Does the exif data (location etc) remain intact when transferring photos?

Hello,
Thanks for posting your question. When transferring photos from iPhone to computer all the metadata is preserved, the photo is transferred exactly as it is on your iPhone so all EXIF headers will be preserved.

However, when transferring from iPhone to iPhone/iPad or computer to iPhone/iPad the header information is unfortunately lost. The reason for this is that we use a programming interface provided by Apple to save photos to the native 'Photos' app. Unfortunately this interface only reads the bytes of the image but it discards the header information!

As you can imagine, this has been a big source of frustration for us and for other developers working with photos on iPhone and iPad :( The good news is that Apple recently announced a new version of the SDK which looks like has a fix for this so there is hope for us to solve this problem in the next few weeks when an updated version of the iPhone OS comes out.

I hope this is an understandable answer. Let us know if you have any other question or comment.

Best regards,

The Photo Transfer App team

Thanks Enrique,

Kind of good news, will keep an eye out after the next version of iOS comes out.

I transferred 40 photos via zip from iPhone 4 to PC via WiFi and lost the EXIF data. The IPTC data was there, but not the EXIF.

On other occasions the EXIF data was transferred. ??