By now you probably know there’s a hidden camera feature that people can enable on iOS 5 devices, allowing users to snap photos in panorama mode (see video).
However, to enable the hidden feature your device needed to be jailbroken. But as it turns out, you can actually get panorama mode working on your iOS 5 device without jailbreaking it.
As the folks over at 360cities found out, there’s a way to do this by fiddling with your iPhone’s backup file and then restoring it. As the video below shows, you will need to install the iBackupBot application (needless to say, you need to proceed with caution).
The 360cities guys also show the feature in action, in case you hadn’t seen it yet. They’re using the camera app with panorama mode on an iPhone 4S, but it should work on an iPhone 4 and iPad 2 as well (feel free to let us know if it does or doesn’t in the comments).
Also note that the panorama feature is apparently quite clunky in its current form, which is probably why it hasn’t been publicly released or touted by Apple yet.
The iPhone 4S will be offered in the US by AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint. Product specs: Dual-core A5 CPU, said to be “2x as fast at CPU tasks” Dual-core graphics, up to “7x faster than the previous iPhone” Battery life estimates: 8 hours talk time on 3G, 14 hours on 2G. 6 hours of browsing on 3G, 9 on Wi-Fi. 10 hours of video playback, 40 hours of music. Theoretical download speeds of 14.4Mbps (as opposed to 7.2 on the iPhone 4.) World Phone...
360 Cities collects, commissions, hosts, and organizes the world’s best immersive panoramic photography on the web. Our goal is to bring 360 VR photography to the mainstream, and create new applications from this geographic data. We aim to cover hundreds of cities with tens of thousands of artistic, high-resolution, spherical panoramas. As a community, we allow any skilled VR photographer to upload and publish their panoramic photography to our site. While everyone is invited to join us, we want to...
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