{"id":80,"date":"2026-05-22T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/convert.forethought-studio.com\/heic-to-avif\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:10:15","slug":"heic-to-avif","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.forethought-studio.com\/convert\/heic-to-avif\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert HEIC to AVIF without uploading your photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Convert iPhone HEIC photos to AVIF for the best possible compression on the web. Runs in your browser.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dropformat-mount\" data-format=\"heic-to-avif\"><div class=\"dropformat-dropzone dft-skeleton\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><p class=\"ec-dropzone-prompt\">Drop a HEIC file here, or <button type=\"button\" class=\"ec-pick-btn\" disabled>choose files<\/button><\/p><p class=\"ec-status\"><\/p><\/div><div class=\"df-loading-overlay\" role=\"status\" aria-live=\"polite\"><span class=\"df-loading-overlay-spinner\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><span class=\"df-loading-overlay-label\">Loading converter...<\/span><\/div><noscript><p class=\"df-noscript-message\">This converter requires JavaScript in your browser.<\/p><\/noscript><\/div><p class=\"df-heic-privacy-note\">HEIC photos from iPhones and iPads embed GPS coordinates, camera details, and timestamps. DropFormat strips all metadata during conversion. Your output file contains only pixel data.<\/p>\n<p>The conversion runs entirely in your browser. The photo never leaves your computer. No signup, no upload, no tracking.<\/p>\n<p>AVIF and HEIC are both modern compression formats, but AVIF has broader web support. If you are publishing iPhone photos to a website, AVIF gives you tiny file sizes with native browser decoding in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari 16+.<\/p>\n<h2>When to convert HEIC to AVIF<\/h2>\n<p>HEIC is Apple&#8217;s format. Browsers do not display it natively (except Safari in some cases). AVIF is the web&#8217;s answer to HEIC: similar compression efficiency, but supported by all modern browsers. Convert HEIC to AVIF when you want to keep file sizes small for web publishing without falling back to the larger JPEG format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convert iPhone HEIC photos to AVIF for the best possible compression on the web. Runs in your browser. The conversion runs entirely in your browser. The photo never leaves your computer. No signup, no upload, no tracking. AVIF and HEIC are both modern compression formats, but AVIF has broader web support. If you are publishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forethought-studio.com\/convert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forethought-studio.com\/convert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forethought-studio.com\/convert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forethought-studio.com\/convert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.forethought-studio.com\/convert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.forethought-studio.com\/convert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forethought-studio.com\/convert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}