Owners of the HTC One (M8) who have updated their phones with the new Eye Experience have noticed that a glaring omission – the Crop Me In feature is nowhere to be found. We noticed the missing feature yesterday morning when the HTC Eye Experience update was installed on our T-Mobile branded HTC One (M8). We immediately reached out to HTC’s @moversi on Twitter to see if there was a reason for the omission. Less than 24 hours later, we have an answer.
@moversi replied to our inquiry, stating that Crop Me In has not been included with the HTC Eye Experience update for the HTC One (M8) simply because it was not ready yet. Fortunately, the feature is still coming to the phone and will be released as camera app update through Google Play before the Android 5.0 Lollipop update drops. It’s disappointing that you can’t crop yourself into awkward pictures with the latest update to the HTC One (M8), but it’s nice to know that HTC’s decision to move its core Sense 6 apps to Google Play gives the company a new level of flexibility in releasing new features to its phones.
@HTCSource @htc Hi, it wasn't ready. We'll have that as an app update later before the L release. Thanks.
— Mo Versi (@moversi) October 22, 2014
Glad to hear that is the case, as I thought it would not be included permanently. The current experience is still quite something, the face tracking of the front camera works really well. Hopefully it will be included somehow on the back camera as an alternative to IOS when a face is present.
Thanks I tweeted him the same question so I’m glad to get an answer. I was disappointed cuz that was actually the feature I was most looking forward to but glad it’s not totally done away with.
Now where is it?