Handy but needs a couple improvements

Photo Info works exactly as advertised and is just the tool for accessing all the photo metadata that the iPhone built-in camera roll *should* make accessible out of the box. But its not without a few minor issues. Most obviously, it can only access photos in your camera roll; any photos in other albums are not accessible. This Im sure will be remedied in an update, but for now in v1.0, thats how it goes. This limitation immediately raises another interface misstep: when you open the app, its default starting position is at the TOP of your camera roll, where your oldest photos are. This forces you to scroll all the way to the end of the camera roll, which is annoying because 95% of the time I want to view data on my most RECENT photos, not my oldest. The app needs to default to the END of the camera roll, just like the built-in Photos app does. This really should be addressed in an update, soon. 

The other issue this app shines light on has nothing to do with Photo Info itself, but rather just about every *other* photo app on your phone. And that is that every photo-processing app out there strips all the metadata from your image. So in effect, the only images youll be able to see full metadata for are the ones that a) were taken with the built-in Camera app (no camera timer apps or other Camera substitutes), and b) have not been processed with any other app such as CameraBag, TiltShift, Best Camera, etc. Which for me eliminates approximately 99% of the photos in my phone. The only solution is to always save the original photo (assuming you used the built-in Camera app to take it) when you do post-processing with other apps. Which is not my normal workflow, since I prefer not to have unneeded originals clogging up my camera roll.

But these issues are not faults of the Photo Info app, just the circumstances were left to deal with. Even so, I do use the app and its the right tool for the job when you need to see metadata right on your phone. With a couple of improvements I mentioned, itll be even better.

LLHB about Photo Info