Convert HEIC to WEBP
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The short route from iPhone to your page
An iPhone saves HEIC and a website serves WEBP. Both are modern formats, both compress lossily, both are efficient; they simply live in different worlds. HEIC rules the Apple ecosystem and no browser displays it, so uploading the photo as-is to your page isn't an option.
Converting directly is the short route: one compression, no detour through JPG.
Why skip the JPG detour
It's what almost everyone does, because JPG is the format people think of by default. But every lossy compression degrades what it receives, and chaining two means two generations of loss:
- HEIC → JPG → WEBP: the image is decoded and re-encoded twice, with two different codecs.
- HEIC → WEBP: once.
The difference isn't dramatic, but avoiding it is free, and it shows up first in photographs with smooth gradients — skies, skin, shadows.
Check the metadata before uploading
An iPhone photo carries the date, the model and, if location services are on, the exact coordinates of where you took it. That's fine in your camera roll and rather less fine on a public page, especially if the photo is of your home or someone else's.
The conversion usually preserves that data. If the image is going on the internet, it's worth stripping it first with a dedicated tool.
And if it's going out large
An iPhone photo is around 4000 pixels wide, and a web page almost never needs that. Scaling it to the size it will actually be displayed at saves more than any format choice. The crop and resize tool does exactly that, and the logical order is to shrink first and convert afterwards.
Common questions
- Why WEBP rather than JPG?
- If the photo is going on a web page, WEBP is 25–35% smaller at the same apparent quality and every browser has understood it since 2020. JPG is still the better choice for sending the photo to someone or printing it.
- Why not go through JPG first?
- Because every lossy compression degrades a little. HEIC to JPG and JPG to WEBP is two generations of loss instead of one. Converting directly skips the middle step.
- Are date and location kept?
- EXIF metadata usually survives. If you're publishing the photo online, consider the opposite: stripping it, so you don't broadcast where it was taken.
- How big will it be?
- Similar to the HEIC you started with, sometimes slightly larger. Both are modern, efficient codecs; the gain over HEIC isn't size, it's that a browser can actually display it.
- Is WEBP any good for email or printing?
- It's a bad idea there. Support outside the browser is still uneven and many forms reject it. Convert to JPG for that.