HEIC viewer
Open an iPhone HEIC photo right here in your browser, on any device, with nothing to install. The photo never leaves your machine.
Drop a HEIC photo here to view it
It opens right here in your browser. The photo is never uploaded; you can disconnect your network and it still works.
Why HEIC photos will not open
Every iPhone since 2017 shoots HEIC by default because it stores the same photo in roughly half the space of a JPG. The catch is reach: HEIC is built on the HEVC codec, and Windows does not ship HEVC support, Android handling is patchy, and plenty of web forms and older apps reject the format outright. So a photo that looks perfect on the phone arrives as an unopenable file the moment it leaves the Apple world. This viewer decodes it on the spot so you can actually see it.
View now, save when you need to
Viewing leaves your original HEIC untouched. When you need a file you can email, upload or open on any device, convert it, also entirely in your browser, with no upload: HEIC to JPG for sharing, or HEIC to PNG for lossless editing. New to the format? See What is HEIC?
Common questions
- Why will not my HEIC file open on Windows?
- HEIC is the format iPhones use by default, built on the HEVC codec. Windows does not include HEVC support out of the box (Microsoft charges for the codec extension), and a lot of older software cannot read HEIC at all. That is why a photo that looks fine on an iPhone shows up as a broken or unopenable file on a PC.
- Does this viewer upload my photo?
- No. The photo is decoded by WebAssembly inside your browser and shown back to you; it never goes to a server. You can confirm it: open your network tab while you view a photo, or disconnect your network entirely, and it still works.
- How do I save or share the photo after viewing it?
- Viewing keeps the original HEIC. To get a file you can email, upload, or open anywhere, convert it to JPG or PNG, also entirely in your browser. The links on this page take you straight to those converters.
- What is the difference between HEIC and HEIF?
- HEIF is the container format and HEIC is the common variant Apple uses with HEVC-compressed images. This viewer opens both .heic and .heif files.