How do I save a UIImage to a file?

Question

If I have a UIImage from an imagePicker, how can I save it to a subfolder in the documents directory?

Answer 1

Of course you can create subfolders in the documents folder of your app. You use NSFileManager to do that.

You use UIImagePNGRepresentation to convert your image to NSData and save that to disk.

// Create path. NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); NSString *filePath = [[paths objectAtIndex:0] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Image.png"];  // Save image. [UIImagePNGRepresentation(image) writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES]; 

Core Data has nothing to do with saving images to disk by the way.

Answer 2

In Swift 3:

// Create path. let paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.documentDirectory, .userDomainMask, true) let filePath = "\(paths[0])/MyImageName.png"  // Save image. UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)?.writeToFile(filePath, atomically: true)