HEIC to JPG Converter

Yes — different extensions, same format. "JPEG" is the standards body (Joint Photographic Experts Group) and its specification (ISO/IEC 10918-1). ".jpg" and ".jpeg" are both valid file extensions pointing at the identical byte format; ".jpg" became common because older DOS and Windows filesystems limited extensions to three characters. This converter outputs ".jpg" by default — if a specific tool insists on ".jpeg", just rename the file.

A little — JPG is a lossy format by design, which is the whole point (much smaller files). But lossy does not mean visibly worse. At quality 85–90, a JPG is indistinguishable from the HEIC to almost any eye on almost any photograph. If you need pixel-exact preservation (screenshots, illustrations, anything with sharp text or hard edges), a HEIC to PNG conversion is the better fit — PNG is lossless.

Quality 90 — our default — is the right answer about 95% of the time: visually lossless for photographs, meaningfully smaller than quality 100. Push to 95 if the photo is going to print or professional retouch. Drop to 75 if it's a web thumbnail or chat attachment where every kilobyte counts. Below quality 60, JPG's blocking artifacts and color banding start showing up, particularly on skies and skin tones.

Because HEIC is already heavily compressed. Apple uses HEVC (H.265) inside the HEIC container, which is newer and more efficient than JPG's DCT. When you convert a strongly-compressed HEIC to JPG at high quality, you are re-encoding into a less efficient format — so the file can grow. It's still a reasonable trade: JPG is universally supported, HEIC often isn't. Drop the quality slider if file size matters more than the last 1% of fidelity.

If you toggle "Preserve EXIF metadata" in Advanced Settings, yes — date taken, GPS coordinates, camera make and model, shutter speed, ISO, and lens data all carry over into the output JPG. If you want to share a photo publicly but strip your home address, enable "Remove GPS location" as well — everything else stays, only the GPS block is wiped.

Only if you've set it to. Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible switches new photos to JPG. But that toggle only applies to future shots — it does not touch anything already sitting in your Camera Roll. For existing HEIC files you need a converter (like this one); for new ones, flip the iPhone setting. Most people ultimately do both — convert the backlog, change the default going forward.

Both. HEIC and HEIF share the same container and the same HEVC encoding — HEIC is just Apple's brand name for HEIF images. This tool decodes ".heic" and ".heif" identically and produces the same JPG output in either case.

At quality 95 and above, yes — for photo prints up to poster size, a JPG at quality 95 is indistinguishable from the source. Professional printers often prefer TIFF or a lossless format for archival work, but for standard photo prints (4×6 through 16×20), Instagram portfolios, photo books, and most client deliverables, JPG at quality 90–95 is industry standard.

Yes. The conversion runs entirely inside your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Nothing is uploaded to HeicToPng or any third party — you can disconnect WiFi after the page loads and keep converting offline. This is the whole reason this tool exists: uploading personal photos (with GPS, timestamps, and faces embedded) to a stranger's server is not a trade most people would make if the alternative is this simple.