[Bug]: Failed to rotate to image error is shown when saving image at the Edit Image screen

[rohit9625]

Summary

We get the Failed to rotate to image error when trying to save the rotated or unrotated image at the Edit Image screen.

Steps to reproduce

1. Try to upload any image
2. Click Edit image at the first step
3. Click Save either after rotating or before rotating the image
4. We'll be navigated back to Upload Screen

Expected behaviour

The rotated image should be shown at the Upload Screen without any errors.

Actual behaviour

Failed to rotate to image error shown when saving the image. Also, image preview not visible at the Upload Screen.

Device name

Pixel 9 Pro (Emulator)

Android version

Android 15

Commons app version

latest main

Device logs

No response

Screenshots

Screen_recording_20260121_003247.webm

Would you like to work on the issue?

Yes

[Kota-Jagadeesh]

@rohit9625 I tested this by saving the image after rotating and without rotaing it in the Edit image screen, but couldn't reporduce the issue . Am I missing something?

Screenrecorder-2026-01-21-21-50-00-687.mp4

[rohit9625]

What is your Android version?

[Kota-Jagadeesh]

15

[rohit9625]

Strange, I faced the error on Pixel Emulator. Did you try pulling from main?

[Kota-Jagadeesh]

I didn't pull the changes, but i'll try pulling the latest changes, test it and let you know about this

[rohit9625]

Okay, I also tested on my physical device and not reproducible.

[Kota-Jagadeesh]

Oh, Thanks!

[Kota-Jagadeesh]

@rohit9625 Shall we close this issue ?

[rohit9625]

I will retest again and then close this issue

[RyukXO-code]

@rohit9625 try with a different image because in this process the app will try to create a temp file after editing the photo but if the photo uri is read only then it can show an error like this ig, i don't think it's an universal application bug
or it can be an emulator specific bug also...
but there's a major probability of scoped storage issue.

[Kota-Jagadeesh]

@rohit9625 this issue is reproducable but not for all tthe images. it only occurs with images of types other than JPG/JPEG, and even JPG/JPEG images can be reproducible if the image has no EXIF headers. I’m not sure, but ig the image you used to reproduce the issue might not have EXIF headers or might be in a different format than JPG/JPEG. Could you recheck it and share the image, if possible, so we can test it? 😊

[Kota-Jagadeesh]

@rohit9625, did you get a chance to go over the comment above?

[rohit9625]

Sorry for not responding on time.
I'm not sure about the image; it was downloaded from the internet. Also, I don't think I'll be able to investigate this issue soon. So, if you want, you can take it over, @Kota-Jagadeesh :)
I'll get the image to you by tomorrow 👍