--- title: "Separate Photo Library and Camera actions" canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/ios/knowledge-base/separate-photo-library-and-camera-actions/" md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/ios/knowledge-base/separate-photo-library-and-camera-actions.md" last_updated: "2026-05-14T16:53:43.872Z" description: "Learn to implement separate buttons for adding image annotations from the Photo Library and Camera using UIImagePickerController and custom subclasses in Swift." --- It’s possible to add two separate buttons for adding image annotations from the Photo Library and Camera. The most flexible way to achieve this is to present `UIImagePickerController` or `PHPickerViewController` from your own code and then add a [`StampAnnotation`](https://www.nutrient.io/api/ios/documentation/pspdfkit/stampannotation) with the image you get from the picker. Alternatively, you can achieve this with Nutrient with subclasses of Nutrient’s [`ImagePickerController`](https://www.nutrient.io/api/ios/documentation/pspdfkitui/imagepickercontroller) that [only allow one source type](https://www.nutrient.io/guides/ios/miscellaneous/image-picker.md#source-type). For example: ```swift class OnlyPhotoLibraryPickerController: ImagePickerController { override class func availableImagePickerSourceTypes() -> [NSNumber] { return [NSNumber(value: UIImagePickerController.SourceType.photoLibrary.rawValue)] } } ``` In a button action method in a subclass of [`PDFViewController`](https://www.nutrient.io/api/ios/documentation/pspdfkitui/pdfviewcontroller), register the subclass just before showing the image picker: ```swift @objc func togglePhotoLibrary(_ sender: UIBarButtonItem) { self.updateConfiguration { $0.overrideClass(ImagePickerController.self, with: OnlyPhotoLibraryPickerController.self) } self.annotationStateManager.toggleImagePickerController(sender, presentationOptions: nil) } ``` Here’s a complete subclass of `PDFViewController` that adds two separate buttons — one to import images from the Photo Library, and one to import from the Camera: ### SWIFT ```swift class SeparateImagePickersPDFViewController: PDFViewController { override func commonInit(with document: Document?, configuration: PDFConfiguration) { super.commonInit(with: document, configuration: configuration) var leftBarButtonItems = navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems(for:.document)?? [] leftBarButtonItems += [ UIBarButtonItem(title: "Library", style:.plain, target: self, action: #selector(togglePhotoLibrary)), UIBarButtonItem(title: "Camera", style:.plain, target: self, action: #selector(toggleCamera)), ] navigationItem.setLeftBarButtonItems(leftBarButtonItems, for:.document, animated: false) navigationItem.leftItemsSupplementBackButton = true } @objc private func togglePhotoLibrary(_ sender: UIBarButtonItem) { updateConfiguration { $0.overrideClass(ImagePickerController.self, with: OnlyPhotoLibraryPickerController.self) } annotationStateManager.toggleImagePickerController(sender, presentationOptions: nil) } @objc private func toggleCamera(_ sender: UIBarButtonItem) { updateConfiguration { $0.overrideClass(ImagePickerController.self, with: OnlyCameraPickerController.self) } annotationStateManager.toggleImagePickerController(sender, presentationOptions: nil) } } private class OnlyPhotoLibraryPickerController: ImagePickerController { override class func availableImagePickerSourceTypes() -> [NSNumber] { return [NSNumber(value: UIImagePickerController.SourceType.photoLibrary.rawValue)] } } private class OnlyCameraPickerController: ImagePickerController { override class func availableImagePickerSourceTypes() -> [NSNumber] { return [NSNumber(value: UIImagePickerController.SourceType.camera.rawValue)] } } ``` ### OBJECTIVE-C ```objc @interface SeparateImagePickersPDFViewController : PSPDFViewController @end @interface OnlyPhotoLibraryPickerController : PSPDFImagePickerController @end @interface OnlyCameraPickerController : PSPDFImagePickerController @end @implementation SeparateImagePickersPDFViewController - (void)commonInitWithDocument:(PSPDFDocument *)document configuration:(PSPDFConfiguration *)configuration { [super commonInitWithDocument:document configuration:configuration]; NSMutableArray *leftBarButtonItems = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:[self.navigationItem leftBarButtonItemsForViewMode:PSPDFViewModeDocument]]; [leftBarButtonItems addObjectsFromArray:@[ [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Library" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(togglePhotoLibrary:)], [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Camera" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(toggleCamera:)], ]]; [self.navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItems:leftBarButtonItems forViewMode:PSPDFViewModeDocument animated:NO]; self.navigationItem.leftItemsSupplementBackButton = YES; } - (void)togglePhotoLibrary:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender { [self updateConfigurationWithBuilder:^(PSPDFConfigurationBuilder *builder) { [builder overrideClass:PSPDFImagePickerController.class withClass:OnlyPhotoLibraryPickerController.class]; }]; [self.annotationStateManager toggleImagePickerController:sender presentationOptions:nil]; } - (void)toggleCamera:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender { [self updateConfigurationWithBuilder:^(PSPDFConfigurationBuilder *builder) { [builder overrideClass:PSPDFImagePickerController.class withClass:OnlyCameraPickerController.class]; }]; [self.annotationStateManager toggleImagePickerController:sender presentationOptions:nil]; } @end @implementation OnlyPhotoLibraryPickerController + (NSArray *)availableImagePickerSourceTypes { return @[@(UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypePhotoLibrary)]; } @end @implementation OnlyCameraPickerController + (NSArray *)availableImagePickerSourceTypes { return @[@(UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera)]; } @end ``` --- ## Related pages - [Adjusting Size Of Popovers](/guides/ios/knowledge-base/adjusting-size-of-popovers.md) - [Fix app store connect operation errors in Xcode](/guides/ios/knowledge-base/app-store-connect-operation-errors.md) - [Archive Errors Cocoapods](/guides/ios/knowledge-base/archive-errors-cocoapods.md) - [Customize your iOS navigation bar above crop UI](/guides/ios/knowledge-base/customize-the-navigation-bar-in-crop.md) - 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