{"id":176432,"date":"2020-06-17T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/17\/finally-a-reason-to-buy-an-iphone\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T01:09:00","slug":"finally-a-reason-to-buy-an-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/17\/finally-a-reason-to-buy-an-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a Reason to Buy an iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Current iPhones have the ability to&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/6\/17\/21293996\/siri-iphone-shortcut-pulled-over-police-starts-recording-video\">record your encounters with police by saying, &#8220;Hey Siri, I\u2019m getting pulled over<\/a>,&#8221; and the phone records and sends a copy to a contact of your choice:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As protests against racial police violence have spread across the US, we\u2019ve seen how video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/5\/31\/21276044\/police-violence-protest-george-floyd\">captured on mobile devices<\/a> can help identify misconduct by law enforcement. But such evidence isn\u2019t just useful at a protest, but during all sorts of routine interactions with the police, including traffic stops. That\u2019s why the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/shortcuts\/cc95be30b285469ea22b7cff11ce0737\">Siri shortcut<\/a> \u201cI\u2019m getting pulled over\u201d exists. <\/p>\n<p>Once you load this (free) shortcut onto your iPhone, all you need to do is say \u201cHey Siri, I\u2019m getting pulled over\u201d and it will kickstart a chain of events. It will dim your phone, pause any music being played, and start recording video from your front-facing camera. It can also send your current location and a copy of that video to an emergency contact, though you\u2019ll need to confirm a few pop-up messages to complete these steps.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>So, to get things up and working, you\u2019ll have to first make sure iOS is  updated to at least iOS 12. Then, download the Shortcuts app which you  can find <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/shortcuts\/id915249334\">here on the App store<\/a>. After that\u2019s done, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icloud.com\/shortcuts\/cc95be30b285469ea22b7cff11ce0737\">this link on your mobile device<\/a>  from the built-in Safari browser to set-up the shortcut. (Be careful:  other browsers won\u2019t work!) You\u2019ll also need to make sure your phone can  load <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT210628\">unverified shortcuts<\/a> (go to Settings &gt; Shortcuts and toggle Allow Untrusted Shortcuts to allow this) <i>and<\/i> give the program access to your location, which you can see how to do <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sonikku_a2\/status\/1273030416962895880\">here<\/a>. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, this is legitimately neat as hell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current iPhones have the ability to&nbsp; record your encounters with police by saying, &#8220;Hey Siri, I\u2019m getting pulled over,&#8221; and the phone records and sends a copy to a contact of your choice: As protests against racial police violence have spread across the US, we\u2019ve seen how video captured on mobile devices can help identify &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,526,382],"class_list":["post-176432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-communications","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}