Ok let’s talk about the elephant in the room... as far a the older DJI go app is concerned...Apple has saw fit to push out their latest IOS version 11.2.5 as far as I know the 11.2.5 didn't have any real features like the famous screen record that eventually arrived when people have been asking and hacking the heck using a dodgy app "Airshou"...
"Airshou" was a decent enough app it just was one of those apps that became banned by apple... As soon as you installed it and allowed its configuration in your profiles via setting of the iphone... Then Apple soon got wind of a unknown software in your phone and rejects the profile with a dodgy Chinese name from its system.. And you probably only got a screen recording of the test recording you did that one time before you was gonna test it for real on the weekend when the weather is ok for flying...
Either way "Airshou" is redundant to us drone pilots because Apple has the screen recorder and now its IOS version has evolved to the mess we see today...To some pilots who don't quickly update to the latest software... you are oblivious to the weird mis-communication of the inspire drone controller to the apple phone or tablet... ( the same is said to the older phantoms that use the old DJI go app)
This has been the second time that Software has changed something where it effected the controls of a drone app that caused pilots some discomfort... As far as I remember the first incident had a change which effected users of Litchi and Autopilot and were up in arms about this... It took a while for myself to get my Autopilot to work but it did and because I used DJI go more, my mavic pro was ok... I was on holiday at the time and it didn't effect me at the time...
But this time the change in software is a B.F.D., well to most pilots who still have the older drone... Because, lets face it the inspire 2 or the latest phantom is too expensive to buy...(When I see a price tag of that inspire 2... I see the cost of a new smaller car the type of which I usually do my shopping in... and most of the footage is nice slow forwards / backwards boring shots (no offense to the photographers who use them))...
The older drones still have life in them but my god, when you take that away then bloody hell!!!, you get a irate pilot stuck on a Sunday on his knees trying to sort out the drone in his back garden...
I had a argument with someone saying it couldn't be avoided and that I only remember only two occasions that software changed something that responded in the changes of the app or a warning to prevent this occurrence...
My argument was that if Apple did this often enough, DJI would most likely have a team to look at the Beta software to prevent this... His argument was DJI should have done it NOW!!!!!.... In the end, (in my mind) Logic wins... But Crazy likes to shout it out for longer...
you could simply roll back the software on your iphone or tablet and have your system back... this means going on you-tube and looking for a video on "How to roll back your software to a previous version"
(using iTunes to load IOS to the phone, even for roll backs)...
But be careful as there are many ipsw's ( apple software package) that you load your device with the wrong operating software... Ultimately fuck up your system...
Meanwhile this Apple and DJI thing will carry on and if it makes enough of a stink on further updates, then DJI will likely do something about it by looking at the Beta software but Rome wasn't built in a day...
So you might get updates like this from time to time and I'd probably think about any updates before carrying on to regret it... Ultimately the forums are the best source of information to make a decision on whether you should make your drone the best it can be... or to update it...
(UPDATE as of 1 feb 2018 DJI has rolled out a new DJI go app version 3.1.27 This has fixed the Blank screen glitch that now works with Apple devices version IOS 11.2.5)
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