iOS Contact Image not cropped

[scriptPilot]

Describe the bug When adding a contact photo via iOS Contacts and crop the face from a large image, the large image is retrieved not only the cropped face as expected.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a new contact in iOS Contacts
2. Choose a lager image
3. Crop a face
4. Save
5. Retrieve contact with this API

Expected behavior Cropped image / face retrieved as base64 string.

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Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: iPhone 11 Pro, iOS 16 - other iOS devices same behavior

Additional context

• No problem with photos synchronized from Google Contacts

[tafelnl]

The CNContactStore in Swift provides the following two image types:

CNContactImageDataKey and CNContactThumbnailImageDataKey.

Currently it's returning the value belonging to the CNContactImageDataKey. I'm not sure if the CNContactThumbnailImageDataKey would return a 'cropped' variant. It would return a thumbnail though. So I'm not sure if that is desirable. What do you think?

If you have access to Xcode, you could easily test the difference between to two by the way. Just navigate to the source code and swap:

• the occurences of CNContactImageDataKey with CNContactThumbnailImageDataKey
• contact.imageData with contact.thumbnailImageData

[scriptPilot]

@tafelnl - Thanks a lot for that proposal. I've just tested it and the images are still returned full, not cropped, but in poorer quality. So this proposal does not solve the initial problem unfortunately.

[tafelnl]

In that case I am afraid it's not possibly to do what you want. Because Apple does not offer any other thing in their CNContact API that I know of

[scriptPilot]

Ok - thanks for looking into it.

[tafelnl]

No worries