HEIC to ICO Converter - Convert iPhone Photos to Icons Free

How to convert HEIC to ICO

Add your HEIC photos. Drop up to 20 HEIC or HEIF files into the box, or browse for them. They are decoded on your device and never uploaded.
Crop it square. Photos are rarely square. Pick Crop to square under Fit, or the Round app icon preset for a circle.
Pick the icon sizes. Recommended packs 16 to 256 px into one ICO. Favicon and Windows app are one click away.
Make the ICO and download. Press Make my ICO. One or two icons download directly, more come as a ZIP.

Want to see the photo and its details first? Open it in the HEIC File Viewer.

Why turn a HEIC photo into an ICO?

iPhones save photos as HEIC to keep them small. Windows cannot use HEIC as an icon, and many Windows apps cannot even open it.

An ICO packs your photo at every icon size, ready for a folder, a shortcut or a website favicon.

How the HEIC is decoded

Safari on a Mac or iPhone reads HEIC itself, so it is instant there.

In Chrome, Edge and Firefox a HEIC decoder is loaded into the page the first time you add a photo. It is a few seconds for a big photo, and the photo still never leaves your device.

HEIF files with several images (bursts, collections) show every image under the preview - pick the one you want.

Which icon sizes do you need?

Size	Where it shows up	Preset
16 x 16	Browser tabs, Explorer details view, title bars	All presets
32 x 32	Desktop at 100%, taskbar, bookmarks	All presets
48 x 48	Explorer medium icons, Windows site tiles	All presets
64 / 128	Large icons and high-DPI screens	Recommended
256 x 256	Extra large icons, Windows 10 and 11 Start	Recommended, Windows app

The How it looks small panel shows the 16 and 32 px sizes - a whole photo is often too busy that small, so crop in on the subject.

Tips for great photo icons

Crop tight. A face or one object reads far better at 32 px than a whole scene. The Image Cropper helps with exact crops.
Round avatars - the Round app icon preset makes a circle with a transparent outside.
Just need a normal picture? HEIC to JPG or HEIC to PNG open everywhere.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drop your HEIC photo into the box, pick Crop to square if it is not square, and press Make my ICO.

The icon downloads right away, with every size packed inside one .ico file.

No. The photo is decoded and turned into an ICO in your browser, on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

Outside Safari the HEIC decoder is loaded once, the first time you add a photo. After that every photo opens faster.

HEIF is the container, HEIC is HEIF with HEVC-compressed images - what iPhones save. Both, and .hif from cameras, work here. More in our HEIC vs HEIF guide.

Yes. The rotation saved by the camera is applied, so the icon is the right way up.

Yes. Pick the Round app icon preset, or set Shape to Circle. Everything outside the circle becomes transparent.

Yes. Pick the Website pack preset - you get favicon.ico, PNG sizes, apple-touch-icon, a manifest and the HTML to paste.

Yes. Layers below 256 px are 32-bit bitmaps with a mask and the 256 px layer is a 32-bit PNG - the layout Windows Explorer expects.