ThePhotosapp that comes pre-installed on every iPhone and iPad is a powerful way to view, interact with, and even marginally edit certain images or photographs. Still, it’s lacking what some users might consider important features, and this fact alone has stirred up some interest in the jailbreak community.
EnterCampy, a newly released and freejailbreak tweakby iOS developerudevsthat makes the Photos app considerably more powerful by adding must-have features that Apple seemingly left out when they upgraded the app with the release of iOS & iPadOS 14 this Fall.
Right out of the box, Campy provides users with the following options:
Once installed, users can tap and hold on the Tab Bar, Tool Bar, or Navigation Bar to reveal the action sheet shown in the screenshot examples above. Notably, certain options may or may not appear depending on what you’re looking at in the Photo Library. For example, only a video file displays the option to convert to an animated GIF.
Campy adds a dedicated preference pane to the Settings app for users who might want to configure how the tweak works:
Here, you can:
Digging deeper, the Camera and Photos app sections contain the following options:
Camera App
Photos App
Not only does Campy make it easier to make GIFs and remove otherwise sensitive data from photographs you’ve taken, but it takes the native Photos app a step further without the need to install yet another piece of clutter on your Home Screen.
Those interested in giving Campy a try candownload it for free from the udevs repositoryvia their favorite package manager. The tweak supportsjailbrokeniOS & iPadOS 13 and 14 devices.
If you’re not already using udevs repository, then you can add it to your package manager of choice with the following URL:
Do you have any plans to give the new Campy tweak a try on your jailbroken device? Let us know in the comments section down below.
