Your iPhone saves photos as HEIC, a format most apps, websites, and older devices still can't open. Convert them to JPG and they'll display anywhere: email, documents, any photo editor, every browser.
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Auto tunes each image.
A hard cap for “under 50 KB” portals.
Empty side keeps the ratio. Never enlarges.
HEIC · 195 KB
JPEG · 70 KBHEIC is about twice as efficient as JPEG. A straight conversion at matched quality would roughly double the size. That is not what happens here: our converter optimises while it converts. Here is the same 800×600 iPhone photo, measured:
| Output | Size | vs HEIC |
|---|---|---|
| JPG (Auto) | 71.9 KB | −64% |
| JPG (quality 90) | 139.3 KB | −30% |
| WebP (Auto) | 103.6 KB | −48% |
| AVIF (Auto) | 65.9 KB | −67% |
| PNG | 188.1 KB | −6% |
Source: photo.heic, 199.7 KB. Auto quality unless stated. PNG output is palette-optimised; a raw truecolour PNG would be several times larger.
How these numbers are measured: every byte count on this page is the size of the actual encoded file our engine produced from the named source image. Those are the same bytes you would download, not an estimate or a best case. Rerun any of them yourself: drop your own file into the tool above and the meter reports your real result.
Slightly. JPEG is lossy, but at quality 85–92 the loss is invisible in normal viewing. Our reference photo converts at quality 85 to 102.8 KB with no artefacts you can find without pixel-peeping. The honest way to judge it is not a promise but the before/after compare slider above. Convert your photo, open Compare, zoom to 100%, and look at the areas that break first: fine hair, foliage, smooth sky gradients.
For archival copies where every pixel matters, convert to PNG instead (lossless from the decoded HEIC, but a much larger file). Or keep the original HEIC and convert on demand.
Upload portals are the single most common reason people convert HEIC at all. They reject files two ways: wrong format, and too big. One pass here solves both. Open Advanced settings → Max file size, set 240 KB (DS-160's limit) or 100/200/500 KB, and convert. The cap is a guarantee, not a target: we search for the highest quality that fits under your number and never overshoot. Our reference photo landed at 191.8 KB against a 240 KB cap. Output is standard 8-bit sRGB JPEG, which is what government validators expect; many of them reject wide-gamut Display P3 files and HEIC itself outright.
50 photos per run, up to 30 MB each, one ZIP out. No signup, no queue, no watermark, and a 300-photo daily allowance counted live beside the tool. We print the numbers because most converters won't: the popular ones cap free use at 20 files and 5 MB, gate full quality behind a paid tier, or push you to a desktop app past 200 photos. A big camera roll runs in batches of 50, and the counter always shows how far today's allowance goes.
Every iPhone HEIC carries more than the picture: EXIF metadata includes the GPS coordinates of where it was taken, the exact capture time, and your device model. We make three commitments, each checkable. First, we keep nothing: files are processed and wiped automatically, never archived, never used for anything else. Second, we strip EXIF and GPS by default from every converted file (tick "Keep EXIF metadata" if you're a photographer who needs capture dates). Third, no account is required, so there is no profile to attach your photos to in the first place.
These failure modes fill Apple support threads, so here they are, answered in one place. Live Photos convert to their still key frame; JPEG cannot hold the motion. Burst stacks and multi-image HEIC containers convert as the primary image. We tone-map 10-bit HDR and Display P3 photos to 8-bit sRGB. Extremely saturated sunsets can shift slightly; that is a property of JPEG itself, not of any converter. Convert to AVIF to keep HDR. We fix sideways photos automatically: we honour the EXIF orientation flag before converting, so nothing comes out rotated.
Short answers specific to this page. The tool above settles most of them in a second.
Every route in and out runs on the same engine and the same rules. Each card is its own page.
Freeze the current pixels. Lossless from here, and the right move before editing or archiving.
The safe upgrade. Around a third smaller at matching quality, and readable essentially everywhere.
Roughly half the bytes of WebP on most photos. Slower to encode, worth it at scale.
For photographic PNGs that never needed transparency. We flatten any alpha onto a solid background.
The universal handoff. Anything that opens an image opens this: print, email, old software.
When something rejects the upload, this is the format it wants. Photos only, no transparency.
Drop it in above. The meter reports the exact saving before you download anything.