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HEIC is what an iPhone saves photos as, and PNG is what most other software expects to be handed. Converting HEIC to PNG gives you a copy that opens anywhere and loses nothing further, because PNG stores the picture exactly as it arrives instead of compressing it away again.
This is the part that catches people out. HEIC squeezes a photograph hard using compression borrowed from video encoding. PNG barely compresses photographs at all, since it was built for flat graphics and screenshots. A 2 MB phone photo often lands somewhere between 8 and 15 MB once it is a PNG.
A HEIC is a container, and Apple stores more than one thing in it. The frames of a Live Photo, a depth map from portrait mode, the rest of a burst. You get the main image, the one your gallery shows you, and those extras remain in the original. Good reason to hang on to the HEIC files rather than clearing them out once the PNGs exist.
Recent phones record more shades per channel than the PNG here carries. On an ordinary photo you will never see the difference. On a wide smooth sky shot in HDR, a very faint step can appear where those extra shades used to sit.
Lossless output
The picture that comes out is pixel for pixel the picture that went in.
Edit and resave freely
A PNG can be opened and saved over and over without the image degrading.
Reads .heic and .heif
Both extensions Apple devices produce are accepted as a source.
HEIC to JPG Converter
Convert iPhone HEIC photos into .jpg files that every phone, computer and upload form accepts.
HEIC to JPEG Converter
Turn Apple HEIC photos into standard JPEG images, written with the four letter extension.
HEIC to JFIF Converter
Produce .jfif files from iPhone HEIC photos for systems that accept nothing else.
HEIC to WebP Converter
Convert iPhone HEIC photos into WebP files sized for publishing on a website.
Because nothing is being thrown away. HEIC reaches its small size by discarding detail permanently, and PNG refuses to discard anything.
For emailing or messaging, yes. A JPEG of the same photo is a fraction of the PNG's weight and every device reads it just as happily.
The blur you see on screen is part of the main image, so it stays. What is lost is the depth data an editor would need to change that blur later.
The converter has to load its HEIC decoder before it can read anything. That happens once, then the remaining files move along steadily.