JPG Compression

You took a photo on your iPhone, sent it to a friend on Windows, and they replied: "I can't open this." Welcome to the HEIC problem. Since iOS 11, Apple iPhones and iPads save photos as HEIC by default — a format that's smaller and higher quality than JPG, but that a huge amount of software still can't open. The fix is simple: convert HEIC to JPG, the format that works literally everywhere. This guide covers every method, on every device — Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, Chromebook, and Google Drive — plus how to convert hundreds of files at once, and how to stop your iPhone making HEIC files in the first place. No paid software required. In a hurry? The fastest method that works on any device is a browser-based converter. Convert HEIC to JPG free here — no download, no signup, files auto-delete. The step-by-step OS methods are below if you'd rather use built-in tools.

You have a .jpeg file. A platform, system, or colleague needs a .jpg. You open Google and search for a JPEG to JPG converter — wondering why something so simple seems so complicated.

BMP files are enormous. A single uncompressed bitmap image can be 10, 20, even 50 times larger than the equivalent JPG — with no visible quality advantage for most use cases. Sending a BMP by email, uploading it to a website, or sharing it on social media is slow, impractical, and in many cases simply impossible due to file size limits.

This guide covers the full JPG vs JPEG story, when and why you might need to change between them, and how to convert your JPEG to other formats like WebP, BMP, TIFF, and SVG using Transfonic's free Image Conversion tool — no software, no signup required.