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Grimxn
Grimxn

Reputation: 22507

Accessing iCloud photos uniquely on multiple devices using PHAsset

Is there a way of accessing a specific PHAsset in an iCloud album uniquely on multiple devices?

I have written a simple app that lists thumbnails and .localIdentifiers from an iCloud shared album, and (naturally) it shows the same images on different devices, however, the localIdentifiers are different for the same images on different devices (not so unexpected as it is a "local" identifier).

However, what I actually want to do is associate a record in a cloud-shared CoreData database with an image in the cloud, rather than embed the image in the CoreData (it's a genealogy app, with potentially thousands of images) - for this I would need an identifier that is unique regardless of the device. Is there anyway to do this?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1066

Answers (3)

blwinters
blwinters

Reputation: 2191

To update an old question/answer, PHCloudIdentifier has been a public API for this purpose since iOS 15.

Upvotes: 0

Jonny
Jonny

Reputation: 2094

PHAsset.cloudIdentifier is available as private API.

let identifier = phAsset.value(forKey: "cloudIdentifier") as? String

Refer to iOS runtime header: https://github.com/JaviSoto/iOS10-Runtime-Headers/blob/master/Frameworks/Photos.framework/PHAsset.h

Upvotes: 7

holtmann
holtmann

Reputation: 6303

Unfortunately not. In the early iOS 8 betas there was a cloud-identifier (which is exactly what you look for), but it was removed later on from the Photos API.

Upvotes: 4

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