Useless App
Phone is connected to the camera via WiFi but the app doesn’t recognize the camera at all.
Too basic of an app
This app is just a marketing ploy to be able to say “we too, have an app”…
Too basic to be useful. Can’t rotate the iPhone so pictures/movies occupy the whole screen.
I wish SeaLife made their cameras able to download pics to a computer.
It has a SEVERE and silly limitation: if you want to download several pictures from your camera it limits the download size (SIZE! Not number of pictures) to 1024MB. Why this SIZE limitation baffles me…
Too basic to be useful. Can’t rotate the iPhone so pictures/movies occupy the whole screen.
I wish SeaLife made their cameras able to download pics to a computer.
It has a SEVERE and silly limitation: if you want to download several pictures from your camera it limits the download size (SIZE! Not number of pictures) to 1024MB. Why this SIZE limitation baffles me…
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Clumsy useless
Could they make this app any worse, if that was the plan, probably not. I’d rather pay for an app that has some smarts to it. Read all the other reviews they pretty much cover the specifics. I like the camera.
Camera and app
No WiFi connection available. I had to format it more than once and lost all media and still doesn’t connect to wifi. I had tried everything. I believe that’s why it’s at a lower price.
Firmware updates
This app from phone connected to camera is useless. I am ready to trash this and find a camera that will work. I love the pictures it takes and how small it is to carry, but who cares if you can never transfer the photos to your phone. And I did transfer to my computer which took me hours to figure out how to get them back to my phone. Now it wants a firmware update and I can’t access any pictures on the camera without hooking up to my laptop. Because of the firmware update needed, it keeps dropping the WiFi. Also, I can find how to download the firmware from the website to fix my camera. There has to be a better way.
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Great camera terrible app
I bought this camera and the sea dragon light frame. Both work awesome the only unfortunate thing is that accessing the camera to get images off onto a mobile device is absolutely terrible. In 2025 this is kind of an unacceptable thing for technology and where the GoPro actually does way better job. I’d suggest sea life get it together and fix their apps and make it easier to put things into your photo stream on whatever device you have.
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It works, but…
Read several reviews saying the app was basically useless. Some of their complaints are either not valid, or no longer valid. But, the app is still of very limited use.
Following the FAQs, I turned off cellular data and Bluetooth. The app connected via WiFi, and I was able to select multiple photos and videos to transfer simultaneously. And the photos and videos were transferred to my iPhone’s photo library.
The down side: it probably took 15 minutes to transfer 2 10-second videos and 6 JPEGs. I didn’t time it, but it was very slow. I have an iPhone 14 connected to the micro 3.0. It also heavily drained my phone’s battery. This is a vastly different experience than I have transferring wirelessly from my GoPro, where the same thing would have taken seconds.
Either the micro 3.0 has an exceedingly slow and weak WiFi chip, or the app has an extremely poor WiFi implementation.
And, yes, I have the latest firmware on the micro 3.0, the latest version of the app, and the latest version of iOS.
Following the FAQs, I turned off cellular data and Bluetooth. The app connected via WiFi, and I was able to select multiple photos and videos to transfer simultaneously. And the photos and videos were transferred to my iPhone’s photo library.
The down side: it probably took 15 minutes to transfer 2 10-second videos and 6 JPEGs. I didn’t time it, but it was very slow. I have an iPhone 14 connected to the micro 3.0. It also heavily drained my phone’s battery. This is a vastly different experience than I have transferring wirelessly from my GoPro, where the same thing would have taken seconds.
Either the micro 3.0 has an exceedingly slow and weak WiFi chip, or the app has an extremely poor WiFi implementation.
And, yes, I have the latest firmware on the micro 3.0, the latest version of the app, and the latest version of iOS.
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One small pic at a time
This app is not very friendly. Yep, you discovered it, it only downloads 1 pic/vid at a time… don’t search the list very long, the camera Wi-fi will disconnect. The must have download all function was not in the cards for this app. One would think the SeaLife folks would get it together…
Too basic of an app
This app is just a marketing ploy to be able to say “we too, have an app”…
Too basic to be useful. Can’t rotate the iPhone so pictures/movies occupy the whole screen.
I wish SeaLife made their cameras able to download pics to a computer.
Too basic to be useful. Can’t rotate the iPhone so pictures/movies occupy the whole screen.
I wish SeaLife made their cameras able to download pics to a computer.
Pointless App
I just downloaded this app after a dive trip to Bonaire. I followed the instructions of my SeaLife manual to upload my images to the app so I did.
Only uploads one image at a time. It was painful. Completely wasted a couple hours of my time doing so!!! What is the point of this app anyway if you can’t do anything with the photos?!?!?! Thank God my iPad saved the photos under my own personal album.
Only uploads one image at a time. It was painful. Completely wasted a couple hours of my time doing so!!! What is the point of this app anyway if you can’t do anything with the photos?!?!?! Thank God my iPad saved the photos under my own personal album.
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Basically Useless
You can only download on pic at a time, and when I say download I am being generous. It is so slow it’s basically useless. If your old enough to remember what it was like using a modem to download a file, well, that was faster.
No wifi connection.
The wifi is useless with my iphone. I don’t carry a computer on dive trips. Totally unsatisfied.
Rubbish Can’t Cope with Even 30 sec clips.
So I went full on with the SeaLife brand upgrading from GoPro.
The camera is really good the flex connect system brilliant and the lenses are also good quality. So I’m happy with SeaLife but this app is terrible! It can’t even handle a 30 second clip without freezing. There’s no functional editing, you can only select one video file at a time to download. Downloading is sooooo slooowwww. Why they have even bothered to launch this as a bespoke app for the Micro 3+ camera is beyond me. GoPro app Quik is by comparison brilliant and so fast and user friendly too. I’ve this app after just one week away with my camera. Now I just connect the camera to the iPad with a cable (much faster) and import everything into photos. From there I open Quik and carry on as I did using my GoPro.
Come on SeaLife you can do better surely than this?
The camera is really good the flex connect system brilliant and the lenses are also good quality. So I’m happy with SeaLife but this app is terrible! It can’t even handle a 30 second clip without freezing. There’s no functional editing, you can only select one video file at a time to download. Downloading is sooooo slooowwww. Why they have even bothered to launch this as a bespoke app for the Micro 3+ camera is beyond me. GoPro app Quik is by comparison brilliant and so fast and user friendly too. I’ve this app after just one week away with my camera. Now I just connect the camera to the iPad with a cable (much faster) and import everything into photos. From there I open Quik and carry on as I did using my GoPro.
Come on SeaLife you can do better surely than this?
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Worst app ever!
This is by far the worst app I have ever used! The problems with this app are too numerous to put here. How does Sealife survive with this horrid app for a popular camara!?!
Schämt Euch Sealife!! Das ihr sowas anbietet ist eine Frechheit!
Die App ist eine katastrophale es braucht ewig die Bilder zu laden, quasi unbrauchbar die App.
Die Micro 3.0 ist ebenso völliger Schrott, schlechte Bilder, unscharf, kaum nach colorierung, etc.
Wirklich noch nie soetwas schlechtes erlebt!
Die Micro 3.0 ist ebenso völliger Schrott, schlechte Bilder, unscharf, kaum nach colorierung, etc.
Wirklich noch nie soetwas schlechtes erlebt!
Works
The app needs work as all the other reviews have mentioned. However, it does the basic task of reviewing the pics and video on a tablet while also adjusting settings and deleting unwanted files. I just use the usb port to transfer files to a pc.
Unreliable app, slow Wi-Fi transfer speeds
The Wi-Fi transfer speed to my iPhone is incredibly slow, even when it’s sitting a couple of inches away. It takes ~20s to transfer a single 5MB JPEG, which is about 0.25 megabytes / second. Transferring 100 photos from a couple of dive takes half an hour or more. I’ve tried disabling Bluetooth according to the troubleshooting guide, to no avail.
The Wi-Fi connection is unreliable, and transferring 100 photos will often take 3-4 tries when it disconnects part way through.
The camera will turn off Wi-Fi if the phone ever disconnect, at which point I have to tediously navigate the camera menus to turn it back on & wait for that to complete.
The app will crash every time when I reconnect to the Wi-Fi after it has disconnected, meaning I have to restart the app and turn Wi-Fi on on the camera an additional time.
The app does not disable screen lock, and so I have to tap the screen every few minutes for the whole transfer to keep it from locking — because locking causes it to disconnect.
When the app disconnects it does not offer any way to resume the transfer and I have to manually figure out how far through the transfer it got before it stopped.
I can’t select photos before the thumbnail has been downloaded, unless I want to select “all photos” for a day.
If I want to download more than a GB, I’m arbitrarily prohibited from doing so, and the “select all” function becomes useless.
I have to select the photos I want to transfer, transfer them, then select them again, and delete them. It would be very helpful to have the app be able to delete the photos as they are downloaded, or leave them selected.
I can’t switch to another app while it’s transferring or it’ll lose the connection, which is made much more frustrating because of the long transfer times.
The Wi-Fi connection is unreliable, and transferring 100 photos will often take 3-4 tries when it disconnects part way through.
The camera will turn off Wi-Fi if the phone ever disconnect, at which point I have to tediously navigate the camera menus to turn it back on & wait for that to complete.
The app will crash every time when I reconnect to the Wi-Fi after it has disconnected, meaning I have to restart the app and turn Wi-Fi on on the camera an additional time.
The app does not disable screen lock, and so I have to tap the screen every few minutes for the whole transfer to keep it from locking — because locking causes it to disconnect.
When the app disconnects it does not offer any way to resume the transfer and I have to manually figure out how far through the transfer it got before it stopped.
I can’t select photos before the thumbnail has been downloaded, unless I want to select “all photos” for a day.
If I want to download more than a GB, I’m arbitrarily prohibited from doing so, and the “select all” function becomes useless.
I have to select the photos I want to transfer, transfer them, then select them again, and delete them. It would be very helpful to have the app be able to delete the photos as they are downloaded, or leave them selected.
I can’t switch to another app while it’s transferring or it’ll lose the connection, which is made much more frustrating because of the long transfer times.
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No photo saving
What’s the point of downloading photos to the App if they’re then stick in the app and can’t be used anywhere or downloaded to iCloud Photos. Pointless app. It doesn’t take much to make an app that is useful!
One at a time!
It can only download one photo at a time on my iPad Pro. And it wont go into landscape mode when I turn the iPad. Very poor app, not workable at all. I thought there would be big improvement over the micro hd, but this is way worse than that app.
Connection issues on iPhone (and solution)
I had real trouble getting this app to connect to the camera on my iPhone (app on iPad worked fine).
The issue on iPhone is that if cellular data is a active (my iPad does not have cellular) then the app tries to use the cellular data to reach out to the camera instead of the camera’s WiFi. Turning off Cellular Data in the settings for the SeaLife Micro 3.0+ app.
But there was another issue that the settings for the app don’t always show up in the iOS settings app. My iPad, for instance has this issue (even though everything works on iPad as it is the WiFi only model). And on iPhone I had to delete and reinstall the app to get the settings in the Settings app.
Other than that, the app does what it is supposed to do, though the UI is not great looking, but functional.
The issue on iPhone is that if cellular data is a active (my iPad does not have cellular) then the app tries to use the cellular data to reach out to the camera instead of the camera’s WiFi. Turning off Cellular Data in the settings for the SeaLife Micro 3.0+ app.
But there was another issue that the settings for the app don’t always show up in the iOS settings app. My iPad, for instance has this issue (even though everything works on iPad as it is the WiFi only model). And on iPhone I had to delete and reinstall the app to get the settings in the Settings app.
Other than that, the app does what it is supposed to do, though the UI is not great looking, but functional.
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