#heic
4 posts
September 16, 2026
Squoosh on Mac — what it's great at, why it can't open HEIC, and offline alternatives
Squoosh is the best free way to compress one image in a browser. But it can't decode iPhone HEIC photos, has no batch mode, and its CLI is archived. Here's when it fits and what Mac users switch to.
September 16, 2026
How to compress HEIC images for a website on Mac
HEIC is efficient but not universal on the web. Learn when to use JPEG, WebP, or AVIF, how to resize and strip metadata, and how to batch offline on Mac.
June 25, 2026
How to batch convert HEIC to JPG on Mac (no upload)
Three ways to batch convert HEIC to JPG on a Mac without uploading anything: Preview's multi-select export, a one-line sips command for whole folders, and ImageIO when you need quality control.
May 17, 2026
How to convert HEIC to JPEG on Mac in batch (4 ways, ranked)
iPhone photos are HEIC by default. Sending them to Windows, Android, or older web tools means converting. Here are the four practical ways on Mac.