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How to Convert HEIC to JPG on Android

Someone sends you an iPhone photo. It opens in your gallery, but the app you need to send it to won’t accept it. Or it won’t open at all. In either case, a JPG copy may be all you need.

The HEIC-to-JPG converter runs in your phone’s browser without uploading the picture. Download the attachment first, then follow these steps.

Convert a HEIC attachment on your phone

  1. Save the original attachment to your phone and wait for the download to finish.
  2. Open HEIC to JPG in an up-to-date browser and leave JPG selected.
  3. Tap the file chooser and find the attachment. Depending on your phone, you’ll see Files, My Files, or another picker.
  4. Select the HEIC image and keep the page open until the result is ready.
  5. Download the JPG and open it to check the image before sending it onward.

You can convert three files at a time for free, with no daily batch limit. For a folder of pictures, see the batch HEIC guide.

Find and attach the downloaded JPG

Look in your browser’s Downloads list or your file manager’s Downloads folder. A file called IMG_1234.heic will normally become IMG_1234.jpg. When you return to the app or form, choose the new JPG rather than the HEIC beside it.

If the picture hasn’t appeared in your gallery, attach it through the app’s file picker instead. If you downloaded a ZIP, extract it before choosing a photo.

Renaming the original to end in .jpg won’t do the same job. The app can still reject it because the picture inside is still HEIC.

If the file is greyed out or fails

You can see a preview, but can’t select the file. Go back to the message or cloud app and download the original. A preview isn’t always a saved copy.

The picker doesn’t show HEIC files. Try browsing through the file manager rather than the gallery. The available choices vary by phone.

The browser reloads halfway through. Try one picture, close other busy tabs, and keep the converter open. Your phone is doing the processing, so large batches can run short of memory.

The same picture fails every time. Ask the sender for another copy, or for a JPEG export. The download may be damaged, or that particular HEIF file may not be supported.

What the JPG keeps and loses

The result is a still picture. It doesn’t keep motion or editing history, and heic.site leaves out the original EXIF metadata, including GPS tags and the date the photo was taken.

JPEG also uses lossy compression, so check the result before sending it. If it’s too large for the form, try a lower quality setting; JPG isn’t always smaller than HEIC. Keep the original if you’ll want to edit the photo later.