“Earlier today, a fascinating thing happened. iPhone owners across the country gained a new function without applying any software or firmware updates. The function in question is ‘Send to Web Gallery,’ a button that appears in the Camera and Photos applications when clicking the share button (lower left corner when viewing a photo), and did not exist for any iPhone owner (that we know of) prior to today. The button links with new .Mac iPhone integration functionality that allows photos to be sent directly from the iPhone to the new ‘Web Gallery’ function,” iPhone Atlas reports.
Triggered via EDGE? A timed addition that came along hidden within iPhone Update 1.0.1?
More in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: We can confirm that we have the “Send to Web Gallery” button now on our iPhones without applying any updates since iPhone Update 1.0.1 on July 31st.
i can’t confirm this! but, i suppose it may have to do with actually having a .Mac account…
Maybe it was there all along. Or perhaps they received a visit in the night from the iPhone Fairy.
apple you sly fox….i love you.
Makes you wonder what else they do or their Cisco *cough* NSA *cough* buddies do.
Since the EFI based Mac’s came out, none of my machines that are connected to the internet have any sensitive data on them.
It’s a shame you can’t trust the consumer product industry to respect your privacy or security anymore.
This is the sort of thing that will convince non-Mac users to get on-board. People aren’t used to being treated well by a consumer electronics company, and free additional functionality certainly qualifies!
creepy!
My iPhone is not showing the new command. Wonder why?
WOW
That’s one hell of a “Easter Egg” find!
Rememeber when Apple Software were full of “Easter Egg’s” – oops – guess I/m showing my age!
yes they we are all in shock that Apple can add functionally
without any inconvenience to the user whatsoever
how? I don’t know, I don’t want to know how to hack my .dll file to add a basic function
I just can confirm that once I installed the new istuff it all just worked as advertised
customers are so used to having to think about their technology that JOBS is going to kick the crap out of these lazy companies who sell people frustration for a living
I have never seen such a clear void between Apple and the competition.
GO APPLE GO!!!!!!!!
Can’t it be in the last update but only be visible at a certain time– some sort of time delay? If not, this is kind of intrusive.
I dont have this feature, but I also do not have a .Mac account, we should be able to set this up with any web server we want.
Oh yea, that’s right. With the MDNresponder exploit, your Mac doesn’t even have to be connected to the internet for exploits to occur. It just needs to running the OS.
I guess I need to get a tin foiled room to run my computers with sensitive and private data in.
This is a absolute tragedy.
Has anyone figured out how to actually USE this feature? Does it require iLife ’08 if you’re only doing it from your iPhone?
The new feature is obviously triggered by date, and was likely installed by the first firmware update.
I have it too. Could it have been a “time released” feature of last week’s update?
It was not on my iPhone this morning, but it is now present.
Sneaky – I’ve alerted Apple and the NSA about your thoughtcrime here on the forum. The van full of goons will be right over.
do you even know what youre talking about, sneaky pete, u trolling penis wart?
Try updating douche.
I keep reading about this all over the place. And I seem to have no idea what everyone is talking about. I have the iPhone 1.0.1 and I didn’t get that feature on there. Maybe it’s only people who updated it using a mac, not a windows machine.
My bet is that it was a timed addition that came along hidden within iPhone Update 1.0.1.
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I don’t see it yet, and I have a .Mac account. But now that I think about it I haven’t used my iPhone today outside of the range of my home and office WiFi networks. Could that be why?
Not showing up on mine and I have the current version.
It must be a timed addition as part up 1.0.1 update, because I haven’t installed that update yet and I still don’t have the command. I’ll install the update and see if it shows up (I bet it will).
I’m at a remote location in the mountains and haven’t been in cell service in 6 days. I’d guess that the change was included in the firmware update with some sort of timer on it… it didn’t show up on mine until I restarted the iPhone
A little scary…