iOS 17 was one of the updates with the most new features in recent years. Many of them have disappeared, like gesture reactions in applications connected to the camera. This function allows us to react in FaceTime, for example, simply by making certain gestures with our hands. It’s possible that if you didn’t know about this feature, you had an incident during a video call and didn’t find out why balloons or confetti were coming out of your hands. Apple found the solution to avoid these misunderstandings with gesture reactions forks run an API to disable these reactions in third-party applications iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4.
Goodbye to misunderstandings with gesture reactions in iOS 17.4
As we said, iOS 17 launched what Apple called Video Effects, or something similar gesture reactions in FaceTime and in other services or applications that use the camera. It’s likely that during a call you’ve seen thumbs-up balloons, hearts, rain or confetti appear. This is obviously due to video effects which can be disabled in little-known ways from the iOS 17 Control Center. However, This deactivation is global and does not depend on the applications so if we have the function activated, Reactions will also appear in third-party video apps.
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And this has caused many misunderstandings during video calls with third-party apps of varying importance. Imagine you’re in the middle of a work meeting and confetti appears on the screen or you’re in the middle of a relaxation session and it starts to rain. This This also happens in iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonama, Apple therefore had to find a solution to try to avoid setbacks with this function.
To do this, as MacRumors reports, They will introduce an API in iOS 17.4 to disable these gesture reactions by default in every app. In other words, each application will be able to activate or deactivate video effects individually in each application to prevent it from always being activated by default. We will see how the developers make it happen and if this API also reaches macOS Sonama 14.4 or if it will only be available for iOS and iPadOS.
