Image upload from iPhone strips exif data

Question

I\'ve built a website which allows image uploading and once an image is uploaded , some specific information about the photo is displayed. Uploading pictures from computers

Answer 1

I also have a similar issue copying from an iPhone (doesn't seem to matter what iOS/iPhone combo as it's been happening for years) to a Windows 7 machine (also tried on various machines). If I copy a jpg file from the phone to the PC a large minority of pictures have their EXIF information severely deleted. Which is very annoying when time stamps and GPS info goes astray. What's even more strange is that I can recover the 'Date Taken' if I view the jpg in MS's Picture Gallery and look at the image's date taken stamp which is still present - Change the date up one and enter then back down one and the date taken stamp the will reappear in the file within Windows Explorer. This is more weird behaviour on top of weird behaviour and very annoying to boot. You must not do any rotation on the images or any other editing otherwise until after the PG fix or you won't be able to reclaim the date taken stamp.

For further info: I do not have iTunes installed as this causes other non-related issues.

So to recap - iPhone connected to a PC, copying jpg files over via Windows Explorer and some of the files will apparently lose their EXIF info.