How to enable VolumeSnap for Camera+ now, no jailbreak required

by Justin Horn on Aug 10th, 2010 @ 11:45 am

I tweeted yesterday how Apple rejected TapTapTap’s latest update for Camera+ which would allow you to use the volume button to snap a picture instead of trying to find the spot on the LCD.

TapTapTap posted Apple’s reason, which is just going by the rules Apple clearly put in their terms:

Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion. Changing the behavior of iPhone external hardware buttons is a violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. Applications must adhere to the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines as outlined in the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.7

TapTapTap put in a request to have this as a valid feature, but who knows how long that would take (if ever) to actually get approved.

TiPb was alerted to an easy, non-jailbreak work around:

Flo from shimanke.com just let us know that there is way to enable VolumeSnap on the current version of Camera+. Just visit camplus://enablevolumesnap in mobile Safari. Doing so will launch Camera+ and VolumeSnap just works. There is a possibility that doing this will disable the volume control to your iPhone, but closing Camera+ from the multitasking dock quickly fixes it. To disable VolumeSnap, visit camplus://disablevolumesnap in mobile Safari.

Leanna Lofte from TiPb gave it a try and she said it worked great. I gave it a try as well and had the same results. Also, I did not encounter the issue with my volume control being disabled on my iPhone 4. I do get a bit of a weird feeling because the camera lens is on the bottom right, when you put the volume buttons in the standard top right orientation, but it’s just a feeling and works great.

Thanks to Tills for finding this and posting it as a comment on an iphone-ticker.de post.

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