Keep getting fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value

The first error you get is because your imagePicked in not initialised, and you are assigning an Image to it. Solution to this problem is simply initialise it. Use the following code either in viewdidLoad or imagePickerController(_:didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:) imagePicked = UIImageView(image: image) Remember to dismiss the imagePicker using the following code picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil) To make the image visible add the image view in your case imagePicked to the view. To do so add the following code after you dismiss the imagePicker imagePicked.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100) // Use values that you need self.view.addSubview(imagePicked) Your imagePickerController(_:didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:) should look like this func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [NSObject : AnyObject]) { picker.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil) imagePicked = UIImageView(image: info[UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage] as! UIImage) imagePicked.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100) // whatever frame you want self.view .addSubview(imagePicked) } Note: - imagePickerController:didFinishPickingImage:editingInfo: is deprecated

imagePicked is nil. You declare it at the top ( var imagePicked : UIImageView!). The exclamation says "hey, this won't be nil, I promise." So you silence all compile warnings and errors, but... You never instantiate it, so you break the promise. In did finish picking image with info do: if imagePicked == nil { //init and configure your imageView imagePicked = UIImageView(...) } //you can safely use it here... At the top change the ! To ? Note: The init should be done in a place before there's a posibility of anyone accessing it. Maybe on viewDidLoad...

You have to unwrap the optional value of imagePicked like imagePicked!.image = image Also another issue of init imagePicked = UIImageView(image: image)