Convert HEIC to PNG
Private by design: the conversion runs on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
- Choose the target format
- Drop your file (or click to browse)
- Download the converted file
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Output format: png
A HEIC out of an iPhone is a compressed photo; a PNG is the same picture stored pixel by pixel with nothing thrown away. That is the trade this page makes, and it is the right one when the image is heading into a design tool, a slide deck or a document that will be re-saved several more times. The libheif decoder and the PNG writer both ship with this page, so the photo is read and rewritten without a round trip to anyone's server.
Frequently asked questions
- Why choose PNG over JPG for an iPhone photo?
- Because PNG adds no new compression artifacts. If the picture will be cropped, annotated and exported again, each JPG save would soften it a little more, while the PNG stays exactly as it was decoded.
- How much bigger is the PNG going to be?
- Considerably bigger than the HEIC, frequently five to ten times. HEIC exists to make phone storage last, and lossless storage is the opposite of that goal.
- What happens to a Live Photo or a burst?
- Only the still frame is converted, since PNG holds a single image. The motion half of a Live Photo lives in a separate video file that this page does not touch.