HEIC to JPG

HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) is the format iPhones have saved photos in by default since iOS 11. It is Apple’s version of HEIF, compressed with HEVC (the H.265 video codec), which stores a photo in roughly half the space of a comparable JPEG. The catch is support: Windows needs extra extensions to open it, and many websites and older apps refuse it, which is why converting a HEIC to JPG is the usual fix when a photo has to be shared or uploaded.

Drop the whole selection into the dropzone — up to 50 photos, 100 MB each — and download the results as a single ZIP. To be accurate about how it runs: the photos are decoded one after another rather than in parallel, with a progress readout telling you which one is in flight, because a HEIC decode is memory-hungry and running fifty at once would exhaust the tab. A photo that fails to decode is skipped with its reason listed, and the rest still complete.

Settings, then Camera, then Formats, then choose Most Compatible instead of High Efficiency. New photos are captured as JPEG from that point on. It is worth knowing the trade-off rather than just flipping it: HEIC genuinely stores a comparable photo in roughly half the space, so Most Compatible costs storage. Many people leave High Efficiency on and convert only the photos they need to send somewhere, which is what this tool is for. The setting does not affect photos already taken.

85 to 90 is the sensible range. The HEIC has already discarded detail, so the conversion is a second lossy pass and pushing the slider low stacks visible artifacts on top of ones you cannot see yet. Above roughly 92 the file grows quickly for no perceptible gain. If the photos are destined for email or a web upload, leave quality at 85 and reduce the dimensions instead — that saves far more than a lower quality setting and costs less visible detail.

A single still image — the key frame. A Live Photo is a HEIC still plus a separate short video file, and only the still is inside the .heic you are converting, so there is no motion to carry across. Bursts behave the same way: each frame you exported converts as its own photo. If the moving part matters, it lives in the accompanying video file and needs a video tool rather than an image converter.