How to show all camera controls with/for UIImagePickerController?

Question

I have trouble showing the camera controls when using UIImagePickerController. Specifically, I need to be able to select between slo-mo, video, photo, square and pano.

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Answer 1

UIImagePickerController came out in iOS 2.0, and was probably modern, in its time:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiimagepickercontroller?language=objc

What you see are "standard controls".

Even today the modern documentation points to the legacy (Objective-C era docs)

The styling of the chrome has changed, but as they say: "the song remains the same."

There are hooks to hide standard controls, and then you can add your own customer controls to operate the camera programatically. I have a pet project to make a version of time-lapse, etc.

But for serious projects, Apple suggests using the AV frameworks, and although I haven't started using them, I certainly agree.