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What is a HEIC file and how do you open it?

In short

HEIC is the default format for iPhone photos: good quality and small files, but poorly supported by websites and Windows. The easiest fix is to choose the photos in Safari in the tool below; it receives them as JPG and puts them into a PDF.

Do it right here

HEIC to PDF

Add HEIC, JPG or PNG photos and put them in the order you want. You get a PDF with one page per photo.

Drop PDFs here

or choose files from your device

PDF files · up to 50 MB each

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Why portals reject HEIC

Upload forms usually accept only JPG, PNG and PDF. HEIC is a newer format that many programs and browsers on Windows and Android can't read. The portal sees an unknown extension and rejects the file.

Three solutions

  • From Safari: when you choose photos from your library on a website, the iPhone usually converts them to JPG automatically. The tool here receives them correctly.
  • Camera setting: Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible. New photos are then saved as JPG.
  • Sent by messaging app: apps like WhatsApp send photos compressed as JPG.

If you already have .heic files on your computer

Add them to the tool above or to HEIC to JPG: they're decoded in the browser, with no extension. Alternatively, Windows can open them with extensions from the Microsoft Store, and on a Mac the Preview app exports them directly to JPG or PDF.

Frequently asked questions

Other questions

Do I lose quality with Most Compatible?

JPG photos take a little more space for the same visible quality. For photos of documents you won't see a difference.

Do HEIC files work in Chrome on Windows?

Here, yes: the tool above decodes them right in the browser. On other websites usually not; convert them first with HEIC to JPG.