Compress HEIC photos in your browser

Browsers cannot write HEIC. This converts your photo to JPEG, which every device accepts, and lets you set the quality.

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HEIC options

Quality 78%

78 is the sweet spot for JPEG, visually identical for most phone photos.

Max width Original

Downscaling is the single biggest win on phone photos. Options larger than your image are disabled.

Strip EXIF & GPS Off

The JPEG is written fresh, so camera model, timestamps and location are not carried over. Leave this on.

Compress to a target size Off

We search for the highest quality that still fits under your figure, then tell you where we landed.

Speed Fast

Fast is instant. Smallest takes a moment longer and squeezes roughly 10 to 20% more out of the same quality.

Want it smaller than JPEG?

AVIF is typically well below JPEG at matching quality on photographs, and every current browser reads it. Download the JPG from this page, then drop it on the AVIF tool.

Compress as AVIF

How to compress a HEIC

01

Drop the HEIC files

HEIC or HEIF from an iPhone or similar. Nothing is uploaded.

02

Set your JPEG quality

78 is a strong default. Drag the preview divider once the JPEG is ready.

03

Download the JPG

The file comes back as .jpg, because that is what every other app will open.

What is a HEIC file, and why does this become a JPG?

HEIC is High Efficiency Image Container, the format Apple adopted for iPhone photos. It uses HEVC under the hood and stores the same picture in roughly half the bytes of a JPEG. That is why AirDropped and Files-app exports so often arrive as .heic.

No mainstream browser can write a HEIC. Canvas and the WebCodecs surface stop at JPEG, WebP, PNG and (where supported) AVIF. A tool that claimed to "compress HEIC" and handed back a HEIC would be lying about what ran in your tab, or shipping a native encoder the CSP on this site would refuse.

So this page does the honest thing: decode the HEIC, then write a JPEG at the quality you pick. The download is .jpg. If you want a modern format that is still smaller than JPEG, convert the result to AVIF or WebP next.

HEIC compression FAQ

Why do I get a JPG back?

Because browsers cannot write HEIC. JPEG is the format every phone, computer and website still accepts, so that is what this tool produces after decoding your HEIC.

Is my photo uploaded?

No. Decoding runs in this tab through WebAssembly, and the JPEG is encoded here too. There is no upload endpoint.

Will it look worse than the HEIC?

JPEG is lossy, so there is always some change. At quality 78 to 85 the difference is invisible at normal viewing size for phone photos.

What about HEIF?

Same container family. Files named .heif open here exactly like .heic.

Can I keep it as HEIC?

Not in the browser. To stay in HEIC you need a native app. Here the useful job is making a JPEG you can actually send, upload or archive.

Should I convert to AVIF or WebP instead?

After this, yes, if the file is going on a website. AVIF and WebP beat JPEG on size at matching quality. Download the JPG from this page, then drop that JPG on the AVIF or WebP tool.