HEIF to PNG Converter

Convert HEIF to PNG Online

HEIF (and its iPhone variant HEIC) is the high-efficiency format your iPhone has saved photos in by default since iOS 11, but Windows, older photo editors, and many websites still reject it. Converting to PNG fixes that with the highest-quality target available: PNG is lossless, so no new compression artifacts are introduced, and it keeps a full alpha channel, so transparency survives the conversion. The one tradeoff is size — a PNG can be several times larger than the HEIF it came from.

How to Convert HEIF to PNG

1. Upload Your HEIF File: Drag and drop your .heif or .heic photo onto the page, or click "Add Files" to browse. You can queue several at once and they convert with the same settings.
2. Set the Quality Preset: Leave it on "Very High (Recommended)" to preserve detail; the preset governs the internal encode quality before the lossless PNG is written.
3. Resize or Reduce Colors (Optional): Use "Image Resolution" to scale the image down, or "Colors" to reduce the palette — both shrink the PNG, which is the format's main drawback.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save your PNG. No sign-up, no watermark, and the file opens on Windows, macOS, Android, and in every major browser.

HEIF vs PNG: What Changes in the Conversion

Frequently Asked Questions

Will converting HEIF to PNG reduce my image quality?

No — the pixels you can see are preserved. PNG uses lossless compression, so the conversion does not add any new artifacts on top of what the HEIF already contained. PNG cannot un-do compression that HEIF applied when the photo was taken, but it will not degrade the image further, which is why PNG is the best-quality target for archiving a HEIF photo.

Why is my PNG so much larger than the original HEIF?

Because HEIF uses lossy HEVC compression to pack photos into a small space, while PNG stores every pixel losslessly. For a typical iPhone photo the PNG can be several times the size of the source. If file size matters more than transparency or perfect fidelity, convert to JPG instead with our HEIF to JPG converter, or shrink the PNG afterward with the PNG compressor.

Does the converted PNG keep transparency from the HEIF?

Yes. PNG supports a full alpha channel (8- or 16-bit per channel), so any transparency stored in the HEIF is carried into the PNG. This is a key reason to choose PNG over JPG, which has no alpha channel and would flatten transparent areas onto a solid background.

What happens to 10-bit, HDR, or depth data in my iPhone HEIF?

The visible image is preserved, but Apple-specific extras may not carry across. HEIF can store HDR and 10-bit color, plus auxiliary data like depth maps used for Portrait mode. A standard PNG export keeps the rendered image; HDR tone-mapping and depth maps are not part of the PNG you download, so treat the PNG as the flattened, universally compatible version of the photo.

Is the .heic from my iPhone the same as .heif here?

Effectively yes for this tool. HEIF is the container standard (ISO/IEC 23008-12); .heic is the extension Apple uses when the image inside is encoded with the HEVC (H.265) codec, which is what iPhones produce. In our testing both .heif and .heic files from iPhones convert to PNG the same way, so you can upload either.

What happens to my photo after I convert it?

Your file is uploaded over an encrypted connection, converted on our servers, and the download is returned to you. Uploaded files are deleted automatically a few hours after conversion — no sign-up, no watermark, and nothing is shared or made public.