SecondCam

SecondCam is a basic, lightweight utility app that displays the full-screen output from your phone's camera, without any controls or other elements to obstruct or distract from the image. It is designed for use with the videoconferencing application Zoom* to provide the cleanest "shared screen" input from your iPhone or iPad.

To use SecondCam with Zoom, install the Zoom desktop app (Mac or Windows) and follow the instructions on the Zoom support website:

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201379235-Sharing-your-screen-iOS-with-the-Zoom-Desktop-Client

The SecondCam app can be used in either the "via Cable" or "via AirPlay" modes of Zoom screen sharing.

SecondCam Features:

• Camera's video feed is shown full-screen without a status bar or frame
• Can use either rear-facing or front-facing camera
• Video orientation can be locked to either portrait or landscape modes
• On-screen buttons for camera switch and orientation lock fade after 10 seconds, re-appear on touch
• Pinch to zoom camera image in and out
• Prevents your phone (and video) from going to sleep while running
• In-App Purchase ($0.99) lets you remove or change on-screen watermark text
• In-App Purchase ($1.99) to enable drawing on screen (with finger or Apple Pencil), over camera image or in whiteboard mode (requires iOS 13 or later)

Tech Note:

The Zoom desktop client (on Mac and Windows) includes functionality to capture your iPhone display and use it as a second screen during a videoconference. As of this writing (late 2020), other videoconferencing apps - such as Webex and Google Meet - don't include this functionality, and so SecondCam will probably not work with them.

The SecondCam app is free, so try it out and see if it works for you. Any software that allows you to share your iPhone screen should work fine with SecondCam.

(The stand shown in the iPad screenshots is made by AboveTEK, with a special AboveTEK bracket for the 12.9" iPad Pro.)

* SecondCam is an indie, third-party app and is not produced by or affiliated with the makers of Zoom in any way. If you have any questions or problems with SecondCam, please email support@westerncomputational.com. Questions about how to use external cameras with Zoom can be found at https://support.zoom.us/ or the link given above.