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How to Convert Multiple HEIC to JPG at Once (Free, 60 Files per Batch)

By the heicjpg.online editorial team · Updated September 30, 2026 · 8 min read

A stack of HEIC files converting into one ZIP archive of JPG photos

One HEIC file is never the problem. The trouble starts when you come back from a trip with a few hundred of them, or when a client asks for "the photos from Tuesday" and every single picture lands in their inbox in a format their Windows PC refuses to open. Converting those files one at a time is the kind of chore nobody finishes. This guide shows you how to convert multiple HEIC files to JPG in one go with a free online converter that takes 60 photos per batch and starts working the moment they land, and it also covers the desktop and command line options for people with thousands of files to process.

The short answer

Open heicjpg.online, select or drag up to 60 HEIC photos into the upload box, wait a few seconds while each one converts by itself, then click "Download all (ZIP)". Repeat for the next 60: there is no limit on the number of batches. No account, no watermark, no convert button, and the originals on your phone stay exactly as they were.

Why converting many HEIC files is the real problem

Converting a single HEIC photo is a solved problem: almost any modern tool can do it. Volume is what hurts. Every iPhone from the iPhone 7 onward has saved photos as HEIC by default since iOS 11 in 2017, so a normal camera roll now contains thousands of files in a format that Windows, older software and most web forms still treat as a stranger. When a wedding album, a property listing or a semester of lecture notes needs to go somewhere else, you are not converting one picture. You are converting a folder.

Many converters are quietly hostile to that job. Some accept one file at a time. Some let you queue several files but demand a click on a convert button for each of them. Some allow a small batch on the free tier and hide anything bigger behind a subscription. Others make you pick an output format, a quality setting and a resize option before anything happens, which is fine once and exhausting for a whole folder.

A converter built for multiple files should do six things: accept a whole selection in one drop, start without any configuration, show progress per file so you can see what failed, keep the original file names, keep full resolution and metadata, and hand you one archive at the end. That is the checklist this guide is measured against.

Convert multiple HEIC to JPG online with heicjpg.online, step by step

heicjpg.online was designed around batches rather than single files. The whole process takes a minute or two for 60 photos, most of it upload time, and works the same way on a Mac, a Windows PC, an iPhone or an Android phone, because everything happens in the browser and on the server. Here is the complete procedure.

Open heicjpg.online. Any browser works: Safari, Chrome, Edge or Firefox. There is nothing to install and no account to create.
Select up to 60 HEIC photos at once. Click "Select HEIC photos" and pick a range with Shift click, or add individual files with Cmd click on a Mac and Ctrl click on Windows. If you prefer, drag the whole selection straight from Finder or File Explorer into the upload box. On an iPhone, tap the button and choose several pictures in the photo picker. The converter accepts .heic, .heif and .hif files up to 40 MB each.
Let the conversion start by itself. The moment the files land, the batch begins. Each photo gets its own progress bar, converts at full resolution and takes roughly one second. There is no convert button, no format menu and no quality slider to worry about.
Download everything as one ZIP. When the last photo finishes, a "Download all (ZIP)" button appears next to the individual download links. The archive contains every JPG with its original file name, so IMG_4821.heic comes back as IMG_4821.jpg. Click "Convert more photos" to start the next batch of 60.

Each batch converts as soon as the files land, so most of your time goes into picking photos, not waiting.

What happens to your batch behind the scenes

Knowing how the batch is handled explains why it behaves the way it does, and why you can trust it with photos that matter.

Photos are processed one after another. The uploads run as a queue rather than all at once. That sounds slower, but it is what keeps a 60 file batch reliable on hotel wireless or a mobile connection, and it means a single failed upload never takes the rest of the batch down with it.
Full resolution, quality 92, EXIF kept. Nothing is resized or watermarked. The JPGs are written at quality 92, which is visually indistinguishable from the source for photographs, and the EXIF metadata travels with them: capture date, camera model, orientation and location data if the original had it.
File names survive. Only the extension changes. If your album is sorted by file name before conversion, it is still sorted afterwards, which matters when you hand 60 listing photos to an agent or 60 receipts to an accountant.
Each file can be up to 40 MB. A typical 12 megapixel iPhone HEIC is 1.5 to 3.5 MB, and even 48 megapixel shots stay well under the limit, so the cap almost never gets in the way.
Downloads stay available for 30 days. Every converted file lives behind a long random link that cannot be guessed. Convert on your phone now and fetch the ZIP on your laptop tonight; after 30 days the files are deleted automatically.
Free, without an account. There is no premium tier that unlocks bigger batches, no email address to hand over and no watermark on the output.

Full resolution output at JPEG quality 92, EXIF metadata preserved, no account and no watermark.

Need to convert more than 60 HEIC files?

Batches can be repeated as many times as you like, so the 60 file limit is a rhythm rather than a wall. A hundred photos is two batches; three hundred is five. The fastest way to work through a large folder is to sort it by date in Finder or File Explorer, select the first 60 with a Shift click, drop them in, download the ZIP, then select the next 60. Because each batch starts converting immediately and packs itself into a ZIP, most of the time is spent picking files rather than waiting.

Give each ZIP a moment to finish downloading before you click "Convert more photos". The links stay valid for 30 days either way, but keeping one archive per batch makes it easy to check that nothing was skipped: if you dropped 60 photos, the ZIP should contain 60 JPGs.

New: 60 files per batch

We started at 5 files per batch, moved to 20, and in September 2026 raised the limit to 60. Photos still go through the same queue one after another, so a batch of 60 is just as reliable as a small one; it only takes a little longer to upload. Our longer term goal remains 100 files per batch, and we will get there once a batch of 100 is as fast and dependable as a batch of 60 is today.

Other ways to convert multiple HEIC files to JPG

An online converter is the easiest route for most people, but if you regularly move thousands of files, a desktop tool that works on a whole folder can be worth the setup. Here are the options that actually handle batches well.

On a Mac: Quick Actions or Preview

macOS has had batch image conversion built into Finder since Monterey. Select any number of HEIC files, right click, choose Quick Actions and then Convert Image, pick JPEG and a size, and Finder writes the JPGs next to the originals. Our Mac guide shows how to batch convert HEIC to JPG on a Mac with Finder, Preview, Photos and Terminal. It handles hundreds of files without complaint. On older versions of macOS, open the photos in Preview, select all the thumbnails in the sidebar, then use File and Export Selected Images to save them as JPEG in one go.

On Windows: Photos, IrfanView or XnConvert

Windows 10 and 11 can open HEIC once the HEIF Image Extensions and HEVC Video Extensions are installed from the Microsoft Store, and the HEVC part usually costs about $0.99 because of codec licensing. Even then, the Photos app exports one picture at a time, which rules it out for batches. For real volume, IrfanView with its plugin pack has a Batch Conversion dialog that will turn an entire folder into JPGs, and XnConvert does the same with a friendlier interface. Both are free. Our guide to converting HEIC to JPG on Windows walks through the Windows options, including the ImageMagick one liner for whole folders.

On an iPhone: stop the problem at the source

If you constantly need JPGs, change the camera format once and the batches disappear. Go to Settings, Camera, Formats and choose Most Compatible; new photos will be saved as JPEG from then on. For photos you already have, there is a trick without any website: select several photos in Photos, tap Share, Copy Photos, then paste them into a folder in the Files app, and the pasted copies are JPGs (about a dozen at a time works best). The Transfer to Mac or PC setting under Settings, Apps, Photos only helps with a cable copy to a computer that cannot read HEIC; a Mac receives HEIC either way. See how to convert HEIC photos on your iPhone for every method, step by step.

On Android: the browser or Samsung Gallery

Open heicjpg.online in Chrome or Samsung Internet and pick up to 60 photos in the file picker; the ZIP lands in Downloads. On a Samsung Galaxy you can also switch on Convert HEIF images when sharing (it sits in the hidden Gallery Labs menu), then select several photos in Gallery and share them, and they leave the phone as JPG. Google Photos saves only one edited copy at a time, so it is no batch tool. Our Android guide shows how to convert several HEIC photos on an Android phone, including the Gallery Labs steps.

On the command line: ImageMagick and libheif

For automation, ImageMagick's mogrify command can convert an entire directory of HEIC files to JPG in a single line, and libheif ships a small converter that does the same file by file inside a shell loop. Both are free and scriptable, and both assume you are comfortable in a terminal. They are the right answer for a nightly job that empties a camera folder, and the wrong answer for someone who just wants 60 vacation photos in a ZIP. If you are still choosing a tool, our ranking of the best desktop HEIC to JPG converter for thousands of files compares the options.

Method	Files per run	Cost	Setup	Best for
heicjpg.online	60 per batch, unlimited batches	Free	None, works in any browser	Everyday batches on any device, including phones
macOS Quick Actions	Hundreds	Free	None, built into Finder	Mac users with large folders
Windows Photos app	One at a time	Codec usually $0.99	Two Store extensions	Occasional single files
IrfanView or XnConvert	Thousands	Free	Install plus plugin	Power users on Windows
ImageMagick	Unlimited	Free	Terminal	Scripts and scheduled jobs

Tips for large batches

A few habits make multi file conversion painless, whichever tool you use.

Convert copies, never originals. Uploading to a converter sends a copy; the HEIC on your phone is untouched. Keep the HEIC library as your archive, because it is about half the size of the same photos in JPG, and convert only what needs to travel. Our article on whether you should convert HEIC to JPG at all explains the tradeoff in detail.
Prefer a wireless or wired connection over mobile data. A full batch of 60 iPhone photos is typically 90 to 210 MB of upload. It works fine over a mobile connection, but it is quicker and cheaper at home.
Skip the screenshots. iPhone screenshots are already PNG, so they do not need converting and the converter will politely refuse them.
Expect stills only from Live Photos and bursts. A HEIC container can hold a short video clip or a burst sequence (more on Live Photos and bursts inside a HEIC file). Conversion keeps the main still frame and drops the rest, which is what every JPG converter does.
Count the ZIP. If you dropped 60 files and the archive holds 59, one of them was probably not a HEIC at all. The converter tells you on screen which files it skipped and why.

Frequently asked questions

How many HEIC files can I convert to JPG at once?

heicjpg.online converts up to 60 HEIC photos per batch, each up to 40 MB, and you can run as many batches as you need.

Do I get one ZIP file or 60 separate JPGs?

Both. Every converted photo has its own download link, and once the batch is finished a "Download all (ZIP)" button packs every JPG into a single archive with the original file names.

Does batch conversion reduce the quality of my photos?

No. Every photo in the batch is converted at full resolution with JPEG quality 92, and EXIF metadata such as the capture date and camera model is preserved.

Can I convert multiple HEIC photos to JPG on my iPhone?

Yes. Open heicjpg.online in Safari, tap "Select HEIC photos" and choose several pictures in the photo picker. The conversion runs on the server, so the phone does not need any app.

What if I have hundreds of HEIC files?

Run several batches of 60, which takes a few minutes for a couple of hundred photos, or use a desktop tool such as Quick Actions on macOS, XnConvert or IrfanView on Windows, or ImageMagick on the command line.

Ready to convert your batch?

Drop up to 60 HEIC photos in and the conversion starts by itself. Full resolution, EXIF preserved, one ZIP at the end, completely free.

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