Cannot Use Transparent PNGs in iOS 14

Question

Was: Image Manager should import images from the Files app's "MIDI Designer" folder

It would be great if the Image Manager could import images dropped into the "MIDI Designer/" folder from the Files app.

Motivation: Currently, MD's Image Manager only selects images from iOS Photos.  However, there's an bug in the iOS 14 Photos app that removes transparency from PNGs (even when optimization is turned off).  So I currently have no way of importing new transparent images into MIDI Designer to use in image panels.

Comments

Thanks Apple! #sarcasm

Okay we'll have a look and swing back. Thanks for reporting.

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Not seeing an issue just tried with https://images.app.goo.gl/cT2jGAzWwd7dd3r8A

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Thanks for looking into it, Dan.

I played with it more over the weekend, and it seems related to the image dimensions.  PNGs above a certain size kept their transparency (seems to be either width or height)–but once I cropped below that, iOS automagically flattened the transparent pixels to white.  Of course, the kind of things I wanted to use in MD2 were below that magical size.

In any case, Files integration would be great—I’d love to just browse to / drop in images (or layouts, or pages) instead of putting them in my (magically destructive) camera roll.  It would also be a handy way to manipulate layouts without email or Dropbox.