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I am trying to populate an UIImageView with image data taken from a webservice. Below is what I am trying to do and it does not populate the image at all. The UIImageView is blank when my view loads. This is in the viewDidLoad method.

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NSString * temp=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"data:image/png;base64,%@",imageData];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:temp];
NSData *d = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
UIImage *ret = [UIImage imageWithData:d];
[Photo setImage:ret];

Photo is a UIImageView. Any suggestions to help me out?

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I was able to use a method as follows

- (UIImage *)decodeBase64ToImage:(NSString *)strEncodeData {
NSData *data = [[NSData alloc]initWithBase64EncodedString:strEncodeData options:NSDataBase64DecodingIgnoreUnknownCharacters];
return [UIImage imageWithData:data];

}

And pass it my base64 string from the webservice call like this:

UIImage *image = [self decodeBase64ToImage:imageData];

[Photo setImage:image];
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