– When viewing a 360 photo or video, you cannot view the 360 photo or video in a headset from within the app.

– While shooting video, there is no live preview. On a Samsung phone, the app can connect to camera without going through menus. You need to establish a Wi-Fi connection manually (under the iPhone settings) instead of within the app. To get the full resolution, you need to stitch on the desktop software. – Photos are stitched at 4096 x 2048 instead of 5472 x 2736.

When the camera is connected wirelessly, the app freezes.Īlthough the 2017 Gear 360 app can run on iPhone, there are several functional limitations: IPhone SE (on iOS 10.3.1) is listed as being compatible but I can only use it to view photos and videos. – iPhone 7 (thanks to reader Philipp Hesse!) Here are the models we’ve tried that work on the Gear 360 app (version 1101): However, it appears that models as old as the iPhone 5Scan work with the 2017 Gear 360. The models listed as compatible are iPhone 7, 7+, 6S, 6S+, SE running iOS 10.0 or later. Here are the limits I’ve found so far.Īccording to the 2017 Gear 360’s spec sheet, you need at least an iPhone 6S to work with the 2017 Gear 360. To use the desktop software to stitch or edit videos on a Mac, you needed bootcamp or another Windows emulation software to run the Windows version of the desktop software.įortunately, the 2017 Gear 360 is compatible with iOS and Mac. The most you could do on an iPhone was take photos using the Google Streetview app as a workaround. The original Samsung Gear 360 was not compatible with iOS or Mac. Here is an update on the limits and compatibility of the 2017 Samsung Gear 360 with iOS and Mac.

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