HEIC to JPG Converter
Convert iPhone HEIC photos to widely compatible JPG files entirely in your browser - no upload.
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Drag, drop, paste, or browse
HEIC and HEIF photos up to 25 MB. Paste from clipboard with Ctrl+V.
Settings
Tune output without leaving the browser.
JPG does not support transparency. Transparent areas will be filled with white.
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Compare the source image with the generated file.
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Guide
Useful to know
Why convert HEIC to JPG
JPG produces small file sizes for photographs and has universal support across browsers, email, and CMSes. Note: JPG does not preserve transparency - any transparent areas in the source are filled with white.
Privacy and processing
HEIC decoding runs in your browser via a small WebAssembly module that's downloaded once and cached for offline use. Your file never leaves your device.
HEIC to JPG online with ImgShifter
HEIC to JPG is the most common conversion on ImgShifter for one reason: every iPhone since iOS 11 shoots HEIC by default, and most of the non-Apple world still doesn't open it. Windows asks you to buy a codec, older Android phones shrug, upload forms reject the extension - so the photo that looks perfect on your iPhone becomes unusable the moment it leaves the Apple ecosystem.
What makes this converter different is where the work happens. ImgShifter ships the HEIF decoder as a WebAssembly module that runs inside your browser - the same class of native library a desktop app would use, but executing on your device. The module downloads once (then it's cached, and the page works offline), your photo is decoded locally, and a high-quality JPG is encoded by the Canvas API. At no point does the image travel anywhere.
Practical notes: convert a whole Camera Roll export at once and grab the ZIP; expect JPGs to be roughly twice the size of the HEICs, since JPG's compression is a decade older; and for Live Photos, the still frame is what converts - the motion clip is a separate video file. Quality at the 92% encode setting is visually identical to the original.
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Frequently asked questions
Short answers for image workflows, privacy, and supported formats.