UIImagePickerController - crops picture to square (in portrait)

Question

I\'m using the UIImagePickerController to take and edit a picture. it works fine in landscape, but in portrait it will crop the picture into a square (does not allow to reduce t

Answer 1

You can provide a custom cropping UI, but there is no way to change just the cropping rectangle of the standard one.

This link might help with that.

Answer 2

I know its really late to answer this question, But someone may find this helpful.

Change

[imagePicker setAllowsEditing:YES]; 

To

[imagePicker setAllowsEditing:NO];

Thanks, Jay

Answer 3

Check out GKImagePicker library, it allows to set your custom image crop area, like this:

self.imagePicker = [[GKImagePicker alloc] init];
self.imagePicker.cropSize = CGSizeMake(320, 90);
self.imagePicker.delegate = self;

[self presentModalViewController:self.imagePicker.imagePickerController animated:YES];