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This would be easier to fix in objective-c and a little custom camera wrapper application. I would expect a fix in a new OS release though. But if you need this little app let me know and I'll write it and put it on github.

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If your app directly accesses the camera with AVFoundation, saving photos is a lot less automatic than you might expect. It's easy to save the raw image data but you have to generate and add just about any interesting metadata (EXIF, GPS, TIFF, etc.) explicitly. It's hard to do right--as the rather many discussions on StackOverflow suggest--and definitely a steep price to pay for a customized camera interface.

It's not that hard actually, it's just tedious. The easiest way to do it is use the CIImageProperties (http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Graphi...)

The better way though is to use a class like this: https://github.com/gpambrozio/GusUtils/blob/master/GusUtils/...

I see your point though - it's not trivial. I just happen to have a lot of experience in this area. I do a lot of video/imaging on the iphone.

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