What this does
Decodes each HEIC photo, turns it the right way up, and saves it as JPG (or PNG). Location, device details and depth data are not carried over.
What it can’t do
Keep Live Photo motion or the HDR gain map. The result is a single still picture.
A worked example
An online form rejects twelve photos from an iPhone. Converted here in one go, they come back as twelve JPGs in a ZIP, each without its GPS position.
Questions
- What is a HEIC file?
- The format iPhones use for photos by default. It takes about half the space of a JPG, but many websites, older computers and some apps cannot open it.
- Do I lose quality?
- A little, in principle, because the picture is decoded and compressed again as a JPG at high quality. In practice the difference is not visible. Choose PNG if you want no further loss, at the cost of a much larger file.
- Can I stop my iPhone making HEIC files?
- Yes. In Settings, Camera, Formats, choose "Most Compatible". New photos are then saved as JPG.
Your file stays on this device
The tool above runs in a sealed frame that cannot send your file anywhere. It works with airplane mode on, and the counter above it stays at 0. Here is how you can check that yourself.
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