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Tomilsonw
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Mar 06, 2025

Is there an easy way to convert heic to jpg in bulk?

I recently exported nearly 500 heic photos from my iPhone, and found that many platforms (such as Windows computers, social media, and cloud drives) cannot directly preview or upload such files.  I u...
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RonaldWhite
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Mar 06, 2025

Terminal users, look here! Install ImagessMagick and run

magisk mogrify -format jpg *.heic

One-click batch conversion of heic to jpg, automatic inheritance of EXIF, supports all platforms of Linux/macOS/Win. It's just a bit troublesome! I tried it myself and it works!

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    Tomilsonw
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    Mar 06, 2025

    I spent several hours using this command to convert heic to jpg, but found that the size of the converted jpg file increased dramatically? Why is this?

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      RonaldWhite
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      Mar 06, 2025

      This is because HEIC compression rate is higher than JPG! It is recommended to adjust the compression ratio when converting: when exporting in batches with professional tools such as Adobe Lightroom, set the quality to 85%-90%, which is the best balance between image quality and size after HEIC to JPG

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        Tomilsonw
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        Mar 06, 2025

        thanks for your help, It was too troublesome, so I gave up. I finally used tunebro heic converter, which converted all my heic images at once without any loss in quality!

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