How to use shortcuts to turn your iPhone into a baby monitor?

One of the many efforts to take care of children is to find the right balance between taking care of the child and doing other things such as homework and chores. This is why child monitors devices that function like walkie-talkies are so useful. They will tell you that when your baby is awake or crying, it needs your attention.

You need your iPhone to be running at least iOS 14 to be able to create this shortcut. You also need another device, aside from the device you’ll use to trigger the shortcut. This second device will receive a message when your baby starts crying.

Included in your iPhone’s Accessibility function is the ability to continuously listen to sounds in your environment and detect specific sounds. You can use this Sound Recognition function to detect:

• Alarms: sirens, smoke alarms, or fire alarms
• Animal sounds: cat and dog
• Household sounds: appliances, car horn, doorbell, door knock, and water running
• People: a baby crying, shouting, coughing

Steps:

Turn on Speech Recognition by following these steps:

1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
2. Scroll down and tap Sound Recognition.
3. Tap the toggle switch to turn Sound Recognition
4. Tap Sounds and tap Baby Crying.

Now that Sound Recognition is on, go to the Shortcuts app to make a new shortcut:

1. Tap the plus button (+) icon at the top right of the screen.
2. Tap the ellipsis icon (…) to rename your shortcut.
3. Tap Add Action.
4. Search “sound recognition” in the search bar, then tap Set Recognized Sound.
5. An action will appear that says Turn On sound recognizer for Fire Alarm as a default command. Tap Fire Alarm and change it to Baby Crying.
6. Tap the plus icon (+).
7. Add a Send Message action by searching for it in the search bar. Choose the person you want to send a message to when your baby cries.
8. An action that says Send “Message” to [Contact Name] will appear.
9. Tap “Message” to customize the message you want to send. You can also tap the plus icon (+) to add more recipients.
10. Tap Show More, then disable the toggle switch beside the Show When Run to ensure that your phone will automatically send a message if it hears a crying baby.

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