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by a13xb 4238 days ago
Thanks for very detailed feedback! There is certainly some room for improvement.

> You don't see a live picture but you can "check in" as you put it by tapping on "record video now" in the app and it will immediately record 5 seconds of video and show it to you AFTER it is done recording.

Technically you don't have to wait until the end of recording, but with short clips it is the case in practice. It takes about that long for the video to propagate along the camera->server->phone chain. You will notice the difference if you try to record for 20-30 seconds.

> I don't see how to save or delete videos. I can imagine wanting to email a video, say for a police report. Or delete old ones if they pile up.

You can delete videos by sliding left over the timeline entries, which will reveal delete button. We should do a better UX job there.

There is also a bug in the current version that affects iPhone6+ which makes this button invisible, that may explain that you don't see it, if you use that phone.

Saving videos: initially we contemplated adding this functionality, but it didn't make the cut for initial release. We will probably add it in the future.

In the meantime, if you really want a copy of the videos, you can create an IFTTT trigger to save videos to Dropbox or google Drive.

Hope that helps!

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Oh very nice about the IFTTT trigger being able to save. I had seen that on the website but had forgotten about it... was on my todo list to look into adding this to IFTTT.

The feature wouldn't have to be saving per se... emailing would be fine too as long as the size limits on email attachments don't kick in. But good that there's IFTTT (at least for people with the foresight to set it up in advance).

Yes I have a 6+ and had already tried the sliding with no luck before posting.

Thanks for the clarifications.