Not logged into iOS DJI Fly app = no air data

General Drone Discussion
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This is probably patently obvious to anyone with a bit of experience, but I didn’t have that experience and I could have made an extremely costly error. Flying a Mini 4K using the iOS DJI Fly app, had it for about 3mths, absolutely love it. Thiought I’d check the air data today out of interest as I haven’t looked before. Zilch. Zip, Nada - no air data. At all.

Turns out, under the profile setting, you need to be logged into your DJI account. Seems bleedingly obvious now, but I’d never checked. I do not recall the app ever asking me to log in.

It appears if you’re not logged into the app, no air data is synched / stored - which is a pretty major PITA if you then lose the drone and the data isn’t synched. I am also expecting that without air data DJI would not be forthcoming with the care refresh side of things in the event of an incident. (?)

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Why the app therefore doesn’t insist on forcing a log in is beyond me if it’s essential for synching the air data.

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They usually restrict the drone within a geo zone if you’re not logged in preventing you from flying more than 50m away if I’m not mistaken. :thinking:

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@DeanoG60 is right and there is a big banner telling you

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It’s bad enough that you can’t even activate a DJI drone without having to install an app on your Android phone that bypasses the Google Play Store code review process and does God only knows what in the background with your location and contact data.

Be careful what you wish for :confused:

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Are you in Local Data mode

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Sorry, but I’m going to politely disagree! I can genuinely assure you I have never seen the ‘account not logged in banner’ nor have I ever been restricted in regards to geozones. The banner is pretty obvious tbh so I am absolutely certain it has not been displayed. I have seen the compass calibration banner in the same place so it would be hard to miss.

I was going to log out and check… but it appears that logging out isn’t straightforward either!

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I can delete the account. There is no immediately apparent way of logging out once logged in.

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Nope - I did check that too.

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It’s there at the bottom in red

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Geozones might be the wrong word here, you would have absolutely been restricted in terms of altitude and distance if not logged in to the Fly app?

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Which version of the app? - that is not the screen I can see

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Sorry - again this is not my experience. I have max altitude set to 120m and max distance set to unlimited and have been set this way since I’ve had the drone, unless you mean something else?

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The DJI Fly app automatically logs you out after 30 days of inactivity.

Is this just a timings issue maybe, and it’s been fine in the past?

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Also if you log out on one device it logs you out on all devices

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LOL - the left hand side of the screen scrolls… my bad :man_facepalming:

So - I have logged out, and now I do see the ‘not logged in’ banner.

But - I stand by my original assertion, if you have never logged into the app with your account you will not see this banner, and my flights were also not restricted in any way that has been apparent to me.

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I flew a couple of times over Christmas, again all fine. And no ‘not logged in’ banner. I’ve literally ever seen it!

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How did you activate the drone without logging into your DJI account? :thinking:

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Not true sorry

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Also the flight data is stored on the device so if you now log in all the flight data should upload and appear

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Wait click on the more

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