Convert iPhone HEIC Photos to PDF

Convert HEIC images to PDF format instantly.

How to convert HEIC to PDF — 3 steps

  1. 1

    Add your HEIC photos

    Drop one or more HEIC files into the box above — straight from an iPhone, AirDrop, or iCloud download.

  2. 2

    Order the pages

    Arrange the photos in the sequence you want; each image becomes one PDF page.

  3. 3

    Download the PDF

    Save a single, universally readable PDF. No app to install, no account to create.

The iPhone photo format problem, solved

iPhones save photos as HEIC — a format with excellent compression that, years later, still fails to open on many Windows PCs, corporate systems, and upload portals. The usual advice is to install codecs or change camera settings, but when someone is waiting on a document, converting the photos to PDF is the fastest fix: PDFs open everywhere, unchanged, on every OS.

Photo-to-PDF conversion is most often about paperwork: receipts photographed for an expense report, a signed form snapped with a phone camera, ID documents for verification, apartment inspection photos for a landlord. Multiple photos become one ordered, professional-looking file instead of a scatter of attachments the recipient has to open one by one.

Quality is preserved — each photo is placed on its page at full resolution, so text in photographed documents stays legible when zoomed. And since photos of IDs, forms, and receipts are among the most sensitive files people handle, conversion happens without the images ever being uploaded.

Your files never leave your device

Your photos are decoded and placed into the PDF right on your device — no photo, and no PDF, is ever sent across the network.

Most online PDF sites upload your document to their servers, process it there, and keep a copy for minutes, hours, or longer. PilotPDF works differently: the page downloads a small processing engine into your browser, and your file is opened and edited in your device's memory using WebAssembly. Nothing is transmitted, so there is nothing for a server to store, leak, or scan. You can even disconnect from the internet after the page loads and the tool keeps working.

Read more about how this works in our privacy-by-design explainer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Upload your iPhone HEIC photos, arrange them in the desired order, and click convert to create a PDF containing all your images.
PDFs are universally compatible and easy to share professionally. A PDF combines multiple photos into one document that opens on any device.
Yes. Upload multiple HEIC images at once. They'll all be included in a single multi-page PDF, one image per page.
The conversion maintains high quality. Since HEIC is already a compressed format, the PDF output is visually indistinguishable from the original.
Completely. Your photos are processed locally in your browser with no server uploads.