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Camera / Picture (Image) Issues in Power Apps (Low res images)

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I have been recently building an app (mobile based) for field force.

Our main aim was to capture the image from site using device camera and store it in SharePoint (using Flow).

For iPhone devices, the app captures the images through app. However, when i transfer the files through FLOW to SharePoint list it stores low resolution images. Also, surprisingly the files get renamed in some GUID numbers.

I tried using 1) Camera Control 2) File Upload 3) SharePoint attachments

Even i tried triggering camera, selecting file, browsing through albums etc. In all case the behavior is same. Very low res images (300KB) get transferred through sharepoint

BEHAVIOR OBSERVED:

iPhone : all options return low res images

Android: One of the option suggesting File browse allows me to transfer high res images to sharepoint

Windows: One of the option suggesting File browse allows me to transfer high res images to sharepoint

Is it a Power Apps limitation or am i doing something wrong ? Is Poweapps completely blocking high res images (from getting transferred) iPhone devices to SharePoint

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Hi @girish1 ,

I'm afraid it's PowerApps camera control's limit currently.

There's no very good way to avoid this.

I suggest you express your views about increasing captured images' res on PowerApps Ideas Forum. Your precious feedback will be very helpful for our work.

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Ideas/idb-p/PowerAppsIdeas

Or you could try to upload images to PowerApps, not taken by camera in PowerApps.

In this way, the pictures' res will be higher.

Best regards,

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Nope, even with taking pictures offline, iOS renames image file to some guid and scales down image resolution considerably and then allow to upload to SharePoint.

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