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The DJI Fly app flies almost every current DJI consumer drone, and it is where far more of your image quality gets decided than most pilots realise. This hub collects our tutorials and setting guides for it.

The single most useful thing in the app is the one most people never open: DJI’s built-in simulator is the best free way to practise before your first real flight, and it is already installed. If you have just unboxed a drone, the beginner’s guide to flying and our how to start flying drones guide are the right order of operations.

Two things reliably trip people up. Pairing is the first: pairing goggles and controllers is not difficult but it is unintuitive. Getting your footage out is the second — transferring and editing on mobile has a path that makes sense once someone shows it to you.

For settings that change what you actually capture, the Mini 5 Pro hidden features guide is the most useful thing we have written, and it generalises across the range. Firmware releases that change app behaviour are tracked on the firmware desk. Every DJI Fly story lands in the feed below.

Key facts

What it is
The app that flies almost every current DJI consumer drone, and where most of your image quality is actually decided
Most useful hidden feature
The built-in simulator — free practice before your first real flight
Where new pilots struggle
Pairing goggles and controllers, and getting footage off the drone and edited on a phone

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Last updated October 21, 2026 — the feed below updates with every new story.

DJI Lito and Lito X1 Beginner's Guide: How to Fly Your New Drone
DJI

DJI Lito and Lito X1 Beginner’s Guide: How to Fly Your New Drone

Good day folks, Shawn here from Air Photography. This is my beginner’s guide for the brand new Lito drone from DJI — both the standard Lito and the Lito X1. When new drones like this get released, I like to create beginner’s guides for those who are brand new to drones to help get them…

Shawn Air PhotographyMay 22
The DJI Flip Is Ugly. Buy It Anyway.
DJI

The DJI Flip Is Ugly. Buy It Anyway.

Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: the DJI Flip is not a pretty drone. It looks like someone strapped a camera to a tiny bicycle and called it a day. I’ve stared at it from multiple angles hoping it would grow on me, and it hasn’t. But here’s the thing — it…

Rafael SuárezMay 12

Frequently asked questions

How do I practice flying without risking my drone?

Use the simulator built into DJI's app. It is free, it is already installed, and it is the best way to make your early mistakes somewhere they cost nothing.

Which DJI Fly settings actually matter?

Far fewer than the menus suggest, and the defaults are conservative. The settings that change your footage most are the ones controlling exposure and colour profile, not the ones people usually go hunting for.

How do I get footage off the drone onto my phone?

Through the app, and it is more straightforward than it looks once you know the path — though the workflow differs between drone and camera products, which is where most confusion comes from.

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