Photos Framework requestImageDataForAsset occasionally fails

Question

I\'m using the photos framework on iOS8.1 and requesting the image data for the asset using requestImageDataForAsset... Most of the time it works and I get the image data an

Answer 1

Getting back to this after a long while, I have solved a big part of my problem. No mystery, just bad code:

PHFetchResult *result = [PHAsset fetchAssetsWithALAssetURLs:@[urlMedia] options:nil];
PHAsset *asset = [result firstObject];

if (asset != nil) { // the fix
    PHImageManager *imageManager = [PHImageManager defaultManager];
    PHImageRequestOptions *options = [[PHImageRequestOptions alloc]init];
    ...
}

The most common cause for me was a problem with the media URL passed to fetchAssetsWithALAssetURLs causing asset to be nil and requestImageDataForAsset return a default info object.