Hi there, since a week or so we’re experiencing trouble with images uploaded from mobile phones. As can be seen below they turn sideways. Can anyone explain why this is occurring and/or fix this issue? [imagem]

Bit more googling suggests that Samsung devices handle rotated images differently, although I haven’t found a good source to confirm. Seems like non-samsung devices might handle image orientation by simply switching X and Y, i.e. actually taking a landscape image as landscape. Samsung devices appa…

@Roy_ILGM can you upload an unaltered image on s3 or something like this so we can reproduce this easily ?

@j.jaffeux @hutchinsfairy [imagem]

no it’s not what I mean :slight_smile: you need to upload it outside of discourse and give us the url please.

For this one I “emptied” the image orientation field using Edit EXIF, IPTC, XMP data in JPEG photo online - IMG online [imagem]

@j.jaffeux And here’s one I uploaded to google drive from my device https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_oW0mBNwjf4MThGODFpQ3lPaG8

[imagem] codinghorror: images store metadata about orientation in them [imagem] hutchinsfairy: I don’t seem to be abel to see any EXIF info for the uploaded image, perhaps something strips it out when embedding in the topic. Back in 2014 there was a discussion about the EXIF “leaking” …

Could the image be rotated according to the EXIF instructions prior to scrubbing?

It is rotated according to the EXIF prior to scrubbing all the metadata :wink:

[imagem] zogstrip: prior to scrubbing all the metadata Really? All metadata? So people cannot specify their copyright or creative commons license?

Mobile image upload turns sideways

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