Get today's photo from album in IOS

Question

Is there any way to get only today's photos from album in ios？ I know how to get album but all photos displayed as timeline. I want to get only today's photos or last two days' photo, how can I realized that? Thanks.

Answer 1

Swift 3 version with a range of dates:

let fromDate = // the date after which you want to retrieve the photos
let toDate // the date until which you want to retrieve the photos 

let options = PHFetchOptions()
options.predicate = NSPredicate(format: "creationDate > %@ && creationDate < %@", fromDate as CVarArg, toDate as CVarArg)

//Just a way to set order
let sortDescriptor = NSSortDescriptor(key: "creationDate", ascending: false)
options.sortDescriptors = [sortDescriptor]

return PHAsset.fetchAssets(with: .image, options: options)

Answer 2

You can use this snippet to get today's photo, which works on iOS 8. I originally filtered the assets from Recently Added album, which stores photos from last 30 days or 1000 photos. There is a chance user captures more than 1000 photos in two days, so I changed the code to get all photos from the library.

PHFetchOptions *options = [[PHFetchOptions alloc] init];
options.sortDescriptors = @[[NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"creationDate" ascending:NO]];
options.predicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"mediaType = %d",PHAssetMediaTypeImage];

PHFetchResult *assetsFetchResult = [PHAsset fetchAssetsWithOptions:options];

//get day component of today
NSCalendar* calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
NSDateComponents *dayComponent = [calendar components:NSCalendarUnitDay fromDate:[NSDate date]];
NSInteger currentDay = dayComponent.day;

//get day component of yesterday
dayComponent.day = - 1;
NSDate *yesterdayDate = [calendar dateByAddingComponents:dayComponent toDate:[NSDate date] options:0];
NSInteger yesterDay = [[calendar components:NSCalendarUnitDay fromDate:yesterdayDate] day];

//filter assets of today and yesterday add them to an array.
NSMutableArray *assetsArray = [NSMutableArray array];
for (PHAsset *asset in assetsFetchResult) {
    NSInteger assetDay = [[calendar components:NSCalendarUnitDay fromDate:asset.creationDate] day];

    if (assetDay == currentDay || assetDay == yesterDay) {
        [assetsArray addObject:asset];
    }
    else {
        //assets is in descending order, so we can break here.
        break;
    }
}

Prior iOS 8, using ALAssetsLibrary, suppose you have a photo group, enumerate the group in reverse order, and do the similar thing as above.

[self.photoGroup enumerateAssetsWithOptions:NSEnumerationReverse usingBlock:^(ALAsset *asset, NSUInteger index, BOOL *stop) {
      NSDate *date = [asset valueForProperty:ALAssetPropertyDate];
  }];

Answer 3

You could use a predicate for the day

PHFetchOptions *allPhotosOptions = [PHFetchOptions new];
allPhotosOptions.sortDescriptors = @[[NSSortDescriptor sortDescriptorWithKey:@"creationDate" ascending:YES]];

NSPredicate *predicateMediaType = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"mediaType = %d",PHAssetMediaTypeImage];
NSDate *date = [[NSDate date] beginningOfDay];
NSPredicate *predicateDate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"creationDate >= %@", date];

NSCompoundPredicate *compoundPredicate = [NSCompoundPredicate andPredicateWithSubpredicates:@[predicateDate, predicateMediaType]];


allPhotosOptions.predicate = compoundPredicate;

PHFetchResult *allPhotosResult = [PHAsset fetchAssetsWithMediaType:PHAssetMediaTypeImage options:allPhotosOptions];

Where

@implementation NSDate (Utils)

- (NSDate *)beginningOfDay {
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];

    NSDateComponents *components = [calendar components:CYCalendarUnitYear | CYCalendarUnitMonth | CYCalendarUnitDay fromDate:self];

    return [calendar dateFromComponents:components];
}