Under the Bridge

Well, here’s a reason we hadn’t run into before for Apple to toss your app into the FAIL bucket:

Your application cannot be submitted to the App Store because it uses a standard “Camera” button for an action which is not its intended purpose.  Applications must adhere to the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines as outlined in iPhone SDK Agreement section 3.3.5.

The “Camera” button is to be used to opens an action sheet that displays a photo picker in camera mode.  Implementing standard buttons to perform other tasks will lead to user confusion.  We recommend using Custom button.

In order for your application to be reconsidered for the App Store, please resolve this issue and upload your new binary to iTunes Connect.

That’s rather annoying, as we’d actually gone to some trouble to find that icon in a UITabBar-usable form specifically because that tab does display a photo picker in camera mode … once you’ve picked and positioned an overlay. Apparently Apple thinks users are very easily confused if that little diversion is too much for them.

Ah well. Live and learn. Hey, it could be worse, they could have actually found some problem with the code…