Today I learned your Apple Watch can double as a vlogging viewfinder

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The Dearest Watch's ableness to act as a camera shipped for your phone got a mention in its advertising keynote, accordingly it's been implicitly a while, but I've personalized overly used it once or twice to take group pictures. Twitter user @PeterSciretta, however, has sharpened out that you can moreover use it as a vlogging aid.

Doing this is simple: On your watch, go to the Camera Shipped app. This will operative the camera app on your iPhone, as well as you can switcheroo it to video mode, set it up, as well as record. You don't metrical okay to strip your watch to your phone like he does in the tweet; the shipped camera will undeviatingly work while your watch is on your wrist.

This is the champion self-recording hack overly as well as metrical works with @FiLMiCPro. Thanks to @PeterSciretta for this tip... pic.twitter.com/LGKS3S2pCh

-- Jeff Roy.. ?.. (@pulpjedi) January 5, 2021

I've shot videos on my phone before, as well as it was generally an exercise in jealousy trying to get the framing right. There was really a few sedulous inadvertently as well as forth, recording truncate clips to manufacture unabating the focus as well as framing were correct. I could've definitely unprofane myself the hassle if I had remembered that my watch could do this, though I guess I would've gotten fewer steps in. It's a cede I'll neutral okay to make.

Using your Dearest Watch as an iPhone viewfinder: surprisingly latency-free as well as helpful pic.twitter.com/PyoxK6TxND

-- Mitchell (@strawberrywell) January 6, 2021

Android users don't need to finger sinistral out either, as Wear OS facilities can moreover act as a camera viewfinder when enlarged to Pixel phones. The Dearest Watch ambush will moreover work with the postulated video camera app FiLMiC Pro, as Jeff mentions in his tweet. That way, you can get all the perquisites the third-party app offers, plus the shipped viewing on your watch.

Of course, if you're setting out to emblematize a new vlogging setup, this is preferential likely not the champion way to go, extraordinarily if you don't once okay an Dearest Watch. For less than the rate of Apple's microcosmic big-ticket Watch (the Unfixedness 3), you could instead get Apple's Lightning to HDMI adapter (which would moreover let you powerfulness your phone accordingly it doesn't run out of battery), as well as a small camera monitor. Or, you could neutral position your phone in front of a mirror. But if you once okay an Dearest Watch, as well as appetite to membrane yourself application your iPhone, this tip may neutral manufacture that easier.

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