How to compare two UIImage objects

Updated Mark Tickner's solution to Swift 4

import UIKit

extension UIImage {

    func isEqualToImage(_ image: UIImage) -> Bool {
        let data1 = self.pngData()
        let data2 = image.pngData()
        return data1 == data2
    }

}

The two variables are probably overkill, but they might help explain to someone new to this. Could shorten to:

import UIKit

extension UIImage {

    func isEqualToImage(_ image: UIImage) -> Bool {
        return self.pngData() == image.pngData()
    }

}

One way is to convert them to image data first, and then compare that.

- (BOOL)image:(UIImage *)image1 isEqualTo:(UIImage *)image2
{
    NSData *data1 = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image1);
    NSData *data2 = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image2);

    return [data1 isEqual:data2];
}

A Swift implementation of @Simon's answer:

func image(image1: UIImage, isEqualTo image2: UIImage) -> Bool {
    let data1: NSData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image1)!
    let data2: NSData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image2)!
    return data1.isEqual(data2)
}

Or by extending UIImage based on @nhgrif's suggestion:

import UIKit

extension UIImage {

    func isEqualToImage(image: UIImage) -> Bool {
        let data1: NSData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(self)!
        let data2: NSData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(image)!
        return data1.isEqual(data2)
    }

}