
And while smartphones are still limited by the size of their sensors and lenses, the technology improves at the pace of Moore’s Law.

Great shots require great timing, and for that a smartphone has two big advantages: You carry it everywhere, and you intuitively get how it works.

That trend reinforces what you already know: Phones are handy for taking photos. In fact, smartphones occupied 10 of the top 20 slots (and 8 of the top 11) in a list of devices favored by the site’s users. It’s worth noting that if you’re using a Mac, Zoom will ask for permission to record your screen and have to be restarted in order to share your phone’s screen (this is because Zoom is just displaying your phone’s screen on your computer, and then capturing that window).įor more information on how the app works, the developer has made a how-to video, which you can watch below.Last year the most popular camera on the photo-sharing site Flickr was Apple’s iPhone.

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If you’re a teacher, or are thinking of some other use for the app, it’s available for free on the App Store. It’s pretty tailor made for exactly my wife’s use case but I would think that would be a pretty common one for teachers to be in right now in our current virtual teaching world. This did the trick and she actually used it! So being the dorky husband that I am, I quickly built an app that does nothing other than show what the phone camera sees with zero chrome, and properly rotates the whole app so that you can share it in landscape on zoom. In a heartwarming blog post about how he developed the app for his wife, who works as a kindergarten teacher, Chapman explains how he saw his wife using iOS’s built-in camera app to do the same thing, and how she was frustrated by the lack of landscape support and all the buttons overlaid on-screen: The feature also offers the ability to turn your phone’s flashlight on if your lighting situation isn’t ideal, as well as the option to change which camera is being displayed. It shows a feed from your phone’s camera on the screen, with nothing else getting in the way.
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Overviewer works as a replacement by taking advantage of Zoom’s built-in screen sharing feature that works with the iPhone when its connected to a computer with a Lightning cable, or wirelessly through AirPlay (at the moment, it doesn’t seem like Zoom offers this feature for Android users). Participants in the Zoom call only see what your phone’s camera sees. It’s a useful ability to have, but many teachers are working from home because of COVID and may not have access to one like they would in the classroom. If it’s been a minute since you were a student, or if your school didn’t have these overhead devices, they’re basically webcams pointing straight down that allow teachers to show students a printed document, book, hand drawing, or other piece of writing or image. Overviewer was made by developer Charlie Chapman, and it allows teachers (or anyone, really) to easily use their phone’s camera as a replacement for an overhead document viewer.

Teachers who have found themselves holding class over Zoom have probably already figured out clever hacks to show their students documents, but there’s now an app designed specifically for that purpose ( via 9to5Mac).
