Camera+ is an awesome and well put together iPhone camera application. In a recent update, they made it even better by tapping into the volume +/- buttons to use them as a shutter button. Awesome! I along with countless other iPhone users know holding your precious iDevice and trying to poke the screen to aim and shoot isn’t always the best option. It’s nice to actually have…you know…options. But this is the iPhone and the infamous App Store approval process at work. So you know where this is going…
Apple rejected the app with the hardware shutter buttons saying it would confuse users. Stupidity is too nice a word. Moving on, Camera+ had the last laugh. While the latest version of Camera+ that’s in the App Store doesn’t have shutter button features enabled by default, an ingenious solution by the developers (Tap Tap Tap) is included to allow end users to enable and disable said feature easily and after the fact:
- To unlock the shutter button feature: type “camplus://enablevolumesnap” in the Safari URL bar.
- To disable shutter button feature: type “camplus://disablevolumesnap in the Safari URL bar
We’ve seen various apps and services get around Apple’s draconian App Store polices via Safari before. This is yet another notch in the belt if you will. Unfortunately as we’ve seen before, Camera+’s days in the App Store may be drawing to a close once Apple finds out (and probably already has because of our big mouths). When things don’g go their way, they get all ban happy. Best get to it while there’s something to be had…
Source:
Wired
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