Question

I’m using UIImagePickerController to take photos through my app. If I use the default

[imagePickerController setAllowsEditing:NO];

then the resulting photo has the full resolution 2592×1936 (and many megabytes). However, if I turn on editing with

[imagePickerController setAllowsEditing:YES];

the end photo is only 640×640 (and less than 1 megabyte).

Why is this happening? Any way to get a higher quality for edited photos?

Answer 1

You should be getting the high resolution image from

- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info
{
         [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage]
         [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerEditedImage]
.... 
}