HEIC to PDF Converter
HEIC is what an iPhone saves by default, and almost nothing outside Apple opens it. This page reads it directly — no converting to JPG first, and no upload.
- 🔒 Nothing is uploaded
- 💧 No watermark
- ♾️ No file limit
HEIC to PDF converter
Reads Apple’s HEIC format in any browser, including the ones that cannot display it.
🔒 Private by design: your images are converted in this browser tab and never uploaded.
Converting HEIC to PDF
Drop your .heic files in
Straight from the phone, AirDrop, an SD card or a Windows folder. The decoder starts loading the moment you add one.
It is decoded on your device
Safari and macOS decode HEIC natively. Everywhere else a bundled decoder does it inside the page — 1.4 MB, fetched once, never sent your photo.
Download the PDF
One page per photo, or one PDF per photo in a ZIP. Choose the page size, or cut the page to the photo exactly.
Why Windows will not open your HEIC
Apple switched the iPhone camera to HEIC in iOS 11 because it stores the same picture in roughly half the space of a JPEG. Windows never shipped the decoder with the OS — the HEIF Image Extensions are a separate Microsoft Store item, and the HEVC Video Extensions alongside them have historically been a paid add-on. So a perfectly good photo arrives on a PC and nothing will show it.
This page sidesteps that entirely. The decoder is libheif compiled to WebAssembly and served from this site; your browser runs it on your own machine. It works in Chrome, Edge and Firefox on Windows, which cannot display a HEIC any other way without installing something.
On a Mac it is simply faster
macOS and Safari decode HEIC natively, so the tool tries that first and only falls back to the bundled decoder if the browser refuses. You get the same PDF either way; on a Mac you get it sooner and without the 1.4 MB download.
HEIC cannot be embedded untouched — here is why
A PDF can carry JPEG data as-is, because JPEG is one of the image filters the format defines. It has no filter for HEIC. So a HEIC photo must be decoded to pixels and written again, and the honest description of what you get is decoded on your device and re-encoded once at high quality — JPEG at 92%, which is visually indistinguishable at normal viewing sizes and keeps the PDF small enough to email. If you would rather have a lossless page and do not mind the size, switch Image quality to Lossless under More options. Expect roughly ten times the file size for a photograph.
Live Photos, bursts and depth data
A HEIC container can hold more than one image. Bursts and some captures store several, and each one becomes its own PDF page. The motion part of a Live Photo is a separate video file and is not in the HEIC at all, so it cannot appear in the PDF. Depth maps and Portrait-mode data are dropped: a PDF page is a flat picture.
The alternative worth knowing about
If the photos are already on your iPhone, you may not need a converter at all — the Files app can create a PDF from selected images, and so can the Photos share sheet. Our iPad and iPhone guide covers those built-in routes, including the print-preview gesture almost nobody finds. Use this page when the files have already left the phone.
HEIC to PDF questions
Can I convert HEIC to PDF on Windows without installing anything?
Are my photos uploaded?
Why is the first HEIC slower than the rest?
Does it keep the photo's date and location?
More ways in
Image to PDF
Every image becomes a page. Nothing is uploaded — the conversion happens in this tab.
Without losing quality
After converting, each file tells you exactly which route it took and what came out.
Under a size limit
Set 200 KB, or any figure a portal demands. This is the one mode that re-compresses on purpose.
A4 and page size
Choose the sheet, the margin and how the image sits on it — and see the print resolution you get.
Multi-page TIFF
Scanner and fax TIFFs become multi-page PDFs, page for page, and any page we cannot read is named.
JFIF to PDF
A JFIF is a JPEG. It goes into the PDF as-is, with nothing decoded and nothing re-compressed.
WebP, AVIF, BMP
Your browser already decodes all three. They are re-encoded once on the way into the PDF.
Convert on your phone, with or without signal
The free iPhone app does everything this page does, plus a document scanner that finds the edges of a page for you, and a history of every PDF you have made. Nothing is uploaded there either.