HEIC to JPG Convert iPhone Photos in Your Browser

Since iOS 11, iPhones and iPads have saved photos in HEIC format by default. HEIC stores roughly twice as much detail per byte as JPEG, which is why your iPhone can fit thousands of photos without filling up. The catch is that HEIC is a relatively new container based on the HEVC video codec, and Windows, older Android phones, many email clients, most CMS upload forms and a long list of professional design tools either don't recognise the .heic extension at all or stumble when they try to decode it. The result is a photo that looks fine on your phone but refuses to open anywhere else.

The traditional fix has been to install a desktop converter, sign up for a cloud service, or change the iPhone's default format to JPEG and lose the storage benefits. CompressVault offers a third path: drop your HEIC files into a browser tab and convert them locally to JPEG, WebP, PNG or AVIF in seconds. There is no app to install, no account to create and no upload to wait for. The conversion uses the browser's built-in image decoding combined with the Canvas API to re-encode the pixels in whatever format the receiving system actually understands.

The best output format depends on where the photo is going. JPEG remains the safest choice for compatibility — every email client, social platform, photo printer and document editor handles it without question, and an 85 percent quality setting keeps the visual fidelity that made HEIC attractive in the first place. WebP is the smarter choice if the destination is a website or a modern messaging app, because it produces smaller files at the same quality. PNG is the right answer when you need to preserve transparency, although that is rare for camera photos.

HEIC files arrive straight from the camera roll with the same EXIF data as any other photo: GPS coordinates accurate to a few metres, the iPhone model and serial number, the exact date and time, even the orientation the device was held in. Sharing that information with strangers is rarely a good idea. Because CompressVault re-encodes through the Canvas API rather than copying the original file, every converted JPEG, WebP or PNG comes out clean — no GPS, no serial number, no timestamp. That happens automatically; there is no separate "strip metadata" step to remember.