JPEG to JPG Converter

What happens when you convert JPEG to JPG

• JPEG and JPG are the same format with different extensions, so nothing is re-encoded. The file is copied byte for byte and saved with a .jpg extension.
• Because the bytes are identical, the JPG has exactly the same quality, dimensions and size as the JPEG.

How to convert JPEG to JPG online

1. Press "Choose JPEG 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. Lower quality gives a smaller file.
3. Press "Convert to JPG". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each JPG with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert JPEG to JPG?

JPEG files usually come from camera photos, scanned documents and web images. People convert them to JPG because JPG opens everywhere and keeps photos small, which is why upload forms and email favour it.

In short, JPEG is good at what it was made for, and JPG is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. JPEG opens in every browser and image viewer, while JPG opens in every browser and image viewer.

How to convert JPEG to JPG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

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

On a Mac

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

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose JPEG files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted JPG appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

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

JPEG vs JPG: the differences

About JPEG and JPG files

What is a JPEG file?

JPEG and JPG are the same format. The three-letter extension dates from old Windows systems that only allowed three characters after the dot, and both names are still in use.

What is a JPG file?

JPG discards fine detail the eye is least sensitive to, which is why a photo shrinks to a tenth of its raw size but text and sharp edges pick up blocky artefacts. Every re-save at a lossy setting throws away a little more.

JPEG to JPG 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 JPG is always the right way up.
• The file is bigger than expected. It is not: the JPG is the same size as the JPEG, byte for byte.

Convert JPEG to JPG from the command line

If you work in a terminal, ImageMagick converts JPEG to JPG in one line:

magick input.jpeg -quality 90 output.jpg

To convert every JPEG in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format jpg *.jpeg. The converter on this page does the same job without installing anything.