Detect when user tapped Don't Allow when making changes to photo library

Question

When you want to make a change to a PHAsset, you wrap it up in a performChanges block. You get a success Bool and an error NSError in the completion block. Now I would like to show an alert to the user in the case the request failed. This does the trick:

PHPhotoLibrary.sharedPhotoLibrary().performChanges({ () -> Void in
    let request = PHAssetChangeRequest(forAsset: asset)
    request.creationDate = date
}, completionHandler: { (success: Bool, error: NSError?) -> Void in
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue()) {
        if let error = error {
            //present alert
        }
    }
})

The problem is when the user taps Don't Allow it also presents the alert. I don't want to do that, the user intentionally canceled it so there's no need to inform them it failed. But how can I detect that's what has occurred? The error userInfo is nil, it doesn't seem it provides any useful info to detect that case. Am I missing something?

Try looking at the error's code. There is probably a specific code used to indicate the user denied access. — rmaddy, Mar 22 '16 at 23:55
@rmaddy Thanks, the `error.code` is `-1`, which appears to be a generic error `The operation couldn’t be completed. (Cocoa error -1.)` — Jordan H, Mar 23 '16 at 01:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '16 at 10:23

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[PHPhotoLibrary requestAuthorization:^(PHAuthorizationStatus status) {

 NSLog(@"%ld",(long)status);

switch (status) {

    case PHAuthorizationStatusAuthorized:

        // code for display photos


          NSLog(@"ffefwfwfwef");

    case PHAuthorizationStatusRestricted:



        break;
    case PHAuthorizationStatusDenied:

       //code for Dont Allow code

        break;
    default:
        break;
}

}];

answered Apr 19 '16 at 10:23

Ishwar Hingu

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PHAuthorizationStatus is different. Authorization status is not related to the approval of photo content editing. – Jordan H Apr 19 '16 at 13:21

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '21 at 16:45

This is now possible by checking if the error is a PHPhotosError and if so checking its code to see if it's .userCancelled.

PHPhotoLibrary.shared().performChanges({
    let request = PHAssetChangeRequest(forAsset: asset)
    request.creationDate = date
}) { success, error in
    guard let error = error else { return }
    guard (error as? PHPhotosError)?.code != .userCancelled else { return }
    
    DispatchQueue.main.async {
        //present alert
    }
}

Detect when user tapped Don't Allow when making changes to photo library

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