UIImagePickerController returning incorrect image orientation

Question

I\'m using UIImagePickerController to capture an image and then store it. However, when i try to rescale it, the orientation value i get out of this image is incorrect. When

Answer 1

In iOS 7, I needed code dependent on UIImage.imageOrientation to correct for the different orientations. Now, in iOS 8.2, when I pick my old test images from the album via UIImagePickerController, the orientation will be UIImageOrientationUp for ALL images. When I take a photo (UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera), those images will also always be upwards, regardless of the device orientation. So between those iOS versions, there obviously has been a fix where UIImagePickerController already rotates the images if neccessary. You can even notice that when the album images are displayed: for a split second, they will be displayed in the original orientation, before they appear in the new upward orientation.