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Convert HEIC to PDF

Turn iPhone HEIC photos into a PDF without uploading them. Decodes HEIC in your browser, rotates photos upright, combines many into one document.

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Convert HEIC to PDF: what to know

iPhones save photos as HEIC, and almost nothing that asks for a PDF — visa portals, expense systems, university applications, print shops — can open HEIC files. Converting to PDF solves both problems at once: the result opens everywhere and several photos become one tidy document. This page decodes the HEIC files on your device and writes the PDF in the browser; the photos are never sent anywhere.

How to convert HEIC to PDF

Drop your .HEIC or .HEIF files above, or choose them from Files on an iPhone or iPad. The first time you add one, the page fetches a small decoder (about 2 MB) so HEIC can be read in the browser; after that everything is instant. Order the photos with the arrows, pick a page size, and click Create PDF.

Windows sometimes reports HEIC files with no type at all. Toolkitta identifies files by their contents, so a .HEIC with a blank type still works.

What happens to the photo

PDF cannot hold HEIC data directly, so each photo is decoded and stored as a high-quality JPG (quality 92) inside the document. At that setting the difference from the original is not visible; the page in the PDF is the full resolution of the photo unless you turn on Reduce file size.

iPhone photos rely on an orientation flag. Toolkitta applies it while decoding, so portrait photos come out upright in the PDF instead of lying on their side — a common failure when HEIC files are converted naively. Live Photo video, depth data and the HEIC's EXIF metadata (including location) are not copied into the PDF.

Making a document that people can actually receive

A 12-megapixel photo becomes a 3–4 MB JPG page; ten of them make a 35 MB PDF, which many email services and portals will bounce. Reduce file size caps each photo at 2480 pixels on the long side and uses JPG quality 80, which brings a ten-photo document to around 5 MB and still prints crisply on A4. For documents of receipts and paperwork, that is the setting to use.

Use A4 or US Letter with Auto orientation for a document that prints one photo per page, or Fit to image for a stack of full-bleed pages. Margins of 10 or 20 mm leave room for stapling and notes.

Questions about HEIC to PDF

Is the HEIC uploaded to a server?
No. Decoding and the PDF are both done in your browser. Only the decoder itself is downloaded, once.
Why did the page rotate my photo correctly when other tools did not?
The orientation flag inside the HEIC is applied before the photo is placed, so the pixels are stored upright in the PDF.
Can I combine many HEIC photos into one PDF?
Yes, up to 20 per batch, in the order you set. Turn off Combine for one PDF per photo.
Will the PDF keep location and camera metadata?
No. The photo pixels are stored; EXIF metadata stays with the original HEIC.

How to make a PDF from images

  1. Add up to 20 images — JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, GIF, BMP, SVG, ICO or TIFF. They stay in your browser.
  2. Put them in order with the arrows (or Sort by name), then choose Fit to image for screen use or A4 / US Letter for a printable document.
  3. Click Create PDF and download the file — or send it to PDF to Image, or keep one PDF per image by turning off Combine.

JPG and PNG files are embedded exactly as they are, so nothing is re-compressed unless you turn on Reduce file size. HEIC, WebP, AVIF, GIF, BMP, SVG, ICO and TIFF are decoded first and stored as JPG (or PNG when transparent).

Useful details

Are my images uploaded?

No. The PDF is written in your browser and the images never leave your device. Keep the tab open until you download or send the result — reloading clears the batch. Website hosting and performance measurement are described in our Privacy notice.

Which images can I use?

JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC/HEIF (iPhone photos), AVIF, GIF, BMP, SVG, ICO and TIFF, up to 20 files, 20 MB each and 100 MB per batch, at most 40 megapixels each. Animated files contribute their first frame. PDFs are not accepted here — use PDF to Image for those.

Does converting lower the quality?

Not for JPG and PNG: their bytes are placed in the PDF unchanged. Other formats are decoded and stored as JPG at quality 92 (or lossless PNG when transparent), which is visually identical. Reduce file size is the only setting that trades quality for size, and it is off by default.

How do I keep the PDF small?

Turn on Reduce file size: every image becomes a JPG at quality 80 with the long side capped at 2480 pixels — about 300 dpi on A4 — which typically shrinks phone photos six to eight times. For an exact budget, compress the images first with a target size and send the results here.

What do Fit to image, A4 and US Letter mean?

Fit to image makes each page exactly the size of its image, so nothing is scaled or padded. A4 and US Letter make standard printable pages; each image is scaled to fit inside the margins and centred. Auto orientation turns wide images onto landscape pages.

Why did my sideways phone photo come out upright?

Phones store many photos rotated with an orientation flag. Toolkitta reads the flag and rotates those photos before placing them, so the PDF shows them the way your phone does. The file details say how many photos were rotated.

Is metadata copied into the PDF?

No. EXIF data such as camera settings and GPS location is not written into the document; only the picture is. The PDF's own properties list Toolkitta as the producer and the creation time.

How do I continue in another tool?

Use Send to under the finished PDF to open PDF to Image with it loaded, or start from the compressor, cropper or converter and use Send to → Image to PDF from their results.

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