Proper way of saving and loading pictures

Question

I am making a small app where the user can create a game profile, input some data and a picture that can be taken with the camera.

I save most of that profile data with

Answer 1

I think this("iphone-user-defaults-and-uiimages") post addresses your issue. Don't save blobs to a property list such as NSUserDefaults. In your case I would write to disk directly instead.