Make a PDF from phone photos and screenshots
Image to PDF runs in your phone’s browser, so you can turn photos of receipts, class notes or a few screenshots into one PDF without installing anything and without uploading the images. The steps are the same as on a computer; this guide covers what is different on a phone.
Adding photos from your phone
Tap Add images. Your phone offers its own choices — usually the photo library and your files, and on some phones the camera. You can select several images at once and add more later; each new batch goes to the end of the list.
iPhone photos and HEIC
iPhones often save photos as HEIC. Depending on your phone’s settings and your browser, a photo you pick may arrive as HEIC or already converted to JPG — you do not have to know which in advance, because both work.
- In Safari, the browser opens HEIC photos itself. In other browsers, Image to PDF downloads its own HEIC decoder the first time it needs one, and the photo is then opened on your device. If that download is not possible — for example while you are offline — the card says the image could not be opened and offers Try again.
- A HEIC photo is always stored in the PDF as a high-quality JPG. Its card shows HEIC → JPG, so you can see which photos were converted.
Check the order before you save
The order in which your phone hands the photos over is decided by the phone and the browser, and it is not always the order you tapped them in. Look at the page numbers on the cards before you save.
- To move a page, press and hold its card for a moment, then drag. A short swipe still scrolls the list.
- Or open the card’s More menu (⋯) and choose Move to… to type a page number.
- Screenshots are often named with the date and time they were taken. If yours are, Sort by name in the toolbar’s More menu can put them in order in one step — check the result.
Sideways photos
The direction your camera recorded is applied, so most photos appear upright on their cards. If one does not, tap Rotate 90° clockwise on its card. The card shows the page exactly as it will be saved.
Screenshots
Screenshots are stored losslessly, so their text and edges are not blurred by compression. A phone screenshot is tall and narrow; on A4 or Letter it sits in the middle of the page with white space at the sides. Fit to image gives each screenshot a page of its own shape instead — see A4, Letter or fit to image.
The text in a screenshot becomes part of the image. You will be able to read it in the PDF, but not select or search it.
Saving and sharing on a phone
Tap Save PDF. When the PDF is ready, your browser starts the download; where the file goes — a downloads folder or the Files app, for example — depends on your phone and browser. If the download does not start by itself, use the Download PDF button that appears.
Share appears only in browsers that can share files from a web page. It opens your phone’s share sheet, so you can send the PDF to an app directly.
A few things to keep in mind
- Location and camera details stored in your photos are not written into the PDF. More on this in what changes when images become a PDF.
- Many large photos need a lot of memory, and phones have less than computers. If the browser struggles with a long list, make the PDF in two or three parts.
- If file size matters — for an email or an upload form — see quality and file size.