HEIC to PDF Converter

To turn iPhone photos into a PDF, add your HEIC files to the box above, drag them into order and press Convert to PDF. You can add one photo or hundreds, and you get one tidy PDF that opens on any phone, computer or printer.

Everything happens in your browser. Your photos are not uploaded to a server, there is no sign-up and there is no watermark. You see a live preview of every page before you download, so you know exactly what the PDF will look like.

HEIC is the photo format your iPhone uses by default. Many websites, forms and older computers cannot open it. A PDF can be opened almost everywhere, so turning your photos into a PDF is the simplest way to share them, print them or upload them to a form.

HEIC stands for High Efficiency Image Container. It is the file type iPhones and iPads have used for photos since iOS 11. A HEIC photo usually takes about half the space of the same photo saved as JPG, which is why Apple chose it: you can keep many more photos on your phone.

The downside is support. Windows does not open HEIC files out of the box, many web forms reject them, and some email apps and office programs show nothing but a blank icon. You may find that a photo opens perfectly on your iPhone, yet the person you send it to cannot see it at all.

A PDF solves this. PDF is the standard format for documents, and every phone, tablet, computer and printer can open it. It also keeps several photos together in a fixed order and at a fixed page size, which is what offices, schools and online forms usually ask for.

Some phones made by other brands can also save photos as HEIF, which is the same family of formats. Files ending in .heif work here in exactly the same way as files ending in .heic.

You will often meet HEIC files without choosing them. An iPhone photo shared through AirDrop, iCloud or a cable usually keeps its HEIC format, and so does a photo sent as a file rather than as a picture in a chat app. That is why so many people end up with a folder of .heic files and a form that will only take a PDF.

HEIC, JPG and PDF each have a job. HEIC is great for storing photos on your phone, because it saves space. JPG is the most widely supported picture format, and it is the right choice when someone needs separate image files, for example to edit them or post them online. PDF is the right choice when the photos are really a document: a set of pages that should stay together, in order, and look the same everywhere.

A simple rule helps. If the receiver will look at the photos one by one, send JPG. If the receiver will read, print, sign, file or upload them as one item, send a PDF. Forms that ask for a document, such as proof of address, a certificate or a signed letter, almost always want PDF.

You do not have to convert your photos to JPG first to make a PDF. This page reads HEIC directly, so one step is enough. If you need both, make the PDF here and use HEIC to JPG for the separate pictures.

This HEIC to PDF converter free of charge has no catch. There is no account to create, no daily limit, no watermark stamped on your pages and no email address to give. You open the page, add your photos and download your PDF.

The tool is free because it runs in your browser. Your own phone or computer does the work, so there is no expensive server converting files for you. That also means your photos stay private, which matters when they show an ID card, a bank letter or a medical report.

Free does not mean basic. You can put photos in any order, crop and rotate them, choose a page size and margin, make the file fit an upload limit, put several photos on one page, and add page numbers or a watermark. The sections below explain each option in plain words.

You also do not need to install anything. There is no app, no browser extension and no program to download, so it works on a work computer where you cannot install software, on a school Chromebook, or on a friend's phone.

A HEIC to PDF combiner takes many separate photos and joins them into one document. That is what this page does by default: every photo you add becomes a page of the same PDF, in the order shown in the grid.

Joining photos is useful when one thing is spread over several pictures. A contract photographed page by page, a receipt that needed two shots, the front and back of a card, or a set of before and after photos for an insurance claim all make more sense as one file than as a pile of loose images.

You can also mix in other files. JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF and TIFF pictures can go into the same PDF as your HEIC photos, and you can even add an existing PDF so its pages sit between your photos. If you only want to join PDF files you already have, Merge PDF is the simpler tool.

Each photo keeps its own shape on its page. With Orientation set to Auto, a landscape photo of a whiteboard and a portrait photo of a receipt can sit in the same PDF, each on a page that suits it. If you want every page the same, choose Portrait or Landscape.

To convert multiple HEIC to one PDF, select all the photos at once in the file picker, or drag them onto the box together. You can also press Add a folder to bring in every picture in a folder; they are added sorted by file name, so IMG_0001 comes before IMG_0002.

Order matters, so arranging pages is easy. Drag any photo to a new place with the mouse, or press and hold it with your finger on a phone and then drag. With a keyboard, focus a photo, press Space to pick it up, move it with the arrow keys and press Space again to drop it.

The Sort menu can order everything for you: Name A to Z, Name Z to A, Newest first, Oldest first, or Reverse order. Newest and oldest use the date stored with each file, which is handy when you want the photos in the order you took them.

Made a mistake? Press the Undo button or Ctrl+Z, and Redo or Ctrl+Y to go forward again. Undo covers moving, rotating, cropping and removing photos, and Clear all can be undone too.

You can add up to 500 pictures at a time and about 1 GB in total, which is what a browser can handle comfortably. If you prefer one PDF for each photo instead of one combined file, open More options and set Output to One PDF per picture. You then get a ZIP file with one PDF for every photo.

To convert HEIC to PDF without losing quality, leave File size on Original quality. Each photo keeps its full resolution, so every pixel your camera captured is in the PDF and you can zoom in on fine print just as you can on your phone.

There is one honest detail. A PDF cannot hold a HEIC image directly, so every HEIC photo has to be decoded and saved in a format that PDF readers understand. With Original quality this is done at high quality and full size, so the difference is not something you will see with your eyes.

Because HEIC is a very efficient format, the PDF is usually larger than the HEIC files you started with. That is normal and is the price of a file that opens everywhere. If size matters more than the last bit of detail, choose Smaller, which keeps good quality at a much lower size.

Many online converters quietly shrink your photos to save on their own server costs, which blurs small text. This tool has no reason to do that, because it does not pay for a server to convert your files. What you choose is what you get.

For HEIC to PDF A4 size, choose A4 in Page size. Each photo is placed in the middle of an A4 page with the margin you pick. A4 is the standard paper size in most of the world. Letter is the standard in the US, Canada and parts of Latin America, and the tool picks Letter for you on your first visit if your device is set to one of those regions.

Same as picture makes every page exactly the size of its photo, with no white border. That suits photo albums, screenshots and pictures you only want to view on a screen. More options adds Legal, A3, A5 and a Custom size in millimetres or inches.

Orientation can stay on Auto. A wide photo then gets a landscape page and a tall photo a portrait page, so nothing is shrunk more than it needs to be. Choose Portrait or Landscape if every page must face the same way, for example for printing.

Margin adds white space around each photo: None for edge to edge, Small for a neat border, or Large when the pages will be printed and filed. Picture fit in More options decides whether the whole photo fits inside its space, so nothing is cut off, or fills the space completely, so the edges may be trimmed.

Sending HEIC to PDF for email is one of the most common reasons people use this page. Many email apps and the people who receive your mail cannot open HEIC files, but everyone can open a PDF. One PDF with ten pages is also much tidier than ten separate attachments.

Email services limit the size of attachments, usually to about 20 to 25 MB. A few iPhone photos at full quality fit easily. A long set of photos may not, so the File size choice helps: Smaller keeps good quality at a much lower size, and Under 1 MB, Under 500 KB, Under 200 KB or Under 100 KB make the PDF fit an exact limit.

When you pick a limit, the photos are made smaller step by step, in your browser, until the PDF fits, while keeping them as sharp as possible. When the file is ready you see its exact size and a tick that confirms it is under your limit. If the limit is too small for the number of pages, the tool tells you and gives you the smallest file that is still readable.

Three habits make small limits easier to reach. Choose Black & white for photos of documents, which cuts the size a lot. Put two photos on each page with Pictures per page. And take photos of papers in good light, because dark, grainy photos need more space for the same clarity.

Always check the limit stated by the form or the email service you use. If you already have a PDF that is too big, Compress PDF can make it smaller, and Compress Image can shrink single pictures before you send them.

How big will the PDF be? It depends mostly on three things: how many photos you add, how much detail they have, and the File size you choose. A photo of a white sheet of paper has much less detail than a photo of a busy street, so it needs fewer bytes.

With Original quality, expect the PDF to be larger than the HEIC files you started with, often by a clear margin, because HEIC is one of the most efficient photo formats there is. A dozen photos can easily add up to many megabytes. That is fine for printing or keeping on your computer, and usually fine for email.

Smaller is the best choice for everyday sharing. It keeps photos clear on screen and in print at normal sizes, while making the file much lighter. The exact limits, from Under 1 MB down to Under 100 KB or a Custom number of KB, are for forms and portals that refuse anything bigger.

The result box always shows the real size of your file, the number of pages and how long it took, so you never have to guess. If the file is not what you wanted, press Change settings, pick another option and convert again. Your photos and their order are kept.

Most tools that offer HEIC to PDF online free upload your photos to their server, convert them there and send the PDF back. This page works differently. The page loads once, and then your photos are read, arranged and turned into a PDF on your own device.

That has three practical benefits. Your photos never leave your phone or computer, so nobody else can see them. Nothing has to be uploaded, so even a large set of photos is quick on a slow connection. And there is no queue or waiting line, because nobody else is sharing your device.

You still use it like any website. There is nothing to install, it works in Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox, and it works on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux and Chromebook. The only exceptions are two optional extras described further down, OCR and password protection, which are clearly labelled because they upload the finished PDF.

Because the work is done on your device, speed depends on your phone or computer rather than on a busy server. A recent phone converts a handful of photos in a second or two. Very large batches take longer on older phones, and if a phone runs short of memory the tool tells you, so you can add fewer photos at a time.

To convert HEIC to PDF on iPhone, open this page in Safari, tap Select HEIC photos and choose Photo Library to pick pictures from your Photos app, or Choose Files to pick them from the Files app. Tap Use camera if you want to photograph a document right now.

Arrange the photos by pressing and holding one, then dragging it. Choose a page size and a file size, then tap Convert to PDF. Download saves the PDF to the Files app, and Share opens the iPhone share sheet so you can send it by Mail, Messages, WhatsApp or AirDrop, or save it to iCloud Drive.

Your iPhone can also make a basic PDF without this page. In the Files app, select the photos, tap the More button and choose Create PDF. In the Photos app, you can tap Share, then Print, and use the print preview to save a PDF. These work for a quick file, but they cannot make the PDF fit a size limit, put two photos on one page, turn papers black and white, or add page numbers.

If you would rather your iPhone stop making HEIC photos at all, go to Settings, Camera, Formats and choose Most Compatible. New photos are then saved as JPG. Your existing photos stay HEIC, and this page still converts them.

On an iPad it works the same way, with more room to see the page preview. With a keyboard attached to an iPad you can also use the shortcuts listed further down this page.

To turn HEIC to PDF on Mac, open this page in Safari, Chrome or Firefox, drag the photos from Finder or from a Photos export onto the box, put them in order and click Convert to PDF. The PDF is saved to your Downloads folder.

A Mac can open HEIC photos on its own, and Preview can make a simple PDF too. Select the photos in Finder, open them together in Preview, arrange them in the sidebar, then choose File, Print and Save as PDF. That works well for a few photos at full size.

This page is the better choice when you need more control: an exact file size for a form, two photos on one page, page numbers, a watermark, black and white for documents, or a quick reorder of dozens of photos with one Sort command. It also gives the same result on every computer, which helps if you switch between a Mac and a Windows PC.

If your photos live in the Photos app, export them first: select them, choose File, Export and pick a folder. You can keep them as HEIC; there is no need to change the format. Then drag the folder contents onto this page, or press Add a folder and choose it.

Converting HEIC to PDF on Windows is where this page helps most. Windows 10 and 11 do not open HEIC photos by default. You often need to install two extensions from the Microsoft Store before the Photos app can even show them, and one of them may cost a small fee.

With this page you skip all of that. Copy the photos from your iPhone to your PC, open this page in Edge, Chrome or Firefox, drag the HEIC files onto the box and press Convert to PDF. The photos are decoded in your browser, so Windows itself never needs to understand the HEIC format.

Once Windows can open HEIC photos, you can also print them with Microsoft Print to PDF: select the pictures in File Explorer, right-click, choose Print and pick Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer. That is fine for a simple file but has no size limit option, no page numbers and no easy way to reorder many pictures.

Tip: when you copy photos from an iPhone to a Windows PC with a cable, the iPhone setting Photos, Transfer to Mac or PC decides whether they arrive as HEIC or as JPG. If they arrive as HEIC, this page handles them as they are.

If your photos are in iCloud, you can download them from the iCloud website in your browser and add the downloaded files here. They often arrive as HEIC, sometimes inside a ZIP file. Unzip the ZIP first by right-clicking it and choosing Extract All, then add the photos.

Windows on older or slower PCs handles large sets of photos fine, but each HEIC photo takes a moment to decode. Adding 100 photos may take a little while; the grid shows a spinner on each photo until it is ready, and you can arrange the ones that are already loaded in the meantime.

HEIC files are not only an iPhone thing. You may receive them from a friend on WhatsApp as documents, download them from iCloud, or find that your own Android phone saves photos as HEIF when a high efficiency option is turned on in the camera.

Open this page in Chrome on Android or on a Chromebook, tap Select HEIC photos and pick the files from your Files app or Google Photos. Drag the pictures with your finger to reorder them, choose a page size and tap Convert to PDF. Share then sends the PDF straight to Gmail, WhatsApp or Google Drive.

Many people convert iPhone photos because a website asks for a PDF. Job portals, universities, visa services, banks, landlords and insurers often accept only PDF files, and many also set a size limit. A few minutes of preparation saves a rejected upload.

First, read the form. Note the file type it accepts, the largest size allowed, and whether it wants one file or several. Some forms want every document as a separate PDF; others want everything in one file. One PDF and One PDF per picture cover both cases.

Next, put the photos in the order the form lists the documents, for example passport first, then proof of address, then certificates. Choose A4 or Letter, a Small margin, and Black & white for paper documents. Then pick the File size that matches the limit, convert and check the preview.

Finally, give the file a clear name in More options, such as the document type and your surname. People who check applications see many files called images.pdf, and a clear name helps yours get looked at quickly.

Many forms ask for both sides of an ID card, driver's license, residence permit or student card on one PDF page. Add the photo of the front and the photo of the back, open More options and set Pictures per page to 2. Both sides are placed on one page, one above the other, neatly centred and the right way up.

You can also put 4, 6 or 9 photos on a page. That is handy for receipts, for a contact sheet of holiday photos, or for printing several small pictures on one sheet. The page preview shows the exact arrangement before you convert, and the crop tool has an ID card shape that matches a standard card.

For the neatest result, crop each side of the card first with the ID card shape, so the table or hand around it is removed. Then set Pictures per page to 2 and a Small margin. If the form wants the card at its real size when printed, check the printed page against the card itself, because a photo has no fixed print size.

If you photograph papers with your iPhone, a few options make the PDF look like it came from a scanner. In More options, Colour offers four choices. Black & white turns the paper white and the text dark, which reads better and makes the file much smaller. Grayscale removes colour but keeps shading, which suits handwriting and pencil. Auto enhance lifts contrast a little for photos taken in dull light.

A photo of a document is still a picture, so its words cannot normally be searched or copied. Make text searchable (OCR) in More options reads the text in English, Hindi and English, or Hindi, Marathi and English, and adds an invisible text layer to the PDF.

OCR cannot run in a browser, so the finished PDF is uploaded to our server once for this step and deleted afterwards. The option is marked Uploads the PDF so you always know. If you do not turn it on, nothing is uploaded.

Good photos matter more than any setting. Lay the paper on a dark, flat surface, switch off the flash if it causes a bright spot, and hold the phone straight above the page. Then crop away the table around the paper with the crop tool, choosing A4 portrait as the shape if the page is A4.

Every photo in the grid has small buttons for quick fixes. On a computer they appear when you move the mouse over a photo; on a phone they are always shown. You can rotate left, rotate right, crop, adjust the photo on its page, make a copy, or remove it.

Photos taken on a phone are often stored sideways, with a hidden note saying how to turn them. Here every photo is shown the right way up automatically. If one is still wrong, use the rotate buttons, or Rotate all to turn every page at once.

Crop opens a large view with a box you drag by its corners. Ready-made shapes include Free, Original, Square, A4 portrait, A4 landscape and ID card. Click a page in the preview to open the page editor, where you can drag a photo to a new spot, make it bigger or smaller from 25% to 300%, or align it to the top, bottom, left, right or centre of its space.

You can also add a blank page anywhere, which is useful as a separator or for a page you will write on after printing. Add it, then drag it to the right place.

More options holds the settings most people need only now and then. Page numbers can be added as 1, 2, 3 or as Page 1 of N. A watermark adds a short line of text such as COPY or CONFIDENTIAL across each page. A thin frame can be drawn around each photo, and the file name can be printed under each picture, which helps when you send a set of numbered photos.

The page background can be white, light grey, black or any colour you choose. You can change the file name before you download, so the receiver sees something clear like passport-scan.pdf instead of images.pdf, and you can fill in the author, subject and keywords stored inside the PDF.

Finally, Password-protect the PDF locks the file with AES-256 encryption. Like OCR, this step uses our server, so it is labelled and only runs when you turn it on.

When the PDF is ready, a green box shows its size and page count. Download PDF saves it to your device. On a computer it usually goes to your Downloads folder; on an iPhone it goes to the Files app; on Android it goes to your Downloads.

Preview PDF shows small images of the finished pages right on this page, so you can check the result before you send it anywhere. Share appears on phones and some computers and opens the system share menu, which is the quickest way to send the PDF to Mail, WhatsApp, Messages, Google Drive or iCloud Drive.

Change settings takes you back to the options with all your photos still in place, which is handy if the file is a little too big or a page faces the wrong way. Convert more pictures clears everything so you can start a new PDF. If you chose One PDF per picture, the button says Download ZIP instead, and the ZIP holds one PDF for each photo.

Printing photos straight from a phone can be awkward: pictures come out cropped, too small or on the wrong paper size. A PDF fixes that, because every page already has the paper size you chose, so the printer prints exactly what you see in the preview.

For printing, choose A4 or Letter to match the paper in your printer, Orientation Auto, and a Small or Large margin so nothing is cut off at the edges. Most home printers cannot print right to the edge of the paper, so a margin of None may lose a thin strip.

To save paper, put 2, 4, 6 or 9 photos on each page. For photos of documents, choose Black & white so the printer uses less ink and the text looks crisp. If you need page numbers for a stack of printed pages, add them in More options before you convert.

A few shortcuts make the tool faster on a computer. Ctrl+V pastes a picture or screenshot from your clipboard. Ctrl+Z undoes the last change and Ctrl+Y redoes it. Ctrl+Enter starts the conversion. On a Mac, use the Command key instead of Ctrl.

The tool also works without a mouse. Every photo in the grid can be reached with the Tab key. Press Space to pick a photo up, move it with the arrow keys and press Space again to drop it. Screen readers announce each move, so you always know where a photo is in the PDF order.

This page is set up for iPhone photos, but it is not limited to them. It also accepts JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF, SVG and TIFF pictures, and you can mix all of them with HEIC in a single PDF. Transparent PNG images, such as a signature or a logo, are placed on the page background you choose.

TIFF files are the one exception to the no upload rule: they are opened on our server, then deleted, and the tool shows a note when you add one. Every other picture type is read in your browser. If you want only pictures and not a PDF, HEIC to JPG turns iPhone photos into ordinary JPG files instead.

Your photos are not uploaded. Reading the HEIC files, arranging them, making them smaller and building the PDF all happen in your browser, on your own device. That matters when your photos show a passport, an ID card, a bank statement, a contract or a medical report.

A few optional steps cannot run in a browser and use our server instead: making text searchable (OCR), adding a password, and opening TIFF files. Each one is clearly labelled before you use it, and none of them is turned on by default.

When a file does go to our server, it travels over an encrypted HTTPS connection, is processed straight away and is deleted after use. There is no account and nothing is shared. One more privacy tip: cropping hides part of a photo on the page, but the full photo is still stored in the PDF. If something must be removed for good, edit the photo itself before you add it.

There is also nothing to clean up afterwards. Your photos are read from your device into the page while you work, and when you close the tab or press Convert more pictures, they are gone from the page. The only copy of the PDF is the one you download.

Name the file before you send it. Change images.pdf in More options to something like Anna-Smith-transcript.pdf so the receiver knows what it is.

Photograph documents flat, in good light and from straight above. A clean photo gives a clearer and smaller PDF than any setting can.

Check the page preview for order and orientation, especially with many pages. It shows the real layout of every page. After converting, Preview PDF shows the finished file before you download it.

Keep your original photos. The PDF is a new file, so you can always convert again with different settings. To turn a PDF back into pictures, use PDF to JPG. To make a PDF from ordinary JPG or PNG files, JPG to PDF and PNG to PDF work the same way, and Image to PDF accepts any picture type.

Use the same orientation for all document photos. If you photograph most pages in portrait, try to photograph every page in portrait. The PDF then looks even, and Orientation Auto has less to fix.

Remove what you do not need before converting. Blurry shots, duplicates and photos of the floor make the PDF bigger and harder to read. The remove button on each photo takes a second, and Ctrl+Z brings a photo back if you change your mind.

For forms with strict limits, try Black & white and 2 photos per page before you reach for the smallest size. These keep the text sharper than squeezing full colour photos into a tiny file.