Convert HEIC to PDF

This free converter turns HEIC photos from an iPhone or iPad into one PDF, one photo per page, in the order you set and on A4, US Letter or photo-sized pages; JPG and PNG images can be mixed in. The photos are decoded in your browser and are not uploaded. Each photo is stored as a high-quality JPG inside the PDF, so the PDF is usually larger than the HEIC files.

Drop your HEIC files here or click to choose

Did a file not convert correctly? E-mail [email protected], ideally with a small sample file, and it will be fixed.

Key facts

Input: HEIC (.heic). Output: PDF (.pdf).
Your files are not uploaded: the work is done in your browser, on your own device.
File size: no fixed limit; very large files are limited by your device's memory.
Needs a current browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) on a computer, tablet or phone; nothing to install.
Free to use, with no sign-up.

HEIC to PDF: why convert

iPhones save photos as HEIC, and that is a problem as soon as a photo of a receipt, a signed form, a damaged parcel or a page of notes has to go to an office, a school or an insurance claim that asks for a PDF. Add your HEIC photos here, put them in the right order and download one PDF with a page for each photo, turned the right way up. JPG and PNG images, such as screenshots, can go in the same PDF. Safari reads HEIC itself; in Chrome, Edge and Firefox a decoder of about 1 MB is loaded once, the first time you add a HEIC photo. Either way the photos are converted on your own device and never sent anywhere.

How to convert HEIC to PDF

Drop your HEIC photos in the box, or click to choose them. JPG and PNG images can be added too.
Put the photos in order with the arrows, and choose a page size and margin.
Click Create PDF and download the file.

What changes when you convert

Getting HEIC photos off an iPhone

AirDrop to a Mac keeps the HEIC files. When photos are copied to a Windows PC by cable, the iPhone often turns them into JPGs, because Transfer to Mac or PC (under Photos in the iPhone settings) is set to Automatic; those JPGs work here just as well. On the iPhone itself, Safari's file picker may also hand photos over as JPG, which makes no difference to the PDF.

File size

HEIC packs a photo into roughly half the space a JPG of the same quality needs, but a PDF cannot hold HEIC, so every photo is stored as a high-quality JPG (92 %). The PDF therefore tends to be about twice as large as the HEIC files together. If it is too big to send, run it through Compress PDF.

Page size

Same as each image gives every page the size of its photo, which suits viewing on a screen. Choose A4 or US Letter for printing or for a portal that expects standard pages: each photo is then scaled to fit without being stretched, and landscape photos get landscape pages.

Live Photos, HDR and colour

Only the still picture of a Live Photo is used. HDR photos and the wide Display P3 colours of recent iPhones are reduced to standard colour, which can make very bright or saturated scenes look slightly flatter.

Location and camera details

The PDF contains only the pictures. The date, GPS position and camera details stored in the HEIC files are not copied into it.

About the formats

HEIC

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.

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.

PDF

PDF (Portable Document Format) was created by Adobe in 1993 and has been an ISO standard since 2008. A PDF looks the same on every device, which is why it is used for contracts, invoices, forms, manuals and scanned documents.

A page can hold text, vector graphics and images, each placed exactly.
Scanned documents are usually one image per page.
A PDF can be protected with a password that is needed to open or edit it.

Frequently asked questions

Are my photos uploaded?

No. Your browser decodes the photos and builds the PDF on your own device. Nothing is sent anywhere.

How many photos can I put in one PDF?

As many as your browser's memory allows. Around 50 iPhone photos at a time normally work on a computer; on a phone, smaller batches are safer.

Are portrait photos turned the right way?

Yes. iPhones store the rotation separately from the picture, and it is applied before the photo is placed on the page.

Can I convert HEIC to PDF on an iPhone?

Yes, in Safari: choose the photos in the file picker, and the PDF is saved to Downloads in the Files app. Safari 17 and later read HEIC themselves, so no decoder needs to be loaded there.