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HEIC to JPG on Windows 10 and 11
In short: Windows 10 and 11 cannot open iPhone HEIC photos without a codec.
An iPhone HEIC photo is a broken thumbnail on a fresh Windows PC. Drop the whole import here — a thousand photos is a normal weekend — and get JPG back, without installing anything.
Windows 10 and 11 ship without a HEVC decoder, which is why Explorer, Photos and most Windows apps answer an iPhone photo with "the file cannot be opened". The usual fixes are a paid codec pack or a desktop converter that uploads the photos. This page takes the third route: it decodes HEIC with a bundled open-source decoder inside your browser and re-encodes it as JPG on your own PC. A 1,000-photo iPhone import is ordinary here — work through it 20 files per run and drop the next batch when one finishes. No install, no admin rights, no account and no upload.
How to use it
- Pick or drop the .heic files from your iPhone import — up to 20 per run, and you can add the next batch straight away
- Leave JPG as the output and keep the quality at 80–90% for photos
- Download each result or the whole batch from the result list, then drop the next folder
Frequently asked
Why won't Windows 10 or 11 open my HEIC photos?
Windows does not include the HEVC decoder by default, so Explorer, Photos and most apps show an error or a blank thumbnail. Microsoft offers the HEIF Image Extensions plus a paid HEVC video extension in the Microsoft Store, and some camera apps bundle their own decoder. Converting to JPG here removes the dependency: JPG opens on every Windows version with no extra software at all.
Can I convert 1,000 HEIC photos at once?
Not in a single drop — one run takes up to 20 files, which keeps the browser from running out of memory. It is a technical limit, not a paywall: drop the next 20 when the batch finishes, so a 1,000-photo import is about 50 short runs on a normal PC. Every run is processed on your own machine, so nothing queues on a server and no account is involved.
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No. The HEIC decoder and the JPG encoder both run inside the browser tab, and no request carries the image anywhere. Check the browser network panel while converting: picking and converting a photo adds no upload request. Once the page has loaded it also keeps working offline.
How is this different from a Windows HEIC converter app?
A desktop app is installed once and can swallow a whole folder in one go, but it has to be installed (often with admin rights), and free ones commonly watermark, cap the batch or upload the photos. This page needs no install and no account, adds no watermark, and the file never leaves the PC — the only cap is the 20-files-per-run browser limit.
Does converting HEIC to JPG lose quality?
JPG is lossy, so some detail is dropped when the photo is re-encoded. At 80–90% the difference is invisible at normal viewing size, and the resolution stays untouched. On our 1280×854 iPhone sample the default conversion produced 442 KB from a 718 KB HEIC.
Does it work on Windows 10 and 11 PCs, even an old or slow one?
Yes — any Windows 10 or 11 PC with a current Chrome, Edge or Firefox works, and so does a Mac or a Chromebook. The HEIC decoder downloads only after you pick a HEIC file, so the page stays light on a slow connection.