HEIC to PDF Converter — Turn iPhone Photos into a PDF Document
Drop a .HEIC below and pick PDF as the output format. Each photo becomes a centred, letter-sized page at full resolution — free, private, and entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, which is the point when the photo is a receipt, a signed form, or a passport page.
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Supports HEIC, WEBP, AVIF, BMP, TIFF, SVG, GIF, ICO, PDF, JPG, PNG
100% Private — Your files never leave your device
All conversion happens directly in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing is uploaded to any server. Your images stay on your computer the entire time.
Why Convert HEIC to PDF?
Almost nobody wants a PDF of a photograph for its own sake. They want it because something on the other end demands a document, and a .HEIC is not one. The conversion turns a photo into a thing that can be attached, printed, signed, or filed:
- An upload portal accepts PDF and nothing else. Insurance claims, expense tools, university applications, and government forms routinely restrict uploads to PDF — and a form that does accept images often still refuses HEIC.
- It has to survive the trip. A PDF renders the same everywhere, whereas a .HEIC will not open at all on a Windows PC without a codec installed, or in most email previews.
- It is going on paper. A PDF fixes the page size, orientation, and margins, so what prints is what you saw. Send someone a raw photo and the printer decides.
- It needs to be one document. Photographed a multi-page contract or a stack of receipts? Pages belong in a single file, and only PDF does that.
If the destination takes ordinary images, you probably do not want a PDF at all — you want HEIC to JPG, which is smaller, opens everywhere, and skips the document wrapper entirely.
Step-by-Step Guide
- Drag your .HEIC or .HEIF file into the drop zone, or click to browse and select it.
- Choose PDF from the Output Format menu — the converter starts on JPG.
- Leave the quality slider at 92%, or raise it if the photo is text-heavy, like a scanned form.
- Download the PDF. Drop several photos at once and you can merge them into one multi-page document, or take them all as a single ZIP.
Each photo comes back as its own one-page PDF, sized US Letter and turned to portrait or landscape to match the shot. The image is centred inside a half-inch margin at full resolution — a 12-megapixel iPhone photo lands at roughly 400 DPI on the page, comfortably above the 300 DPI print shops ask for. Merging a batch keeps every page oriented to its own photo.
The quality slider is live for PDF because the page carries a JPEG inside it: PDF cannot store HEIC's HEVC compression, so the photo is re-encoded once on the way in. That is the only lossy step, and it is why the resulting PDF is usually a little larger than the .HEIC it came from.
How to Batch Convert HEIC to PDF on iPhone, Mac, and Windows
Drop a whole folder into the converter above and every photo is converted at once — take them as one ZIP of separate PDFs, or Combine into one PDF to get a single multi-page document. Page order follows the file list, so if the sequence matters, drag the photos in a few at a time. Your operating system can also do the job without a browser:
iPhone or iPad
In Photos, tap Select, choose the photos, then the share button → Print. From the print preview, share again and choose Save to Files. You get one PDF with a page per photo, and iOS converts the HEIC for you along the way. On older versions of iOS, pinch outward on the preview thumbnail instead of sharing.
Mac
Select the .HEIC files in Finder, right-click, and choose Quick Actions → Create PDF. macOS writes a single multi-page PDF beside the originals, in file-name order. For more control over page order, open the photos in Preview, select all the thumbnails in the sidebar, and use File → Print → PDF → Save as PDF.
Windows
Windows cannot read a .HEIC out of the box — Photos needs the free HEIF Image Extensions plus the paid HEVC Video Extensions from the Microsoft Store before it will decode one. With those installed, select the photos in File Explorer, right-click, choose Print, and pick Microsoft Print to PDF as the printer. Without them, the converter on this page is the shorter path: it decodes HEIC itself, with no codec, no purchase, and no admin rights on a locked-down work laptop.
All three OS routes re-compress the photo, exactly as this converter does. None of them preserve EXIF metadata in the PDF.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I combine several HEIC photos into one multi-page PDF?
Yes. Drop them all in, choose PDF, and once at least two have converted a Combine into one PDF button appears. You get a single document with one photo per page, in the order the files are listed. Download All is the alternative: the same photos as separate one-page PDFs inside a ZIP. Merging adds no extra quality loss — each photo is compressed once, and the combined document re-uses those exact bytes.
What size is the page, and can I change it?
Every page is US Letter — 8.5 by 11 inches — turned to portrait or landscape to match the photo, with the image centred inside a half-inch margin. There is no size control. A half-inch margin leaves a content area of 10 by 7.5 inches, which is exactly 4:3, and the iPhone's main camera also shoots 4:3, so a standard iPhone photo fills that area edge to edge with no letterboxing. Printing the result on A4 works fine — printer drivers scale a Letter page to fit.
Is the photo inside the PDF still full resolution?
Yes. The pixels are not downscaled — a 4032 by 3024 iPhone photo goes into the PDF at 4032 by 3024. The page is measured in points rather than pixels, so those pixels are simply spread across a 10-inch-wide box, which works out to roughly 400 dots per inch on paper. That is well above the 300 DPI most print shops ask for, and it is why the PDF stays sharp when you zoom in on screen.
Does converting HEIC to PDF lose quality?
A little, once. PDF has no way to store HEVC-compressed HEIC data, so the photo has to be re-encoded, and this converter compresses it as a JPEG inside the page — the format PDF has embedded natively since the 1990s. That is a lossy step, so leave the quality slider at its default of 92% or push it higher. What you will not see is repeated loss: the JPEG is written into the PDF byte for byte, not decoded and re-compressed a second time.
Why is the PDF bigger than the HEIC it came from?
Because HEIC is better at compression than JPEG, and the PDF holds a JPEG. HEIC applies HEVC, a modern video codec, to a still frame and typically stores a photo in about half the space JPEG needs for the same visible quality. Converting to PDF gives that advantage up. The PDF wrapper itself is negligible — under a kilobyte of structure around the image — so the size you see is essentially the size of a JPEG at your chosen quality.
Does the PDF keep the photo's date, location, and camera info?
No. Decoding the HEIC to pixels and re-encoding them drops the EXIF metadata — date taken, GPS coordinates, lens, and orientation tag do not survive. For emailing a receipt, filing an expense claim, or submitting a document, that is usually what you want. If you need the metadata preserved, export from Apple's Preview or Photos instead of converting in a browser.
Are my photos uploaded to a server?
No. The HEIC is decoded and the PDF is assembled by JavaScript running on your own machine, and nothing is ever sent anywhere. That matters more for this conversion than most: people convert HEIC to PDF to file insurance claims, expense receipts, passport scans, and signed forms. Those photos never leave your device here.
Going the other way — you have a PDF and need an image out of it — is covered by PDF to JPG.