Your granddaughter sends you fifty photos from her wedding, all taken on her iPhone, and you want to print a few and share the rest with the family who could not come. But when you try to attach them to an email, several will not open at all, and the ones that do take an age to send.
What is HEIC, in plain words?
HEIC is simply the type of photo file that newer iPhones save by default. It is a perfectly good format and takes up less space on the phone, but many older websites, printing services and email programs have never heard of it and refuse to open it. The fix is to convert those photos into JPG, the older, more widely understood format that almost everything accepts. At the same time, phone photos are often far bigger than they need to be, several megabytes each, which is why a batch of fifty can be painfully slow to send.
Which free tool is easiest?
| What you need | What Jobbit does |
|---|---|
| iPhone photos that will not open elsewhere | Converts HEIC to JPG for the whole folder |
| Photos too slow to email or upload | Shrinks them to a sensible size, no visible change |
| The right size for printing or a website | Asks what the photos are for and sets the size to match |
| One folder in, one folder out | Attach them all at once, get one zip file back |
How to do it together in one afternoon
Gather the photos into one folder on the computer or phone, then open Jobbit's photo tool together and attach them all at once. Say what they are for, such as printing, a website or simply emailing to family, and Jobbit converts any HEIC files to JPG and resizes everything sensibly. Sign up once with an email address, no bank card needed, and a single zipped folder comes back in the chat a few minutes later, with the original photos left untouched.
What it costs (nothing) and what to watch out for
The job is free, using a small part of the free plan's daily credits. The one thing to watch is not to enlarge a small photo, since stretching it only makes it blurrier, never sharper. Keep the original photos in a separate folder in case you need the full-size version later, for printing or another use. The fuller guide, with a size chart for printing and websites, is here: resize and convert photos for free, from Jobbit, a British company.
