

This is fine for shorter clips, but you’ll probably want to go through the USB port for a whole day’s worth of shooting. Our tests showed footage to download at a speed of roughly one second per second of 4K footage captured at 30p, when set to a 5GHz wireless band and footage compressed with the HEVC option (rather than H.264, which is also available).
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This also happens to be a far less fiddly way of updating your camera’s firmware, as you don’t need to remove the microSD card and load the update manually.

From the GoPro app you can view images and footage, control the camera remotely and upload footage and images to the cloud, and you can also set up a Live connection to your chosen social account. We had a few issues getting our Hero 7 Black sample to connect to a Huawei P20 Pro, but there was no issue connecting (and reconnecting) with an iPad Mini running iOS 12. Instagram users, in addition to having an easier time capturing portrait-orientation images, can also add their footage and images straight into Stories, and you can pimp your captures with music, effects and GPS stickers as you see fit. You can set this to auto upload images to your device, for example, and those with a GoPro Plus subscription will find 250GB of cloud storage space to play with. This lets you do whole load of things other than simply transfer images to your phone. The GoPro Hero 7 Black is compatible with the iOS and Android GoPro and Quik apps, although since the camera launched GoPro has now handily combined both of these apps into the single GoPro app. Auto backup with 250GB cloud space (with subscription).GoPro Hero 7 Black review: editing and apps
