Starting with iOS 11, iPhones store images in HEIC file type 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 critical process that makes iPhone pictures compatible everywhere. Common scenarios where this becomes a problem are sending iPhone photos to non-Apple users, adding images to websites incompatible with HEIC.
People with Macs read more have the easiest method. Open the HEIC photo in Preview, go to File, then Export and pick JPEG as the format.
Windows PC users, web-based converters process HEIC to JPG conversion requiring no software installation. Select the HEIC file and get the converted JPG.
Try alljpgconverters.com offering a completely free online HEIC to JPG solution with no download required.