Get photo metadata with PHPicker in SwiftUI

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With iOS 14.0 a new photo picker PHPicker was introduced. In this post I will show you how to get and show photo metadata, the PHAsset, containing information like creation date and the location of where the photo was taken, in SwiftUI.

When using the PHPickerViewControllerDelegate the metadata can be obtained the following way:

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Make sure to add the Privacy - Photo Library Usage Description key to the Info.plist file

Simple CustomPhotoPickerView example

I created a full example app of how to get and display photo metadata with the new PHPicker in iOS 14.

It can be cloned here:

Link to GitHub repo at simple branch which only contains the basics.

Link to GitHub repo at main branch which has the UI shown here.

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As the PHPickerView is a UIView the UIViewControllerRepresentable protocol must be used for using it with SwiftUI.