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Firmware 2.2, Saving attached photos from mail app turns blurry
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I'm having this same problem too. It only happens to pictures saved in mail, not in safari. And mavis, your problem is something completely different. You are talking about graininess and we are talking about blurriness. Plus how can you say this has been happening since 1.1.3 when the option to save pics from mail didn't come around until 2.0?
It's not blurry, it's a low resolution preview. I think there's a bug where mail is accidentally saving the thumbnail and not the actual image. I guess a proper workaround would be to view your mail on the web.
Edit: I just tested it. The image is full resolution after importing it into iPhoto on the computer.
I smell 2.2.1 coming out before the end of the week. This is completely unacceptable!
Edit: I just tested it. The image is full resolution after importing it into iPhoto on the computer.
I smell 2.2.1 coming out before the end of the week. This is completely unacceptable!
This has been happening to me since 1.1.3 ...
Completely different area. This is about SAVING images from mail, which was introduced in 2.0.
I've noticed this problem since 2.0 as well but I just figured it was saving them at a lower resolution to save space. I agree that it needs to be fixed though. At least give us the option to save the pictures at full resolution rather than having to keep the email just so that we can view the pictures properly.
Mine has been doing this since the feature was introduced. Pic looks great in the mail app when reading email, but looks terrible after saving it.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G (16GB): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20)
You're right, I just misunderstood the OP. I'm used to having all my pictures look terrible on the iPhone, but this new bug is even worse.
nickspohn said:This has been happening to me since 1.1.3 ...
Completely different area. This is about SAVING images from mail, which was introduced in 2.0.
You're right, I just misunderstood the OP. I'm used to having all my pictures look terrible on the iPhone, but this new bug is even worse.
While you may think this is different than the cases that have been brought up, its all the same problem
in short: The picture optimization( which cannot be turned off) that Apple uses to put/save pictures onto the iPhone SUCKS
The reason for the implementation is that Apple doesn't want there to be any slow down when looking at pictures in your camera roll ( and it thinks its users don't care about quality)
Any picture that is saved directly to your camera roll becomes resized ( 640 pixels max in any dimension) and also the color depth is dropped to (16-18bit gradient )
here is my thread
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/569462/
in short: The picture optimization( which cannot be turned off) that Apple uses to put/save pictures onto the iPhone SUCKS
The reason for the implementation is that Apple doesn't want there to be any slow down when looking at pictures in your camera roll ( and it thinks its users don't care about quality)
Any picture that is saved directly to your camera roll becomes resized ( 640 pixels max in any dimension) and also the color depth is dropped to (16-18bit gradient )
here is my thread
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/569462/
Have you even tried saving a picture from mail in 2.2? It has nothing to do with speed. This is an overlooked BUG. It works correctly in Safari.
This oversight is devastating for me. I get pictures in emails from my parents and friends who own iphones all the time. I always save them instantly too and usually not even look at them from inside the mail app. I just went back and noticed that all of my email pictures are blurry now. Being they are usually taken from an iphone themselves, some are very blurry. I enjoy that the apps load faster now but this picture thing is just plain weird.
It seems that the saved pictures themselves are fine. It is only the "Photos" app that screws up when displaying them.
Very annoying, because now all of us iPhone developers with image editing programs will get poor reviews because our programs "save blurry pictures". Hopefully Apple will release a 2.2.1 very soon.
Very annoying, because now all of us iPhone developers with image editing programs will get poor reviews because our programs "save blurry pictures". Hopefully Apple will release a 2.2.1 very soon.
bro read my comment carefully
im not saying that the speed is the cause, its the reason
I have saved several pictures from e-mails
like others have said ( and i said before) apple has a screwy way of "optimizing" pictures that get transferred into the camera roll
the actual pictures when transferred to the computer are fine btw
and it does NOT work correctly from mobile safari
as I mentioned in my thread, the only way to avoid this compression into camera roll is to take a screen capture
I got an e-mail last night with an attached (large) pic, I saved it to camera roll and didn't noticed any blurriness nor quality depreciation. 
I got an e-mail last night with an attached (large) pic, I saved it to camera roll and didn't noticed any blurriness nor quality depreciation.
I think apple have solved it thanks Goodness. Thanks for the update