Imaging Edge Mobile 4+

Worked just fine for the longest time but since upgrading to IOS 11 it no longer finds the camera. Another, popular 3rd Party app, which costs £4.99 and should do the same thing, has the same problem with IOS 11. Who will patch their app first?

Recent update for this app has still not fixed the problem and app will no longer communicate with my Camera under IOS 11x. It simply does not seem to recognise the WiFi connection to the camera even though that connection was made before the app was loaded. When I load the app, with the iPhone connected to the Cameras WiFi, the app just craps out. The app is still loaded on background but difficult to keep on Front screen and interestingly enough but is showing as connected to the previous WiFi network, even though the phone was already connected to the campers WiFi before app was opened! As it stands it is unusable.

This is could be a fantastic app with some really useful features BUT is let down by some bizarre omissions. Used with a FDR-43AX video camera. THE GOOD. Easy to setup if you ensure you allow access to network on the iPad. Pretty reliable - seems to work mostly every time - and works over a reasonable distance. Allows you to see remotely what the lens sees which is excellent for setting up on a bird’s nest and retiring to a distance to avoid disturbing the animals. This also allows you to see the subject whilst you are in the shade and out of the sun on a much bigger screen than on the camera thus making it so much easier to read and see the subject. Allows you to zoom in and out and stop and start recording. THE BAD. The app controls only about 5% of the features on the camera. There is no control on focus auto/manual/distance or exposure settings or any of the many many other camera features. Please can we have focus and exposure control as a minimum. Obviously this is a free app so perhaps I shouldn’t complain too much and it is very useful and good at what it does but why when you have gone to the trouble of making an app with a really good idea have you not implemented a more useful subset of the camera’s features?

Was tough to get it working at first, but once I got my head around the clunky UI and process (not to mention poor instructions), it worked as described. Yes I had to browse forums online for help, but that process worked. But now revisiting the remote control from app for first time in a few months and it doesn't work again. It's slightly reassuring that I'm invited to send back a bug report when it fails to connect since that at least implies they're trying to fix problems, but it desperately needs to work as intended all the time - something like this being unreliable means it's basically useless. I have to have a cable remote as backup which means it may as well be my only way of working.

Come on sony, my A7iii wants to work with my iPhone 10s max but your buggy software is getting in the way!