

MPEG claims that HEIF images like HEIC require about half the storage space of JPGs with equivalent quality. HEIC takes its roots in High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as an improvement over the predominant JPG image format. In this article, we’ll guide you through it, as well as explain how you can tweak file formats in one click with a universal media converter.


Luckily, it is possible to convert HEIC to JPG on a Mac using native apps like Photos and Preview. While it’s tied to the Apple ecosystem and not very common on other devices, people often face the need to change HEIC to JPG to avoid incompatibility. HEIC is a relatively new file format, adopted by Apple in 2017, with the release of iOS 2017. So it might take a while until HEIC goes mainstream. Permute quickly converts files in a required format.
