Drop your HEIC file(s) here
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This makes a GIF out of an iPhone HEIC photo. Two things about HEIC to GIF surprise people, so take them first. Your Live Photo will not animate, and the picture is cut down to 256 colours along the way.
A Live Photo is a still image with a short clip stored alongside it. The conversion reads the still, the frame your gallery shows you, and that is what ends up in the GIF. Building an animation means pulling the individual frames out of the clip and stitching them together, which is a different job needing a tool made for it.
GIF stores 256 colours per image. A phone photo contains vastly more than that, so skies, skin and any smooth gradient come back in visible steps. Screenshots and simple graphics that happen to be saved as HEIC survive far better, since they never needed the extra colours in the first place.
Nearly always, if whatever you are feeding will take one. PNG keeps every colour, is read just as widely, and has no palette problem to work around. GIF earns its place only when GIF is what has been named.
Still image only
What you get is the gallery frame, saved as a single picture.
Accepted where newer formats are not
GIF gets through the old upload tools that reject a .heic outright.
Live Photo clip stays put
The moving half of a Live Photo remains in your original file, untouched.
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No. This produces a single still image. An animation needs a tool that extracts each frame of the clip and assembles them.
GIF compression looks for runs of identical colour and a photograph has almost none, so the old format ends up needing more space than the modern one.
No. A phone photo has no transparency to pass on, so the GIF is fully opaque even though the format could carry it.
Anything flat and graphic. A screenshot of text, a diagram or a simple illustration comes through the palette drop close to untouched.