Orientation handledEXIF rotation is applied before the page is built, so portrait photos never land sideways.
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Convert HEIC to PDF
Turn iPhone HEIC and HEIF photos into a sharp, correctly-oriented PDF. Combine a whole batch into one document — no converting to JPG first, no app to install.
- Full quality kept
- Converts in seconds
- Deleted after your session
True-to-original colour10-bit HDR HEICs are converted to 8-bit sRGB properly, so nothing looks washed out.
Private by defaultEncrypted upload, used only to build your PDF, then deleted. No account, no tracking.
Works on your phoneRuns in Safari on iPhone and iPad and in Chrome on Android. Nothing to install.
Why HEIC is awkward
Your iPhone photo will not open, and it is not your fault
Since iOS 11, iPhones have saved photos as HEIC — a format that stores roughly the same picture in about half the space of a JPG. That is a real gain on your phone and a real problem everywhere else. Windows needs a paid codec from the Microsoft Store, most Android phones cannot open one, and no browser except Safari can display it. So the photo looks perfect on your phone and arrives unusable in an email, a job application, or an insurance claim.
Converting to PDF fixes it permanently, because a PDF opens everywhere without special software and is the format upload forms actually ask for. The conversion is only worth doing properly, though — two things go wrong in most converters:
Orientation is preserved
Phones store the sensor image plus a rotation tag rather than rotating pixels. That tag is read and applied before the page is built, so portrait photos stay portrait instead of landing sideways.
10-bit colour is handled
iPhone HEICs are often 10-bit HDR, a depth the PDF image encoder cannot take. The photo is converted to 8-bit sRGB first, which is why colours look right rather than washed out or inverted.
Several photos, one document
Add up to 30 photos and reorder them before exporting. One page per photo, in your order — the fastest way to turn photographed receipts or documents into a single submittable file.
No conversion to JPG first
HEIC is decoded directly on our server. You do not need to change your camera settings, install anything, or run the photos through a second tool before this one.
Three steps, under a minute
How to convert HEIC photos to PDF
Upload your photos
Add HEIC or HEIF files straight from your device — mixed with JPG, PNG, or WEBP if that is what your camera roll holds. Nothing to install, no account.
Order them and choose a page size
Drag to reorder on a computer, or use each card's arrows on a phone. Pick “match each photo” for an album, or A4 and Letter when the PDF is going to a printer or an upload form.
Convert and download
One PDF, one page per photo, correctly oriented, with no watermark. If it needs to be smaller for an upload limit, run it through Compress PDF.
Doing it on the phone itself
Converting HEIC to PDF on an iPhone or iPad
You do not need an app. Open this page in Safari and upload straight from your photo library. A few things specific to doing it on the phone:
- Reorder with the arrows. Dragging the cards is a mouse interaction and will not respond to a finger. The up and down arrows on each card do the same job.
- The PDF lands in Files. From there you can attach it to a reply or upload it to a portal like any other document.
- To stop new photos being HEIC at all, open Settings, tap Camera, then Formats, and choose “Most Compatible”. New shots save as JPG. Existing photos stay HEIC, and each picture takes roughly twice the storage.
- No preview is not a fault. Outside Safari, browsers cannot decode HEIC, so the tool shows a named tile instead of a broken image. The conversion happens on our server and works regardless.
Converting HEIC to PDF, answered
Upload the photos straight from your iPhone or computer, put them in the order you want, and export. You get one PDF with each photo on its own page. Up to 30 photos per conversion, each up to 10 MB, free and with no watermark. You do not need to convert them to JPG first — HEIC is read directly.
HEIC is the container Apple has used for photos since iOS 11, holding an image compressed with HEVC. Your iPhone uses it because it stores roughly the same picture quality in about half the space of a JPG. The trade-off is compatibility: Windows, most Android phones, and every browser except Safari cannot open a HEIC without extra software, which is why a photo that looks fine on your phone is often unusable the moment you send it somewhere else.
Because phones do not rotate the pixels when you turn the camera — they store the image as the sensor saw it, plus an EXIF orientation tag telling the viewer which way up it goes. Converters that ignore that tag produce sideways pages. This one reads the tag and bakes the rotation into the image before it becomes a page, so a portrait photo stays portrait and a landscape one stays landscape.
Barely, and you control it. The photo is decoded at full quality and re-encoded into the PDF at the JPEG quality you choose — 85 by default, which is visually indistinguishable from the original at normal viewing sizes. Photos longer than 3000 pixels on the long edge are scaled to that, which is still well above what an A4 page can show at 300 DPI print quality, and it keeps a 20-photo PDF from becoming unmanageably large. For archival copies, raise the quality slider to 100.
Yes — that is the normal case. Add up to 30 photos, drag them into the order you want, and they come out as one document, one photo per page. It is the quickest way to turn a set of photographed receipts, ID documents, or homework pages into a single file that an upload form will accept.
Match each photo gives every page the shape of the picture on it, so nothing is cropped and there are no white bars — best for photo albums and anything you will only view on screen. A4 or Letter centres each photo on a standard page with a margin, which is what you want if the PDF will be printed or submitted to a form that expects a standard page size. Landscape photos automatically get a landscape page in both modes.
Yes. iPhones only produce HEIC when the camera is set to High Efficiency, and screenshots, downloads, and photos shared from other apps arrive as JPG or PNG, so a realistic camera roll is mixed. HEIC, HEIF, JPG, PNG, and WEBP can all go into the same batch and the same PDF.
Because your browser cannot decode HEIC. Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have no HEVC image decoder, so any HEIC preview on any website will fail in those browsers — only Safari can show one. Rather than display a broken image, the tool shows a named tile for each HEIC. The conversion itself happens on our server, which does have the codec, so the photos convert correctly even though you cannot preview them.
Open Settings, tap Camera, then Formats, and choose "Most Compatible" instead of "High Efficiency". New photos will be saved as JPG. This does not convert the photos already on your phone — those stay HEIC. It also roughly doubles the storage each photo uses, which is the trade you are making for compatibility.
Yes. Open this page in Safari, tap the upload area, and pick photos straight from your library — no app to install. Two notes for phone use: dragging the cards to reorder does not respond to touch, so use the up and down arrows on each card; and the finished PDF downloads to Files, where you can attach it to an email or upload it to a portal.
They are filled with white, because a PDF page is not transparent — something has to be behind the image. This only affects PNG and WEBP files with transparency; HEIC photos from a camera are always fully opaque.
No. They are uploaded over an encrypted connection, used only to build your PDF, and removed when your session ends — not stored long-term, sold, or shared. Conversion runs on our server rather than in your browser, because the HEIC decoder does not exist in the browser, so an internet connection is required.