How to combine phone photos into one PDF
Checked against our tools on 19 October 2026
Open JPG and PNG to PDF, add your photos, drag them into order and select Create PDF. You get one PDF with a page per photo. It takes iPhone HEIC photos as well as JPG, PNG and WebP, works on a phone or a computer, and builds the PDF in your browser, so the photos are never uploaded. Without an account you can combine 5 photos at a time, or 10 with a free account.
Go straight to the tool: JPG and PNG to PDF, Merge PDF, Compress PDF
The steps
- Open JPG and PNG to PDF. On an iPhone or Android phone, tap the box and choose your photo library; on a computer, drag the photos in.
- Drag the thumbnails into the order you want. The first photo becomes page 1. If a photo is sideways, tap the rotate button on its card to turn it 90° clockwise.
- Pick a page size and margin (the next section says which), then select Create PDF.
- Download the PDF. It's named after the first photo, such as IMG_4021.pdf, so rename it to something the recipient will recognise.
Which page settings to pick
The defaults, A4 with a 7 mm margin and each photo fitted inside it, suit most uses. Change them when the PDF has a particular job:
| What the PDF is for | Page size | Image placement |
|---|---|---|
| Receipts, forms or letters someone may print | A4 or US Letter | Fit inside margins |
| Photos to look at on screen | Same as image | (not needed) |
| Full-bleed pages with no white border | A4 or US Letter, margin 0 | Fill page (may crop edges) |
| Small screenshots that shouldn't be enlarged | A4 or US Letter | Actual size, centred |
Sideways photos
Phones often save a portrait photo as landscape pixels plus a note saying which way is up. Our tool reads that note and puts each photo on the page upright, with a portrait page for a portrait photo when orientation is set to Match each image.
If a photo was taken sideways in the first place, for example with rotation lock on, there's no note to read and the thumbnail shows it sideways. Tap the rotate button on that photo's card until it's upright, then create the PDF. The photo isn't re-compressed when it's turned.
Why the PDF is so large, and how to shrink it
JPG photos go into the PDF exactly as they are, without being re-compressed, so they lose no quality, and the PDF is about as big as the photos added together. HEIC photos have to be stored as high-quality JPG, because PDF can't hold HEIC, and that usually makes them bigger than the originals.
If the PDF is too big to email or upload, run it through Compress PDF at Medium. It reduces each photo to 2,200 pixels on the long side, which keeps a photographed document readable. In our tests, 4 pages of large photos went from 12.49 MB to 3.22 MB at Medium and 272 KB at Strong. Compress PDF does upload the file, because it needs server software, and deletes it automatically afterwards.
More photos than the limit
Make several PDFs of up to 5 photos each (10 with a free account), then join them with Merge PDF. A free account costs nothing and doubles how many photos fit in one go. Merge PDF also takes photos directly, alongside PDFs, which helps when you're adding a few photos to an existing document.
Photos of documents
If the photos are of receipts, contracts or notes, the PDF holds pictures of the text, not text you can search or copy. Run it through OCR PDF afterwards to make the words searchable; that also runs in your browser. For the best result, photograph each page flat, in daylight, with the page filling the frame.
Your photos stay on your device
The PDF is built by your browser, so the photos never reach our server. In Chrome, Edge and Firefox, the first HEIC photo you add downloads a decoder of about 2 MB; Safari reads HEIC on its own. Either way the photo is decoded on your phone or computer.