When did you last use your mobile phone as a flashlight?

[mcourcel@allovertheplace.ca]

@evan How about never? Lol! The joke in that is that I'm a blind dude.

[monnier@oldbytes.space]

@evan I use it as a flashlight about once a month, I'd say. I also note that I (almost) never use that "flash" when taking pictures, even tho AFAIK that was its original purpose (and in the rare cases where i use it to take a picture, I want to turn it on/off manually before/after taking the picture rather than it being flashed in-sync with the camera)

[aadeacon@mastodon.social]

@evan Never, I have 2 torches for that sort of thing. ( well 3 torches if i could find the missing one)

[anders@m.astonsson.se]

@evan By purpose or by mistake? Answer may depend on that...

[paul@misskey.ellidaf.ru]

@evan@cosocial.ca еще я использую телефон в качестве лупы.

[secretasianman@types.pl]

@evan @roytoo where's the *by accident* button

[milagemayvary@mstdn.social]

@evan

I use my phone as a flashlight multiple times a day.

Recently got a new phone which lacks the same gesture to turn on the flash light & bums me out every time.

Had a Motorola phone, you shake the phone from its side 2x in a chop-chop motion to turn it on & off. (Should be standard on all phones)

Now I'm back to a single tap to wake screen, pull down menu on lock screen & tap the flashlight option.

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@evan at a sporting event in a stadium. But I wasn't using it to see...maybe I was using the flashlight function more like a lighter.

[virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca]

@evan Under my car at night earlier this week, looking for rust on the pinch welds.

[chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net]

@evan "Shake Torch" app ftw