No video on camera app
I just purchased an iPhone 5s and I clicked on the camera app to take a video and it doesn't have any place to take a video. It only has photo, square and pano. Any help on how to fix this?
I think that is happening is that the microphone is on during this recording. If you play the music through the iPhone speakers, it will record this sound, albeit at very poor quality. If you say anything (or laugh uproariously as I did while watching the app in action, then that, too, get recorded.
I am still looking for the solution we all want, which is to save the audio in reasonable quality.
Anyone out there with some ideas?
Cheers,
Rob
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5183
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