Convert HEIC to JPG

The conversion iPhone photos exist to need. HEIC stores a photo at about half the size of the equivalent JPG, which is why Apple switched to it - and why so little else opens one. JPG is understood by everything ever made. The photo is re-compressed on the way, so do this once from the original rather than repeatedly.

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What is HEIC?

What an iPhone saves photos as. It isn't really an image format so much as a container holding HEVC video frames - the same codec used for film, applied to one still. That gets a photo to about half the size of the equivalent JPG, and it's also why so little else opens one: HEVC is patent-licensed, so most browsers and a lot of desktop software can't read a HEIC at all. Big photos are usually stored cut into tiles that have to be reassembled.

What is JPG?

JPEG is where photographs live. Its compression is lossy - it throws away detail the eye is bad at noticing, and throws away a bit more every time you re-save - which buys huge size savings on photos and makes a mess of screenshots and text. There's no transparency in it at all.

Your files never leave your device · no magic required