What if I need to share with Windows or Android users?

Windows needs the HEVC Video Extensions codec before it will open HEIC, and older Android devices plus most email clients choke on the format entirely. Convert the specific files you're sending through our HEIC to JPG tool - keep the HEIC versions for your own library where the space savings compound.

Supported devices and browsers

heic.now is a regular web app — it works on anything with a modern browser:

Desktop: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi — last two major versions of each.
iPhone / iPad: Safari 14+ and any WebKit-based browser (Chrome on iOS uses WebKit too).
Android: Chrome, Firefox, Samsung Internet, DuckDuckGo browser — anything from Android 8 onwards.
Linux / Chromebook: any modern browser.

No app install, no plugin, nothing to side-load. If your browser can open this page, it can run the converter.

Working with phone photos

iPhones produce HEIC by default since iOS 11; modern Androids may produce HEIC or JPG. Both work in heic.now: drop the file straight from the camera roll into the dropzone and we'll handle it. The same goes for live photos (we extract the still frame), burst-mode photos, and screenshots.

If your iPhone is set to Most Compatible in Settings → Camera → Formats, photos are already JPG. Otherwise they're HEIC — use our HEIC to JPG converter to get a universally-compatible JPG.

Differences across platforms

The conversion itself is identical on every platform — the work runs on our servers, not your device. The only differences are at the edges:

iOS Safari sometimes asks twice before letting a site read files from Photos. Tap Allow when prompted.
Android Chrome exposes the gallery via the system file picker — pick from "Files" or "Photos" depending on where the image lives.
Desktop supports drag-and-drop from your file manager and from other browser tabs.