How do I convert an iPhone HEIC photo to PNG?
To convert HEIC to PNG, open FixDoks's HEIC to PNG converter and add your iPhone photos. No settings are needed since PNG is lossless, which helps when you plan to edit the photo further or feed it into another tool that needs clean edges. The HEIC file is decoded entirely in your browser, and nothing is uploaded.
HEIC to PNG at a glance
| Input | HEIC or HEIF |
|---|---|
| Output | Lossless PNG |
| Processing | In your browser; your files are not uploaded |
| Price | Free, no watermark |
| Download | Free Google sign-in |
| Works on | Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone |
How to use HEIC to PNG Converter
- Click Select HEIC files and choose one or more images.
- No settings are needed. PNG stores the decoded photo without any further loss.
- Click Convert to PNG and download each file, or all of them as a ZIP.
HEIC to PNG for editing and design
If you only need to share or upload an iPhone photo, HEIC to JPG gives a smaller file. Choose PNG when you want to edit the photo further: PNG is lossless, so you can open, edit and save it as many times as you like without adding compression artefacts. It is also the better input for tools like background removers, where clean edges matter.
Private conversion
The HEIC photo is decoded inside your browser with a self-hosted decoder. Nothing is uploaded, which matters for personal photos. It works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook and Android.
File size
PNG files of photos are large, often several times the size of the HEIC original, because PNG does not use lossy compression. A 2 MB HEIC photo can become a 10 to 20 MB PNG. That is expected. For uploading to websites or sending on WhatsApp, JPG is more practical.
Colours and orientation
The photo is saved the right way up, even if your iPhone stored it with a rotation tag. Colours are converted to the standard sRGB space used by screens and the web. Camera metadata such as location is not copied into the PNG.
Select several HEIC photos to convert them in one go and download a ZIP.
Next steps
After converting, you can crop the PNG with the crop tool, turn it into a round profile picture with the circle crop tool, or shrink it with the PNG compressor. If you realise you only needed to share the photo, the HEIC to JPG converter gives a much smaller file.
Converting many photos
HEIC decoding takes a moment per photo, and large PNG files take memory. On an older phone, convert photos in groups of ten or twenty rather than hundreds at once.
Where HEIC comes from
Besides iPhones and iPads, some Android phones from Samsung and other brands offer HEIF as a space saving option in camera settings. Those files use the same format and convert here the same way. If a HEIC file will not open, it may be a HEIC video frame sequence or damaged during transfer; try exporting it again from the phone's gallery.
The PNG keeps the full pixel size of the original photo. If you need a smaller version for a document or slide, resize it afterwards with the image resizer, which keeps the PNG format if you choose it.