HEIC to ICNS Converter - Turn iPhone Photos into Mac Icons, Free

How to convert HEIC to ICNS

Add your HEIC files. Drop up to 20 HEIC files into the box, or browse for them. They are read on your device and never uploaded.
Pick the sizes and shape. Full Retina makes every macOS size from 16 to 1024 px. Pick macOS style for rounded corners and a shadow like Apple's icons.
Check the preview. See your icon in the Dock and in a Finder list, in light and dark mode, before you download.
Make the ICNS and download. Press Make my ICNS. One or two icons download directly, more come as a ZIP.

Want a folder-shaped icon with your photo on it? Use the Mac Folder Icon Creator.

From iPhone photo to Mac icon

iPhones save photos as HEIC. This page reads them right in your browser - Safari natively, other browsers with a built-in decoder.

Photos are not square, so the page starts with Crop to square from the centre and the macOS style rounded shape.

Want to pick the crop yourself? Convert with HEIC to JPG, crop it in the Image Cropper, then use JPG to ICNS.

Which sizes are inside the ICNS?

Size	Retina slot	Where macOS shows it
16 x 16	-	Finder list view, menu bar, Spotlight rows
32 x 32	16 @2x	Finder lists on Retina screens, small sidebar icons
64 x 64	32 @2x	Retina Finder lists and Get Info
128 x 128	-	Finder icon view, Launchpad on older Macs
256 x 256	128 @2x	Dock and Finder on Retina screens
512 x 512	256 @2x	Large Finder icons, Quick Look
1024 x 1024	512 @2x	App Store, Quick Look full size on Retina

Full Retina packs all of them. Up to 512 skips the 1024 px image and makes the file about half the size.

The 16 and 32 px sizes are also written in the classic format older Macs read. Want to check the result? Open it in the ICNS File Viewer.

The macOS style shape

Since Big Sur, Mac app icons sit on a rounded plate with a small margin and a soft shadow. Unlike iPhone, macOS does not round the corners for you.

Pick macOS style and your image is placed on Apple's grid: an 824 px plate on a 1024 px canvas, smooth "squircle" corners and the shadow. The plate is white, or any colour you choose.

Your logo should fill the plate? Use Crop to square. Want breathing room around it? Add a little Padding.

Using the icon on a Mac

Folder or file icon: open the .icns in Preview, press Cmd + A and Cmd + C, then select the folder, press Cmd + I, click the small icon at the top left and press Cmd + V.
Your own app: put the .icns in Contents/Resources and name it in Info.plist under CFBundleIconFile.
Xcode: pick + Xcode set and drag AppIcon.appiconset into Assets.xcassets.
iconutil: pick + .iconset to get the PNG folder Apple's command-line tool expects.

Frequently Asked Questions

Drop the HEIC photo into the box and press Make my ICNS. It is cropped to a square and given rounded Big Sur corners.

Then paste it onto a folder: Cmd + I on the folder, click the small icon, Cmd + V.

The first one is ticked. Live Photos and bursts can hold more - tick any other image under the preview, and each ticked one becomes its own icon.

No. The HEIC is read and turned into an ICNS in your browser, on your device. Nothing is uploaded, so it also works with private artwork.

With Full Retina: 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512 and 1024 px, filling all ten macOS slots including the @2x Retina ones. The 16 and 32 px sizes are also stored in the classic format for older Macs.

Yes. Turn on Windows ICO too (or the Mac + Windows preset) and you get a matching .ico with 16 to 256 px next to the ICNS.

No. It works in any modern browser on Windows, Linux, ChromeOS or a Mac.