Hidden Camera Bug Detector vs Guided Help

Vigil turns your phone into a five-channel sweep for hidden cameras, microphones and trackers. It is the check worth doing before you unpack in a hotel room, a holiday rental, a changing room or an office. FIVE WAYS TO FIND A CAMERA Infrared: night-vision cameras flood a dark room with light your eyes cannot see. The front camera can see it, and Vigil under-exposes the sensor until only the emitters are left. Lens glint: glass reflects light straight back at its source. Sweep with the torch and a lens answers with a small, hard, motionless spark. Magnetic: every camera worth hiding holds a magnet and a switching supply, both of which bend the local field. This is the only channel that finds a camera that is switched off. Wi-Fi: lists every device on the network you are on and flags the ones answering on the ports IP cameras stream over. Bluetooth: finds battery cameras, voice recorders and trackers that advertise themselves, and tells you when one is getting closer. WHERE TO LOOK Smoke detectors, air vents, alarm clocks, chargers, mirrors, TV bezels, power strips, air fresheners and decorative holes. Each mode explains what it is measuring and how to sweep properly. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every scan runs on your device. No video is recorded, no network data leaves the phone, no account is needed and nothing is uploaded — a privacy tool that phoned home would be a contradiction. Vigil raises suspicion, it does not prove anything. If you find something you cannot explain, stop, leave it in place and call the front desk or the police. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Point your camera at the thing you need help with. Guided Help walks you through it, one clear step at a time. Something not working? Something new you're not sure how to use? A setting you can't find, or a job you'd rather not guess your way through? Take a picture and follow one plain instruction at a time, read aloud if you like, until you're all set. HOW IT WORKS Take a picture of what you need help with. Add a few words about what you'd like, or skip that. Then follow the steps, one per screen, with big text and big buttons. If a step doesn't work, tap "That didn't work" and get another way through. EVERY PATH ENDS SOMEWHERE GOOD Either you're all set, or you get a short script with exactly what to tell the person who can help. Never a dead end. MADE TO BE READABLE Large type that only scales up. Steps read aloud, if you turn that on. Two choices on every screen, never more. High contrast throughout, on iPhone and iPad. SAFETY COMES FIRST Anything involving gas, mains electricity, ladders, or sealed devices gets a plain recommendation: bring in a professional. No account. No sign-in. Open it and point.