How to bulk convert .heic to .jpg on Mac without losing quality?

Do you use cloud storage service such as Dropbox on your Mac? If yes, then you can upload those heic images into the app and it has a built-in feature to save heic images into jpg or png. Here is the tutorial:

https://help.dropbox.com/create-upload/ios-formats

Another way is using a dedicated app to bulk convert heic to jpg on your Mac. It is much faster and don't need to upload the images to anywhere. It could save a lot of time if you have a large chunk of heic image. In addition, the image quality is almost the same as the original one from my own experience. Here is the example you can check out to batch convert heic to jpg on Mac with a GUI app:

https://www.tunesbro.com/convert-heic-to-jpg-mac.html

P.S. Ask your wife to save the photos into JPG instead of HEIC on her iPhone.

Do you use cloud storage service such as Dropbox on your Mac? If yes, then you can upload those heic images into the app and it has a built-in feature to save heic images into jpg or png. Here is the tutorial:

https://help.dropbox.com/create-upload/ios-formats

Another way is using a dedicated app to bulk convert heic to jpg on your Mac. It is much faster and don't need to upload the images to anywhere. It could save a lot of time if you have a large chunk of heic image. In addition, the image quality is almost the same as the original one from my own experience. Here is the example you can check out to batch convert heic to jpg on Mac with a GUI app:

https://www.tunesbro.com/convert-heic-to-jpg-mac.html

P.S. Ask your wife to save the photos into JPG instead of HEIC on her iPhone.

You should be able to convert them all at once. I just do it from the Finder: control-click, choose Quick Actions->Convert to JPEG and that's it.

If you don't see that option, you can create your own shortcut for it:

LennonEdison wrote:

I don't see the Quick action menu when I control click Finder icon from launchpad.

Not surprising. Select all the photos you want to convert in the Finder, control-click on the selection, then select Quick Actions > Convert Image.

maybe How to Batch Convert Images Using macOS Preview - MacRumors

sure it will be reduced quality it's the reason they made heic

HEIC vs JPG: What’s the Difference and Which Is Better? (companionlink.com)

jpg is dated really even png is better

When you use Apple's Image Capture application with a connected iPhone, the date/time stamp on the retrieved images is that of the internal EXIF DateTimeOriginal data. Without Image Capture, the Finder assigns the current hardware date/time stamp on the creation/modification file data. The Image Capture approach makes it easier to sort images by when they were taken.

Seems to me if all of those hundreds of .heic images are in a given folder, that a Shortcut solution that would allow you to right-click on that folder and get all .heic images from it and convert each of them to another image format might be a time saver. Even if it wrote the converted images in the same location, you could use Spotlight to identify them, or the Shortcut could move them to a different folder.

I would recommend the .png image format over .jpg as it is less lossy and has better compression algorithms.

In addition you can set your wife’s iPhone to take .jpg instead of .heic if you want to avoid this problem in the future.

Settings->Camera->Formats->Most Compatible

lkrupp wrote:

In addition you can set your wife’s iPhone to take .jpg instead of .heic if you want to avoid this problem in the future.

Settings->Camera->Formats->Most Compatible

True, although jpegs are considerably larger.

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