NSData *imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image, 0.4);
CGImageSourceRef source = CGImageSourceCreateWithData((__bridge CFDataRef)imageData, NULL);
NSMutableDictionary *metaDataDic = [self getEXIF:imageData];
NSMutableDictionary *exifDic = [[metaDataDic objectForKey:(NSString*)kCGImagePropertyExifDictionary] mutableCopy];
NSMutableDictionary *GPSDictionary = [[metaDataDic objectForKey:(NSString*)kCGImagePropertyGPSDictionary] mutableCopy];
if(!exifDic) { exifDic = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary]; }
if(!GPSDictionary) { GPSDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary]; }
NSTimeZone *timeZone = [NSTimeZone timeZoneForSecondsFromGMT:8*3600];
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setTimeZone:timeZone];
[formatter setDateFormat:@"YYYY:MM:dd hh:mm:ss"];
NSString *now = [formatter stringFromDate:[NSDate date]];
[exifDic setObject:now forKey:(NSString *)kCGImagePropertyExifDateTimeOriginal];
[metaDataDic setObject:exifDic forKey:(NSString*)kCGImagePropertyExifDictionary];
CFStringRef UTI = CGImageSourceGetType(source);
NSMutableData *newImageData = [NSMutableData data];
CGImageDestinationRef destination = CGImageDestinationCreateWithData((__bridge CFMutableDataRef)newImageData, UTI, 1, NULL);
CGImageDestinationAddImageFromSource(destination, source, 0, (__bridge CFDictionaryRef)metaDataDic);
CGImageDestinationFinalize(destination);
If the initial value of imageData is 69091bytes, it will become 114691bytes after adding Exif information. I don’t want to increase such a large data size after adding Exif information. What is the reason for this?