How to Convert HEIC to JPG on Mac

in this tutorial i'm going to show you guys how to convert heic photos to jpeg on a mac using a batch process so we're going to be able to convert multiple photos in one go using preview on mac now if you've watched my other videos you know now how to take jpeg photos on your iphone and also how to convert heic to jpeg on your iphone as well but if you've already transferred photos or you have a bunch to convert at once we can do this on a mac really easily check the end of the video for those other two videos if you haven't watched them yet let's get started i have a photos folder here on my desktop and there's two folders inside of it one for the heic photos i've put in here the other for the jpeg exports we're going to have so first i need to start by selecting all the photos in this folder you can just select the top one hold shift and click on the bottom one to select all or if you double click into the folder that includes all of your photos you can also select one and press command a to select everything i'm going to right click any one of these in this group and then we're going to go down to open with and preview which could be the default but it might not be so make sure you find preview that's going to open up preview you can see that we're in that program here in the upper left now we have these heic photo previews here on the left hand side what i want to do is select all of these here all of these thumbnails on the left we can do the same exact thing before either hold shift and click or we can just click the top one and press command a and that's going to select all the photos once they're all selected go back up to this preview drop down go to file and then go down to export selected images now this is going to pull open a little dialog box we're going to select a folder i put this jpeg folder here just for this but before we hit choose we actually need to go into options you see it's only going to export these as heic again so this won't work unless you go into options and actually select this correctly we can drop down the format go to jpeg and make sure we turn the quality up to best if you want the best possible quality out of this conversion hit choose it's going to crunch some numbers export your documents and then it's going to finish so we can just exit out of preview now we can go back and find the folder we just exported these two i'm gonna double click into this jpeg folder and we now have all of these jpegs i just press spacebar there to preview them and use the up and down arrow keys you'll notice all that does is kind of go cycle through these different photos so up and down arrow keys i can press space bar to remove that preview pretty sweet little preview option here on the mac that is how to convert or batch convert your heic photos to jpeg on a mac without any scammy online software or any other apps that you have to download and if you never want to accidentally take these heic photos check out the iphone video linked in the description or on your screen now that shows you how to take jpeg photos on your iphone

Channel: Pixel & Bracket

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Length: 3min 9sec (189 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 16 2022