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Getting the camera working for Angel Dogs

Easy steps for your iPhone — letting the camera work, and recording a video to keep.

Angel Dogs puts a golden halo above your dog, live, through your phone's camera. There is nothing to install — it runs on the web page itself. The page never records anything and no pictures ever leave your phone.

These instructions are written for iPhone, but Android phones work in almost exactly the same way.

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Part one: letting the camera work

1

Open the Angel Dogs page in Safari on your phone.

2

Tap the big Start the angel dogs button.

3

A little message will pop up asking whether the website may use your camera. Tap Allow. That message is just your phone being careful, which is a good thing — the page only uses the camera to look for dogs, and it never records or saves anything.

4

Point your camera at a dog. The very first time, the page takes a few seconds to load its dog-spotting magic — then the halo appears.

Where does the halo go? The page finds the highest part of your dog, because the highest part of a dog is nearly always its head (tails don't count). So it works best when the head is higher than the body. If your dog is mid-sniff with its nose buried in the grass, the halo may wander for a moment — it settles again as soon as the head comes back up. And it isn't only dogs: it works on cats, horses, sheep and cows too — most animals hold their head higher than their body. People don't get halos. They have to earn them.

If the camera says no

If you tapped Don't Allow by mistake, your phone remembers and the page can't see anything. It's easy to fix.

1

Open your iPhone's Settings app.

2

Scroll down and tap Apps, then Safari. (On older iPhones, Safari is straight in the main Settings list.)

3

Tap Camera and choose Ask or Allow.

4

Go back to the Angel Dogs page and reload it. This time, it will ask nicely again.

Part two: recording a video to keep

The Angel Dogs page never records anything itself. To keep a video of your angel, you ask your iPhone to record its own screen while the halo is showing. Your phone can already do this — here is how.

1

Put your finger at the very top right corner of your screen and swipe down. This opens the Control Centre.

2

Find the record button — a circle with a dot inside it, circled in purple in the picture below. Tap it once. Your phone counts down 3, 2, 1 and starts recording, and the clock in the top corner turns red.

iPhone Control Centre with the screen record button circled in purple in the bottom row

The Control Centre. The record button is the circle with the dot inside, shown here circled in purple.

Can't see the record button? Tap the + in the top left corner of the Control Centre, choose Add a Control, and search for Screen Recording. You only ever have to do this once, and the button lives there forever after.
3

Swipe back up to leave the Control Centre, open the Angel Dogs page, and let your dog be an angel.

4

When you're done, tap the red clock at the top of the screen and tap Stop. Your video is saved in your Photos, ready to share with everyone you know.

Oak, a black Labrador, on a grassy hillside with a golden halo floating above her head

Oak of Lyme Regis, filmed exactly this way at six o'clock one summer morning. She woke the photographer at half past three, so the halo is generous.

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