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This title makes it feel like it's an Apple feature, but really it's just a Shortcut someone put together. It basically just turns down the volume, texts your
by gkoberger 6y ago
This title makes it feel like it's an Apple feature, but really it's just a Shortcut someone put together.
It basically just turns down the volume, texts your location to an emergency contact, and opens your camera. It doesn't upload the footage in realtime to a central server as other apps do.
- michaelbuckbee 6y agoIt does push it to iCloud or Dropbox though.
- hnarn 6y agoCan you clarify this, does iCloud or Dropbox actually receive video in real time as it's being recorded, or does it only start uploading after the recording is done? Because in the latter case, I doubt it will do much good -- unless perhaps sleeping an iPhone during a recording saves what has been recorded so far and uploads it in the background, which I'm also not sure of.
- dluan 6y agoDropbox immediately uploading photos/videos is the only reason I have it on my phone, more or less for this reason.
- acangiano 6y agoAny app in particular?
- ninkendo 6y agoThere’s probably an opportunity here: If there was an app that did streaming video to a server already, the developers could easily add a shortcut to it which started a stream to a server, and you could hook it up to Siri via the Shortcuts app.
- hnarn 6y agoSurely there must be apps that offer this functionality already? I'm not app-savvy enough to come up with any examples but I know many years ago there was a lot of talk about Bambuser.[1] [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bambuser/id963132997 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bambuser/id963132997