DJI has a messy smartphone app situation, which makes setting up a drone an absolute nightmare.
I just bought my first drone, the DJI Mini 2. Not only is it near the top of our list of the best drones, but its lightweight nature makes the rules around flying it lax – perfect for a first-time flyer. What’s not so perfect, however, is just how confusing the thing is to set up. I’m not talking about assembling the drone – stickers on the body (which you can see in the above picture) make it easy to unfold the limbs and remove the gimbal protector. No, I’m talking about the app situation. Now I’m no drone expert, but I do install and play around with apps as part of my day job, so this shouldn’t have been the chore for me that it turned out to be. DJI has so many different apps that it’s incredibly confusing working out which one I was supposed to be use. When I had become familiar with the design of the DJI Mini 2, charged up its batteries and perused through the instructions manual, I decided it was time to set the device up, and I knew I needed an app for that. I remembered from the instructions that it was called something like DJI Fly or DJI Go or DJI Air, so in the search bar of the Google Play Store, I searched ‘DJI’… to find numerous apps that all seemed possible. There was DJI Go, DJI Go 4 and DJI Pilot, as well as two other apps from the company which seemed clearly not the right ones.
