image format · .heic

What is HEIC?

High Efficiency Image Container

Apple's modern photo format that stores high-quality images at roughly half the size of JPG, used by default on iPhones.

Advantages

  • Excellent quality-to-size ratio
  • Stores depth and edits

Limitations

  • Limited support outside Apple devices
  • Often needs converting to JPG/PNG to share

Best used for

iPhone photos; convert to JPG/PNG for wider compatibility.

Extensions
.heic, .heif
MIME type
image/heic
Compression
Lossy

Free HEIC tools

HEIC to JPGConvert Apple HEIC photos to JPG.HEIC to PNGConvert Apple HEIC photos to PNG.Image to PDFCombine JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF, BMP, AVIF, HEIC, and SVG images into a PDF, with page size, orientation, and margin options.HEIC to PDFConvert HEIC photos to a PDF.