iPhone 11 Pro Has Broken Exif Orientation Data
Fri 11 October 2019 by feldI have the new iPhone 11 Pro. It's a great camera. Turns out all of the photos I've taken so far have had incorrect EXIF Orientation data. This really sucks. I've confirmed the same issue happens on my wife's phone.
It's shocking that this has not been noticed by Apple before the phone was released to the public. Have any photographers actually examined the images they shot on this phone?
Here's an example image (JPEG format, for non-Apple folks and Safari won't even load HEIF images):
Here's the data dumped by exiftool:
ExifTool Version Number : 11.69
File Name : IMG_0543.heic
Directory : .
File Size : 1728 kB
File Modification Date/Time : 2019:10:09 13:15:19-05:00
File Access Date/Time : 2019:10:11 13:36:55-05:00
File Inode Change Date/Time : 2019:10:11 13:36:03-05:00
File Permissions : rw-------
File Type : HEIC
File Type Extension : heic
MIME Type : image/heic
Major Brand : High Efficiency Image Format HEVC still image (.HEIC)
Minor Version : 0.0.0
Compatible Brands : mif1, miaf, MiHB, heic
Handler Type : Picture
Primary Item Reference : 49
Exif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
Make : Apple
Camera Model Name : iPhone 11 Pro
Orientation : Rotate 90 CW 👈👈🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
X Resolution : 72
Y Resolution : 72
Resolution Unit : inches
Software : 13.1.2
Modify Date : 2019:10:02 19:19:06
Y Cb Cr Positioning : Centered
Exposure Time : 1/15
F Number : 1.8
Exposure Program : Program AE
ISO : 1600
Exif Version : 0231
Date/Time Original : 2019:10:02 19:19:06
Create Date : 2019:10:02 19:19:06
Offset Time : -05:00
Offset Time Original : -05:00
Offset Time Digitized : -05:00
Components Configuration : Y, Cb, Cr, -
Shutter Speed Value : 1/15
Aperture Value : 1.8
Brightness Value : -3.833215521
Exposure Compensation : +0.0156
Metering Mode : Multi-segment
Flash : Off, Did not fire
Focal Length : 4.2 mm
Subject Area : 2002 1505 2213 1324
Run Time Flags : Valid
Run Time Value : 7694890327000
Run Time Scale : 1000000000
Run Time Epoch : 0
Acceleration Vector : 0.09105698762 -0.9248749617 -0.3692156373
Sub Sec Time Original : 313
Sub Sec Time Digitized : 313
Flashpix Version : 0100
Color Space : Uncalibrated
Exif Image Width : 4032
Exif Image Height : 3024
Sensing Method : One-chip color area
Scene Type : Directly photographed
Exposure Mode : Auto
White Balance : Auto
Focal Length In 35mm Format : 26 mm
Scene Capture Type : Standard
Lens Info : 1.539999962-6mm f/1.8-2.4
Lens Make : Apple
Lens Model : iPhone 11 Pro back triple camera 4.25mm f/1.8
Profile CMM Type : Apple Computer Inc.
Profile Version : 4.0.0
Profile Class : Display Device Profile
Color Space Data : RGB
Profile Connection Space : XYZ
Profile Date Time : 2017:07:07 13:22:32
Profile File Signature : acsp
Primary Platform : Apple Computer Inc.
CMM Flags : Not Embedded, Independent
Device Manufacturer : Apple Computer Inc.
Device Model :
Device Attributes : Reflective, Glossy, Positive, Color
Rendering Intent : Perceptual
Connection Space Illuminant : 0.9642 1 0.82491
Profile Creator : Apple Computer Inc.
Profile ID : ca1a9582257f104d389913d5d1ea1582
Profile Description : Display P3
Profile Copyright : Copyright Apple Inc., 2017
Media White Point : 0.95045 1 1.08905
Red Matrix Column : 0.51512 0.2412 -0.00105
Green Matrix Column : 0.29198 0.69225 0.04189
Blue Matrix Column : 0.1571 0.06657 0.78407
Red Tone Reproduction Curve : (Binary data 32 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Chromatic Adaptation : 1.04788 0.02292 -0.0502 0.02959 0.99048 -0.01706 -0.00923 0.01508 0.75168
Blue Tone Reproduction Curve : (Binary data 32 bytes, use -b option to extract)
Green Tone Reproduction Curve : (Binary data 32 bytes, use -b option to extract)
HEVC Configuration Version : 1
General Profile Space : Conforming
General Tier Flag : Main Tier
General Profile IDC : Main Still Picture Profile
Gen Profile Compatibility Flags : Main Still Picture, Main 10, Main
Constraint Indicator Flags : 176 0 0 0 0 0
General Level IDC : 90 (level 3.0)
Min Spatial Segmentation IDC : 0
Parallelism Type : 0
Chroma Format : 4:2:0
Bit Depth Luma : 8
Bit Depth Chroma : 8
Average Frame Rate : 0
Constant Frame Rate : Unknown
Num Temporal Layers : 1
Temporal ID Nested : No
Image Width : 4032
Image Height : 3024
Image Spatial Extent : 4032x3024
Rotation : 270
Image Pixel Depth : 8 8 8
Movie Data Size : 1765488
Movie Data Offset : 4362
Run Time Since Power Up : 2:08:15
Aperture : 1.8
Image Size : 4032x3024
Megapixels : 12.2
Scale Factor To 35 mm Equivalent: 6.1
Shutter Speed : 1/15
Create Date : 2019:10:02 19:19:06.313-05:00
Date/Time Original : 2019:10:02 19:19:06.313-05:00
Modify Date : 2019:10:02 19:19:06-05:00
Circle Of Confusion : 0.005 mm
Field Of View : 69.4 deg
Focal Length : 4.2 mm (35 mm equivalent: 26.0 mm)
Hyperfocal Distance : 2.04 m
Light Value : 1.6
Note, I have Location data turned off for my camera, so no GPS related stuff in here.
And here's what ViewExif on iOS shows, which agrees:
Can someone please beg Apple to fix this? Completely unacceptable for this to let slip into production.