Rotating UIImage in Swift

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Swift 5 Solution

I wrote Pixel SDK which offers a more powerful solution to this problem, otherwise here is the simplest solution:

extension UIImage {
    func rotate(radians: Float) -> UIImage? {
        var newSize = CGRect(origin: CGPoint.zero, size: self.size).applying(CGAffineTransform(rotationAngle: CGFloat(radians))).size
        // Trim off the extremely small float value to prevent core graphics from rounding it up
        newSize.width = floor(newSize.width)
        newSize.height = floor(newSize.height)

        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, false, self.scale)
        let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!

        // Move origin to middle
        context.translateBy(x: newSize.width/2, y: newSize.height/2)
        // Rotate around middle
        context.rotate(by: CGFloat(radians))
        // Draw the image at its center
        self.draw(in: CGRect(x: -self.size.width/2, y: -self.size.height/2, width: self.size.width, height: self.size.height))

        let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        return newImage
    }
}

and to use this solution you can do the following

let image = UIImage(named: "image.png")!
let newImage = image.rotate(radians: .pi/2) // Rotate 90 degrees

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