The iPhone is already almost the most popular camera on Flickr. Apple wants to make it even easier to take photos with an iPhone: coming soon, you’ll have a lock screen shortcut for taking photos in iOS 5.
What’s cool about this is that even if you have a passcode set, you’ll go right to the camera. You can’t see anything else… and you can use the volume up button to take a photo…” said Fortsall to huge cheers.
This is my favorite iOS 5 addition today short of the new notifications.
In addition, Apple’s adding some abilities to easily edit photos on the iPhone, including cropping, red eye reduction, quick enhance and more.
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10 responses to “Take Photos From The Lockscreen Then Edit Them With iOS 5 [WWDC 2011]”
but still no grid
that’s what advanced apps are for
scrap that, apparently it has a grid now
They rejected an application (Camera+) for using the volume button to take photos and now they do it themselves. That is the definition of unfair.
In fairness, Apple are consistent in their unfairness so I wasn’t that surprised when I saw this. Kinda like the time Apple rejected an app that recreated that feature in iPhotos where you could pitch open an album a little to see its stack of photos.