Convert HEIC to JPG on Mac, offline
Short answer. Paperlane for Mac converts HEIC photos to JPG offline. Open your photos in the app, set the JPG quality, decide whether to keep metadata such as location, and run. macOS decodes HEIC natively, so it works offline and nothing is uploaded. A whole folder converts in one go, and the Image Converter tool also writes PNG, WebP, TIFF and more.
Three ways to do it
In the app
Open HEIC to JPG, drop the photos, set quality and metadata, and run.
From Finder
Select HEIC files in Finder, right-click, and choose Convert with Paperlane.
With Shortcuts
Use the Run Paperlane Tool action with HEIC to JPG, for example on every photo AirDropped into a folder.
Steps
- Open HEIC to JPG and drop in the photos.
- Set a quality level.
- Decide whether to keep or remove metadata such as location.
- Run the job and find the JPGs next to the originals.
At a glance
- Decoder
- ImageIO (native HEIC)
- Output
- JPG; Image Converter adds PNG, HEIC, TIFF, GIF, BMP and WebP
- Metadata
- Keep or strip
- Original file
- Never modified
Honest limitations
- Converting to JPG is lossy and drops HEIC extras such as depth data.
- Live Photo motion is not converted; only the still image is.
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Questions
Does converting HEIC to JPG on a Mac upload the photo?
No. macOS decodes and re-encodes the image on your machine.
Will the photo lose quality?
JPG is lossy, so choose a high quality setting for photos you want to keep looking sharp.
Does it keep the location data?
You choose. Metadata is kept by default and can be stripped during conversion.