How to Convert HEIC to JPG on Windows (Including Many Photos at Once)

There are three ways to get JPGs from iPhone HEIC photos on a Windows PC. For one or two photos, drop each file into a browser HEIC to JPG converter. To open HEIC files in the Windows Photos app, install two Microsoft Store extensions. For a whole camera roll, set your iPhone to convert photos to JPG as you copy them over a USB cable, which handles hundreds of files in one pass.

Which route is best depends on how many photos you have and whether you need JPG files or only want to look at the pictures.

If you want the background on why HEIC exists and why so many forms reject it, our guide to why iPhone photos won't open anywhere else covers it. This post is about the Windows side only.

Option 1: Convert in the browser (one photo at a time)

Our HEIC to JPG converter runs in any current browser on Windows, including Edge and Chrome. You do not need to install anything, because the decoder is JavaScript that loads in the page.

1. Open the converter and drag a .heic or .heif file onto the upload area, or click to browse.
2. Leave "Convert to" on JPG. The file is encoded at 92% quality, which is hard to tell apart from the original for photos.
3. Click Convert, then Download. The JPG keeps the original file name with a .jpg extension.

A few things are worth knowing before you rely on it:

• One file at a time. There is no batch mode. Converting 10 photos means 10 drops and 10 downloads.
• Nothing is uploaded. The conversion happens on your own PC, so the photo never reaches a server.
• Location data is dropped. The pixels are redrawn and re-encoded, so camera details, the date taken and GPS location from the HEIC are not carried into the JPG. That is useful if you are posting the photo publicly. It is a drawback if you sort photos by date.
• Burst files give one image. If a HEIC holds several frames, only the first one is converted.

Need a lossless file or a PNG for editing? The HEIC to PNG page uses the same decoder.

Option 2: Install the Windows extensions (to view HEIC files)

Windows can read HEIC once two add-ons from the Microsoft Store are installed:

Extension	What it does	Price in the US Store (October 2026)
HEIF Image Extension	Lets Windows read and write the HEIF container	Free
HEVC Video Extensions	Supplies the codec that HEIC photos are compressed with	$0.99

Microsoft's own Store listing for the HEIF extension says the HEVC package must also be installed to view images with the .heic or .heif extension. With only the free one, most iPhone photos still will not open.

After both are installed, double-clicking a HEIC file opens it in the Photos app, and File Explorer can usually show thumbnails. To turn a single photo into a JPG from there, you can usually open it in Paint and use Save as, then JPEG (test this on your PC first). That is still one photo at a time, so it does not solve the batch problem.

This route makes sense if you only need to look at the photos, or you will open HEIC files on this PC often.

Option 3: Convert many photos at once during transfer

For a whole album or a full camera roll, the quickest route is to let the iPhone do the conversion while you copy the photos to Windows over a cable. Apple's support page on HEIF and HEVC says that when you import media from an attached iPhone into a PC, it might be converted to JPEG. The setting that controls this is on the phone:

1. On the iPhone, open Settings, tap Apps, then Photos. On older iOS versions, Photos is listed directly in Settings.
2. Scroll to Transfer to Mac or PC and choose Automatic. The other choice, Keep Originals, sends HEIC files unchanged.
3. Connect the iPhone to the PC with a USB cable and tap Trust on the phone if asked.
4. Install the Apple Devices app from the Microsoft Store if you have not already, then import the photos with the Windows Photos app. If iCloud Photos is on, download the originals to the iPhone first, because Apple says the full-resolution versions must be on the device before you import to a PC.

The photos stay as HEIC on the phone, so you keep the storage savings there. Apple uses the word "might," so check a few imported files before you delete anything. If some still arrive as .heic, convert those few in the browser.

Sharing works in a similar way. Apple says photos sent by AirDrop, Messages or email to a device that does not support HEIF may be sent in a more compatible format such as JPEG. That suits a handful of photos, not a whole library.

Which route to pick

Situation	Best route
One or a few photos, any PC, nothing to install	Browser converter
You want to open HEIC files on this PC regularly	Microsoft Store extensions
Hundreds of photos from your own iPhone	Automatic transfer over USB
Someone emailed you HEIC files	Browser converter, one by one
You need the original date and GPS kept	Keep Originals transfer, then view with the extensions

After converting: size and upload limits

A JPG is usually larger than the HEIC it came from, because JPG compression is older and less efficient. If the JPG is going into an online form with a size cap, run it through the Image Compressor and use its target file size mode, which searches for the highest quality that fits a figure you set in KB.

If you want new photos to be JPG from the start, so you never have to convert them, change the iPhone's camera format. That setting has its own trade-offs, which we cover separately.