How to get a ALAssetRepresentation of a shared photostream ALAsset?

Question

When I try to access pictures from a photo stream, sometimes the [asset defaultRepresentation] method returns nil.

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Answer 1

I fall into same issue. I couldn't find a way to actually get the images. All you can do is not display images that have "defaultRepresentation" nil or drop support for Shared photos at all by calling [ALAssetsLibrary disableSharedPhotoStreamsSupport];

Hope that helps