Convert HEIC photos from iPhone to PNG format. Preserve quality and enable transparency. Free online converter.
Conversion settings — add a file to adjust
Upload your .heic file by dragging it into the upload area or clicking to browse.
Choose your output settings. The default settings work great for most files.
Click Convert and download your .png file when it's ready.
Converting HEIC to PNG creates lossless images with transparency support from your iPhone photos. While JPG conversion is more common, PNG is essential when you need to edit images without quality degradation or work with transparency for graphics projects.
Our HEIC to PNG converter extracts the full quality of your iPhone photos into the universally compatible PNG format. The conversion is lossless—every detail captured by your iPhone camera preserves in the PNG output, ready for editing, compositing, or archiving.
Editing workflows benefit from PNG. Unlike JPG, PNG is lossless—you can edit and re-save repeatedly without quality degradation. For images that need multiple rounds of editing, converting to PNG first preserves quality throughout.
Transparency support sets PNG apart. While the original iPhone photo likely has no transparency, PNG enables you to add it through editing. Remove backgrounds, create cutouts, composite images—PNG supports the alpha channel that makes this possible.
Archival quality matters for important photos. PNG's lossless compression preserves every pixel exactly. For photos you want to keep at maximum quality, PNG is superior to lossy JPG.
Our converter uses libheif for accurate HEIC decoding and libpng for lossless PNG output. Full resolution and color depth preserve—no quality reduction occurs. For HEIC files with embedded HDR data, we tone-map to SDR for broad compatibility.
PNG files will be significantly larger than the original HEIC due to lossless compression. For photos where file size matters more than edit capability, consider HEIC to JPG instead.
HEIC to PNG conversion is effectively lossless—the PNG captures the full quality of the HEIC source. The output is larger but enables lossless editing workflows that would degrade quality with JPG.
| Device | HEIC | PNG |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | No | Native |
| macOS | Native | Native |
| iOS | Native | Native |
| Android | Partial | Native |
| Linux | Partial | Native |
| ChromeOS | No |
| Speed | ~6 seconds — compute-intensive |
| Output size | Larger — output grows to 4.5 MB from 0.1 MB. |
| Quality | Lossless PNG — larger than lossy sources, but pixel-exact. |
| Engine | Sharp / ImageMagick, server-side. |
Measured on our servers, June 2026, on a 1920×1080 image.
Create lossless, editable images from your iPhone photos. Our HEIC to PNG converter preserves maximum quality while enabling transparency and unlimited editing without quality loss.
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| Funktion | HEIC | PNG |
|---|---|---|
| Fullstandigt namn | High Efficiency Image Container | Portable Network Graphics |
| Filandelse | .heic | .png |
| Bast for | Apple native | Lossless quality |