Many free converters strip EXIF metadata—that's the #1 complaint in photography forums. Our converter preserves all metadata by default: date taken, GPS coordinates, camera settings, and device info. Your PNG files retain the original capture information, critical for photo organization and travel albums.

iPhones capture photos in Display P3 color space, which is wider than the sRGB most software expects. When converters ignore this, Display P3 colors get misinterpreted as sRGB, causing washed-out or oversaturated results—especially in skin tones, reds, and greens. Our converter handles the Display P3 → sRGB conversion properly so colors match what you see on your iPhone.

Windows requires both the free HEIF Image Extensions AND the $0.99 HEVC Video Extensions. Even with both installed, many users report persistent 'file not supported' errors or color issues—a well-documented problem in Microsoft forums. Our browser-based converter bypasses this entirely: no extensions, no codec installs, no cost, works on any Windows version.

Photoshop 2021+ opens HEIC natively on Mac, but Windows requires installing Microsoft's HEIF and HEVC extensions first. Illustrator on Windows has documented bugs where linked HEIC files fail to open even with extensions installed. For reliable cross-platform workflows, convert to PNG first—it works everywhere without codec dependencies.

Choose PNG for editing, design work, screenshots, or archiving—it's lossless and preserves sharp edges. Choose JPG for sharing, email, or web where smaller file size matters more than perfect quality. For web delivery, consider converting PNG to WebP which offers JPG-like file sizes with lossless quality options.

PNG export is lossless—no new compression artifacts are added. However, HEIC files from iPhones are already compressed with lossy HEVC encoding during capture, so you can't recover detail lost at that stage. What PNG guarantees is no further quality loss during conversion or subsequent edits—unlike JPG which degrades with every save.

HEIC uses highly efficient HEVC compression—often 50% smaller than JPG at equivalent quality. PNG uses lossless compression which preserves every pixel but produces larger files, especially for complex photos. A 2MB HEIC might become 15-20MB as PNG. If file size matters more than lossless quality, use our HEIC to JPG converter instead.

Upload multiple files at once by selecting them all or dragging a folder. Our converter processes them in parallel and provides a ZIP download of all converted PNGs. For very large batches (1000+ photos), convert in chunks of 100-200 to avoid browser memory limits. Desktop alternatives like Apple Preview (Mac) or XnConvert work for massive batches—but verify they preserve metadata.