Apple has quietly simplified the user interface for the iPhone 5s’s new Burst Mode camera feature in its recent iOS 7 updates. Burst mode allows you to keep your finger on the shutter button to capture photos at the rate of 10 per second.
Previously, the feature would present a user with all of their photos from a Burst Mode session in one group. If a user liked a particular photo (or multiple photos) from the Burst Mode session, the user could swipe between all of the photos from the group and select their favorites. When the user chose the favorites, they would be duplicated into standalone images in the Camera roll. The rest of the photos from Burst Mode session would remain as an original group in the Camera Roll.
Photos from the 8 megapixel iPhone camera can eat up storage space at a pretty good clip, and retaining all the Burst Mode photos could lead to a lack of storage space on user’s iPhones. As of iOS 7.0.2, the user can now easily select favorite images taken from Burst Mode, and delete the other photos, as seen above.
Originally, the entire session was retained, and the entire original Burst Mode session was kept in storage.
