iOS app

The production iOS app is a universal iPhone and iPad SwiftUI shell in ios/OpenPocketCine/. It is the operator-proven datalink. Generate the Xcode project with XcodeGen — see Setup.

Field Monitor interface

The native UI uses Sora typography, cyan controls and dark panels. Portrait phones place exposure values in two rows above the system buttons; landscape puts those values along the bottom of the picture. REC SETUP opens capture format, color and shooting options from the top of the monitor. Portrait keeps Format / Color / Mode tabs on the details drawer; landscape has no extra category row, and shooting mode is its own top control (not FORMAT). ISO, shutter, white balance, focus and audio stay along the bottom and remain visible while a top picker is open. Auto exposure keeps EV as the value and shows the camera-reported applied shutter under it (EV 1/200s), updating as Auto adjusts exposure. Missing or unsupported shutter data leaves the caption as EV. Tap a value for the full details drawer; hold or drag for a compact dial. Lift to apply the selected value. Camera controls hold your selection while the camera confirms it, so an older status update does not briefly move the dial back. A rejected or unconfirmed change returns to the reported camera value after settling. Long-press the picture without moving (about 0.6 s, after the haptic) and lift to lock exposure while exposure is Auto: the focus box turns yellow with an AE-L tag, and a sun-and-open-lock key beside the focus recenter button returns exposure to Auto (in portrait it sits at the left, beside the View Assist tools). EXPOSURE reads AE-L while locked, and its picker lists AE-L left of Auto: choose Auto to return to Auto, or Manual to keep the locked values as ordinary Manual. The lock switches the camera to Manual at its current Auto ISO (nearest whole stop) and shutter; changing shooting mode or an Auto report from the camera also ends it. The haptic only comes when a lock is possible; a hold in Manual or while locked is silent. Dragging after the hold still draws a tracking box. White balance Mode and the WB tile’s drag dial offer AWB Lock beside Auto while Auto reports a live Kelvin; it sets Custom at that Kelvin, snapped to the Kelvin drum, and keeps tint. While locked, WB stays on AWB Lock (the tile reads AWB-L); choose Auto to return to Auto or Custom to keep that Kelvin as ordinary Custom. A WB change on the camera also ends the lock. Neither is a camera-native lock and both await hardware testing. Capture tabs retain their matching labels while camera updates change the available modes. Hold Record to open shooting mode. In Photo, the capture control becomes a shutter and takes a photo immediately, without recording confirmation. Photo and camera-reported Live Photo hide video color-profile, frame-rate, codec/bit-depth, timecode, recording-duration and audio controls. White balance, ISO, EV, shutter speed, focus, zoom and photographic assists remain available. Video-only panels close when the camera changes to a still-photo mode, and returning to Video restores the relevant controls without resetting assist preferences. Pocket 4 Pro Slow Motion labels 200 fps as 200p, including the 3× lens’s reported options; available rates follow the current camera capability list rather than a fixed wide-lens maximum. Low-Light / SuperNight retains start/stop recording. Changing modes clears stale format choices. A pending recording confirmation is dismissed if the mode, recording state, connection, or interface lock changes. Automated physical iPhone testing with Pocket 4 Pro verified Photo chrome in portrait and both landscape orientations, the 3× Slow Motion 200p readout and picker ceiling, continued live frames, and restoration of Video controls. The test did not trigger still capture or recording; other bodies and the remaining capture-submode controls still need physical qualification. In portrait, Settings and Media remain usable with a picker open; returning to the monitor restores that picker. The fitted feed is centered vertically; STBY, timecode and REC SETUP sit in a separate row below the notch or status area. View Assist, FIT/FILL and the joystick cluster stay above the camera values in fixed positions when switching FIT/FILL.

The camera battery gauge shows the percentage reported by your Osmo, or a dash when unavailable. Top capture settings, STBY and timecode align in one row; Lock matches the Settings and Media button size. The live signal indicator uses the Link Health colors from Settings: red for Poor (0–1 bars), orange for Watch (2–3), and green for Stable (4).

Floating controls use blurred translucent panels with sharp labels and icons. The blur tracks the live or playback picture. Reduce Transparency uses solid panels. Some live-video paths use the system’s blur treatment until decoded picture samples are available.

The View Assist palette collapses into the lower-left control area. Expand it for the full catalog; tap a tool to toggle it or hold to open its options inspector. Playback uses that same live-view slot. Image previews use the raw feed and work with all scopes off. On Pocket 4 Pro, tap zoom to alternate 1× and 3×; double tap for 6× and 12× when digital zoom is available. Other cameras retain their supported zoom stops. Hold the zoom value for a continuous dial. The disc hub reads hundredths (1.53×) and the chip still shows tenths. Dragging retains finer values without snapping to those displayed numbers or whole zoom stops. Its limits and recording restrictions remain camera-specific. In landscape the larger disc sits on the trailing screen edge and covers the controls beneath it until closed. In portrait it sits on the bottom screen edge. Gimbal cameras expose Mode, Speed, Ramp and the existing experimental Motion Control editor in a wider trailing drawer. Mode, Speed and Ramp each have a tab with their own dial; the Motion Control action stays visible.

Operator Setup → Display includes HDR display (off by default). It uses this iPhone or iPad’s HDR panel so live view, scopes, settings, media, playback and on-screen type stay readable in sun. The picture is a brightness aid, not a grade: WAVE, HISTO, zebras and false color still read the decoded camera signal. Screen recording and AirPlay temporarily use a normal SDR picture. It does not change the camera’s HDR/HLG color mode or the file on the card. Turn it off indoors; extra brightness uses more power.

Operator Setup and Media use a navigation rail in landscape and scrolling tabs in portrait. Settings and Media place Back outside the full-height sidebar in landscape; portrait keeps it beside the brand and title in the header. Back uses the same button styling as the live-view controls. The bottom of the Media sidebar holds one row with Grid and List buttons and Small/Medium/Large sizes; in portrait, these controls stay at the bottom of the page. Filter uses the same chip as Sort. The filter card stays fully on screen, including next to the island and above the home indicator. Set a start and end date with the calendar, and filter by log/colour profile when that profile is known for a clip. Pull down on the library to refresh. Hold a clip to begin selecting, then drag across clips to select a range. In selection mode, swipe up or down to scroll without changing the selection, or drag sideways to select a range. Hold a clip to sweep in any direction, including near the top or bottom of the gallery to autoscroll; lift your finger to stop. Selection circles appear only while selecting.

Media retains favorites, cache state, playback assists and the existing delivery actions. Cached availability refreshes as files finish downloading. In Operator Setup → Storage, Local Media Cache shows Checking… while measuring stored files. Clear Cache keeps the clip list and recorded color information; Clearing… shows while old files are removed. A failed deletion stays included in the size so Clear can retry it.

Playback assists wait for a ready clip with a valid playback position before requesting its first frame. Upscaler preparation runs separately from interface updates. Physical qualification of these build 111 follow-up fixes is still pending; report the time and action if playback or the interface freezes.

On iPad, the interface reflows as you resize the app window. System window buttons stay clear of the monitor controls. Camera-connected use while resizing is still under physical iPad validation.

Live-picture handling has been corrected when switching between a single-camera monitor and Multiview or resizing the app. Simulator regressions cover the picture’s size and output staying with the current monitor. Camera-connected switching and resizing still need physical validation. Report the action and time if picture freezes.

Once live view has started, a brief stall keeps the last picture visible instead of returning to the startup Waiting for live view cover. Recovery still shows its own status. First connection and dropped-frame recovery now have additional checks for traffic arriving without a usable picture. These changes have simulator regressions; sustained camera-connected qualification is pending.

Connection startup now waits for the camera’s command window before completing setup. If video data is lost after picture is established, the existing recovery can act sooner while keeping the last image visible. Please test first connection and normal use; these changes still need iPhone camera qualification.

View Assist favorites match the live system-button size and remember which tools you actually use (saved on the phone). Collapsed, landscape keeps two favorites and portrait keeps one, under the arrow. The expanded catalog uses those same cells. Tap the arrow to open or close, or press and drag it so the expanding edge stays under your finger; a flick finishes the motion. The landscape expand arrow accepts taps farther to its right, with the toolbar anchored in place.

Returning from Media now starts live view once and waits for a fresh picture. An older live-picture deadline no longer treats intentional browsing as a failed feed. If live view cannot return, bounded connection recovery takes over. Please test repeated browsing, playback and return with a connected camera; physical qualification of this follow-up is still pending.

Anamorphic Desqueeze

Use DE-SQ in View Assist for an anamorphic lens or adapter. Tap to toggle; long-press for Anamorphic Desqueeze options. Choose 1.1×, 1.2×, 1.33×, 1.5×, 1.6×, 1.8× or 2.0×, or select Custom for a 1.00×–2.00× slider in 0.01 steps. Custom remembers its last value when you switch presets. Horizontal widens the picture; Vertical corrects a rotated adapter. The full corrected picture fits within the display area. While DE-SQ is on, portrait Fill is suspended and its control is hidden; switching DE-SQ off restores your saved Fit/Fill choice.

Desqueeze works in live view, video playback and photo viewing. Video and photo playback share their own on/off choice, separate from live view; factor and direction are shared. In the photo viewer, tap DE-SQ beside Favorite and hold it for options. Settings persist between launches. Desqueeze starts off; the initial factor is 1.33×. New DISP 2 pin preferences include it, while existing saved pins stay unchanged.

LUTs and picture warnings follow the correction, and framing guides align with the corrected picture. Desqueeze changes only the display: recordings, shared files and scope measurements keep the original image.

Mirror

Tap MIRROR in View Assist to flip the monitor; long-press for its options. Horizontal flips left-to-right for a camera pointed back at you and is on by default. Vertical flips top-to-bottom. Turn both on to turn the picture 180°, for an underslung camera such as one on a car mount. Tap to focus, drag to track, focus and face boxes, and the LEVEL roll reading follow the flipped picture. Mirror changes only the display: recordings and scopes stay unflipped, and Vertical leaves the joystick directions unchanged. Video playback uses the same axes with its own on/off choice.

Level

Enable LEVEL in View Assist to see how level the picture is against gravity. The reading comes from the camera’s own attitude sensor, not the phone.

• Two slim meters, laid out like a Nikon Z virtual horizon, show roll along the bottom of the picture and tilt right of centre, the same distance from the middle of the picture as the roll meter. A short bar crosses a slim dark band to show the angle (full scale ±8°), with small notches marking level. The line, bar and number turn green within 0.6° of level.
• Within about 25° of pointing straight down or up, the meters give way to a round bubble level: a bead that is amber off level and green within 0.6° of plumb. Use it for top-down shots.
• If the camera stops reporting attitude, the meters show a dash and No level data. They never turn green without data.

Tap LEVEL again to hide it; the on/off choice is saved. LEVEL is not shown in playback.

Double-tap Level

In the gimbal drawer, Double-tap chooses what a double-tap on the joystick and Circle/B on a game controller do:

• Recenter (default): the camera’s own recenter, relative to the handle.
• Level: one move to the nearest world target, which is the horizon, or straight down or up once the lens is past 45°. A toast says Leveled to world, Leveled top-down or Leveled straight up when the tilt is within 0.5°, or reports how far off it stopped.

Level corrects tilt only. In Follow and Tilt locked the gimbal already holds the horizon; in FPV roll follows the handle and the toast says so. With the handle upright the lens reaches about 44° down, so angle the handle forward for a top-down shot, then double-tap. Stick input cancels the move. Level and the roll direction are experimental until checked on more cameras.

EV meter

Enable EV in View Assist to show a slim white exposure line with a sun marker and a dark glow in DISP 1. The camera’s signed EV number sits above the line, with +3 and −3 at its ends. The text EV identifies its toolbar button. The meter sits just inside the picture’s left edge, slightly above center. It moves upward or shortens to clear the View Assist toolbar, including expansion. If the toolbar leaves no room, the meter returns when the toolbar closes. Tap EV again to hide it; the on/off choice is saved. The meter disappears in DISP 2 and playback.

The reading comes directly from the camera’s exposure telemetry in Auto and Manual. It is separate from the EV compensation setting in the camera controls. No image analysis, LUT conversion or additional camera polling is needed for this meter. A dash without a needle means the camera has not supplied a supported value. It never substitutes the compensation setting or an image-derived estimate.

Moving scopes

Newly enabled windowed scopes start in the center, ready for you to place them. The false-color reference key also starts centered and can be dragged. Saved positions remain yours. AUDIO starts on the left at vertical center and can also be dragged. Hold AUDIO for Vertical / Horizontal bars and optional left/right dBFS readings; these affect the meter display, not camera recording.

Drag WAVE, PARADE, HISTO, VECTOR, LIGHTS, or ND directly to move it. Drag its corner grip to resize. Scopes can sit partly under the top and bottom bars. Scopes can reach closer to the bottom edge and sit underneath the entire joystick, zoom, and gimbal-controls cluster in portrait or landscape. The cluster stays above scopes. Panels can reach equally close to the left and right edges. Record, media, and settings stay protected. Panels fit the available space after rotation or resizing, including saved positions. Long-press a View Assist toolbar button for its settings.

What it does

• Bluetooth pairing, camera Wi-Fi join, saved cameras, reconnect
• HEVC live view on Pocket 4 / 4 Pro; AVC observed on Pocket 3 and Osmo Nano. Osmo Action 6 AVC live view is wired from the Action 6 survey and is not yet checked on a camera.
• Scopes, exposure/focus assists, framing tools, customizable DISP chrome. False color Scale is CineStop / Video / IRE / Limits. CineStop paints five stops around 18% gray, the same on every camera because it reads each log curve in real stops: dark green −2, yellow-green −1, gray at 18%, light pink +1 (skin) and soft yellow +2 (upper skin limit). Red is clipped and violet is crushed; other shadows are flat dark gray and other highlights flat light gray. Video is video-level IRE stripes over grayscale. IRE is six video-level zones over grayscale (crush, near-black, 18% gray, +1 stop, near clip, clip). Read picks LOG (the raw signal, like WAVE, the default) or 709 (the camera’s Rec.709 look) for every scale. Long-press options lift above the keyboard so number fields (Zebra Highlight / Midtone) stay visible; Done dismisses the number pad. Long-press LUT: DJI / Creative / Custom. DJI Auto uses the official Rec.709 cubes. Creative is Mono / Contrast / Warm / Cool. Exposure compensation is −3…+3 at ½ stop before the cube. 50/50 log-vs-LUT is monitor-only and must not drop the live picture. Auto on a clip reads com.dji.camera.ColorGammaSxS from the original take (same field Mimo Color Recovery uses) — not the 720p LRF sidecar, which is Rec.709 even for log. Last live D-Log / D-Log2 is the fallback when that atom is missing — colr/nclx is Rec.709 even for log. Opening LUT on a disconnected clip keeps that Auto cube (it does not restamp from a missing live SET). In Photo and Live Photo, live monitoring uses Rec.709: DJI log conversions are hidden and bypassed, including a saved manual conversion. Creative and imported Custom looks remain available. Returning to Video restores the saved conversion unless you changed your LUT selection. Opening a recorded clip still uses that clip’s color profile.
• Camera writes (record, ISO, EV, zoom and gimbal on Pocket). Current zoom chips are (Pocket 4 Pro 1×/3×/6×/12×; Pocket 4 1×/2×/4×; Pocket 3 1×/2×/4× with 4K max 2×). Nano is a fixed 1× lens: no zoom chip, pinch, disc or controller zoom, and no gimbal stick or tap focus. Pocket 3’s ceiling is per-FORMAT, not one generic 4×: 1080 4×, 2.7K 3×, 2160 1:1 3×, 4K 2×, 3K 1:1 2× (survey). Zoom must not drop the live picture. FORMAT lists camcap_video_format pairs (2.7K / 4:3 / 1:1 / 9:16 when the body advertises them; aspect is the res byte). A tap stays on that pair until the body reports it. Pocket 3 normal Video also has a documented fallback when the camera supplies no capability table (16:9 and 1:1; 9:16 stays body Lock Portrait unless already reported); reported choices take priority. Physical iPhone build 99 passed one 2.7K/25 D-Log M record and warm reconnect (survey evidence). The full matrix, camera cold boot and other shooting modes remain unqualified. COLOR follows the body: D-Log2 is Pocket 4 Pro only; Pocket 4 is D-Log; Pocket 3 is D-Log M (HLG is HDR); Nano is 8-bit / 10-bit / D-Log M; Action 6 is Normal 10-bit / D-Log M. Action 6 has no focus modes: its APERTURE tile sits where FOCUS is on Pocket, shows the live iris, and sets Auto, Fixed f/2.6 or f/2.8, Starburst f/4 or SuperNight f/2.0 as the camera offers them. It has no gimbal, tap focus or zoom in the app. Auto ISO ranges start at 50 on Pocket 3 / Pocket 4 and 100 on Pocket 4 Pro. View Assist ND is a small chip on the live picture (centered until placed; drag to move). Long-press to switch Stops, ND32, or ND 0.3. It meters against middle gray and suggests a screw-on ND to balance the frame. The app cannot set a filter. The gimbal stick and zoom chip sit together as a cluster at the lower right: above the camera values in portrait and over the picture in landscape, on iPhone and iPad. A gimbal-controls button sits beside zoom (Pocket only). The gimbal button keeps its dark readout glow; the joystick uses adaptive bright/dark ink without a halo. Its trailing drawer has Mode, Speed and Ramp tabs, each with its own dial: Follow / Tilt locked / FPV / Direction Lock, Slow / Default / Fast, and stick ramp. The Motion Control footer opens the experimental editor for an A→B (optional C) take (set A and B, choose each leg’s duration; hold and drag anywhere on the editor). With C set, Smoothness rounds the corner near B and shows a dashed curve. Zero hits B exactly; higher values bypass B while preserving A/C and total duration. There is no artificial speed cap. Moves are experimental: keep the camera fixed, rehearse, and check framing before a take. Tilt is planned from where the camera points at Start. Takes and head tracking run the gimbal on Fast; your Speed and Tilt locked setting comes back about a second after they stop. Programmed and head-tracking tilt targets stay within −44° to +70°. A missed timed point stops the move; professional positional/timing accuracy has not been qualified. Stick throw is analog with an ease-in curve (small push crawls; full throw is fastest). Selecting a gimbal mode switches off AirPods head tracking; enable and calibrate it again to resume. Direction Lock keeps the camera pointing in the same direction while the handle rotates; choose another mode to release it. The separate joystick-hold Lock Gimbal behavior remains under investigation and is not available in the app. Ramp smooths joystick-input changes: Off is immediate, Soft eases more gradually than Medium. Releasing the stick still stops immediately. Head tracking is experimental (Operator Setup → Controls, off by default). With AirPods that report motion, the compass above the joystick on the right is Calibrate Head Lock: that head pose and that gimbal pose are shared forward. A head turn pans the Pocket; a nod tilts. The gimbal follows that direction using direct angle targets. Roll is shown, not driven. The same control becomes STOP and clears the lock. Manual controls and Motion Control takes take priority; lost head motion pauses tracking. Allow Motion & Fitness when prompted. If motion never arrives, Calibrate offers an explicit retry; a Bluetooth connection alone does not confirm motion delivery. Scopes can be moved beneath the compass Head Lock control in either orientation. Responsiveness remains experimental. A connected game controller’s selected stick drives the same path (Left by default). Cross/A records. Circle/B recenters, or levels with Double-tap → Level. Square/X is rotate-180. Triangle/Y tracks a face in frame or cancels. L1/R1 jump zoom out/in. L2/R2 hold-to-zoom (deeper is faster). D-pad up/down ISO, left/right shutter. A toast says Gamepad connected or disconnected; unplug rests the stick. Operator Setup → Controls → Gamepad shows Connected / Not connected. Choose Gimbal joystick → Left / Right in the same Controls tab. D-pad shutter changes also update the shutter-angle readout when angle display is selected. A selected angle is retained when changing frame rate: 180° changes shutter time to 1/50 at 25 fps or 1/100 at 50 fps after the camera confirms the new format. A gimbal stop pulses only after the head moves then stalls (Haptics setting). Capture drums, the zoom disc, and duration dials pulse on coarse steps and whole-stop crossings (172° → 180°, 3×, whole seconds), not on every hundredth or half-second tick. Stick pan stays picture-relative. The rotate-180 button inverts pan at the end of the rotation (like Mimo). Extra-mirror live view when that 180 lands and Selfie Flip is off; Flip on skips extra-mirror. The last picture stays for a couple of frames before that X-flip so the feed does not swap in place. Joystick yaw to 180 does not invert. Reconnect while at 180 inverts without another triple-tap. D-Log2 cannot zoom: idle hops to D-Log on the first step off 1× and waits for that color SET before any zoom write (the chip stays at 1× until D-Log lands); while rolling the chip grays and tap/pinch toast instead of changing color.
• Media library (Pocket 3: newest page lists after a take even if enter-playback ACKs E0; /v2 is storage 0), playback with LUT / peaking / false colour / zebra on the 720p proxy (same present order as live: identity player and Metal are siblings; GPU latest-wins, freeze keeps the last frame). Preview LUT grades the decoded 420 frame on Metal at 1440 px — not AVVideoComposition (that path is export bake). LUT replace hides the player once Metal owns the picture. Next/prev with LUT on keeps the grade without cycling the chip. Auto LUT remembers shot color with the cached clip, so it still binds when the camera is disconnected. A Proxy tag means only the 720p sidecar is on the phone — connect to share the original. Storage Full Resolution Caching (on by default) also caches the original when you open a clip. Proxies download incrementally to disk to keep the interface responsive. LUT bake on export can include the LUT exposure pull (Bake exposure under Bake LUT; on by default). Convert log (off by default, exclusive with Bake LUT) offers an Output curve choice: D-Log or D-Log2 for the whole selection. Clips already on that curve keep their pixels; other log clips are converted and tagged with the destination curve. This is a technical transform, not a look. Camera originals stay untouched. Rec.709 stays Bake LUT; D-Log M is not converted.
• Optional Frame.io upload when you add your own Adobe keys (Platform API v4)
• Apple Watch companion: live preview, timecode, storage, camera battery, record / shutter. Preview works with AF-S and all image assists off, and follows the phone’s horizontal picture flip. Disconnect labels the retained picture No camera connected. The iPhone stays on camera Wi-Fi; the Watch cannot join it. Keep the iPhone app open. Rec on the wrist does not ask for confirmation. The watch screen follows Wake Duration (Watch Settings → Display & Brightness; 70 Seconds is the maximum). Third-party apps cannot stay at Flashlight brightness. Always On keeps the last frame after the backlight dims.
• Share this feed (Operator Setup → Sharing): this iPhone re-serves live view to other OpenPocketCine iPhones and iPads on the same camera Wi-Fi. On the host, tap Show Wi-Fi code. Scan it with Camera on the watching device and accept Join Network, then return to OpenPocketCine → Watch a feed and select the host. You can also join that Wi-Fi in Settings. Only the host connects to the camera inside the app. The watcher has local view assists and scopes, camera readings, REC tally, and Clean view. Request control asks the host for permission to record, focus, and change supported ISO/shutter/zoom settings; Release gives it back. Brief interruptions hold the last picture and automatically retry three times. If sharing ends or reconnection fails, the watcher keeps the error visible; tap Choose a feed to rejoin. The QR code contains the Wi-Fi password; show it only to people you want on that network. An optional watcher passcode controls access to the feed separately. The host shares one encode, and a slow watcher waits for a fresh keyframe while others continue. Peer-to-peer discovery and streaming are disabled because they caused severe stuttering during physical testing. One iPad watcher was reported smooth after joining the same Wi-Fi; multiple watchers still need physical verification. Android Sharing is not in this build.

The final watcher QR onboarding, passcode and recovery changes still need dedicated physical acceptance. The earlier one-iPad smoothness report does not qualify those newer flows or multiple wireless watchers. See the watcher relay evidence.

On Your cameras, PAIRED and NEARBY groups separate remembered cameras from new discoveries. Select a camera to see its connection progress and Cancel. Pair new camera opens the guided flow; select a discovered camera, then Continue. Media and Settings remain available without connecting.

Each saved camera shows its setups as chips: Camera Wi-Fi (the camera’s own access point) and, once added, Wi-Fi and Hotspot. Tap a chip to connect that way; the row’s Connect uses the setup you used last.

Add setup asks how the camera should connect:

• Wi-Fi: a router or venue network. The camera starts scanning as soon as this page opens, and nearby networks appear as it finds them (the camera returns to its own Wi-Fi afterwards). The network this iPhone is on and networks saved in this app are listed too, with their passwords remembered. iOS names the current network only for apps with precise location permission, so Wi-Fi asks for it the first time; only the network name is used. Other network… takes a hidden name. The iPhone joins the network too. Use WPA2 or a WPA2/WPA3 mix; guest networks that isolate devices block the picture.
• Hotspot: this iPhone’s Personal Hotspot. Turn on Allow Others to Join and Maximize Compatibility in Settings → Personal Hotspot. iOS does not share the phone’s hotspot name or password with apps, so the camera scan fills in the name when it sees the hotspot; paste the password once from Settings and it is remembered. iOS only reveals that the hotspot is on once a device has joined it, so connecting over Hotspot first asks you to turn it on (Settings or Control Center), then connects when you tap Connect.

Connecting moves the camera off its own Wi-Fi with the same captured commands as Multiview, and the app only goes live on the address that returns that camera’s identity. A progress bar on the card shows each step. Over Wi-Fi this can take up to a minute: the router first gives the camera an address, then its video service starts (about 25 to 40 s for a Pocket 4 Pro on a home network). If a connect fails, the card offers Edit setup, Try again or Connect over Camera Wi-Fi instead. The next Camera Wi-Fi connect switches the camera back to its own access point. Touch and hold a Wi-Fi or Hotspot chip to forget it. Add setup is offered on every Osmo camera, including Action 6; the Wi-Fi and Hotspot setups are experimental until physically checked on each model.

Multiview is an experimental iPhone/iPad stage for several cameras on shared Wi-Fi. From Your cameras, tap the grid icon to set up the network and add cameras. Each camera has its own preview and recording controls; Record all requests recording together without frame-accurate synchronization. See the Multiview guide for supported observations, session network selection, saved preferences and remaining physical checks. Pocket 3, Pocket 4 Pro and Nano preview and recording have been checked together on iPhone. Pocket 3 recovery after an app switch required a full rejoin and roughly a minute in the recorded test. Android has the matching experimental Multiview stage.

Tap Layout to switch Grid/Center stage. Grid fills four portrait rows or two landscape columns. Portrait keeps a vertical right toolbar below the wide main feed in Center stage, with camera details inside each feed. Landscape Center stage enlarges the main 16:9 picture, overlays its readouts at the bottom, and puts the other cameras in a scrolling right strip. Content fades softly only at edges with more to scroll. Wi-Fi sits below Exit on the left; the tools reuse the collapsible View Assist palette. Grid keeps tools in the right control column, or left for a right-side cutout. DISP and Record retain Live View positions.

New cameras start with Auto LUT on, HH:MM:SS timecode and Live View battery gauges. The … menu stays compact over the stage. Exit uses Live View Lock styling; Wi-Fi uses Settings styling and opens the shared network wizard. Camera settings opens a floating popup with a tab for each connected camera and Live View’s setting controls. Camera, recording and settings tabs have one bottom or left edge with a highlighted selection, without tab boxes.

Motion Control shows A, B and C with their reported pan, tilt and zoom, or Not set. The joystick remains usable while the editor is open, so you can position the camera before saving a point. Other outside taps minimize the editor without activating the controls behind it. Durations use half-second dials up to 120 seconds. Swipe left to increase duration and right to decrease it. Drag the expanded window or minimized pill directly; no hold is needed. Duration dials and sliders keep their own gestures. After moving the window, swipe a duration dial to adjust that leg. Dragging does not activate Start/Stop or expand. Start shows a cancellable three-second countdown before preparation and approach to A. Pause holds the move; Resume continues from the stopped position without another countdown. Stop clears the continuation. Manual control or disconnect also cancels a paused move. Long pan returns follow the reachable arc rather than wrapping through the gimbal stop. Selfie Flip does not reverse stored mechanical angles. Waypoint letters and the dashed path follow the selfie orientation and MIRROR assist visually; saved positions and programmed movements stay the same.

Use the existing zoom chip to frame a point without closing or minimizing Motion Control. Tap for the usual zoom stops, or hold to open the zoom disc. Closing the disc returns to the full editor; SET or RESET then saves the point. The camera’s zoom limits and D-Log2 recording restrictions still apply. Manual zoom takes over and cancels an active or paused motion program.

Each point also saves its zoom. When those amounts differ, Motion Control transitions between them over the leg durations; B’s zoom is reached even when Smoothness rounds the gimbal path. Loop reverses zoom too. Pause stops the zoom stream, and Resume waits for fresh, settled lens feedback before continuing. Zoom-changing programs are unavailable in D-Log2, both while recording and idle; Start shows the reason. Choose a compatible color mode yourself—the program never switches color mode. Programs without zoom changes still work in D-Log2. Saved zoom must fit the current camera FORMAT. Zoom timing and optical smoothness remain experimental.

Programmed zoom changes linearly throughout each leg, including reverse loops. For example, halfway through a 3×→6× move, the commanded zoom is 4.5×. Zoom begins with the movement and reaches the next saved amount at its endpoint. Pocket 4 Pro uses more frequent lens targets to reduce visible stepping; the camera must report that it reached A’s zoom before the timed movement begins. Very small changes are limited by the camera’s lens-position resolution. Other Pocket bodies retain their existing update cadence while their response is qualified. Optical accuracy and smoothness across every zoom range remain experimental.

Loop (off by default) moves back and forth: A→B→A→B, or A→B→C→B→A→B→C. Each reverse leg keeps its original duration and retraces the same smoothed path. The countdown, approach to A and two-second settle happen only at the initial start. The return starts without an added endpoint pause; position checks continue while it moves. Exact reversals allow the camera’s natural motor easing when fresh feedback confirms arrival and a clean return. If feedback cannot verify the endpoint, the move stops. Choose Loop before Start. Pause/Resume keeps the current direction; Stop, a motion failure or manual takeover ends the loop.

The compact editor keeps its header and Clear, Start/Stop and Pause/Resume buttons fixed. Not set and the Loop hint use bright gray text for readability over live view. While paused, Restart replaces Clear: it keeps your program and begins again from A with the usual countdown and preparation. The settings scroll above the buttons, with a subtle bottom fade when more content remains below.

Closing and reopening the editor retains A/B/C, durations, Smoothness and Loop for the current camera session. During a run, Close minimizes to the control pill so Pause and Stop stay available. Stop keeps the saved program; Clear removes the points and resets Smoothness and Loop. A new camera session starts a fresh program.

The recorded physical motion checks are on Pocket 4 Pro; Pocket 3 and broader firmware qualification remain pending. See Motion Control qualification.

Verify record start/stop on the camera body until you trust the link.

Before pairing, turn off DJI Frame Tap and force quit DJI Mimo; either can hold the camera. Pairing asks for Bluetooth and Local Network access; if either is off, the failure offers Open Settings. Personal Hotspot must be off for a Camera Wi-Fi connect. If live view never starts after Wi-Fi joins, pause local VPNs and ad blockers or exclude this app (Troubleshooting).

Device requirements

BLE, Local Network, and Hotspot Configuration do not work in the Simulator. Operator-visible UI changes are proven on a physical iPhone (and iPad when the layout is in play). Protocol tests (just test) do not need hardware. iPad hides the system time / battery bar; monitor chrome is the HUD.

Platform notes for the wire (Hotspot Configuration, Local Network, CoreBluetooth): iOS protocol notes.

Releases

Public beta: TestFlight. PRs that change Sources/, ios/, or Package.swift replace ios/TestFlight/WhatToTest.en-US.txt with the this-build window. See docs/tester-notes.md.

Maintainers using Xcode Cloud must register both the iPhone bundle ID and com.opencapture.openpocketcine.watch on their Apple Developer team before exporting an archive with the Watch companion. Cloud cannot register the Watch identifier during export. Setup and export-log troubleshooting: Watch companion signing.

If pairing or live view fails, tap Report a problem on the pairing screen or in Operator Setup → System. It works before your first successful pairing; technical details and a reply email are optional. For a local diagnostic export, use pairing’s overflow menu → Share Diagnostics or System → Diagnostic options → Save diagnostic report. You can also take a screenshot for TestFlight and paste the copied diagnostics into the feedback.

False color during exposure changes

False color keeps its previous complete color map while an updated exposure map is prepared. The picture continues updating; paint and coverage switch together. The first activation can still take a moment to prepare the map.

D-Log M scopes use their own signal scale. Sensor clipping and shadow limits remain uncalibrated; see the D-Log M scope notes below.

Video and assist overlays resize together when rotating the phone or switching between Fit and Fill, keeping false color, peaking, and zebra paint aligned with the picture during the transition.

D-Log M scopes

D-Log M uses a direct 0–100 preview-signal scale for waveform, parade, histogram and zebras, without the D-Log black-point or ISO ceiling. Low/high signal warnings do not establish where the camera sensor loses detail. The false color reference (DLM ≈), CineStop stops and gray guide use an estimated Pocket 3 curve; use IRE for signal measurements, especially on other D-Log M cameras. Live-preview calibration remains pending.

ND recommendations also derive stops from that estimated curve. Treat D-Log M ND readings as estimates, not calibrated filter or sensor-limit measurements. LUT exposure compensation, including Bake exposure on export, and Face Priority EV still use the previous D-Log approximation for D-Log M. The scope fix did not calibrate those controls. This limitation concerns exposure math, not the choice of the official D-Log M conversion cube. See the D-Log M investigation.

Upcoming share destinations

Share shows Google Drive, Dropbox, NAS (SMB), LucidLink, Backblaze B2 and Vimeo Review as Coming soon. These destinations are previews of planned support and cannot be selected yet. Use the available destinations to share now.

On-screen joystick feel

In Controls → On-screen joystick, tune the virtual gimbal stick:

• Invert pan and Invert tilt reverse each direction independently.
• Dead zone ignores small movements near the center. The default is 8%.
• Response curve changes how movement grows with stick travel: Linear is direct, Standard keeps the current feel, and Fine gives gentler small moves.

Both inversion options default to off and the response defaults to Standard. These settings are saved and affect the on-screen joystick. The existing sensitivity setting continues to control overall speed.

The touch range extends 35% beyond the joystick’s outer radius while the ring and knob keep their existing size. Continue dragging past the ring for full input. Returning to the center during a drag respects the dead zone; lifting your finger releases the stick.

Automatic error reports

On the first launch with automatic reporting available, the app asks whether to send optional crash, error and feed-dropout reports. This also applies after an update if you have never made that choice. Enable or Not now is remembered; updates do not ask again after a decision. You can change the choice in Operator Setup → System → Automatic error reports.

If System says “This build cannot send automatic reports,” the installed build has no reporting destination. A configured TestFlight update is required; reinstalling the same build will not enable it. When that update arrives, the app asks if you have not previously chosen Enable or Not now.