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I have an old iPhone 5s that must be 6 or 7 years old. It has long been deactivated from standard phone use, but miraculously can still make Facetime calls on wifi and do all other functions other than cell calls. I let my grandson play with it. He likes to Facetime with his cousin on "his" phone. I was wondering... will a phone this old still function with my drones?
As far as the Mini 2 goes, the answer is YES! I was surprised and then again wasn't. I haven't tried it with my Mavic 2 and might some time in the future. But the implications of it are that I can have both drones set up and ready to go without having to do an on-the-fly swap.
There were only two minor issues that might be unimportant. The first is that I got an "error" message that the phone's GPU (?) is full and it might not function properly. The second is that there is only a sliver of open space from the menu back to the main screen, so fat fingers might not be able to get it to switch modes. I don't know.
Other than that it seemed to do fine. The screen did look a little different. I don't think there was a "plus" size in the 5 series. In the meantime my 6sPlus works very well with both drones.
...Just thought someone might want to know.
As far as the Mini 2 goes, the answer is YES! I was surprised and then again wasn't. I haven't tried it with my Mavic 2 and might some time in the future. But the implications of it are that I can have both drones set up and ready to go without having to do an on-the-fly swap.
There were only two minor issues that might be unimportant. The first is that I got an "error" message that the phone's GPU (?) is full and it might not function properly. The second is that there is only a sliver of open space from the menu back to the main screen, so fat fingers might not be able to get it to switch modes. I don't know.
Other than that it seemed to do fine. The screen did look a little different. I don't think there was a "plus" size in the 5 series. In the meantime my 6sPlus works very well with both drones.
...Just thought someone might want to know.
