What is JPG?

JPG is thirty years old and still the safest picture format in existence. It compresses by discarding detail the eye handles poorly, which works beautifully on photographs and badly on text, logos and sharp edges, where it leaves a visible haze. Every device ever made can open it.

HEIC vs JPG

What changes when you convert HEIC to JPG?

Two things to know. JPG has no transparency, so any transparent area becomes solid white. And JPG is lossy, so fine detail is discarded on the way in - fine for photographs, less kind to screenshots, logos and lettering, where you may see a faint haze around the edges.

How long does it take?

Images finish almost instantly. Conversion runs on our server rather than in your browser, so the only real wait is the upload itself.

What happens to my files?

Your file is uploaded to our server because the conversion runs there. A cleanup task runs every hour and deletes anything older than an hour, so nothing you upload survives more than about two hours. We do not open your files, we do not keep copies, and no account is needed to use the converter.

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