HEIC to PDF Converter

Turn iPhone Photos into One PDF

Turn iPhone HEIC photos into a single PDF, one photo per page, in the order you choose. It’s free with no sign-up, and your photos never leave your device.

PDF Settings

Page Size

Orientation

Image Fit

Margin (pt): 20

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Images will be combined into a single PDF

Guide by Ashley Whitehair, web designer at Norwich Website Design

How to convert HEIC to PDF

Add your iPhone photos
Drop HEIC photos onto the box above, or click it to choose them. Each one is converted on your device as it’s added, and appears as a numbered thumbnail.
Put them in order
Drag the thumbnails, or use the arrows under each one, until the numbers run in the order you want. Choose A4 or Letter paper, or Fit to image.
Create the PDF
Press Create PDF, then Download PDF. You get one file, images.pdf, with one photo on each page.

Getting the photos in the right order

The pages follow the numbers on the thumbnails, so check them before you create the PDF:

Photos you add together appear in the order your device hands them over, which isn’t always the order you took them.
iPhone photos are numbered as they’re taken (IMG_0001, IMG_0002 and so on), so sorting files by name before you choose them usually puts them in date order.
Photos you add later go to the end. Remove one with the × on its thumbnail, or press Clear All to start again.
Moving a photo or changing a setting clears the last PDF, so press Create PDF again before you download.

What happens to each photo

It becomes a JPG first. PDF files can’t hold HEIC images, so each photo is converted to a high-quality JPG (92%) on your device, then placed on its page without being compressed again.
It stays upright. iPhones record which way up each photo should be shown, and that’s applied during the conversion, so no page comes out sideways.
It keeps its full resolution. Photos aren’t scaled down, so you can zoom in on a page as far as the original photo allows.
Live Photos give just the still photo. If you add the video part too (a .MOV file with the same name), it’s left out with a note saying it isn’t an image, and the photos are still added.
Location and camera details stay behind. The converted photos carry no EXIF data, so the PDF doesn’t reveal where or when they were taken.

You can mix HEIC photos with JPG, PNG and other images in the same PDF. JPGs and PNGs go in with no loss of quality.

Page size and layout for phone photos

Phone photos don’t have the same shape as A4 or Letter paper, so with the standard settings each page has white space on two sides as well as the margin. These settings change that:

Setting	What it does with iPhone photos
Auto orientation	The default. Landscape photos get landscape pages and portrait photos portrait pages, so each photo is as large as it can be. One PDF can mix both.
Margin 0	Photos reach the edge of the paper on two sides, with no border there.
Fit to image	Each page is exactly the size of its photo, with no white space. Pages are sized at 96 pixels to the inch, so a 4032 × 3024 photo makes a page about 107 × 80 cm. That’s fine on screen, where PDF readers zoom to fit, but choose A4 or Letter if you’ll print it.

How big will the PDF be?

Roughly the size of your HEIC photos added together, sometimes more. HEIC stores photos more efficiently than JPG, so each photo’s JPG can be bigger than its HEIC: in our tests, from about the same size to two-thirds bigger. Two test photos of 1.45 MB together made a 1.44 MB PDF.

If the PDF is too big to email (Gmail, for example, takes attachments up to 25 MB in total) or to upload:

Resize or compress the photos first. Both tools accept HEIC files and give you JPGs, which you can then add here.
Split a long set of photos across two or more PDFs.

Frequently asked questions

Can I convert several HEIC photos into one PDF?

Yes. Add as many as you like, all at once or a few at a time, put them in order and press Create PDF. Every photo becomes a page of the same PDF.

Do I need to convert HEIC to JPG before making a PDF?

No. Add the HEIC files here and they’re converted to JPG on your device as they’re added. Use the HEIC to JPG converter only if you want JPG copies of the photos as well.

How do I get the pages in the order I took the photos?

Check the numbers on the thumbnails and drag or use the arrows to fix any that are out of place. Sorting the files by name before you choose them helps, because iPhone file names count up as photos are taken.

Will my iPhone photos come out sideways in the PDF?

No. The rotation your iPhone recorded is applied when each photo is converted, so portrait photos stay portrait. With Auto orientation they get portrait pages too.

What happens to Live Photos?

Only the still photo goes into the PDF. The moving part is a separate video file; if you add it, it’s skipped with a note, and your photos are still added.

Does the PDF include my photos’ location?

No. The photos are converted without their EXIF data, so the GPS location, date taken and camera details aren’t in the PDF.

Why is the PDF bigger than my HEIC photos?

PDFs can’t contain HEIC, so each photo is stored as a JPG, and JPG usually needs more space than HEIC for the same picture. Resize the photos first for a smaller PDF.

Can I add PNG or JPG images to the same PDF?

Yes. Mix HEIC photos with JPG, PNG, WebP and other images in any order. For a PDF of screenshots, see PNG to PDF.