Question

I am using a UIImagePicker to present the users photos so that the user can choose an image to be used in my app.

My problem is that on the first time a user opens the image picker they are presented with a prompt saying: ‘”my App” Would like to Access your Photos’ with two options, Don’t allow and OK.

My requirement is that when the user clicks Don’t Allow, the Image picker gets dismissed.

Is there a way to detect that the user has chosen Don’t allow?

Currently it leaves the user in an ugly blank modal view. If the user opens the image picker again they are show the nice apple provided message that says “this app does not have access to your photos etc etc”

here is how I use the image picker:

self.imagePickerController = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
self.imagePickerController.sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary;
[self presentModalViewController:self.imagePickerController animated:YES];

Answer 1

Got it!

if ([ALAssetsLibrary authorizationStatus] == ALAuthorizationStatusNotDetermined) {
    ALAssetsLibrary *assetsLibrary = [[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init];
    [assetsLibrary enumerateGroupsWithTypes:ALAssetsGroupAll usingBlock:^(ALAssetsGroup *group, BOOL *stop) {
        if (*stop) {
            // INSERT CODE TO PERFORM WHEN USER TAPS OK eg. :
            return;
        }
        *stop = TRUE;
    } failureBlock:^(NSError *error) {
        // INSERT CODE TO PERFORM WHEN USER TAPS DONT ALLOW, eg. :
        self.imagePickerController dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
    }];
}