iOS 5 Camera: Volume Shutter, Lock Screen, Remote Triggering

Just warn your girlfriends when they go to the bathroom if there is an iPhone propped up on the counter with the headphones going somewhere else. There might be a creeper in the other room taking remote pics of them.

As opposed to an iPhone propped up without headphones recording 1080p video?

I wish they could make this work with a bluetooth headset as well. THAT would be useful.

Finally, as a corollary to the volume up shutter release, users can also plug in headphones with headphone controls -- like the headphones that are included with the iPhone -- and use the volume up on the headphones.

So that's how they got so close to the squirrel.

Is there going to be another article on how we can delete individual calls from the call history too?

I just tried with Instagram, it does not take use of the volume button.

I guess it's fair enough that Apple wants to have this feature exclusively at first. This way they can tweak the API until they are really sure that it works and then release it.

Nevertheless I don't this is a particularly complicated API to make public. I understand that some more complicated API like dictionary or Siri may take a while to mature before releasing it. I don't think that's the case in here.

The feature isn't exclusive to Apple's Camera app. It's part of the API now. If the developer uses the standard UIImagePickerController, the volume button takes a photo.

Some apps like "ShakeItPhoto" now also have volume button support under iOS 5, but I'd guess it just got the feature "automatically" since it's using an unmodified UIImagePickerController.

I'm not sure how Instagram was built, but it may not be using the standard UIImagePickerController.

So, is the volume button API public now? It's not fair to 3rd party camera apps if it isn't public.

But it's no different that any other feature; Apple gets access to all APIs and can bypass them if it wants, devs only get to use the public ones.