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HEICJPGHEIC to JPG Converter
Every iPhone shoots HEIC. Almost nothing on Windows opens it. That mismatch is why you are here, and it is not going away — so PhotoTray converts a whole import at once, on your own machine, keeping the date each photo was taken so your library does not lose its order. Then it offers to do it automatically for every photo that lands in that folder from now on.
Drop in your files — Needs Microsoft's free HEIF Image Extension — PhotoTray checks on first run and links you straight to it.
Why convert
Why convert HEIC to JPG
Apple moved to HEIC because it stores the same photo in about half the space. Everyone else did not follow. The result is a household with an iPhone and a Windows PC where the photos technically transferred and practically cannot be used — not by the photo viewer, not by the printing service, not by the marketplace listing, not by the relative you emailed them to. JPG is the format none of those will argue with.
- A holiday's worth of iPhone photos that Windows Photos will not open.
- Uploading to a marketplace, forum or print service that rejects HEIC.
- Sending photos to someone who should not have to install anything.
- Getting images into an editor that predates HEIC, which is most of them.
- Converting an entire phone import in one run rather than in batches of five.
How it works
Convert HEIC to JPG in a few clicks
- 1
Drop your HEIC files in
One photo or four hundred. Drag the whole import folder in — there is no count limit and no size cap.
- 2
Choose JPG and a quality
The default is high enough that the difference is invisible on a phone photo. PhotoTray shows you what will be carried across, including the date the photo was taken.
- 3
Pick where they land
Alongside the originals or in a folder of your own. The HEIC files are never modified or deleted.
- 4
Say yes to the rule
When it finishes, PhotoTray offers to watch that folder and convert every HEIC that arrives from then on. That is the part a website cannot do for you.
The details
HEIC to JPG, at a glance
- Engine
- Windows Imaging Component, via PhotoTray's bundled decoder
- Requires
- Microsoft's free HEIF Image Extension (PhotoTray checks and links you to it)
- Output
- JPG, with EXIF date and orientation carried across
- Batch
- One spawn per job, not per file — a 400-photo import is one pass
- Where it runs
- Your own PC — nothing is uploaded
- Limits
- None — no file count, no file-size cap, no watermark
- Platform
- Windows 10/11 (x64)
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This conversion is part of the full tool — which handles the other formats in the same batch, and can keep doing it on a folder you choose.
Runs on your PC · nothing uploaded · no watermark, no file limit