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Turn an iPhone HEIC photo into a small GIF image in seconds, right in your browser.
Only HEIC images are accepted on this page.
Your image never leaves your browser. Conversion happens on your own device, and nothing is uploaded to a server. GIF images hold at most 256 colours, so smooth photo gradients may look slightly flatter. This page needs to be served over http or https: HEIC conversion may not work from a local file preview, but it works once the page is on hosting.
HEIC is the photo format iPhones use because it keeps high quality pictures small. GIF is the format to use when you need an image that opens absolutely everywhere, from old browsers to chat apps and slide decks. The HEIC to GIF Converter turns your iPhone photo into a GIF without sending it anywhere.
Everything runs in your browser, so your photos are never uploaded to a server. Choose a HEIC file, convert it, and download the GIF straight to your device.
Keep the HEIC when you want the best quality photo from your iPhone and you will view it on a modern phone or Mac. Use GIF when compatibility matters more than perfect colour, for example for a simple graphic, a logo with flat colours, or an image you must share with someone on older software. A GIF cannot hold the full colour range of a HEIC photo, so pick GIF for sharing and simple images, not for archiving your best photos.
Yes, it is completely free with no sign up and no limits. You can convert as many HEIC images as you like, as often as you like.
HEIC decoding runs in a Web Worker created from a blob URL, and browsers block that worker when the page is opened as a local file. The conversion therefore may not work from a file preview on your own computer. Once the page is uploaded to hosting and served over http or https, the same conversion works normally.
Only the first image in the file is converted. If your HEIC file holds several pictures, convert each one separately or pick the single image file you need.
Yes, a little. GIF images hold at most 256 colours, so smooth gradients in a photo may look slightly flatter and fine colour shading may simplify. Flat graphics, logos, and simple illustrations convert with almost no visible change.
Fully transparent pixels stay transparent in the GIF. Partly transparent pixels become fully opaque, because GIF transparency is all or nothing. If your HEIC photo has no transparency, the GIF will have a solid background exactly like the original.
No. The conversion happens in your browser on your own device, so your images never leave your computer.
Need a JPG instead of a GIF? Try the HEIC to JPG converter for full colour photos.