When I call requestAVAssetForVideo to retrieve a video for upload, the system appends a string of unknown characters to the returned path. like this: /var/mobile/Media/DCIM/101APPLE/IMG_1034.MOV#YnBsaXN0MDDRAQJfEBtSZxxxx1vZGUQAAgLKQAAAAAAAAEBAAAAAAAAAAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAr ps: I encountered a similar issue before when retrieving spatial videos on systems below iOS 18.

I have an app that uses the ImageCaptureCore's ICDeviceBrowser to find and connect to external digital cameras. Prior to iOS 18 this worked just fine, the device browser would start up and find any cameras connected via USB. However since the update the device browser fails to ever detect any connected device or to trigger any delegate events at all after browser start. I noticed that the Contents authorization in iOS 18 is undetermined, where in previous iOS versions it would default to authorized. I tried to resolve this by requesting authorization, however this immediately returns denied without ever having prompted the app user for permission. I do have the Camera Privacy Usage description setup, and also am able to request permission for the iOS camera successfully. How can I successfully request contents authorization via ICC or otherwise? Or are there alternative Apple libraries I can use for finding and connecting to external digital cameras on iOS?

I got a slow-motion video asset from the camera roll. But I can't get the URL from that asset. Do you know how to get the URL?

I am trying to use the AVCamFilter Apple sample project discussed in this WWDC session to get depth data using the dual camera. The project has built-in features to get depth data from the dual camera. When the sample project was written builtInDualWideCamera didn't exist yet, and the project only tries to get builtInDualCamera and builtInWideAngleCamera. When I run the project on my iPad Pro it doesn't show any of the depth-related UI because the device doesn't have a builtInDualCamera device. So I added builtInDualWideCamera in to the videoDeviceDiscoverySession, and it seems to get that device properly, but isDepthDataDeliverySupported is returning false still. Is there some reason why isDepthDataDeliverySupported is false even though I seem to be using a dual camera device? I know the device has a builtInLiDARDepthCamera but I wanted to try out the dual camera depth data to see how it performs for shorter distances. I wouldn't have expected the dual camera depth data delivery to be made unavailable on the device just because the LiDAR sensor is already available. Using iPadOS 17.5.1, iPad Pro 11-inch 4th generation. The depth feature of this sample app works fine on an iPhone 15 I tested. Also tried on an iPhone 15 Pro and it worked even though that device also has a LiDAR sensor, so the issue is presumably not related to the fact that the iPad Pro has a LiDAR sensor.

I've had a photo app in the Store for 10+ years that just started behaving unexpectedly on the newly release iPad Pro M4 (May 2024). This is the first iPad with the camera on the landscape (longer) edge of the iPad. The camera preview behaves as expected in my app, but the resulting photos are upside-down. How can I determine when I am dealing with the landscape camera? I'd like to avoid casing on a device by device basis. I have been unable to find any mention of a new API call that would allow me to determine which front-facing camera I'm dealing with. Does something like this exist? Thanks!

I have built a camera application which uses a AVCaptureSession with the AVCaptureDevice set to .builtInDualWideCamera and isVirtualDeviceConstituentPhotoDeliveryEnabled=true to enable delivery of "simultaneous" photos (AVCapturePhoto) for a single capture request. I am using the hd1920x1080 preset, but both the wide and ultra-wide photos are being delivered in the highest possible resolution (4224x2376). I've tried to disable any setting that suggests that it should be using that 4k resolution rather than 1080p on the AVCapturePhotoOutput, AVCapturePhotoSettings and AVCaptureDevice, but nothing has worked. Some debugging that I've done: When I turn off constituent photo delivery by commenting out the line of code below, I end up getting a single photo delivered with the 1080p resolution, as you'd expect. // photoSettings.virtualDeviceConstituentPhotoDeliveryEnabledDevices = captureDevice.constituentDevices I tried the constituent photo delivery with the .builtInDualCamera and got only 4k results (same as described above) I tried using a AVCaptureMultiCamSession with .builtInDualWideCamera and also only got 4k imagery I inspected the resolved settings on photo.resolvedSettings.photoDimensions, and the dimensions suggest the imagery should be 1080p, but then when I inspect the UIImage, it is always 4k. guard let imageData = photo.fileDataRepresentation() else { return } guard let capturedImage = UIImage(data: imageData ) else { return } print("photo.resolvedSettings.photoDimensions", photo.resolvedSettings.photoDimensions) // 1920x1080 print("capturedImage.size", capturedImage.size) // 4224x2376 -- Any help here would be greatly appreciated, because I've run out of things to try and documentation to follow 🙏

I'm using CIDepthBlurEffect to create a portrait mode effect on a rendered image. The effect is working as expected however I want to create the "bokeh ball" effect which is seen in the photos app. I see that the filter has a "inputShape" input of type NSString, however the documents do not specify what value this should be. Any pointers are help is greatly apprecaited.

Hey all, I have a pretty complicated camera setup so bear with me. You know how Instagram's Camera supports recording a video and flipping Camera devices while recording? I built the same thing using AVCaptureVideoDataOutput and it works fine, but it does not support rotation. (neither does Instagram, but I still need it, lol) So there's two ways to implement rotation (and mirroring) in AVCaptureVideoDataOutput: 1. Set it on the AVCaptureConnection Rotation and vertical mirror mode can be set directly on the AVCaptureVideoDataOutput's connection to the Camera: let output = AVCaptureVideoDataOutput(...) cameraSession.addOutput(output) for connection in output.connections { connection.videoRotation = 90 connection.isVideoMirrored = true } But according to the documentation this is expensive and comes with a performance overhead. I haven't really benchmarked it yet, but I assume rotating and mirroring 4k buffers isn't cheap. I'm building a camera library that is used by a lot of people, so all performance decisions have a big impact. 2. Set it on AVAssetWriter Instead of actually physically rotating large pixel buffers, we can also just set the AVAssetWriter's transform property to some affine transformation - which is comparable to how EXIF tags work. We can set both rotation and mirror modes using CGAffineTransforms. Obviously this is much more efficient and does not come with a performance overhead on the camera pipeline at all, so I'd prefer to go this route. Problem The problem is that when I start recording with the front Camera (AVAssetWriter.transform has a mirror on the CGAffineTransform), and then flip to the back Camera, the back Camera is also mirrored. Now I thought I could just avoid rotation on my buffers and only use isVideoMirrored on the AVCaptureConnection when we are using the front camera, which is a fair performance compromise - but this won't work because isVideoMirrored applies mirroring alongside the vertical axis - and since the video stream is naturally in landscape orientation, this will flip the image upside down instead of mirroring it alongside the vertical axis... whoops! 😅 This is pretty obvious as the transform applies to the entire video stream, but now I am not sure if the AVAssetWriter approach will work for my use-case. I think I will need to eagerly physically rotate the pixel buffers by setting the AVCaptureConnection's videoRotation & isVideoMirrored properties, but I wanted to ask here in case someone knows any alternatives to doing that in order to avoid the performance and memory overhead of rotating buffers? Thanks!

i have received a lot of crash log only in iOS16 the crash occured when i called : [[PHImageManager defaultManager] requestImageDataForAsset:asset options:options resultHandler:resultHandler] here is the crash log Exception Type: NSInternalInconsistencyException ExtraInfo: Code Type: arm64 OS Version: iPhone OS 16.0 (20A5328h) Hardware Model: iPhone14,3 Launch Time: 2022-07-30 18:43:25 Date/Time: 2022-07-30 18:49:17 *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason:Unhandled error (NSCocoaErrorDomain, 134093) occurred during faulting and was thrown: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=134093 "(null)" Last Exception Backtrace: 0 CoreFoundation 0x00000001cf985dc4 0x1cf97c000 + 40388 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00000001c8ddfa68 0x1c8dc8000 + 96872 2 CoreData 0x00000001d56d2358 0x1d56cc000 + 25432 3 CoreData 0x00000001d56fa19c 0x1d56cc000 + 188828 4 CoreData 0x00000001d5755be4 0x1d56cc000 + 564196 5 CoreData 0x00000001d57b0508 0x1d56cc000 + 935176 6 PhotoLibraryServices 0x00000001df1783e0 0x1df0ed000 + 570336 7 Photos 0x00000001df8aa88c 0x1df85d000 + 317580 8 PhotoLibraryServices 0x00000001df291de0 0x1df0ed000 + 1723872 9 CoreData 0x00000001d574e518 0x1d56cc000 + 533784 10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001d51fc0fc 0x1d51f8000 + 16636 11 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001d520b634 0x1d51f8000 + 79412 12 CoreData 0x00000001d574e0a0 0x1d56cc000 + 532640 13 PhotoLibraryServices 0x00000001df291d94 0x1df0ed000 + 1723796 14 PhotoLibraryServices 0x00000001df291434 0x1df0ed000 + 1721396 15 Photos 0x00000001df8a8380 0x1df85d000 + 308096 16 Photos 0x00000001df89d050 0x1df85d000 + 262224 17 Photos 0x00000001df87f62c 0x1df85d000 + 140844 18 Photos 0x00000001df87ee94 0x1df85d000 + 138900 19 Photos 0x00000001df87e594 0x1df85d000 + 136596 20 Photos 0x00000001df86b5c8 0x1df85d000 + 58824 21 Photos 0x00000001df86d938 0x1df85d000 + 67896 22 Photos 0x00000001dfa37a64 0x1df85d000 + 1944164 23 Photos 0x00000001dfa37d18 0x1df85d000 + 1944856 24 youavideo -[YouaImageManager requestImageDataForAsset:options:resultHandler:] (in youavideo) (YouaImageManager.m:0) 27 25 youavideo -[YouaAlbumTransDataController requstTransImageHandler:] (in youavideo) (YouaAlbumTransDataController.m:0) 27 26 youavideo -[YouaAlbumTransDataController requstTransWithHandler:] (in youavideo) (YouaAlbumTransDataController.m:77) 11 27 youavideo -[YouaUploadTransDataOperation startTrans] (in youavideo) (YouaUploadTransDataOperation.m:102) 19 28 Foundation 0x00000001c9e78038 0x1c9e3c000 + 245816 29 Foundation 0x00000001c9e7d704 0x1c9e3c000 + 268036 30 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001d51fa5d4 0x1d51f8000 + 9684 31 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001d51fc0fc 0x1d51f8000 + 16636 32 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001d51ff58c 0x1d51f8000 + 30092 33 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001d51febf4 0x1d51f8000 + 27636 34 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001d520db2c 0x1d51f8000 + 88876 35 libdispatch.dylib 0x00000001d520e338 0x1d51f8000 + 90936 36 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000002544b9dbc 0x2544b9000 + 3516 37 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00000002544b9b98 0x2544b9000 + 2968 i can't find the error code 134093 definition i don't know what's going wrong in iOS16 Would anyone have a hint of why this could happen and how to resolve it? thanks very much

I'm getting the following output from my iOS app's debug console, note the error on the last line: Capture format keys: ["600x600@25", "1200x1200@5", "1200x1200@30", "1600x1200@2", "1600x1200@30", "3200x2400@15", "3200x2400@2", "600x600@30"] Start capture session for 1600x1200@30: <AVCaptureSession: 0x303c70190 [AVCaptureSessionPresetPhoto]> Stop capture session: <AVCaptureSession: 0x303c70190 [AVCaptureSessionPresetInputPriority]> <AVCaptureDeviceInput: 0x303ebb720 [Medwand S3 Camera]>[vide] -> <AVCaptureVideoDataOutput: 0x303edf1e0> <AVCaptureDeviceInput: 0x303ebb720 [Medwand S3 Camera]>[vide] -> <AVCapturePhotoOutput: 0x303ee3e20> <AVCaptureDeviceInput: 0x303ebb720 [Medwand S3 Camera]>[vide] -> <AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer: 0x3030b33c0> Start capture session for 600x600@30: <AVCaptureSession: 0x303c70190 [AVCaptureSessionPresetInputPriority]> <AVCaptureDeviceInput: 0x303ebb720 [Medwand S3 Camera]>[vide] -> <AVCaptureVideoDataOutput: 0x303edf1e0> <AVCaptureDeviceInput: 0x303ebb720 [Medwand S3 Camera]>[vide] -> <AVCapturePhotoOutput: 0x303ee3e20> <AVCaptureDeviceInput: 0x303ebb720 [Medwand S3 Camera]>[vide] -> <AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer: 0x3030b33c0> <<<< FigSharedMemPool >>>> Fig assert: "blkHdr->useCount > 0" at (FigSharedMemPool.c:591) - (err=0) This is in response to trying to switch capture formats between the two key modes that must regularly be used by my application. Below you will find the functions that I use to start and stop capturing frames to my preview layer. I have a UI with three buttons. Off Mode 1 Mode 2 If I tap the Off button in between tapping Mode 1 or Mode 2 all is well; I can do this all day. However, attempt to jump between Mode 1andMode 2` directly I run into issues. I added a layer of software between the UI and the underlying functions so that I could make sure to turn off the Camera before turning it back on in the opposite mode and was surprised to get this output. Can someone at Apple please tell me what is going on here? For the rest of you, if anyone knows the magic incantation to safely switch camera formats, please paste that code here. Thanks. I've included my code below. func start(for deviceFormat: String) { sessionQueue.async { [unowned self] in logger.debug("Start capture session for \(deviceFormat): \(self.captureSession)") do { guard let format = formatDict[deviceFormat] else { throw Error.captureFormatNotFound } captureSession.stopRunning() captureSession.beginConfiguration() // May not be necessary. try captureDevice.lockForConfiguration() // Without this we get an error. captureDevice.activeFormat = format captureDevice.unlockForConfiguration() // Matching function: Necessary. captureSession.commitConfiguration() // Matching function: May not be necessary. captureSession.startRunning() } catch { logger.fault("Failed to start camera: \(error.localizedDescription)") errorPublisher.send(error) } } } func stop() { sessionQueue.async { [unowned self] in logger.debug("Stop capture session: \(self.captureSession)") captureSession.stopRunning() } }

I feel like I'm missing something really simple. I've got the simplest possible CIKernel, it looks like this: extern "C" float4 Simple(coreimage::sampler s) { float2 current = s.coord(); float2 anotherCoord = float2(current.x + 1.0, current.y); float4 sample = s.sample(anotherCoord); // s.sample(current) works fine return sample; } It's (in my mind) incrementing the x position of the sampler by 1 and sampling the neighboring pixel. What I get in practice is a bunch of banded garbage (pictured below.) The sampler seems to be pretty much undocumented, so I have no idea whether I'm incrementing by the right amount to advance one pixel. The weird banding is still present if I clamp anootherCoord to s.extent() but it behaves normally if I sample s.coord() unchanged. I'm trying to write a box blur that samples / averages neighboring pixels and am completely blocked by this. What am I missing?

Hi, I am developing iOS mobile camera. I noticed one issue related to the user privacy. when AVCaptureVideoStabilizationModeStandard is set to AVCaptureConnection which sessionPreset is 1920x1080Preset, after using system API to take a photo, the FOV of the photo will be bigger than preview stream and it will show more content especially in iPhone 15 pro max rear camera. I think this inconsistency will cause the user privacy issue. Can you show me the solution if I don't want to turn the StabilizationMode OFF? I tried other devices, this issue is ok but in iPhone 15pm this issue is very obvious. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Just watched the new product release, and I'm really hoping the new iPad Pro being advertised as the next creative tool for filmmakers and artists will finally allow RAW captures in the native Camera app or AVFoundation API (currently RAW available devices returns 0 on the previous iPad Pro). With all these fancy multicam camera features and camera hardware, I don't think it really takes that much to enable ProRAW and Action Mode on the software side of the iPad. Unless their strategy is to make us "shoot on iPhone and edit on iPad" (as implied in their video credits) which has been my workflow with the iPhone 15 and 2022 iPad Pro :( :(

Hello there! I am trying to use PHPickerViewController to load videos, but I got a problem: I could load some videos only not all. I refer to the existing thread - https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/652695, but dosen't work. This is the code I persent PHPickerViewController var config = PHPickerConfiguration() config.selectionLimit = 1 config.filter = .videos config.preferredAssetRepresentationMode = .current let picker = PHPickerViewController(configuration: config) picker.delegate = self present(picker, animated: true, completion: nil) Below is the relevant implementation of the method: func picker(_ picker: PHPickerViewController, didFinishPicking results: [PHPickerResult]): picker.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil) for result in results {   result.itemProvider.loadFileRepresentation(forTypeIdentifier: UTType.movie.identifier) { (url, error) in     if let error = error {       print(error)       return     }     guard let url = url else { return }     let fileName = "\(Date().timeIntervalSince1970).\(url.pathExtension)"     let newUrl = URL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory() + fileName)     try? FileManager.default.copyItem(at: url, to: newUrl)     DispatchQueue.main.async {       self.playVideo(newUrl)     }   } } Before I print error in line 5, Xcode printed 3 lines of error: [AXRuntimeCommon] Unknown client: TestPHPicker [default] [ERROR] Could not create a bookmark: NSError: Cocoa 257 "The file couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it." } Error copying file type public.movie. Error: Error Domain=NSItemProviderErrorDomain Code=-1000 "Cannot load representation of type public.movie" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot load representation of type public.movie, NSUnderlyingError=0x283a4a610 {Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4101 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x283a48b10 {Error Domain=PHAssetExportRequestErrorDomain Code=2 "(null)" UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x283a4a550 {Error Domain=CloudPhotoLibraryErrorDomain Code=82 "Failed to download CPLResourceTypeOriginal" UserInfo=0x28219b300 (not displayed)}}}}}} And I print error in line 5: Error Domain=NSItemProviderErrorDomain Code=-1000 "Cannot load representation of type public.movie" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot load representation of type public.movie, NSUnderlyingError=0x283a4a610 {Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4101 "Couldn’t communicate with a helper application." UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x283a48b10 {Error Domain=PHAssetExportRequestErrorDomain Code=2 "(null)" UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x283a4a550 {Error Domain=CloudPhotoLibraryErrorDomain Code=82 "Failed to download CPLResourceTypeOriginal" UserInfo=0x28219b300 (not displayed)}}}}}} For some videos I can load successfully, and some videos I got error. I don't know why this happened. I am testing this on an iPhone X iOS 14.0(18A373). Xcode 12.0 (12A7209). Thanks for help!

I have a camera application which aims to take images as close to simultaneously as possible from the wide and ultra-wide cameras. The AVCaptureMultiCamSession is setup with manual connections. Note: we are not using builtInDualWideCamera with constituent photo delivery enabled since some features we use are not supported in that mode. At the moment, we are manually trying to synchronize frames between the two cameras, but we would like to use the AVCaptureDataOutputSynchronizer to improve our results. Is it possible to synchronize the wide and ultra-wide video outputs? All examples and docs that I've found show synchronization with video and depth, metadata, or audio, but not two video outputs. From my testing, I've found that the dataOutputSynchronizer either fires with the wide video output, or the ultra video output, but never both (at least one is nil), suggesting that they are not being synchronized. self.outputSync = AVCaptureDataOutputSynchronizer(dataOutputs: [wideCameraOutput, ultraCameraOutput]) outputSync.setDelegate(self, queue: .main) ... func dataOutputSynchronizer(_ synchronizer: AVCaptureDataOutputSynchronizer, didOutput synchronizedDataCollection: AVCaptureSynchronizedDataCollection) { guard let syncWideData: AVCaptureSynchronizedSampleBufferData = synchronizedDataCollection.synchronizedData(for: self.wideCameraOutput) as? AVCaptureSynchronizedSampleBufferData, let syncedUltraData: AVCaptureSynchronizedSampleBufferData = synchronizedDataCollection.synchronizedData(for: self.ultraCameraOutput) as? AVCaptureSynchronizedSampleBufferData else { return; } // either syncWideData or syncUltraData is always nil, so the guard condition never passes. }

I have the following code function load() { navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({ video: true }) .then(function (stream) { var videoElement = document.getElementById('video'); videoElement.srcObject = stream; }) .catch(function (error) { console.log('navigator.MediaDevices.getUserMedia error: ', error.message, error.name); }); } <video id="video" playsinline autoplay></video> While the code works fine on browsers and load a camera on IOS. I can't seem to get the full IOS camera overlay (such as zooming etc) I just get a basic camera stream. Is it possible to stream the camera on a browser with full IOS camera functionality?

I need to know how to change the info for a specific photo in iPhoto. When I scanned the photo into iPhoto on my Mac I clicked on "info" and typed in what I thought at the time was correct info. I now know that the info is wrong but I can't find a way to edit it. I've found online articles on how to change the metadata, but that's not what I want to change. I can change the title for the photo, but I can't change the info I typed in below it. Can anyone help me?

Hi guys, I'm designing a customized camera based on avfoundation. I can output Live Photo from avCaptureDeviceInput for now. I expect to take still and live Photos with different aspect ratio, just like the apple's camera app does (1:1, 4:3, 16:9). I didn't find any useful infos from docs, any suggestion?

I am trying to implement the ability to save a photo to the user’s photo library on macOS. When I call PHPhotoLibrary.requestAuthorization(for: .addOnly) I just get a .denied status. The user is not prompted for access. I tried adding these entitlements: com.apple.security.personal-information.photos-library, com.apple.security.assets.pictures.read-write. I tried turning off sandboxing entirely. I tried saving despite getting the authorization denied, but unsurprisingly that gives me this error: Domain=PHPhotosErrorDomain Code=3311 I can almost do what i want with NSSharingService(named: .addToIPhoto), but that has the side effect of launching Photos. Is there a trick to getting PHPhotoLibrary.requestAuthorization(for: .addOnly) to work? Thanks. John

I have built a camera application which uses a AVCaptureSession with the AVCaptureDevice set to .builtInDualWideCamera and isVirtualDeviceConstituentPhotoDeliveryEnabled=true to enable delivery of "simultaneous" photos (AVCapturePhoto) for a single capture request. Our app ideally would have the timestamp difference between the photos in a single capture request as short as possible, but we don't have a good idea of what the theoretical or practical limits of this timestamp difference are. In my testing on an iPhone 12 Pro, with a frame rate of 33Hz and the preset set to hd1920x1080, I get the timestamp difference between photos at approx 0.3ms, which seems smaller than I would expect, unless the frames are being synchronised incredibly well under the hood. This leaves the following unanswered questions: What sort of ranges of values should we expect to come out of these timestamp differences between photos? What factors influence this? Is there any way to control these values to ensure they are as small as possible? (Will likely be answered by (2))