iOS 8 Photos framework. Access photo metadata

Question

I\'m looking at replacing ALAssetsLibrary with Photos framework in my app.

I can retrieve photos, collections, and asset sources just fine (even write t

Answer 1

PhotoKit limits the access to metadata to the properties of PHAsset (location, creationDate, favorite, hidden, modificatonDate, pixelWidth, pixelHeight...). The reason (I suspect) is that due to the introduction of iCloud PhotoLibrary the images may not be on the device. Therefore the whole metadata is not available. The only way to get full EXIF/IPTC metadata is to first download the original image (if not available) from iCloud and then use ImageIO to extract its metadata.