JPEG has been the default photo format since 1992. Your iPhone switched to HEIC in 2017. This converter bridges the 25-year gap so your photos open everywhere that matters.
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Pull HEIC files from AirDrop, iCloud Photos download, Image Capture, or direct USB import. Drag them into the converter window.
A WebAssembly HEVC decoder unpacks each HEIC to raw pixels. Those pixels go through a JPEG encoder at quality 90 — visually identical, widely readable.
Each output keeps the original filename with .jpeg extension. EXIF capture details are inherited so photo order, GPS, and camera info stay intact.
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What changes, what stays, and where HEIC fails without conversion.
Yes — JPEG is the standard name, JPG is the three-letter extension forced by DOS. Files with .jpg and .jpeg extensions are identical byte-for-byte. The format itself is unchanged since 1992.
Many email clients — older Outlook, Yahoo Mail web, corporate-configured Gmail — strip unknown MIME types. HEIC has MIME type image/heic which isn't universally whitelisted. JPEG is image/jpeg and always passes.
Yes. The JPEG output carries over DateTimeOriginal, CreateDate, and ModifyDate EXIF fields from the HEIC. This means photo apps, file managers, and sort-by-date views show the correct capture moment, not the conversion moment.
Quality 90 by default — a sweet spot where artifacts are imperceptible on normal viewing distances while keeping file size modest. The resulting JPEG is typically 1.5–2× the HEIC size but visually equivalent.
iPhone screenshots save as PNG by default, not HEIC, so they don't need this tool. If you've converted screenshots to HEIC via a third-party app, the decoder handles them — though you may prefer HEIC to PNG for screenshot fidelity.
Yes. 48 MP HEIC files run around 3–8 MB each, well within the 50 MB limit. Conversion takes 1–2 seconds per file on a modern laptop.
HEIC stores color in P3 wide gamut; JPEG exports as sRGB for compatibility. On wide-gamut displays (iMac, iPhone, recent iPad) you may notice subtly less vivid saturated colors in the JPEG. This is a gamut-mapping trade-off, not quality loss.
No — once JPEG, always JPEG (in that file). The HEIC original remains wherever you kept it. We recommend keeping HEIC masters in your iPhone Photos library and exporting JPEG copies only when needed for sharing.