Most photos that need splitting come off a phone, and phone photos have two habits that break other tools.
The first is rotation. A camera writes the image the way the sensor saw it and records the orientation separately, in the EXIF data. Tools that ignore that flag split a sideways version of your photo and hand back nine tiles lying on their side. This one reads the flag when it decodes the file, so what you see in the preview is what the photo actually looks like, and the tiles come out the right way up.
The second is size. A modern phone photo is 12 megapixels and climbing, and a stitched panorama or a scanned print can be several times that. Splitting works one tile at a time rather than putting the whole image on a single canvas, which is what stops a large source from running the browser out of memory. Files up to 50 MB are fine. Anything past roughly 60 megapixels gets a warning rather than a silent failure.
One thing that will not work: HEIC. iPhones save in it by default and browsers cannot decode it. The tool detects HEIC by its file signature and says so instead of failing. To fix it, open Settings, then Camera, then Formats, and choose Most Compatible. New photos then save as JPG.
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