niche solution to a pretty niche problem i suppose but if you've ever airdropped/transferred images from your iphone to your computer and been annoyed at having to convert .heic files to .jpg, there's a really simple way to do it on the terminal CLI instead of having to upload-download over and over on some site!

on the terminal, cd to your directory, then:

to convert one image:

to batch convert all heic images in the same folder:

bonus -- to combine multiple image files into one pdf:


this works with other image formats as well. imagemagick is insanely powerful

THIS PROCESS IS SO USEFUL! i've had to do this so many times with immigration documents and i've always had to 1) take pictures on my phone and airdrop them to my computer 2) upload them to a heic→jpg converter site and download them 3) upload them to a jpg→merge pdf site (because heic files are often unsupported :/) and download the final merged pdf. it's so simple to do in terminal.......i need to familiarize myself with bash commands more

anyway if you're interested and feel like the instructions are unclear i can screenrecord this? i'm facepalming at how much time i've wasted doing this manually