HEIF to PNG Converter

What happens when you convert HEIF to PNG

• The image is decoded and written as a lossless 32-bit PNG.
• Browsers other than Safari cannot read HEIF, so a decoder of about 1.3 MB is fetched when you press Convert.
• PNG is lossless, so no further detail is lost, but it cannot restore detail the HEIF compression already removed. Expect a larger file.

How to convert HEIF to PNG online

1. Press "Choose HEIF files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. You can add files of any size your device can hold in memory.
2. Adjust the settings if you need to. The output is lossless, so there is no quality setting to worry about.
3. Press "Convert to PNG". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each PNG with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert HEIF to PNG?

HEIF files usually come from photos from Samsung, Sony and other Android cameras that support it. People convert them to PNG because PNG keeps sharp edges, text and transparency without any loss.

In short, HEIF is good at what it was made for, and PNG is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. Safari on Apple devices shows HEIF; Chrome, Edge and Firefox cannot, while PNG opens in every browser and image viewer.

How to convert HEIF to PNG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your HEIF files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each PNG is saved to your Downloads folder. Paint can also re-save an image as PNG with Save as, provided Windows can open the HEIF in the first place.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the HEIF files from Finder onto the drop zone and the PNG files land in Downloads. Preview can do single images too: open the file, choose File, then Export, and pick PNG.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose HEIF files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted PNG appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image. To stop the iPhone creating HEIF files in future, go to Settings, Camera, Formats and choose Most Compatible.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose HEIF files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The PNG is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for HEIF to PNG

PNG is written losslessly, so there is no quality setting to get wrong. The Maximum width setting is there if you need a smaller image: it scales down before saving and never scales up.

HEIF vs PNG: the differences

About HEIF and PNG files

What is a HEIF file?

HEIF is the container standard and HEIC is the name Apple gives files that use it with HEVC compression. Android phones that shoot in this format usually label the file .heif.

What is a PNG file?

PNG compresses without losing a single pixel, so screenshots and text stay razor sharp, but a photograph saved as PNG is often three to five times the size of the same photo as JPG.

HEIF to PNG not working? Common problems

• Colours look slightly different. Browsers convert images to the standard sRGB colour space when they decode them, so wide-gamut and CMYK images can shift a little.
• A phone photo comes out upright even though it looked sideways elsewhere. That is correct: the rotation stored in the photo is applied during conversion, so the PNG is always the right way up.
• The HEIF will not load. Some HEIC files hold depth maps or bursts; the main image is converted. If nothing loads, try again in Safari on the iPhone itself, or set Settings, Camera, Formats to Most Compatible for future photos.

Convert HEIF to PNG from the command line

If you work in a terminal, ImageMagick converts HEIF to PNG in one line:

magick input.heif output.png

To convert every HEIF in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format png *.heif. Your ImageMagick build needs HEIC support (libheif), which the official installers include. The converter on this page does the same job without installing anything.