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How to Make Your iPhone Take JPG Photos Instead of HEIC

Two minutes in Settings and your iPhone shoots JPG again. For the HEIC photos already on the device, use the converter above.

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Why this happens

Since iOS 11, Apple has saved photos as HEIC by default. It roughly halves the storage a photo takes at the same visual quality — excellent, right up until the file leaves the Apple ecosystem. Windows PCs, older Android phones, upload forms and print shops frequently cannot read it.

Changing the setting is the clean fix going forward, but it does nothing about what is already on the phone. Doing both — switching the format and converting the backlog — is what actually ends the problem.

The fix

  1. STEP 1

    Open the Settings app on your iPhone.

  2. STEP 2

    Scroll to Camera, then tap Formats.

  3. STEP 3

    Choose Most Compatible instead of High Efficiency. From now on the camera records JPG.

  4. STEP 4

    Also worth setting: under Settings › Photos, set Transfer to Mac or PC to Automatic, so photos convert as they are copied off the device.

  5. STEP 5

    Convert the HEIC photos you already have using the converter above.

Frequently asked questions

Will changing this setting convert my existing HEIC photos?

No — it only affects photos taken from that point on. Everything already in your library stays HEIC. Those you can convert here, several hundred at a time if needed.

Do I lose image quality by switching to Most Compatible?

Not visibly. Resolution is identical; JPEG simply compresses less efficiently than HEIC, so expect photos to take roughly twice the storage. What you do give up is 10-bit colour depth and HEIC features such as transparency and multi-image containers.

Should I just stay on HEIC?

If you live mostly inside the Apple ecosystem, yes — the storage saving is real and everything Apple-made reads it. If you regularly send photos to Windows or Android users, upload to web forms, or order prints, Most Compatible is less friction.