Insta360

I don’t want to spend hours editing video. I should be able to ask AI what to focus on and how long I want the video to be and what audio to use and AI should generate a video. This app can not do that.

I love camera app so smooth

I can’t say how much I hate this eeefering app. I have tried, and tried, and tried to get the point of the AI editing to work. I have now spent way, way, way more time editing the AI result., Only to have it cancel when I need it to save. Isn’t the point of the AI to save time? I have now spent more than 20 minutes (for an extremely simple video! ) trying to get a nice clean edit (that I choose after editing from their edits ) out of something using their stupid AI edit. Only to be 100% embarrassed by the result, and can’t post it. I will give you that the hardware is amazing, but forcing Temu type style advertising everywhere as well as forcing X5 water marking everywhere without digging into multiple different menus, is just minus a zillion stars from me.

Why can’t I just turn on the camera and use it out of the box? Did Insta360 ship a non working model that needs a firmware update before it can record pictures or videos? Well, kind of. You literally cannot use the camera until you download this 1.6gb app. Even DJI doesn’t require this (though they certainly encourage it). Yes, I get that the app provides these additional features and downloads firmware, but, if I want to shoot video out of the box, you can’t do it because Insta360 crippled their device - on purpose.

There is no apparent way to export .insv files to be stored externally, and no easy way to upload already-downloaded .insv files to the cloud. Very basic functionality that should exist!!!!!!

Not sure why I’d pay 100’s of dollars for a camera whose app doesn’t allow you to remove the watermark anymore. Ridiculous.

I like the gear but this app is mess. It’s like it can’t decide what kind of app it wants to be. Is it an editing app?, a social media page? a camera companion?, gear control? It tries to be all this (and more) without doing any of them very well. The Home Screen is confusing. It’s basically 100 ads for some of the random things the app contains. With no rhyme or reason. Where some things should be in other tabs. It’s clunky and disorienting. One of the most confusing apps I’ve seen. The opening tab is some sort of social media page (ie tiktok, for some reason) but it’s cluttered with random buttons of hashtags, posts from random people, and several unnecessary options randomly scattered around. Including some options that should be on an “settings” tab. It’s like they couldn’t decide what to put on the Home Screen so everyone at the office got their ideas in. And no one said “no. That’s too much.” The editing page is the same thing. There are so many better options to edit videos then whatever this is. Overall, it’s just doing WAY too much and there’s no real benefit to using it. There is basically no way I would ever want to use this app for any reason.

So many features and difficult to know when it’s on. 90% frustration. 10% accidentally taking a video.

The hardware seems in most ways better than the competition in 360 cameras but the app is full of ads for insta360 when I’ve already clearly purchased their products and then recently after updates it started demanding local network access to connect to the camera even though it never required this before I’d you manually connected to the wifi connection. I’m literally connected to the cameras wifi and the app says give me permission to search your network. Seems like a data grab.

Too many advertisements baked into a product I already paid hundreds of dollars for.

I owned insta 360 x3 for couple of years I haven’t used much till recently and find that the editing app has a lot buffering bugs and the video quality had decreased mad for some unknown reason every time I want record a video from my camera I get text messages about tier websites I used about their sales and stuff of that nature while I am trying to edit videos making the experience super annoying.

Great app but it doesn’t connect to my iPhone 17 anymore. Only way I can get videos is with a cord. I’ve tried deleting & reinstalling and didn’t help. It worked for the first couple months & now it doesn’t. VERY frustrating!