How to Convert HEIC Photos to PNG

DevOkk’s HEIC to PNG does the transcode in the browser. No account. The photo stays in the tab. The browser still has to decode HEIC; if it cannot, the tool has nothing to paint. Safari is the reliable default. Some Chromium builds work. If yours does not, export a compatible still from the phone rather than shipping the Camera roll to a cloud converter you found in an ad.

PNG is a work file here

You are about to clone out a street sign, drop the shot on a mood board, or cut a product for a landing page. JPEG would mean: decode HEIC → encode JPEG → decode JPEG → edit → encode again. Each JPEG step throws away a different set of coefficients. PNG after a successful decode gives you a still you can save repeatedly while you work, without stacking another lossy pass.

It does not restore what the phone already discarded. HEIC is already compressed. PNG is “stop hitting it with JPEG,” not “recover RAW.”

It also does not punch a hole behind the subject. Portrait mode’s depth map is not a Photoshop layer. If you need a cutout, use a removal tool on the PNG (or on the original in an editor). Conversion only changes the container.

A crop-and-mask afternoon

You AirDropped three HEIC product shots onto a Mac that is about to go into Figma. Figma will import HEIC on a good day and argue on a bad one. You convert each to PNG locally, place them, mask the tablet bezel, export the frame as the web-sized asset you actually needed. The HEICs stay in the AirDrop folder as the archive. The PNGs are disposable intermediates. Nobody’s unreleased hardware sat in a converter’s “recent uploads” list.

If those shots were going to a buyer’s Gmail instead of Figma, you would have used HEIC to JPG. PNG as an email attachment is how you blow a 25 MB limit for no preview benefit.

Color and what Figma will actually import

Some HEICs carry a Display P3 profile. A PNG written from a browser canvas is often sRGB. The PNG can look a touch flatter than the photo did on the iPhone. That is a color-management gap, not a broken convert. If the job is a mood board, you will live. If the job is a print proof, you wanted a desktop app that keeps the profile.

Figma, Photopea, and most “open a PNG” editors will take the download without arguing. That is the win. You are not asking those tools to implement HEIC on a Tuesday.

Size, metadata, and Live Photos

Expect the PNG to be larger than the HEIC and larger than a decent JPEG. A 4032-pixel wide still can land at 10–20 MB as PNG. That is not a bug. If you need it on a website after editing, export a sized JPEG or WebP from the editor, or run the final frame through the compressor.

Live Photo motion does not come along. You get a still.

Location EXIF may come along. Conversion is not a privacy pass. If the PNG is leaving your machine, check what the file still says about where you were standing.

Bursts are multiple HEICs. Convert the frame you will edit. Do not assume “the PNG” means the whole burst.

Files over the converter’s size cap, or images the tab cannot decode, need Photos, Preview, or a desktop suite. A failed local convert is not a permission slip for a zip upload to an unknown host.

Pick the destination before you click

Portal, email, Slack to a Windows user: JPG.
Figma, a paint-up, a mask, a board: PNG.
You control the page and measured it: maybe WebP at the end, produced from the edited result, not from a second guess in the HEIC tool.

Related: HEIC to JPG for the compatibility copy, and JPG to PNG if the file you already have is JPEG and you want a work PNG from that (with the same honesty about lost data).

When the still is HEIC and the editor wants PNG, open HEIC to PNG, convert once, keep the HEIC until the edit is signed off.