How to get creation date of a taken picture?

Question

If pictures are loaded into an app from a album, how is it possible to get the date of that picture displayed on a app like on the screenshot below?

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look here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12478502/how-to-get-image-metadata-in-ios — shannoga, Dec 22 '14 at 22:07

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '14 at 22:50

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You can use ALAsset library, it contain the property called ALAssetPropertyDate. So using that you can fetch the date like that below:-

NSURL *url = @"your url";

ALAssetsLibrary* assetslibrary = [[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init];
    [assetslibrary assetForURL:url
                   resultBlock:^(ALAsset *asset) {
                       NSDate *myDate = [asset valueForProperty:ALAssetPropertyDate];
                       NSLog(@"Date: %@", myDate);
                   } failureBlock:^(NSError *error) {
                       NSLog(@"Error");
                   }];

answered Dec 22 '14 at 22:50

Hussain Shabbir

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Thnx, but how can I retrieve the NSURL of my UIIMAGE? – Jan Dec 22 '14 at 23:10
You can extract the path and can convert into url – Hussain Shabbir Dec 22 '14 at 23:12
Hmm, OK... I will find that out. How Can I convert this into a string? – Jan Dec 22 '14 at 23:19
Let me know if you find difficulty to convert string into url? – Hussain Shabbir Dec 22 '14 at 23:20
This is how I fetch the image.. - (void)setImage:(UIImage *)image { _image = image; self.imageView.image = image; } – Jan Dec 22 '14 at 23:21
So you are getting the path?? – Hussain Shabbir Dec 22 '14 at 23:23
Hussain, can we continue this on chat? – Jan Dec 22 '14 at 23:24
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/67505/discussion-between-hussain-shabbir-and-jan). – Hussain Shabbir Dec 22 '14 at 23:24

How to get creation date of a taken picture?

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