HEIC converters

HEIC is the photo format iPhones and iPads have used by default since iOS 11 in 2017. It is a HEIF file (High Efficiency Image File Format, an MPEG standard) with the picture compressed by HEVC, the H.265 video codec, which makes files considerably smaller than a JPG of similar quality.

Convert HEIC

• HEIC → JPGConvert HEIC to JPG
• HEIC → PNGConvert HEIC to PNG

What to know about HEIC

• Opens on iPhone, iPad and Mac; many Windows PCs, web upload forms and older apps cannot read it without a converter or extra codec.
• Stores 8-bit or 10-bit colour; iPhones use the wide Display P3 colour range.
• One file can hold several images: the photo, a thumbnail, and on newer iPhones a depth map (Portrait mode) and an HDR gain map.
• Rotation is stored as a transform in the file, separate from the pixels.

File extensions: .heic, .heif