Removing the camera access manually from cellphone cause a permission problem in react-native-photo-upload

[saeedtkh]

Hi, I am using this package in both IOS and Android and it is working well. But there is a problem in the following case of IOS. If the user go for uploading the photo for the first time, the package asking the permission for camera and library. Then if the user removes the access to camera or library manually from the privacy setting of the phone and go for the second time to upload the photo, nothing happens. In other words, the app doesn't ask for permission again it doesn't show any reaction. Can you please let me know what is the problem. thanks in advance.

[mihai-ro]

bump; any updates on this?

[gabrielgc]

@mihai-ro Did you manage to overcome this?

[aravi365]

@mihai-ro @gabrielgc did you guys fixed it someway??

[gabrielgc]

@aravi365 I managed it by checking the error message on response.
Inside onResponse

if (Platform.OS === 'ios' && response.error) {
...
if (response.error === 'Camera permissions not granted' 
|| response.error === 'Photo library permissions not granted') {
//here I have a message to the user to allow the camera/library access in their phone settings
...

If you want you can send them directly to your app settings by doing Linking.openURL('app-settings:')

[aravi365]

if (response.error === 'Camera permissions not granted'
|| response.error === 'Photo library permissions not granted') {

it worked perfectly fine. Thumbs up for that! But about android, how did you managed it? @gabrielgc

For android when permission is denied then alert shows to navigate to settings. But even after giving permissions, when coming back and pressing the photo upload again, nothing happens. Need to restart the app after killing it, to make it work as expected.