Need a lossless copy of an iPhone photo?
HEIC to PNG keeps every pixel exactly, for editing, documentation or archiving. Location data is stripped on the way.
Runs in your browser. Your file never leaves your computer.
- QualityExact pixels, no further loss
- Typical sizeMany times the HEIC
- Good forEditing chains, records, docs
- MetadataLocation always removed
Most iPhone photos want to become JPGs, but some jobs need pixels that will never shift again: a screenshot going into documentation, an image entering an editing pipeline, a photo kept as a record. PNG stores the decoded HEIC exactly, with no further compression loss ever. The file grows considerably, because photographs are what PNG is worst at compressing, and that trade is sometimes exactly right. Conversion is local; location and camera metadata are removed.
Questions
Why is the PNG so much larger than the HEIC?
PNG compresses losslessly, and photographs have noise that lossless compression cannot squeeze. The size is the price of exactness.
Is PNG better quality than JPG here?
It is more faithful: the decoded photo is stored without any new loss. Whether eyes can tell is another matter; for archives and editing, faithfulness wins.
Does the photo get uploaded?
No. Decoding and saving happen in your browser, which is why this is safe for personal photos.
Related conversions
- HEIC to JPGiPhone photos, turned into the JPG that Windows, forms, email and older apps expect. Converted on your own machine, location removed.
- HEIC to WebPHEIC to WebP: browser-friendly files close to the HEIC's own efficiency, without a detour through JPG.
- HEIC to PDFA one-page PDF from each photo, for forms, expenses and offices that want documents rather than images.
- JPG to PNGA lossless container for further editing. Fair warning: photos get big, and no JPG artifacts are healed.
- WebP to PNGLossless out of the box: exact pixels and intact transparency, in the format every editor and tool accepts.
- AVIF to PNGExact decoded pixels in the format everything accepts, when an AVIF meets software that has never heard of it.
Part of convert images in your browser. Every other conversion is on the conversions index.