I'm trying to implement the answer in iOS 8 UIImage Metadata for Objective-C in SWIFT as follows
//source: http://stackanswers.com/questions/24227578/ios-8-uiimage-metadata func metaDataFromAssetLibrary(info: NSDictionary) { var assetURL = info.objectForKey(UIImagePickerControllerReferenceURL) as NSURL var assetLibrary = ALAssetsLibrary() assetLibrary.assetForURL(assetURL as NSURL, resultBlock: { (asset: ALAsset!) in var metadata: NSDictionary = asset.defaultRepresentation().metadata() as NSDictionary NSLog ("imageMetaData from AssetLibrary %@",metadata); }, failureBlock: { (error: NSError!) in NSLog("Error!") }) } I'm calling it with
func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController!, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: NSDictionary!){ // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3088874/didfinishpickingmediawithinfo-return-nil-photo picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil) let image = info.objectForKey("UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage") as UIImage PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary().performChanges({ let createAssetRequest = PHAssetChangeRequest.creationRequestForAssetFromImage(image) let assetPlaceholder = createAssetRequest.placeholderForCreatedAsset let albumChangeRequest = PHAssetCollectionChangeRequest(forAssetCollection: self.assetCollection, assets: self.photosAsset) albumChangeRequest.addAssets([assetPlaceholder]) }, completionHandler: {(success, error)in NSLog("Adding Image to Library -> %@", (success ? "Sucess":"Error!")) picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil) }) metaDataFromAssetLibrary(info) } which results in a "fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value"