HEIC to PNG Converter
Convert HEIC images to PNG right in your browser. Batch, private, no uploads, and a dropped folder adds up to 3,000 files at a time.
- Free, no account
- No watermark
- No usage limit
About the HEIC to PNG Converter
Got an iPhone photo that won't open on Windows, or that some upload form keeps spitting back? This turns that HEIC file into a PNG that opens anywhere. Drop in a single photo or a whole camera roll, and clean, lossless PNGs come back. No sign-up, no watermark, and it does not care how many you throw at it.
An iPhone photo carries your GPS coordinates inside it, the exact spot you were standing when you pressed the shutter. Most free HEIC-to-PNG sites fix the compatibility problem by uploading your file to their server first. So a photo stamped with your home address goes off to a company you know nothing about, just so you can get a PNG back. Nothing gets uploaded from this page at all. The whole conversion happens in your browser, and the PNG it gives you has that location data stripped out automatically.
How to use
- Drop your HEIC photo, or a batch of them, onto the box. You can click to browse, or paste one straight from your clipboard.
- Leave the settings alone for a straight PNG, encoded with no further quality thrown away on top of what the HEIC already dropped. If the shot came out sideways, the rotate and flip buttons will straighten it on the way through.
- Hit Convert. It runs right there on your device, so it is fast and nothing gets sent anywhere.
- Download each PNG on its own, or use Download all (ZIP) when you have converted a pile of them.
What your iPhone photo is carrying, and why it matters here
Every photo your iPhone takes gets tagged with EXIF metadata. Date, camera model, the settings used, and if location is switched on (it is, for most people), the precise latitude and longitude of where you took it. That is genuinely handy inside your own library. It is a lot less handy when the photo is headed somewhere public, or through a stranger's server on the way to becoming a PNG.
This is where the free converter sites quietly cost you. They take your upload, run it on their machine, and hand back a link. Your original, GPS and all, now sits on infrastructure you do not control, under a privacy policy you never read. Nobody cares if it's a picture of a menu. But a photo of your kid in your own backyard is your home coordinates sitting on somebody else's server.
Converting here fixes both problems at once. The file never leaves your browser, so nothing is uploaded to anyone. And because the PNG is a brand-new file built from the image itself, not repackaged from the original, the metadata block does not carry into it. The output has no GPS coordinates and none of the camera fingerprint or capture date either. You get a clean image that is safe to post or send without a second thought about what is tucked inside.
Want to prove the no-upload claim to yourself? Open your browser's network panel and convert a file. You will watch the page pull down its own two pieces, a 1,458,915-byte HEIC reader and a PNG writer that ships as builds of 236,042 and 164,172 bytes, and you will not see your photo among them. That fetch is also why it does not work offline from cold, and the built export confirms none of those pieces arrives with the page. Convert once and they stay in your browser, so everything after the first file goes through with the connection down.
PNG or JPG for an iPhone photo?
A lot of people convert an iPhone photo to PNG because lossless sounds like the best-quality option, then wonder why the file came out four times bigger than the HEIC. PNG stores every pixel exactly, with nothing thrown away. That is precisely what you want for a screenshot, a logo, a diagram, or anything with sharp edges and flat color, and it is why those things live as PNGs.
For an ordinary photograph, though, PNG is usually the wrong call. Your HEIC was already finalized by a lossy encoder the instant you took the shot. Saving it as a giant lossless PNG does not recover detail that was never kept, it just packs the same picture into a much bigger file. A high-quality JPG of that photo looks identical to your eye while being a fraction of the size, and it opens in every place a PNG does.
Pick PNG when you need the image editable, when it needs a transparent background, or when it is a screenshot or a line graphic. JPG is the better call for a normal photo of people or places you just want to send, upload, or keep without it eating a chunk of your drive. There is a HEIC to JPG tool right here for that. Choosing PNG on purpose is completely fine. Just make sure you are picking it for what PNG is actually good at, and not out of a hunch that a bigger file must be a safer one.
One catch worth knowing before you rely on the colors. iPhones have shot in a wide color range called Display P3 since about 2017, and the PNG that comes out of here does not carry the tag that tells a viewer which range the numbers belong to. On a wide-gamut screen that can leave strong reds and greens reading a little more vivid than the original. For a screenshot, a diagram, or a photo headed to the web it is not something anyone notices. If you are color-matching for print or against a brand color, export that one from the Photos app instead, since Apple writes the tag and this converter cannot.
Why HEIC files won't open in the first place
HEIC is the format Apple switched iPhones to back in 2017, and it is a good one. It squeezes a photo into roughly half the space of the same shot saved as JPG at basically the same quality, which is how your phone holds thousands of pictures without filling up. The trouble is everywhere that is not Apple.
Windows needs a codec pack from the Microsoft Store just to preview a HEIC, and even with it installed, plenty of programs still choke on the file and show you an error or a blank thumbnail. Web browsers do not display HEIC at all, which is why so many upload forms, job portals, and web apps reject it flat, and the reason for that is licensing rather than technical difficulty. The compression inside HEIC is tangled up in patents, so most software never built in support for it. PNG is royalty-free and opens everywhere, which is what makes it the clean way out.
Frequently asked questions
Will Live Photos or Portrait depth data survive the conversion?
No, and that is expected. A HEIC can hold extras a normal image cannot, like the short motion clip behind a Live Photo or the depth map from Portrait mode. PNG is a plain still image, so the conversion keeps the single frame you see on screen and drops the motion and the depth. If you specifically need the Live Photo video, export that from the Photos app instead. This tool is for turning the still into something that opens everywhere.
My file is a .heif, or Windows shows a blank type. Will it still convert?
Yes. HEIC and HEIF are the same underlying format with two different labels, and both go through fine. If Windows reports the file type as blank, which it does constantly with HEIC, that is no problem either. The tool matches on the .heic or .heif at the end of the filename, so a missing type doesn't trip it up. A file some other converter refused because it "wasn't a real HEIC" will usually convert here anyway.
Can I straighten or rotate a photo while I convert it?
Yes. There are rotate and flip controls right next to the convert button. Tap rotate to spin the image in 90-degree steps, or flip it horizontally or vertically, and the PNG saves in that orientation. Useful for a shot that came off the phone sideways, so you are not doing a second round-trip through a photo editor just to turn it upright.
How big a batch can I convert at once?
There is no set limit on the photos you hand over yourself. Drop in a handful or a few hundred and they convert together rather than one after another, so a large album finishes quickly instead of one file at a time. When it is done you grab each PNG on its own or download the whole set as a single ZIP. How far you can push a batch mostly depends on your own device's memory. Drag a whole folder rather than the photos and one number does apply, because the tool walks it to the first 3,000 and then says on screen that it stopped, so the rest go over on a second drop.
One file in my batch didn't convert. What happened?
The rest still finish, and the one that failed gets listed on its own with the reason. Usually it is a photo that got truncated or corrupted somewhere, a partial download or a bad copy off the phone. Re-copy that specific file from its source and run it again. A genuinely broken file can't be decoded by anything, but a fresh copy normally goes through without complaint.
Does it work right on my iPhone or Android?
Yes. It runs in any modern mobile browser, so you can open it on the phone and convert straight from your camera roll with no app to install. It is the same private, in-browser process you would get on a desktop. On a phone it is often the quickest way to turn one stubborn HEIC into something you can drop into a chat or a form that refuses the original.