Unable to change custom skins

I have a 4th gen ipod. When I try to use a custom skin in Minecraft PE, it tells me, "that's not a Minecraft skin, silly".

It's frustrating because they are real skins. When my younger sister uses her fifth gen ipod to wear the same skins, it accepts them. Can I fix this?

Solution 1:

This is a confirmed bug and it is currently worked on.

Edit: Anything downloaded from the internet and saved to the camera roll retains its format, so .png stay as a .png, while anything taken from the camera is saved as a .jpeg.

The bug however, is caused when the game tries to access the file system. As iOS 6 does not support copying files from the camera roll to an app's sandboxed directory, Minecraft Pocket Edition thus comes up with the "This is not a skin, silly." which is a generic error.

Note: The error in-game does not specify the cause, but the inferred cause would be "file not found".

For now, all you can do is wait...

As for Facebook, for example able to use an image (or multiple images) from the camera roll - That's due to the image not being saved to disk, but instead, transmitted; loaded to memory and then uploaded through the same method Safari does so.

Update: See this question for information on how to change your skin.

Update: Now I remember: It was a comment on the bug tracker.

To change your Minecraft Skin manually on iOS, simply open a file system viewer and browse to the following folder:

.../[Minecraft PE]/Documents/game/com.mojang/minecraftpe/

And name it: custom.png.