Convert iPhone photos without uploading them anywhere

You can convert an iPhone HEIC photo to JPG or PNG without it ever touching a server: use a converter that runs inside your browser, like the ones on this site. Drop the photo, convert, download; the file stays on your device the entire time.

The problem with "free online converters"

The typical converter site works by uploading your photo to its server, converting it there, and serving back a download. For a spreadsheet that may be fine. For personal photos it means a stranger's server briefly holds pictures of your kids, your home, your documents, plus whatever EXIF metadata rides along, often including the exact GPS coordinates where each photo was taken. You are left trusting a retention policy you have never read, published by a site you found thirty seconds ago.

How in-browser conversion works instead

Modern browsers can run real codecs as WebAssembly. hushvert ships the HEIC decoder (libheif) and the JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF encoders to your browser, where they run in a background worker on your own CPU. There is no upload step because there is no server doing the work; the only things fetched from the network are the page and the codec itself. As a side effect of decoding to raw pixels, EXIF metadata such as GPS location is stripped from the output rather than passed along.

Don't trust the claim. Verify it.

Any site can write "we respect your privacy". A local converter can prove it. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, then convert a photo: you will see no request carrying your image. Stronger still, load the converter page, switch on airplane mode, and convert; it works, because nothing needs to leave your machine. Our test suite runs exactly this assertion (no request may carry file bytes) on every change.

Honest alternatives that also avoid uploads

You do not strictly need any website. On the iPhone itself, Settings, then Camera, then Formats, then Most Compatible makes the camera shoot JPG from then on (existing photos stay HEIC, and files roughly double in size). Sharing photos via Mail or many messaging apps converts to JPG automatically. On a Mac, Preview exports HEIC to JPG or PNG. The browser route earns its keep when you are on Windows or Linux, when you want PNG, WebP or AVIF output, or when you need a one-off conversion right now without installing anything.

Pick your conversion

Not sure what HEIC even is? Start with What is HEIC?