IP Camera Lite 4+

I installed this app on a spare iPad and my iPhone (to view the feed), and shortly thereafter started getting repeated security warnings by my ISP’s app. I checked the logs and it appears it blocked numerous malicious external IPs from accessing the iPad, but the question arises: what is attempting to be accessed if all I’ve done is started a local camera server? The answer is… I’m not sure, but I’m not taking any chances. I’ve set my iPad DNS manually to 127.0.0.1 (“Home” IP, unresolvable to the outside world) so that’s that for now, but take extreme precautions with using this app. It appears to open up all sorts of pathways to your device(s).

Rating 3 stars because it does its stated job well and the DNS closure is a temporary workaround, but it’s certainly not ideal if you want to use your device for anything else.

I left this app open on my old iPhone for a couple of hours. Then when I tried to connect to it from my current iPhone, it wouldn’t. I physically went to the server iPhone and turned off and on the server, still nothing. Force restarted the app, still nothing. I had to disconnect from WiFi and reconnect to get it working again, and even then, it just connected to a black screen the first time. I had to switch the camera to get it showing something.

Great idea, great settings, horrible execution. Extremely unreliable. I wanted to pay for this but the paid version is the same, just without the extremely annoying and infuriating ads that made me hate the developer for putting them there.

At first, I didn’t know the password when I visit the IP address website because there’s no prompt of it except in App Store. I think it might be some password I set. So I tried one password I set before which same as some other applications. But these weeks I received messages the applications I set the same password has abnormal login behaviors . So I think it would be that time I use my password here and the developer stole it. But unfortunately I don’t have evidence. If it’s innocent, I will express my regret. But if not, then please stop this behavior, I will change all my own passwords. (By the way, one star is for the ambiguous statement of password not for this movement)