Starting with iOS 11, iPhones store photos in HEIC format by standard. HEIC — High Efficiency Image Container — is technically impressive: it produces pictures with roughly half the storage of similar JPEGs maintaining high photo quality.
However there is a major catch. HEIC is an Apple-centric file type not broadly compatible outside the Apple ecosystem. PC users, Android phones and many websites cannot open HEIC photos with no additional software.
Transforming HEIC to JPG is the website critical process making iPhone pictures compatible everywhere. Common scenarios needing conversion are sending iPhone photos to non-Apple users, adding images to websites incompatible with HEIC.
People with Macs enjoy the simplest method. Open the HEIC image in Preview, go to File, then Export and pick JPEG as the format.
Windows PC users, online conversion tools process HEIC to JPG conversion requiring no software installation. Select the HEIC file and save the converted JPG.
Try alljpgconverters.com for a totally free browser-based HEIC to JPG tool with no account necessary.