Convert HEIC to PNG — Lossless iPhone Photo Export
When every pixel counts — export your iPhone HEICs to PNG for editing and archiving with nothing thrown away.
Drop your image to convert
or click to browse — paste (Ctrl+V) works too
How Our Privacy Engine Works
When you drop an image onto VisualConvert, our code runs entirely inside your device's web browser using modern web standards (Canvas API & WebAssembly). Unlike traditional converters that upload your photos to remote servers, process them there, and send them back, VisualConvert processes everything locally in your computer's memory. You can verify this anytime: open your browser's Developer Tools (F12), switch to the Network tab, and drop a file — you will see zero upload requests!
About converting HEIC to PNG
There is a category of photo where "good enough" is not good enough: the frame you will retouch heavily, the family scan you are archiving for decades, the shot headed into a print you cannot reshoot. For those, lossy formats are a quiet liability — each save shaves off a little more. PNG is the opposite. It is lossless, so a HEIC exported to PNG holds every pixel exactly as the sensor recorded it.
That makes it the right feeder format for serious editing. Open the PNG in Photoshop or GIMP, push the curves, dodge and burn, composite — and because there are no JPG-style artefacts baked in to fight against, your edits sit on a clean foundation. Archive the PNG and you have a master you can return to years from now with nothing lost.
How to convert HEIC to PNG
- 1
Add your HEIC files
Drop in the iPhone photos you plan to edit or archive at full fidelity.
- 2
PNG is preset
Output is lossless PNG — no quality settings to compromise on.
- 3
Download your masters
Keep one master, or archive the entire shoot in a single download.
Why convert HEIC to PNG with VisualConvert
- Truly lossless — every pixel the iPhone captured survives the conversion
- The clean base editors like Photoshop and GIMP want, with no baked-in artefacts
- A stable archival master you can re-edit years later with nothing degraded
- Runs on your device, so unpublished personal photos never touch a server
HEIC to PNG — Frequently Asked Questions
Is HEIC to PNG really lossless?
Yes. PNG uses lossless compression, so the exported image is a pixel-for-pixel copy of the HEIC's decoded data — nothing is discarded, unlike a JPG export.
Should I edit iPhone photos as PNG or JPG?
For heavy editing, PNG. It carries no lossy artefacts for your adjustments to amplify, so retouching in Photoshop or GIMP starts from a clean, full-quality base.
Why choose PNG for archiving?
Because it never degrades. A PNG master stays identical no matter how many times you open and re-save it, which is exactly what long-term archives need.