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Q: AirDrop edited photo

I have a photo in my library (using iCloud Photo Library) that I want to share with my girlfriend's account on our iMac. This photo is an edited, cropped copy in the library. When I airdrop to her account, the photo preview on the airdrop notification looks correct (the cropped version)...but the actual file that is transferred is the original, uncropped version.

 

I've tried doing an airdrop from my iPad to my iPhone, with the same result. I've duplicated the edited version, which looks correct in the library, and airdropped the duplicate, and it still hasn't worked correctly: it's always the original, uncropped version. Is there something I should be doing differently?

iPhone SE, iOS 10, 64 GB

Posted on Oct 2, 2016 2:16 PM

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  • by lkalliance,

    lkalliance lkalliance Oct 2, 2016 2:52 PM in response to lkalliance
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    Oct 2, 2016 2:52 PM in response to lkalliance

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    I find now that this problem is more widespread. When I try to access the cropped photo via a separate app (Costco's photo app) I still get the unedited version. When I attempt to share via email or iMessag, I get the unedited version. When I copy the photo from within Photos, and paste into an email, I get the unedited photo.

     

    I then tried again from the beginning: I duplicated the original photo, and edited it, this time using only Photos' editing tools and not another app's. Still no success.

     

    What I ended up having to do is go to my iMac, open Photos, and drag the edited version to the desktop. The file copy from the drag was the edited version. Then I shared that to my girlfriend's account. That was way less convenient than just airdropping the edited version, and I dont believe it's the expected behavior.

  • by lkalliance,

    lkalliance lkalliance Oct 2, 2016 3:06 PM in response to lkalliance
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    Oct 2, 2016 3:06 PM in response to lkalliance

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    I just tried it again with a photo I took today, on my iPhone. For that one, everything worked as it should. The edited version was sent via airdrop.

     

    Tthe first photo was:

    --not taken with an iDevice; it was taken with my DSLR and imported into Photos for OS X

    --imported into my library (and edited) when I was running OS X El Capitan, before the upgrade to Sierra

     

    From my perspective as a user, neither of these things should matter. No idea if in reality they do.