Change my photo to JPG or PNG

When you need this

An iPhone saves photographs as HEIC. A picture saved from a website is often WEBP. A great many Ghanaian portals accept neither, and say so with a message as unhelpful as "invalid file". The picture is fine; the container is wrong.

How to use it

1. Drop in the pictures — HEIC, HEIF, WEBP, PNG or JPG, and several at once if you like.
2. Choose what you want back. JPG for photographs and for almost every upload form. PNG when you need a transparent background or a screenshot to stay sharp.
3. Save.

Which format to choose

• JPG — photographs, and anything going into an application form. Smallest files, accepted everywhere.
• PNG — screenshots, logos, line drawings, and anything with transparency. Larger files, but text stays crisp rather than fuzzy.
• HEIC — what newer iPhones produce. Good quality for the size, poor support outside Apple.
• WEBP — what websites use. Same story: efficient, and refused by plenty of forms.

What it does and does not do

• Converting does not improve the picture. A blurry HEIC becomes a blurry JPG. Nothing can add detail that was never recorded.
• Going to JPG loses transparency. A logo with a see-through background will get a white one. Keep PNG if that matters.
• The HEIC reader is a large download on first use, around 1.3MB, so the tool asks before fetching it. It is then kept by your browser and not fetched again.
• Location data is not removed by converting. Use remove the location hidden in my photo for that.

If something goes wrong

• The HEIC will not open. Very old phone browsers cannot manage it. Email the photo to yourself from the iPhone — Apple converts it to JPG on the way out — or use Chrome or Firefox.
• The file is now too large. Fit my photo under a size limit.
• The portal still refuses it. Check the size limit as well as the format. Both rules apply at once.