Image forming apparatus and image heating apparatus

An image heating apparatus that heats an image formed on a recording material, the image heating apparatus comprising:

• a heater, the heater having a plurality of heating elements arranged in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material;
• and
• a control portion that controls electric power to be supplied to the plurality of heating elements, the control portion being capable of individually controlling the plurality of heating elements, wherein
• the control portion controls a heat generating quantity of each of the plurality of heating elements depending on a timing at which a heating region heated by each of the plurality of heating elements is a first region including an image, a timing at which the heating region is a second region not including an image in the recording material, or a timing at which the heating region is a third region where there is no recording material.