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Witness: an app you hope you never have to use

An application for you to download, install, configure and hope you never need to open it again.

I speak of Witness, recently launched by ne1.


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In short, Witness is a “panic button” for your iPhone. When you start it, your chosen contacts are immediately informed by phone and message about your emergency situation, they can monitor your location in real time and even watch / listen to everything that your iPhone is capturing.

The good thing is that everything happens silently on the device, that is, other people can initiate an emergency call to the police instead. The original concept of the app even left it running with the screen all black, but the interface had to be slightly modified in order for it to get approval from the App Store team.

The user's record is also duly saved on the Witness servers, in case it needs to be reviewed later.

[via TechCrunch]