Convert HEIC to JPG — and why we deliberately don't offer a converter tool

The problem: iPhone photos that won't open elsewhere

Since iOS 11, the iPhone saves new photos as HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) by default — a format that needs roughly half the storage of JPG at comparable quality. The catch: many Windows programs, older image viewers, and some websites can't open HEIC files directly. The result is a familiar frustration — a photo from your phone won't simply upload or paste in somewhere.

Why ConverterFleet doesn't offer a tool for this

The obvious fix would be a HEIC-to-JPG converter, like ConverterFleet already offers for many other image formats. For HEIC, there's essentially one working library in the browser: libheif, together with libde265 as the decoder. Both are LGPL-licensed. ConverterFleet reviews every component under a license like LGPL or MPL 2.0 individually before adding it to the product — for libheif, that review has so far come back negative. Rather than ship a tool that might have to be removed again for license reasons, the more honest answer is: no tool, but a path to your goal.

Converting HEIC photos yourself

The full step-by-step guide for iPhone, macOS, and Windows is on our info page — it also covers how to make future photos save directly as JPG, so you don't need to convert them after the fact.