Make iPhone HEIC photos smaller - as a JPG that opens everywhere, a WebP, or a smaller HEIC. JPG and WebP are made in your browser, HEIC on our server because browsers cannot write it (just converting? Use HEIC to JPG).
Compressing...
Drag across the picture to compare. Left: original - right: compressed.
| Save as | Size | Opens on | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| JPG | Bigger than HEIC at the same quality | Every phone, PC and website | In your browser |
| HEIC | Smallest | iPhone, Mac, Windows 11 with the HEVC extension | On our server |
| WebP | Small | Browsers, Android, most editors | In your browser |
HEIC is about twice as efficient as JPG. That is why an iPhone photo saved as JPG can come out bigger than the HEIC at high quality - the tool tells you when that happens.
Upload forms and older Windows PCs often refuse HEIC, so JPG is the safe default.
Every browser can read HEIC with our built-in decoder, but none can save it. When you pick Save as HEIC, the decoded photo is sent to our own encoder as a lossless PNG over HTTPS.
The smaller HEIC comes straight back and is deleted from our server the moment it is downloaded - leftovers are swept within 4 hours. JPG and WebP never leave your device.
iPhone photos usually record where they were taken.
By default this tool removes all photo info. Keep, no GPS keeps the date and camera but removes the location - a good choice before posting photos online. Want to look at the data first? Open the photo in the EXIF File Viewer.
Other formats have their own tools: Compress JPG, Compress PNG, Compress WebP and Compress AVIF.
Drop it into the box above. By default you get a JPG at quality 75 that opens everywhere. Pick HEIC under Save as to keep the format and get the smallest file.
Yes. Pick Save as HEIC. Browsers cannot write HEIC, so our server encodes it and deletes it right after you download it.
HEIC packs photos about twice as tight as JPG. At high quality the JPG can be bigger - lower the quality, set a target size, or save as HEIC.
Open Target file size and pick 200 KB. The tool finds the best quality that fits and, only if needed, makes the photo a little smaller.
Photo info is removed by default. Choose Keep, no GPS to keep the date and camera without the location, or Keep all to keep everything.
Only when you save as HEIC - then the photo is sent over HTTPS to our encoder and deleted after download. JPG and WebP results are made entirely in your browser.
Live Photos and bursts can hold more than one image. The main image is compressed. To get every image, use HEIC to JPG.
