Convert HEIC Photos to PDF

HEIC is what an iPhone shoots by default. Add the photos below and they become one PDF — decoded on your own device, with no upload step.

Add JPG, PNG, HEIC or WebP images

Each image becomes one PDF page, in the order shown

or drag and drop files here

Where this works, and where it does not

There is no HEIC decoder shipped with this page. It asks the browser to open the photo, so the answer depends entirely on the browser you are using:

Safari on iPhone, iPad and Mac — works. Apple's decoder is built in.
Chrome, Edge and Firefox on a Mac — usually works, since they can use the system decoder.
Chrome and Firefox on Windows or Linux — does not work. They cannot read HEIC at all, and you'll get a plain message saying so rather than a broken PDF.

That is the honest trade of doing the work on your device instead of on a server. A site that uploads your photos can convert HEIC from any browser, because the decoding happens on their machine — along with your photos. We would rather tell you a format is unsupported in your browser than take a copy of your pictures.

What happens to quality and file size

The photo is decoded and re-encoded as JPEG at high quality before it goes into the PDF. HEIC exists because it stores a photo in roughly half the space of an equivalent JPEG, so the PDF will be somewhat larger than the originals — that is the format's doing, not the conversion's. Nothing is resized: the full resolution of every photo is kept.

A dozen 12-megapixel photos make a PDF of a few dozen megabytes. If you are on a phone and it runs out of memory, convert in two batches and merge the two PDFs afterwards.

The built-in ways, and when they are better

Apple has two routes that need no website at all, and for a couple of photos they are faster.

On an iPhone — select photos in the Photos app → Share → Print → pinch outward on the preview. It quietly turns into a PDF you can share. Its limits: one photo per paper-sized page with white margins, and no way to reorder.
On a Mac — open the photos in Preview, select all thumbnails, then File → Print → PDF → Save as PDF. Note that File → Export as PDF exports only the one selected image, which catches everyone out the first time.
Shortcuts — the Convert Image and Make PDF actions can be chained into a one-tap shortcut. Worth doing if you convert photos every week.

Use the tool above when you have many photos, when page order matters, or when you want each page to be the photo's own size rather than a sheet of A4 with margins around it.

Stopping the problem at the source

If HEIC keeps getting in your way, the iPhone can simply stop producing it: Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible. Photos are then shot as JPEG, which every device on earth can open. They take about twice the space, which is the whole reason Apple moved to HEIC in the first place.

Common problems

“This browser cannot open HEIC photos” — you are on Windows in Chrome or Firefox. Open this page in Safari on an Apple device, or switch the camera format as above.
The photos came out in the wrong order — iOS does not preserve the order you tapped them in. Check the list after selecting and fix it with the ↑ / ↓ arrows.