Turn iPhone photos into JPGs that open anywhere. 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
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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 JPG, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The HEIC to JPG 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.
iPhones have saved photos as HEIC since iOS 11 because it halves the storage a photo needs. The trouble starts when the photo leaves the phone: Windows without the HEIF extension, most browsers, many print kiosks and a long list of upload forms reject it. JPG (the same thing as JPEG) is the format all of them accept. Expect the JPG to be larger than the HEIC, often about double, because JPG's 1992 compression is less efficient. A Live Photo's motion is stored by iOS as a separate video, so a HEIC file only ever contains the still.
JPG has no transparency, so see-through areas of a HEIC are filled with a solid colour, white by default; you can change it under Options. The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can set the quality, aim for a target file size and resize the result.
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. Camera metadata such as EXIF and GPS location is not copied into the JPG, and the photo's rotation is applied so it stays upright.
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 converterJPG (also written JPEG) is the format almost every camera and website uses for photographs. It throws away detail the eye barely notices to keep files small, which is why it suits photos and struggles with sharp text or flat colour.
Opens in Every browser, phone, camera, TV and image app
JPG converter| HEICHEIC photo | JPGJPEG image | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | High Efficiency Image Container | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Type | Raster image | Raster image |
| Compression | Lossy (HEVC) | Lossy |
| Transparency | Yes | No |
| Animation | Image sequences | No |
| Introduced | 2015, by the Moving Picture Experts Group (adopted by Apple in iOS 11) | 1992, by the Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Opens in | iPhone, iPad and Mac natively; Windows needs extra codecs; most browsers cannot display it | Every browser, phone, camera, TV and image app |
| Best for | Saving storage on Apple devices | Photos you need to share, upload or print |
| File extension | .heic, .heif, .hif | .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif, .jif |
HEIC stores the same photo in roughly half the space. If you would rather shoot JPG from now on, open Settings, Camera, Formats on the iPhone and choose Most Compatible. Photos already taken stay HEIC until you convert them.
JPG is an older, less efficient format, so the same photo needs more bytes. That is the price of a file that opens everywhere.
No. The HEIC to JPG conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to toany or to anyone else.
JPG is a lossy format, so a small amount of detail is traded for a smaller file. At the default setting the difference is hard to notice. You can raise or lower the quality 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 JPG. 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.