UIImagePickerController open in camera roll

Question

Is it possible to open camera roll directly with UIImagePickerController but still have the back button to your album list?

UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeSavedPhotosAlbum will open only the camera roll without the option to slide back to albums.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the answer is -- it's not possible. At least not through any standard interface. It might be possible to do some view hierarchy mining or method swizzling to make it happen, but then you may run afoul of the App Store submissions review.

From the Camera Programming Topics of iOS (bolded emphasis mine):

Instead of using the camera as the media source, you use the Camera Roll album or Saved Photos album, or the entire photo library.

And:

Source type To configure the picker for browsing saved media as opposed to capturing a new picture or movie, set its sourceType property to one of the saved photo sources:

Use UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary to present a browser that provides access to all the photo albums on the device, including the Camera Roll album on devices that have a camera.

Use UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeSavedPhotosAlbum to present a browser that restricts access to the Camera Roll album on devices that have a camera, or to the Saved Photos album on devices that don’t.

Answer 2

I would rather suggest you to use custom imagepickers like elcimagepicker. afer going through the code properly you can achieve the thing you want with the help of minor manipulations.