Convert HEIC to JPG: what to know
iPhones and many recent Android phones save photos as HEIC. It is a good format — about half the size of JPG at the same quality — but plenty of places still cannot open it: older Windows PCs, some email clients, government and job-application upload forms, print shops and most CMS image fields. Converting a copy to JPG solves that in one step, and this page does it on your device without sending the photo anywhere.
How to convert HEIC to JPG
Drop your .HEIC or .HEIF files into the box above, or tap Choose images. JPG is already selected as the output. Click Convert, then download each file or all of them as a ZIP. Up to 20 photos at 20 MB each can be converted in one batch.
The first time you add a HEIC file, the page fetches a 2 MB decoder so the conversion can run entirely in your browser. After that, conversions are instant and work offline for the rest of the session.
What changes when HEIC becomes JPG
Quality: JPG is a lossy format, so the converter re-encodes your photo at the quality you choose (85 by default, which is visually identical for almost all photos). Raising it above 90 mostly adds file size. Lowering it to 70–75 is fine for sharing on the web.
File size: expect the JPG to be 1.5–2.5× larger than the HEIC at similar quality. That is normal — HEIC's whole point is better compression. If the size matters, send the result to the compressor and set a target such as 500 KB.
Metadata: every converted file is rebuilt from pixels, so camera model, exposure settings, GPS location and the Live Photo pairing are removed. Orientation is applied first, so the JPG is not rotated. Keep the original HEIC if you want that metadata.
Transparency and depth: HEIC can hold an alpha channel and depth maps. JPG cannot; transparent areas are filled with the background colour and depth data is dropped.
Why the file has no type on Windows
Windows without the HEIF extensions reports HEIC files with an empty type, and some browsers pass that on. Toolkitta identifies files by their contents rather than the label, so a .HEIC with no type still opens. If a file is rejected, it is usually a HEIC sequence (burst or Live Photo container) — export a still from your phone first.
Questions about HEIC to JPG
- Is the photo uploaded to a server?
- No. Decoding and JPG encoding both run in your browser. The only download is the HEIC decoder itself; your photo never leaves the device.
- Can I convert many HEIC photos at once?
- Yes — up to 20 per batch, 100 MB total. Download all results as a single ZIP.
- Will the JPG be larger than the HEIC?
- Usually, by 1.5–2.5×. Use the compressor afterwards to hit a specific size.