iPhone 4 will soon become one of the most popular camera on Flickr, but Apple wants to make using the camera even better in iOS 5.
So Apple has updated the Camera and Photos app in iOS 5 and were one of the major features demoed at today’s WWDC 2011 Keynote.
Camera app gets the following new features in iOS 5:
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Lock Screen Shortcut - When you double click the Home button, you will get a new Camera icon next to Slide to Unlock button, you can tap on it to launch the Camera app from the Lock screen.
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You can access the Lock Screen shortcut to take new photos even if you have a passcode set, but you won’t be able to access the camera roll without entering the passcode.
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Grid lines has been added as an option to help you align your photo.
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Gets pinch-to-zoom gestures, which will make the zoom feature a lot more intuitive.
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Single-tap focus and exposure locks to compose a picture on the fly.
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You can use the volume-up button to take photos rather than the on-screen button.
You can checkout some screenshots below of the revamped Camera app:
Photos app gets the following new features:
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Finally the Photos app gets the ability to create albums right on the iOS device.
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Ability to crop, rotate, enhance, and remove red-eye
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If Photo Stream is enabled in iCloud, the photos taken on one iOS device are automatically synced to other iOS devices.
You can checkout some screenshots below of the new features in Photos app:
None of the new features are earth shattering, but they'll make the Camera and Photos app a lot more useful for users and features such as ability to create albums, remove red-eye on the iOS device itself, auto-sync to other iOS devices have been some of the most requested features by users.
You can also checkout other new features introduced in iOS 5:
- iOS Notifications Revamped With Notification Center, Lock Screen Display & More
- iMessage: iOS 5 Brings New Messaging Service For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch Users
- Newsstand, Reminders, Twitter Integration
Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
yeah! i love the camera app better now
face detection n recognition would b great
“Nothing Earth Shattering”
Seems like they’ve finally put in some features that enhance usability, but aren’t revolutionary and we wonder why they’ve kept the camera app so crippled for so long up until now.
finally the features i have been asking for since my iPhone 3G
do you know what I like about the OS 5 application I don’t have to buy a new phone. It is a dream come true… Upgrade… Yeah!!! Now I can finish my developing my application for the new upgrade!
So there is still no timer or rapid shot avaliable?
Andriod better be worried
i think it’s good that apple added all these essential features to iphone. as it’s got waaay too much similar apps on their app store already …..
volume button means one thing, iPhone 5 will have camera located in the other corner or in the middle of the phone. interesting to see what it will be.
No. Same area as i4
I love how many jailbroken apps become Apple upgrades later on….
The volume button as the shutter button was first in app store, then taken off as breaking the TOS, then sold on Cydia for sometime… Now part of an official upgrade from Apple. Thanks Apple for a great new idea!
Basically if other people are doing well making money from it, apple adds it to the “official upgrade”
Yeah, but not before crippling the competition in some way first – What was their excuse for banning Camera+? Think it was something along the lines of “improper use of the hardware buttons ruining consistent user experience” – obviously completely unacceptable . . . unless Apple do it of course.
“Single-tap focus and exposure locks to compose a picture on the fly.”
What? Don’t we already have that? I didn’t understand that in the presentation either.
Any rumours about including a QR scanner/reader in the native camera app, as Blackberry and Nokia smartphones already do?
Can anyone help? While looking at photos on phone my son took my phone and did something and is seems locked on one photo with the red eye correct and despite pressing and tapping everything I cannot seem to get to the other pics. Any ideas?