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HEIC to PNG

iPhone photos as crisp PNGs

Turn HEIC into PNG — the right way up, with the location removed.

or drop them here · paste works too

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A lake at dawn between pine trees and blue mountainsHEIC
A lake at dawn between pine trees and blue mountainsPNG
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Drop HEIC photos here

One file or a whole folder. Each one is converted on its own terms.

Paste works too, or drop a whole folder.

No picture openzoom 100% on this device

Drop iPhone HEIC photos. Each is turned upright and written as PNG, which keeps every decoded pixel — and is large, so the byte count is shown before you save. HEIC opens here in browsers that read it themselves: Safari on Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Which browsers can open HEIC here

This site converts only with what your browser can do itself and never sends a photo anywhere to be decoded. Safari on a Mac, iPhone or iPad reads HEIC natively, so HEIC to PNG works there in full. Chrome, Edge and Firefox on Windows, Android and Linux do not read HEIC; on those browsers the file is listed with that reason rather than a broken result.

PNG is lossless and large

A 12-megapixel iPhone photo as PNG is commonly 15 to 25 MB — ten or more times the HEIC — because PNG keeps every pixel exactly and photographs compress badly without loss. The PNG's real size is shown next to the HEIC before anything is saved. If the photo is going to a portal or a chat, JPEG is usually the better answer; the page says so beside the result.

The photo is turned upright using the camera's orientation, and the GPS position and other EXIF data are not written into the PNG. Colour is converted to sRGB.

Questions about HEIC to PNG

Why is my PNG so much larger than the HEIC?
HEIC is a very efficient lossy format; PNG stores every pixel losslessly, which for a photograph means many times the size. The page shows both byte counts.
Why does this page not open HEIC in Chrome or Firefox?
Those browsers have no HEIC decoder of their own, and this site does not upload photos to decode them on a server. Safari on a Mac, iPhone or iPad opens them here directly.
Is my location removed?
Yes. GPS and other EXIF metadata are not written into the PNG, and each output is checked for a GPS block before it is offered.
Should I use PNG or JPG for an iPhone photo?
JPG for sharing, portals and chats: far smaller and visually identical at the quality this page searches for. PNG only if the photo will be edited and saved repeatedly.
Are my files uploaded?
Nothing is uploaded: the picture is read, converted and checked in this browser tab.

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