How do you open the Gallery App from an app?

Question

I have an app that takes screenshots and saves them to an album in the iOS gallery app. I want to be able to open the gallery app from my app. Is this possible?

Answer 1

No, sorry not possible. Some apps allow you to open them from within your app using URL schemes but the built in iOS photos app is not one of them.

Answer 2

Only way to see the photo album is by creating a UIImagePickerController and setting its source type as UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary . This will open it in album view inside the app. I am not sure whether that satisfies your requirement completely.

UIImagePickerController *imagePicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
imagePicker.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;

Alternatively you can also check asset library and the sample code