Turn HEIC photos into ICNS. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop HEIC files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · other file types work too0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop HEIC (HEIF) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the ICNS, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The HEIC to ICNS converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your photos are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
HEIC does not open in most browsers, on many Windows PCs or in a lot of upload forms. ICNS is what macOS expects for app and file icons. HEIC is at home in saving storage on Apple devices; ICNS is the usual choice for macOS application and folder icons. ICNS cannot bring back detail that HEIC compression already removed; it simply stores the result without further loss, in a larger file.
Most browsers other than Safari cannot read HEIC themselves, so a HEIC decoder of under 1 MB is downloaded the first time and kept in the browser cache. The picture is fitted into a square, with empty margins if it is not square, and written at 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 and 512 pixels (and 1024 when the source is at least that large), each as a PNG inside the icon file.
HEIC is what iPhones have saved photos as since iOS 11 in 2017. It uses the HEVC video codec to store a photo in roughly half the space of a JPG. Outside Apple's own apps, support is patchy: Windows needs an extension and most websites refuse it.
Opens in iPhone, iPad and Mac natively; Windows needs extra codecs; most browsers cannot display it
HEIC converterICNS is the icon container of macOS. One file holds the same icon at many sizes, from 16 to 1024 pixels including Retina versions, each with transparency. Every Mac app carries one in its bundle.
Opens in macOS Preview and Finder, Xcode and icon editors; not browsers
ICNS converter| HEICHEIC photo | ICNSmacOS icon | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | High Efficiency Image Container | Apple Icon Image |
| Type | Raster image | Raster image (icon) |
| Compression | Lossy (HEVC) | Lossless |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | Image sequences | No |
| Introduced | 2015, by the Moving Picture Experts Group (adopted by Apple in iOS 11) | Around 2001, by Apple |
| Opens in | iPhone, iPad and Mac natively; Windows needs extra codecs; most browsers cannot display it | macOS Preview and Finder, Xcode and icon editors; not browsers |
| Best for | Saving storage on Apple devices | macOS application and folder icons |
| File extension | .heic, .heif, .hif | .icns |
No. The HEIC to ICNS conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No further quality is lost: ICNS stores the decoded pixels exactly. It cannot restore what HEIC compression already discarded, and the file will be larger.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the HEIC file, press Convert and save the ICNS. There is nothing to install.
Pictures of up to 120 megapixels are accepted (for example 12,000 by 10,000 pixels); a larger one is refused with a message. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.