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HEIC to PNG Converter

HEIC is what iPhones shoot by default, and almost nothing outside Apple opens it reliably. Converting to PNG gives you pixel-perfect lossless quality with full transparency support. HEVC carries patent licensing, and that has kept native support thin outside Apple. Windows needs a paid codec extension from the Microsoft Store, Android support is inconsistent, and no browser displays HEIC — so uploads to web forms tend to fail outright. Logos, icons, screenshots, diagrams, anything with text or hard edges, and any image that needs a genuinely transparent background. Drop your files below and the work happens on your own machine — the conversion runs in the browser through the Canvas API, so nothing is uploaded and nothing is capped. PNG is lossless, so the file you get back is bigger than a JPEG of the same picture and identical in quality no matter how many times you re-save it.

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What an HEIC file actually is

HEIC is a HEIF container holding HEVC-compressed stills. It stores roughly the same visible quality as JPEG in about half the space, and it can hold extras a JPEG cannot: depth maps, edit history, and the paired frames behind Live Photos.

Every iPhone since iOS 11 in 2017 shoots HEIC by default. Files reach other people through AirDrop, direct copies off the device, or an iCloud download that skips Apple's automatic conversion — which is why the problem usually appears at the moment of sharing.

What you get from PNG

PNG output is lossless, so the saved pixels are exactly the pixels that went in and re-saving costs nothing in quality. It keeps a full 8-bit alpha channel, which means soft shadows and anti-aliased edges survive against any background.

Universal since the early 2000s, and the format every design tool, browser and operating system handles without argument. It is also the safest format to hand to a printer or a colleague when you do not know their software.

What changes when you convert HEIC to PNG

PNG is lossless, so the conversion preserves exactly what the HEIC decoded to — but not the detail the HEIC had already discarded. You are freezing the current state, not recovering the original, and a common misunderstanding is that saving to PNG somehow restores quality. Expect the file to grow, often several times over, because lossless compression cannot match what lossy compression already did.

There is no transparency to preserve — HEIC files do not carry an alpha channel, so every pixel is opaque to begin with. Converting to a format that supports transparency does not create any; it only means you could add it later in an editor.

Going from HEIC to PNG keeps you in modern-codec territory rather than falling back to JPEG, so file sizes stay closer to what the iPhone produced. The trade is where the result can be used: HEIC fails almost everywhere outside Apple, and PNG succeeds almost everywhere inside a browser — but neither is a safe bet for someone else's desktop software, which is what JPG is for.

Frequently asked questions

Is this HEIC to PNG converter really free and private?

Yes. Conversion happens entirely in your browser using the Canvas API — your iPhone HEIC photos are never uploaded to a server, there is no file limit, no watermark and no sign-up.

Can I convert multiple HEIC files at once?

Yes — drop any number of files and they convert in one batch. Use "Download all" to save the results as a single ZIP.

Why does my iPhone save photos as HEIC?

Apple uses HEIC because it halves file size at the same quality. To make your iPhone shoot JPG directly, go to Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible.

Does converting HEIC to PNG lose quality?

PNG is lossless, so the conversion preserves exactly what the HEIC decoded to — but not the detail the HEIC had already discarded. You are freezing the current state, not recovering the original, and a common misunderstanding is that saving to PNG somehow restores quality. Expect the file to grow, often several times over, because lossless compression cannot match what lossy compression already did.

Why is the PNG larger than the original?

Because PNG is lossless and cannot cheat. Lossy formats reach their size by discarding detail; PNG has to store every pixel it is given, so a photograph converted to PNG is routinely several times bigger. That is expected, not a fault — if size matters more than losing nothing, JPG or WebP is the right target.

Can I stop my iPhone producing HEIC in the first place?

Yes — Settings, then Camera, then Formats, then Most Compatible makes the camera shoot JPG directly. You trade roughly double the file size for files that open anywhere without a conversion step.

Related conversions

JPG → PNGWebP → PNGHEIC → JPGHEIC → WebPHEIC → ICOAVIF → PNG

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