HEIC to PDF
Turn iPhone photos into a PDF, with HEIC decoded in this tab. Works on Windows and Android.
HEIC to PDF
Never uploadedYour file is processed in this tab and never sent anywhere.
How to heic to pdf
- Add your HEIC photos. Straight from an iPhone. Multiple files are fine.
- Wait for decoding. Each photo is decoded here with a bundled decoder, then previewed.
- Download the PDF. One page per photo, in the order you set.
About heic to pdf
HEIC is what an iPhone saves by default, and it is a genuinely good format — roughly half the size of an equivalent JPEG at the same quality. It is also unsupported almost everywhere outside Apple's ecosystem. Send HEIC files to a Windows machine, upload them to a web form, or attach them to a claim and you will frequently be told the file type is not accepted. Converting to PDF solves both the format problem and the multiple-attachments problem at once.
Browsers on Windows and Android cannot decode HEIC natively, so this tool bundles libheif compiled to WebAssembly and runs it in the tab. That is a genuine image decoder executing on your device, not a request to a conversion service. It is also why the first HEIC file takes a moment longer than the ones after it — the decoder has to load once, then stays warm for the rest of the session.
Decoding is why HEIC conversion is so commonly done by upload, and why doing it locally matters. The photographs people most often need to convert are photographs of documents: an ID card, a signed form, a bank letter, a medical result. Those are the exact files that should not be handed to an anonymous web service, and yet the format practically forces people to use one. Doing the decode on the device removes that trade entirely.
Once decoded, the images behave like any other. Fit them to A4 or Letter pages for anything being printed or submitted, or match the page to the image for screen-only use. Auto orientation gives landscape photographs landscape pages. If you want the photographs as image files rather than as a document, HEIC to JPG and HEIC to PNG cover that, and both ship in the image tools batch.
Where HEIC works
| Platform | Opens HEIC | Note |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone, iPad, macOS | Yes | Native support throughout |
| Windows 11 | Sometimes | Needs a codec from the Microsoft Store |
| Android | Varies | Newer versions handle it, older do not |
| Most web upload forms | No | Commonly rejected as an unsupported type |
| Email clients | Varies | Often shows as an unopenable attachment |
HEIC to PDF FAQ
Why will nothing open my iPhone photos?
They are HEIC, which Apple supports everywhere and most other platforms support poorly or not at all. Converting to PDF or JPEG makes them universally openable.
Does this work on Windows and Android?
Yes. A WebAssembly build of libheif is bundled and runs in the tab, so it does not depend on your operating system having a HEIC codec.
Why is the first photo slower than the rest?
The decoder loads once, on the first file. Everything after it in the same session is faster.
Can I convert several HEIC photos into one PDF?
Yes. Add them all, drag them into order, and they become pages of one document.
Is quality lost converting HEIC?
The image is decoded and re-encoded once for embedding, which is a small quality cost. At the default setting it is not visible at normal viewing sizes.
Are my photos uploaded to be decoded?
No, and this is the main reason the tool exists. Decoding runs on your device, so photographs of documents never go anywhere.