Convert HEIC Images to JPG

Published: Dec 6, 2018
Updated: May 3, 2021
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My wife needed to upload a couple hundred pictures, from her Mac, to an online service that makes photo albums. The service didn’t accept images with the .heic extension, so she needed to convert them to .jpg. This would take many hours to do one-by-one, so thankfully ImageMagick supports conversion of HEIC images. Here’s how to do it.

Install Homebrew #

First, install Homebrew, which is a popular package manager for Mac (and Linux).

Install ImageMagick #

Next, install ImageMagick from Homebrew.

brew install imagemagick

Convert the Images From HEIC to JPG #

Finally, convert your images. This command will leave the original .heic image, then make a new .jpg image with the same name.

mogrify -format jpg *.heic

Delete Original HEIC Images #

Optionally, delete the original .heic images.

rm *.heic

Make a Simple GUI Using Mac Automator #

See Convert HEIC images to JPG part 2: Mac Automator.