HEIC to PDF
Turn iPhone HEIC photos into a PDF.
How to use HEIC to PDF
Add one or more HEIC/HEIF photos from your iPhone.
Drag the photos to set the page order.
Click Convert to PDF.
Download a single PDF with one photo per page.
Why iPhone photos need a converter at all
Since iOS 11, iPhones save photos as HEIC — a format that stores the same picture in roughly half the space of a JPEG. That is excellent on the phone and a nuisance everywhere else: Windows will not open it without an extension, many web forms reject it, and a recipient who asked for a document does not want a folder of photos in a format their computer cannot preview. Converting HEIC to PDF turns the photos of your passport, ID, receipts, contract pages or handwritten notes into the one file everybody can open.
Add one or more HEIC or HEIF photos, drag them into the right order, and click Convert to PDF. Each photo becomes one page, and the whole set comes out as a single PDF. The decoding of Apple's format and the assembly of the PDF both happen in your browser, so nothing is uploaded and nothing needs installing.
What each photo becomes on the page
Every photo is decoded and placed on an A4 portrait page with a 10 mm margin, scaled to fit the page without cropping. A landscape photo therefore sits across the middle of a portrait page; a photographed document fills it. The image is embedded as a JPEG at 90 percent quality — visually identical to the original for a photograph, and a fraction of the size an uncompressed embed would produce.
The result is a standard PDF that opens in any viewer, prints at the correct size and can be merged with other documents. For full control of page size and orientation — a landscape page for a landscape photo, Letter instead of A4, a tighter margin — convert to JPG first with the HEIC to JPG tool and then use the JPG to PDF tool, which exposes those options.
- One photo per page, in the order you set.
- A4 portrait, 10 mm margin, fitted without cropping.
- JPEG at 90 percent quality inside the PDF.
Getting a clean result from photographed documents
Most HEIC to PDF conversions are documents photographed with the phone, so the quality of the PDF is the quality of the photo. Shoot in good light, square on, with the page filling the frame; a shadow across a form or a tilt of a few degrees is what makes a scanned document look amateur. iOS's own scanner in the Notes app straightens and brightens pages before they ever reach the camera roll and saves them in a format that converts cleanly.
Rotate photos that came out sideways before converting — the tool places them as they are. And if the PDF is headed for an upload limit, remember that a dozen 12-megapixel photos add up; the Compress PDF tool will bring the finished file down to size afterwards.
Your photos never leave the phone or the computer
Every step runs inside your browser, using the WebAssembly and Canvas APIs your device already ships with. No file is uploaded, no copy is kept, and nothing sits in a queue on a server waiting to be deleted — which is also why the tool keeps working with the network disconnected.
The things people photograph and convert are identity documents, bank cards, medical letters, signed pages and their children's school forms. Uploading those to a conversion website is exactly the exposure the format change was not supposed to require. Here the HEIC decoding and the PDF creation run on your own device, free, without an account and without a watermark.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I put several HEIC photos into one PDF?
Yes. Add up to 20 photos and each becomes a page of the same PDF, in the order you set.
Do the photos lose quality?
Photos are decoded and embedded at 90% JPEG quality — visually identical to the originals for photos.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The decoding and the PDF are done entirely in your browser — photos never leave your device.
Can I put several HEIC photos into one PDF?
Yes. Add several photos and each becomes a page of the same PDF, in the order you set by dragging them in the list.
Do the photos lose quality?
Photos are decoded and embedded as JPEG at 90 percent quality — visually identical to the originals for photographs, at a sensible file size.
What page size does the PDF use?
A4 portrait with a 10 mm margin, with each photo scaled to fit without cropping. For other sizes or landscape pages, convert to JPG first and use the JPG to PDF tool, which lets you choose.
Does it work on the iPhone itself?
Yes. Open the tool in Safari on your iPhone, pick photos from the camera roll, and the PDF is created on the phone. Nothing is uploaded, so it also works with a poor connection.
Why does my HEIC file fail to convert?
Occasionally a file with a .heic extension is actually something else, or contains a format variant the decoder does not support. Check that it is a photo from the camera app; if it still fails, export it from Photos as JPEG and use the JPG to PDF tool.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. The decoding and the PDF assembly are done entirely in your browser — the photos never leave your device.
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