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How to convert HEIC to PNG

Sometimes compatibility isn't enough — you need the cleanest possible copy of an iPhone photo. Maybe it's headed into a design tool, a print layout, or heavy retouching where you'll save the file many times over.

Converting HEIC to PNG gives you exactly that: a lossless, universally supported copy that never degrades no matter how often it's edited and re-saved. Here's how to do it free in your browser, on Mac, Windows, iPhone or Android.

Open the HEIC to PNG tool

Convert HEIC to PNG in your browser

The photo is decoded and re-saved losslessly on your own device — nothing is uploaded.

  1. 1Open the free HEIC to PNG converter.
  2. 2Drag in your .heic photo (or several at once), or click to browse for them.
  3. 3Each photo is decoded and written out as a lossless PNG.
  4. 4Download the PNG — or a ZIP of every PNG if you converted a batch.

Converting more than one photo at a time

The converter accepts multiple HEIC files in a single drop, so you can hand it an entire folder from a camera roll export. Each photo is decoded and converted in turn — the page shows overall progress, and the finished PNGs download together as one ZIP, or one at a time if you only added a single file.

Why choose PNG over JPG here

A JPG re-compresses the photo, and each subsequent save in an editor compresses it again. PNG holds every pixel exactly as decoded from the HEIC, so your working copy stays pristine through any number of edits.

PNG also supports transparency — relevant the moment you cut a subject out of its background.

Mind the file size

Lossless photos are big: a 2 MB HEIC can easily become a 15–25 MB PNG. That's expected — HEIC's efficiency is what you're trading away for editing safety. For photos you only want to view or share, HEIC to JPG produces far smaller files.

Frequently asked questions

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