Quick Snap App Uses iPhone Volume Button for Camera Shutter
Posted 12/28/2010 at 6:42am
| by J.R. Bookwalter
Stop us if you’ve heard this before: A third-party camera app that maps the volume button as the camera shutter. The popular Camera+ app hid just such a feature in a prior update, which got them banned from the App Store for four months. Now another company is trying the same trick.
According to MacRumors, developer GoodCode appears to have slipped one past the App Store goalies this month, with the December 15 approval of the $1.99 Quick Snap - Camera Plus app. Quick Snap allows you to remap the iPhone volume button as a camera shutter. However, unlike an earlier effort by developer taptaptap to hide such capability as an Easter egg, Quick Snap not only lists the feature in the app description, but boasts about it in a screenshot as well.
When it was discovered that Camera+ included the hidden feature, Apple quickly yanked the app from the App Store and it took four months before it returned last week, sans the offending extra. But now Quick Snap has arrived, promising the same feature which got Camera+ booted.
“Turn iPhone Volume Button into a Shutter Button? Quick Snap is the app for THAT!,” the app’s description reads. “Why choose the soft or full screen shutter when you can use VOLUME BUTTON as the hard shutter button on your iPhone? You are now one step close to the real digital camera experience! Isn't that awesome?”
Awesome indeed, assuming it wasn’t an error on the part of an Apple reviewer -- Camera+ was banished for the same feat, which was considered “a violation of Apple’s terms due to the potential for confusing users,” MacRumors notes.
If you’re interested in such an app, we’d suggest you move quickly -- Apple’s App Store holiday vacation ends on Wednesday, December 29, and once the reviewers realize their error, it’s likely Quick Snap - Camera Plus will be sent packing on a vacation of its own.
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