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Home / Lifestyle / Racial Injustice / ‘Hey Siri, I’m Getting Pulled Over’: iPhone App Automatically Records Police

‘Hey Siri, I’m Getting Pulled Over’: iPhone App Automatically Records Police

As of late, more and more people are speaking out in light of the murder of Daunte Wright, but how do we share with the world what we’ve known for decades: that our men and women have been dying at the hands of corrupt police officers? Apple launched a feature for Siri in 2018 called Shortcuts that lets you streamline tasks with a single Siri command, and now due to recent protests, it’s in the spotlight once again.

That’s because one iPhone user created a shortcut that prompts your iPhone to record police interactions after saying the phrase: “Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over.” The app has gained popularity again with the spotlight on race and police brutality in the weeks leading up to and after the George Floyd killing.

According to Business Insider, Robert Petersen of Arizona developed the shortcut, called Police, which monitors police interactions so you have a record of what happened.

This is important because having something that automatically records the situation and your phone being encrypted behind Apple’s security can have your interaction secured and available for replay no matter what anyone does.

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Once the shortcut is installed and configured, you just have to say, for example, “Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over.” Then the program pauses music you may be playing, turns down the brightness on the iPhone, and turns on “do not disturb” mode.

It also sends a quick text to a predetermined contact to tell them you’ve been pulled over, and it starts recording using the iPhone’s front-facing camera. Once you’ve stopped recording, it can text or email the video to a different predetermined contact and save it to Dropbox.

To get it to work, you must first run another shortcut in the Shortcuts app, then open the “Settings” menu, choose “Shortcuts,” and toggle the “Allow Untrusted Shortcuts” switch.

Here’s a short video on how it works:

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