Selecting image from photo gallery is slow

[Mitchell]

I am creating a app that will allow the user to upload a photo from the camera roll. I have it working for both android and IOS. However, it is way to slow to load the image from iOS. The problem is the method i found saves the photo data to a new location, that we can then get to from the qml. But it takes 7-9 seconds on a iPhone 4s. This is not very good, considering in swift it takes about 2 seconds max. I want to be able to match this speed. If you know of a way that i can get around having to save the image, or a faster way let me know please!