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Convert HEIC to JPEG using Imagemagick

Joost van der Laan
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#heic
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#iOS
#MacOS
#iPhone
#Linux

Convert HEIC to JPEG using Imagemagick

With Imagemagick it is pretty straightforward to convert HEIC files. Version 7 has HEIC support built-in.

Install ImageMagick

Install ImageMagick from Homebrew.

brew install imagemagick

For older versions you had to install Imagemagick with brew install --with-libheif imagemagick on MacOS or compile from source on Linux. Because it now has HEIC enabled by default, that’s not needed anymore. The —with-libheif option was needed to tell Homebrew to compile with HEIF support, which allows it to handle .heic images.

libheif is an ISO/IEC 23008-12:2017 HEIF and AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) file format decoder and encoder.

Convert HEIC to JPEG

mogrify -format jpg *.heic

Delete originals

rm *.heic
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