HEIC Converter
Turn iPhone .heic photos into JPG, PNG, or one PDF.
HEIC Converter turns the .heic photos an iPhone writes into JPG or PNG — one at a time or a batch as a ZIP — or lays them out as a single PDF, decoded on your own device with an open-source HEIF decoder. The decoder (about 1 MB of program code) is fetched from unboundpdf.com the first time you convert and is then cached; the photos themselves are not sent anywhere. The picture's own rotation is applied, so a photo taken sideways comes out upright, and nothing else from the original is carried over — the image is encoded fresh from its pixels, so EXIF, GPS and capture dates are not in the file you get back. HEIC has variants this decoder cannot read; a file it refuses is named and the rest of the batch still converts.
HEIC Converter turns the .heic photos an iPhone writes into JPG or PNG in your browser — free, with no account and no watermark. The photos are decoded on your device and are not uploaded to a server.
How to use HEIC Converter — steps & common uses
What people use HEIC Converter for
People with an iPhone and a form, a website or a colleague that will not take a .heic file.
- Convert iPhone photos for a form that rejects HEIC
- Send holiday pictures to someone on Windows
- Turn a batch of .heic files into JPGs at once
- Strip location data out of a photo before sharing it
- Put a set of phone photos into one PDF
How to use HEIC Converter
- Drop in one .heic photo or a whole batch; each file's container is checked before anything is decoded.
- Pick JPG (with a quality) or PNG, and convert — the decoder is fetched from this site the first time and then cached.
- Take the picture, a ZIP of the batch, or one PDF with a page per photo.
- Read the result: it reports the pixel size measured in each output file, and names any file the decoder could not read.
Good to know: Decoded on your device; the photo's own rotation is applied and no other metadata is carried over; a HEIC variant this decoder cannot read is named, not skipped silently.
Questions about HEIC Converter 7
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. UnboundPDF processes PDFs locally in the browser — documents are not uploaded to a server. We have no backend that receives, stores, or scans your files.
Why can't my computer open a .heic file already?
HEIC is the format Apple devices photograph in. Apple software reads it everywhere; Windows and many websites still do not, which is why a photo that looks fine on the phone is rejected when it is uploaded. Converting to JPG or PNG produces a file that everything opens.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The decoding runs in the page on your own device. What IS fetched from unboundpdf.com, once, is the decoder itself — about a megabyte of program code, cached by your browser afterwards. Your photos are not sent anywhere.
Will a sideways photo come out sideways?
No. A HEIC file records the rotation of the picture inside the container, and the decoder applies it, so the converted file is upright. That is checked in our test suite against a photo built to be stored sideways.
Is the camera information kept?
No. The picture is encoded fresh from its pixels, so EXIF — including any GPS position — XMP, capture dates and colour profiles are not carried into the output. If you need that data, keep the original alongside the converted file.
What happens to a HEIC file it cannot read?
It is named, with the decoder's own message, and the rest of the batch still converts. HEIC covers several things at once — 10-bit captures, bursts, Live Photos, depth files — and no single decoder reads all of them. A file that holds more than one picture is converted to its primary one, and the result says so.
Can I get one PDF instead of separate pictures?
Yes. “Make one PDF instead” lays the converted photos out one per page, at the picture's own proportions, using the same page rule JPG to PDF uses.
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How your files are handled
The work runs on your own device, inside the browser tab — so there is no server to send your document to.
- Nothing is uploaded. We have no backend that receives or stores documents, so we cannot see your files during processing or after.
- Your device does the work. Large documents are handled in stages, pages are rendered as you reach them, and each job is checked against your device before it starts — so a long run takes longer on a phone than on a laptop, nothing is queued behind other people's jobs, and you can stop a run at any point without touching your original file.
- No account and no watermark. The output is a clean file you can use anywhere, with no sign-up and no hourly cap.
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