Why phone photos are so heavy
Phone cameras capture far more pixels than you usually need. A single photo can weigh several megabytes, and that becomes a problem when you try to email a set of pictures, upload them to a form with a size limit, or keep years of photos on a phone that's running out of space.
Reducing a photo's size is about two things: its dimensions in pixels and its compression quality. This page lets you control both, or simply type the final size you need and let ConvertirDocs work out the rest.
Three ways to make a photo lighter
Quality levels are the quickest: high, medium or low. Medium is a good starting point for sharing. Limiting the longest side scales the photo down proportionally, without stretching or cutting it; 1920 px is enough for any laptop screen and most social posts. And the target size mode takes a number in KB, finds the best quality that fits, reduces the dimensions if needed, and tells you if the target couldn't be reached.
After processing, you see the size before, the size after and the percentage saved for every photo.
Everyday situations
Emailing vacation photos without hitting the attachment limit. Sending a picture of a document to an office that rejects large files. Uploading pictures to a school, club or community form. Preparing photos for a blog, a listing or a store. Freeing up space by keeping lighter copies of photos you only look at on screen.
For forms with a specific limit, we have ready pages with the size already set, from 10 KB for signatures to 2 MB for detailed photos.
Privacy: location removed
Photos taken with a phone usually store where they were taken, along with the camera model and the date. When ConvertirDocs reduces a photo, that EXIF data is removed, including GPS coordinates, so you can share pictures without revealing your home or your routine. The orientation is respected, so portrait photos stay upright.
The photos themselves are processed in your browser and are not uploaded or stored anywhere.
Good habits
Keep your originals and make reduced copies from them, rather than reducing the same photo several times. For iPhone photos in HEIC format, use Safari, which can open HEIC; other browsers may not. And if you need the photos in a single document, send them to “JPG to PDF” without selecting them again. ConvertirDocs is free, with no account and no watermark.