UIImagePickerController and extracting EXIF data from existing photos
- by tomtaylor
It's well known that UIImagePickerController doesn't return the metadata of the photo after selection. However, a couple of apps in the app store (Mobile Fotos, PixelPipe) seem to be able to read the original files and the EXIF data stored within them, enabling the app to extract the geodata from the selected photo.
They seem to do this by reading…