{"id":74940,"date":"2026-10-10T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=74940"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:27:47","slug":"php-exif-retention-off-iphone-images-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/php-exif-retention-off-iphone-images-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Exif Retention off iPhone Images Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHP Exif Retention off iPhone Images Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

We have a new project on the go. We want to retain Exif<\/a> information, that is contained within our iPhone’s *.HEIC formatted photographs, all the way through to some format and form of RJM Programming public website set of image media files.<\/p>\n

And so, as well as referencing previous work such as that of PHP Exif Image Information Revisit Tutorial<\/a> and Command Line ImageMagick HEIC to JPEG Image Creation Tutorial<\/a>, we asked of Google retaining exif information of iPhone images all the way to uploading via filezilla to a web server<\/a>, finding pertinent and useful the advice …<\/p>\n

\nTo retain EXIF data from an iPhone all the way to a web server via FileZilla, you must bypass mobile browser compression and ensure lossless transfer protocols.<\/p>\n

AirDrop or Cable Transfer: Transfer the file from the Files app or Photos library to a Mac or PC using AirDrop or a direct USB cable.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And so, that is today’s first step on the new project, where if we cannot retain Exif the project is not worth continuing with.<\/p>\n

Keep your hair on! It worked using our ImageMagick<\/a> conversions to *.jpeG (from iPhone AirDrop<\/a>ped<\/sup> *.HEIC) here on this MacBook Air and FileZilla<\/a> (sftp<\/a>) uploading those to our new folder on the RJM Programming web server for images like …<\/p>\n

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… as one example.<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant PHP Exif Image Information Revisit Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

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PHP Exif Image Information Revisit Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Another “revisit” today to the PHP Exif Information web application displayer of PHP Exif Image Zip Mystery Game Hints Tutorial<\/a>. Now supposing we put this scenario to you …<\/p>\n