HEIC to JPG, and HEIC in every image tool
Convert iPhone HEIC photos to JPG offline on Mac — and drop HEIC files into any other image tool the same way. What works and what doesn't.
Drop an iPhone photo into HEIC to JPG and you get a JPEG back — decoded and converted entirely on your Mac, no upload. And because HEIC support lives in the image pipeline, every image tool accepts .heic input, not just this one.
Convert a HEIC photo
- Open Image Tools › Convert or the dedicated HEIC to JPG (tool page).
- Drop a
.heicor.heiffile — or a folder of them. iPhone and iPad photos shoot HEIC by default. - Set Output format to JPEG.
- Run it. The JPEG lands in your output folder as a new file — a conversion can't overwrite its source, so the
.heicoriginal stays put.
HEIC is input-only
1FileTool reads HEIC but never writes it — Apple-only formats stay inputs. If you convert a JPEG and expect HEIC back, that won't happen: outputs are JPEG, PNG, WebP and friends. This keeps sharing simple, since everything downstream (Windows, web uploads, Android) reads JPEG but not everything reads HEIC.
What carries over
- Orientation — iPhone photos store rotation in EXIF metadata; the converter applies it, so the JPEG is right-side up.
- Everywhere, not just this tool — Compress, Resize, Crop, Rotate, Strip EXIF and the rest all accept
.heicdrops. A HEIC into a non-HEIC tool just lands as a normal image output (.jpg).
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