The HEIC problem, in plain English
In 2017, Apple quietly switched iPhones from JPEG to HEIC — High Efficiency Image Container. On paper, it's a better format: smaller files, better quality, support for transparency and animation. On your iPhone, you'd never notice the change.
The problem starts the moment your photo leaves the Apple ecosystem. Email a HEIC to a friend on Windows and they get a file their Photos app refuses to open. Upload it to a WordPress blog and the preview stays blank. Drop it into a Slack thread, a job application, an Etsy listing, or a school portal — silence. PNG and JPG still rule the web, and HEIC doesn't play nice with most of it.
That's where converters come in. And that's where it gets frustrating. Most online HEIC converters force you to create an account, slap a watermark on the result, cap your batch size, or quietly upload your personal photos to a server you know nothing about. Some of them hold your files for "processing" long after you've closed the tab.
We thought there should be a better way. HeicToPng is what we built.
