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Photos Are Upside Down

Since iOS5 you notice that iPhone photos and videos are upside down when you save them to your computer. They are upside down when you email them to other people.

To reproduce: when you hold your camera with the volume buttons pointing up, your photos will be upside down when viewed with a Microsoft Windows computer.

Culprit: Apple's improper use of EXIF tags. Apple used a shortcut and skipped writing the correct orientation to EXIF so that their camera app would be quicker.

Resolution: Take your iPhone photos and videos with the volume buttons pointing down. You can also use a smarter app that is made to write the correct orientation to EXIF within the image file. It is reported that an app called Camera+ for the iPhone will take care of this for you.

Other info: It is said that Windows image views often don't recognize the image metadata. So is Apple using this metadata instead of the EXIF info within the image? Why not write the correct orientation to both? Still seems Apple is wrong even though Windows software may not always look both places.