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How to get only images in the camera roll using Photos Framework

After adding the Camera Roll and Photo Stream albums, Apple added the following PHAssetCollectionSubtype types in iOS 8.1: PHAssetCollectionSubtypeAlbumMyPhotoStream (together with PHAssetCollectionTypeAlbum) – fetches the Photo Stream album. PHAssetCollectionSubtypeSmartAlbumUserLibrary (together with PHAssetCollectionTypeSmartAlbum) – fetches the Camera Roll album. Haven’t tested if this is backward-compatible with iOS 8.0.x though.

NSURL from PHAsset

If you use [imageManager requestAVAssetForVideo…], it’ll return an AVAsset. That AVAsset is actually an AVURLAsset, so if you cast it, you can access it’s –url property. I’m not sure if you can create a new asset out of this, but it does give you the location.