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Convert HEIC to JPG on Older Macs

Your Mac is a few versions behind and will not open the photos your phone just sent. Convert them below in the browser — no update and no install required.

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HEIC to JPG converter

Drop your HEIC photos here

or pick them from your Mac — nothing to install, whatever version you run

Supports .heic and .heif from iPhone, iPad and modern Android cameras

Nothing queued yet. Converted photos appear here ready to open in Preview or anything else.

Which Macs actually struggle

Worth being precise, because a lot of advice on this gets it wrong: macOS gained HEIF and HEIC support in High Sierra (10.13), so Mojave, Catalina and everything since generally open these files natively in Preview and Photos.

The Macs that genuinely cannot are those on Sierra (10.12) and earlier — often still in service as studio machines or family computers. Separately, older applications on newer systems can still refuse HEIC, because they were written before the format existed and never ask the OS to decode it.

A route that works on any version

Because the decoder loads with this page as WebAssembly, your macOS version is irrelevant. Nothing is installed, no system update is needed, and it works the same on a 2012 iMac as on the newest Apple silicon.

That also makes it useful on a managed or shared Mac where you cannot install software, and for feeding files into an old copy of Photoshop, Office or a page-layout tool that will never learn HEIC.

  1. Drop your photos in

    Drag them from Finder onto the box above, or press Select Files. Conversion starts by itself.

  2. Open the JPGs anywhere

    Download them and they open in Preview, iPhoto, old Photoshop versions and any other app on the machine.

Frequently asked questions

Can macOS High Sierra and Mojave open HEIC?

Yes — HEIF and HEIC support arrived in High Sierra (10.13), so Preview and Photos handle them natively from that release onward. If files will not open on Mojave, the culprit is usually the specific application rather than the operating system. Sierra (10.12) and earlier have no support at all.

Do I need to update macOS to view these photos?

Not with this page. The decoder runs in your browser, so it does not matter which macOS version you are on or whether you can install anything. Convert the files and they open in every app on the machine.

Is anything uploaded to a server?

No. The decoder is a WebAssembly module that runs inside your browser tab, so the photo is read from your device into memory and converted there. You can check it in your browser's Network tab, or disconnect from the internet once the page has loaded and convert anyway.