Turn HEIC photos into ICO. 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. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab.
Save the ICO, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The HEIC to ICO 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. ICO holds several sizes in one file, which is what favicons and Windows shortcuts need. HEIC is at home in saving storage on Apple devices; ICO is the usual choice for website favicons and Windows app icons. ICO cannot bring back detail that HEIC compression already removed; it simply stores the result without further loss, in a larger file.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can pick which icon sizes go into the 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.
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 converterAn ICO file bundles the same icon at several sizes, such as 16, 32 and 48 pixels, so Windows or a browser can pick the sharpest one. It is still the most compatible way to ship a favicon.
Opens in Windows and every browser (as favicon.ico)
ICO converter| HEICHEIC photo | ICOIcon file | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | High Efficiency Image Container | Windows icon |
| Type | Raster image | Icon container |
| Compression | Lossy (HEVC) | PNG or uncompressed bitmaps inside |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | Image sequences | No |
| Introduced | 2015, by the Moving Picture Experts Group (adopted by Apple in iOS 11) | 1985, by Microsoft |
| Opens in | iPhone, iPad and Mac natively; Windows needs extra codecs; most browsers cannot display it | Windows and every browser (as favicon.ico) |
| Best for | Saving storage on Apple devices | Website favicons and Windows app icons |
| File extension | .heic, .heif, .hif | .ico |
No. The HEIC to ICO conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
The picture is scaled down: an icon file holds small square copies of it (16, 32, 48 and 256 pixels by default), so anything larger loses detail and a picture that is not square gets empty space around it. Each size is stored without further loss. You can pick the sizes under Options.
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 ICO. 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.