How to Turn Your Smartphone Into a Webcam?

Your laptop’s built-in camera or the external webcam connected to your PC may not be providing the high-resolution feed to the video-conferencing tool which may be prompting you to have a better option.

With your Smartphone readily available at all times, you don’t have to go anywhere as you can perfectly turn your Smartphone into a webcam just by following a series of do-it-yourself steps embodied in this quick guide.

Using your Android’s Front Camera to Initiate a Meeting on Your Windows PC:

Step 1 - First download the “DroidCam” app from the “Google Play Store” and make sure that your Smartphone runs on Android version 5.0 or above.

Step 2 - Download the DroidCam Windows client on your PC and execute the setup wizard to accomplish its installation.

Step 3 - Confirm that your Desktop and Smartphone are connected to the same Wi-Fi network.

Step 4 - Open the DroidCamApp icon on your PC and launch the mobile version of DroidCam followed by allowing permission to DroidCamApp to access your phone’s camera and microphone.

Step 5 - While navigating the DroidCamApp find out the “Wi-Fi IP” and “DroidCam Port” and enter these inputs into the relevant fields of your PC’s DroidCamApp client.

Step 6 - Continue to check off both Audio and Video options and press the “Start” button after which you will be able to turn your Smartphone into a webcam with feed from your Smartphone’s camera directly fetched to the DroidCam PC client.

Step 7 - Now launch your videoconferencing application and tweak the app’s settings by changing the camera and microphone input to “DroidCam” and “DroidCam Virtual Audio” options.

Continuity Camera Facilitates Using iPhone’s Selfie Camera on Mac

Step 1 - Another way to turn your Smartphone into a webcam begins by turning on the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth feature on your iPhone and Mac.

Step 2 - Make sure that both the devices are logged in to the same iCloud Account.

Step 3 - Enable the “Handoff and Continuity Camera” feature by sequentially navigating through the “Settings>General>AirPlay & Handoff” options on your iPhone.

Step 4 - Now in the device settings panel on your video-conferencing app select the “iPhone” as the preferred camera source.

Note 1: In case you want to avoid draining of your iPhone’s battery you can use a connecting USB cable.
Note 2: The iPhone’s camera feed is just affected for a while when you have to operate your iPhone in between as you can easily return to receiving the continuous feed from your iPhone by pressing the “Pause” button.