When using PHPickerViewController to load images from my photo library, several photos fail with: Error Domain=NSItemProviderErrorDomain Code=-1200 "Could not coerce an item to class UIImage" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Could not coerce an item to class UIImage} It appears to happen consistently on specific photos, even after restarting the device. I've set the PHPickerFilter to .images on the config, so I wouldn't expect casting to UIImage to be a problem. In what scenario would casting to UIImage fail when the .image filter is set? There's nothing obviously different about the photos that receive this error. In fact, other photos taken as part of the same series work just fine. Also, it's worth noting that these photos are part of a shared album.

Follow up from the answer provided in https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/653414?login=true The Apple engineer provided the below: When running on iOS 11 or above, your app don't need to ask for Photos Library permission before presenting UIImagePickerController (and assuming the app doesn't use PhotoKit/doesn't access UIImagePickerControllerPHAsset from the result). I have a question here about user privacy. Let's take a look at the customer perspective and their privacy with regards to photo sharing with an app using UIImagePickerController. If an app uses UIImagePickerController, then my understanding is the app will no longer show up in the Settings --> Privacy --> Photos menu (with options of [None] / [Selected Photos] / [All Photos]) as you don't need to ask for Photo Library permissions. Is that correct? Now, if that user goes to this app and chooses to select a photo, then their whole library will show. Is the takeaway that the app has access to all of the photos in the library? Or is the takeaway that this is only just a view of the images only and only the photo selected from the menu will be accessible to the app?

Currently, we are using PHPickerViewController + CGImage for efficient memory usage consideration - https://christianselig.com/2020/09/phpickerviewcontroller-efficiently/ However, we are getting "unsupported file format 'org.webmproject.webp'" error, while trying to save CGImage in webp format. func picker(_ picker: PHPickerViewController, didFinishPicking results: [PHPickerResult]) { picker.dismiss(animated: true) guard !results.isEmpty else { return } for result in results { result.itemProvider.loadFileRepresentation(forTypeIdentifier: UTType.image.identifier) { (url, error) in guard let url = url else { return } let options: [CFString: Any] = [ kCGImageSourceCreateThumbnailFromImageAlways: true, kCGImageSourceCreateThumbnailWithTransform: true, kCGImageSourceShouldCacheImmediately: true, kCGImageSourceThumbnailMaxPixelSize: 512 ] guard let imageSource = CGImageSourceCreateWithURL(url as NSURL, nil) else { return } let image = CGImageSourceCreateThumbnailAtIndex(imageSource, 0, options as CFDictionary) // // No issue in dealing with UTType.jpeg.identifier and UTType.png.identifier. // destUrl is type URL. // guard let destination = CGImageDestinationCreateWithURL(destUrl as CFURL, UTType.webP.identifier, 1, nil) else { return } CGImageDestinationAddImage(destination, image!, nil) CGImageDestinationFinalize(destination) } } We face no issue in saving CGImage in UTType.jpeg.identifier format and UTType.png.identifier format. May I know how can we save CGImage in webp format without issue? Thank you.

I know how to search for Smart Albums (favorites, selfies, etc...) containing photos: // Get smart albums PHFetchResult *smartAlbums = [PHAssetCollection fetchAssetCollectionsWithType:PHAssetCollectionTypeSmartAlbum subtype:PHAssetCollectionSubtypeAlbumRegular options:nil]; I have the following questions: Is there a way to enumerate the People Smart Albums and access the photos in a specific People Smart Album? Is there a way to enumerate the Places Smart Albums and access the photos in a specific Place Smart Album? Is there a way to enumerate Shared Albums (shared to the current iCloud user) and access the photos in a specific Shared Album?

Hello our wonderful Apple community, I'm so glad to be able to get some assistent regarding my inquiry. I just wanted to say that, since the last few months, I’ve bean very tired, exhausted and wasting a lot of hours of my days searching and figure out where to find the right applicable images for building my iOS app. I’ve checked many varies websites that can enable you to download free/ paid images, but I’m having a very hard time to compare the images to my app idea: size, vertical form, the activity in the image. I do review all the apps that has the similar idea in the App Store and I always wonder, how the developers find and pick these images to create their apps! I wish to get your support relating to this topic and the rest is easy. Thank you guys Kindly,

I customize the captured portrait mode photo's depthData by using fileDataRepresentationWithCustomizer method, and replace the depth data with my edited version. - (nullable AVDepthData *)replacementDepthDataForPhoto:(AVCapturePhoto *)photo{ return myEditedDepthData; } The weird thing is that the returned NSData value of fileDataRepresentationWithCustomizer losts portraitMatte. CGImageSourceRef imageSource = CGImageSourceCreateWithData((CFDataRef)nsData, NULL); CFDictionaryRef dicRef = CGImageSourceCopyAuxiliaryDataInfoAtIndex(imageSource, 0, kCGImageAuxiliaryDataTypePortraitEffectsMatte); the dicRef always return 0x0 after I use fileDataRepresentationWithCustomizer instead of fileDataRepresentation Does anyone know what am I doing wrong?

After backup my iPad (iOS 15 beta.8) through Finder (or iTunes on Windows), I could browse the backup folder using tools like 'iMazing'. And I found there are remaining asset files in this folder 「AppDomainGroup-group.com.apple.mobileslideshow.PhotosFileProvider\File Provider Storage\photospicker」which are picked by PHPickerViewController. I wondered why they were not cleaned by system and how long they will be kept? Thanks for your reading and looking forward the answers!

Dear: When I use iOS15 save video camera equipment to album, show PHPhotosErrorInvalidResource. Videos stored in the sandbox can play normally, lower than ios15 can be saved. And only one camera video fails to save, others succeeds. Confused and hoping for help. Here is the code [[PHPhotoLibrary sharedPhotoLibrary] performChanges:^{         PHAssetChangeRequest *photoRequest = [PHAssetChangeRequest creationRequestForAssetFromVideoAtFileURL:url];         PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest *albumChangeRequest = [PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest changeRequestForAssetCollection:collection];         PHObjectPlaceholder *assetPlaceholder = [photoRequest placeholderForCreatedAsset];         [albumChangeRequest addAssets:@[ assetPlaceholder ]];     } completionHandler:^(BOOL success, NSError * _Nullable error) {         [self performInMainThreadBlock:^{             if (success) {                 successBlock();             }else{                 failureBlock(error);             }         }];     }]

When using PHPicker and selecting multiple images, is there a way to have those images already preselected when you re-open the image picker? Say a user is able to add 5 images to a post. They open the PHPicker and add 3. Later they decide they want to add an additional 2 so they open the PHPicker again. But when the PHpicker is opened again, no images are selected so they are able to select the same images they've already chosen beforehand. Is it possible for the phpicker save it's previous state or is there a way to pass in what images should be selected upon opening the picker?

My recording was stopped due to low battery and phone shutdown. When I reopen my app, the recorded ".mov video"(around 8GB) file is not moving/copying to PHPhotoLibrary and it shows internalError which is hard to understand the exact reason for denying to add the video file to PHPhotoLibrary. Error Domain=PHPhotosErrorDomain Code=-1 \"(null)\") So How to resolve such kind of internalError while adding assets to PHPhotoLibrary? Thanks & Regards, Natarajan S

I am facing issue with capture images from my phone when I am preview it, its transition is not smooth some jumpiness is there while display it. that issue I have seen in iOS14, 15 version.

iOS 15 has new function to manually adjust capture location, time and date. The question is I used requestImageDataAndOrientation(for:options:resultHandler:) to request image,  but the EXIF data is still unadjusted. Is there anyway to request image with the adjusted EXIF data ?

The newish PHPicker is a great way to access the users’ photo library without requiring fill access permissions. However, this is currently no way for accessing the original or unadjusted version of an asset. The preferredAssetRepresentationMode of the PHPickerConfiguration only allows the options automatic, compatible, and current, where current still returns the asset with previous adjustments applied. The option only seems to impact potential asset transcoding. In contrast, when fetching PHAsset data, one can specify the PHImageRequestOptionsVersion unadjusted or original, which give access to the underlying untouched image. It would be great to have these options in the PHPicker interface as well. The alternative would be to load the image through PHAsset via the identifier returned by the picker, but that would require full library access, which I want to avoid. Or is there another way to access the original image without these permissions?