Observed arrival · 2026-09-18

Witness Camera keeps recording when the phone cannot

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A free iOS app records with the screen black and uploads 15-second video segments to cloud storage you control.

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For: Activists, journalists, and people documenting police encounters
Worth noticing: Each 15-second file is hashed on-device before upload, with capture time and GPS recorded in a session manifest.

Field notes

The app divides footage into complete 15-second files, hashes each file on the device, and retains local copies until the selected storage provider confirms arrival. Destinations include Google Drive, Dropbox, and user-controlled WebDAV or Nextcloud, with different emergency-sharing capabilities: the page says automatic sharing works for the first two but not WebDAV. A session manifest records hashes, capture times, and GPS readings.

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