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the issue is this, When you use the HTML file input type , all/most mobile browsers offer you the choice to Take a picture or Select from a gallery

On the i-Pad this is shown as • Take Photo Or video • Photo Library

If you click on Photo Library it gives you an option to • Load from the gallery.

When using the jQuery-File-Upload (that offers multiple files uploads and drag & drop etc) , on the I-pad it skips the first step and goes straight to Load from Gallery . This is a major problem for us .

Using the official demo of the libraries we use https://blueimp.github.io/jQuery-File-Upload/ this behaves in the same way, so I have to assume our implementation is correct

Note: • This also does not work when using Chrome on an i-Phone • This does seem to work as expected on Android devices

Any ideas gratefully received ..

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  • Don't know if it solves your problem, but did you try to add capture=camera to the input type file, sounds helpful for me: http://www.html5rocks.com/de/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ – axel.michel Nov 28 '14 at 18:15
  • Thanks, I had tried that, but no luck. I did find out its the restriction in IOS when using multiple file type – Scott Nettleton Nov 30 '14 at 18:57

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Some more research , tells me its the multiple file type attribute that restricts this. IOS does not let you use camera as source when using the multiple file selector .

Issue confirmed here Making an iOS file input go directly to the camera app?

and more info on this page http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/iphone-5-ios-6-html5-developers

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