iPhone Atlas “previously speculated that Apple is somehow triggering or unlocking iPhone functionality over the EDGE network (or perhaps over any IP-based network, including WiFi connections). The reason for the postulation: the addition of a ‘Send to Web Gallery,’ button that appears in the Camera and Photos applications when clicking the share button (lower left corner when viewing a photo) that did not exist for any iPhone owner prior to August 7th, and did not require any iTunes-based software/firmware installation.”
iPhone Atlas reports that Apple has now addressed this issue in Knowledge Base article #306272:
If the Send to Web Gallery option does not appear on iPhone, and you have installed iPhone Software 1.0.1 or later, press the Home button to exit Photos, wait an hour before you tap Photos, and then try again. During that hour, it’s OK to use other features of iPhone.
iPhone Atlas reports, “This essentially confirms that some sort of network-based trigger — not a time-based mechanism — invokes the ‘Send to Web Gallery’ option… Apple is still not revealing, however, whether the update trigger happens only over EDGE, or can occur over any type of valid network connection. Nor is it saying whether any actual application data is being transferred over the network, or just a unlock trigger.”
Full article here.
this is pretty cool i love my iphone and cant wait to see what improvements apple will come out with for this powerful new platform
Big brother is messing with your phone. I have no .mac account and no send to gallery option.
I’m pretty sure you have to enable a .mac email account on the iphone to be the default email before this functionality will work. Just doing what’s listed above alone won’t complete the task.
If you don’t like the weather on the iPhone just wait an hour.
This does not confirm anything. Just some speculations.
Apple doesn’t say anything definite.
It is possible that it was a timed released feature.
iPhone update 1.0.1 was released just a week and some hours before Apple Special event.
You don’t have to set .mac as the default email account for this to work. I do have a .mac account and I do have this enabled on my iPhone, but it is not my default account (my Gmail account is) and my send to web button is active.
FYI.
That doesn’t prove it’s over a network. That could be many things, including maybe it’s still time based, but doesn’t check constantly, the system does a check periodically and adds the button if it’s after a certain date/time.
You will only get this option if you have a .mac email account set up on the phone. I saw word of this last week and checked to see if I had this function. I did not until I added a .mac email account.
@Ridley…
seriously? I had an apple specialist on the line for a half an hour to get this working on my iphone. He definitely said that the .Mac account had to be the default.
Um, if a network connection were required, wouldn’t the knowledgebase article state that you must be connected to the EDGE network? The fact that it DOESN’T say that seems to be proof that it’s NOT network based. Otherwise there’d be some pissed off people who have their iPhone in airplane mode waiting forever for the feature to show up.
I have three accounts set up on my iPhone, and the .mac is NOT the default. The option does not work.
Fiddling around ….seems messages created outside of the iPhone Mail app, such as sending a link, or an image, will be “sent” from the default account. It says as much on the Mail Settings window (at the bottom).
Somehow the sending of an image to your Web Gallery can only be sent (unless you send to the designated email address from any account) from the .mac account.
Odd, to say the least.
Has anyone noticed a new pop-up the first time they open an iLife 06 program?? I’ve been getting not-so-gentle reminders to upgrade the first time I opened iPhoto, iTunes and iWeb after the iLife 08 announcement.
Was this part of the “Security Upgrade” that was released right before the announcement last week? Or a timed announcement? Or was there some trigger for the desktops over the Internet?
Remember, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re NOT coming after you…
Is this really all that surprising? T-mobile has been performing OTA updates on the Sidekicks for years now, including adding apps and complete system software upgrades… I’m not sure why this is seen to be such an amazing deal. I fully expected Apple to include this sort of functionality from the beginning. Seems like a no-brainer.
@ Brandon Russell:
This actually *does* confirm it’s a network trigger, but not whether it is EDGE only as the article says.
If it was a timed event it would have happened at a set time. If this timed event is waiting for a network signal as you describe, then it’s basically waiting for a “network trigger.”
“I’ve been getting not-so-gentle reminders to upgrade the first time I opened iPhoto, iTunes and iWeb after the iLife 08 announcement.”
Perhaps you have auto check for updates selected under preferences?
FWIW, I have gmail as the default and .mac as secondary. And I have the Send to Web Gallery button.
And I’m still hesitant over buying iLife ’08 especially with the iWeb complaints I’ve read.
“I’ve been getting not-so-gentle reminders . . .”
I thought they were gentle. Not soothing or supple and definitely not cathartic or even emotionally satisfying but frank, warm and just a little inviting. Like a decent wine or a roadside diner.
The button didn’t show up on my phone until I installed the 1.0.1 update, iLife 08 and then synchronized my phone with my Mac.
This is consistent with my earlier speculation that it is seeing a capability on the web to talk to (which I speculated because that’s how I would implement such a thing as a software developer.)
“triggered remotely” implies the network sending signals to the phone… but in my scenario it is simply an app of the phone checking capabilities on the web.
Not that I have any actual knowledge.
As others have pointed out, this is inaccurate. You have to setup the .mac address first, then it will show up. Apple isn’t pushing anything to you in the sense that they could otherwise update your phone. When you setup the .mac address, it then polls your account to make sure it’s set up properly and then displays the option in camera.app. The wait is for the confirmation, not for downloading an update. Those of us who have hacked our phones know this because:
1) This functionality only requires the updating of a plist file.
2) A full updated (especially one that was pushed) would require a restart.
I doubt Apple has both left a door open for us to hack the iPhone, and at the same time magically hidden the running processes necessary for doing pushed updates.
Auto-updates without your permission?
What else is going on that we don’t know about?
Well what should I expect from Apple who got into bed with NSA buddies Cisco and AT&T over this new device?
@ ChrissyOne
“If you don’t like the weather on the iPhone just wait an hour.”
Hahahaha Thats just so funnny! Love it 😀
You said, “Auto-updates without your permission?
What else is going on that we don’t know about?
Well what should I expect from Apple who got into bed with NSA buddies Cisco and AT&T over this new device?”
Apple, it just works.!!
Wait, I want my machine to have to be continiously tweaked to work. I want things to crash all the time cause I added stuff that conflicts. I need to be able to have COMPLETE control, like when I am using Windows. —– boy am I delusional. LOL :-0
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MDN word “yet” as in OK, not yet delusional, but close.
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@ MDN: Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
You guys are rapidly becoming the Faux News of the Mac news sites.