Imagine filming a sunset, a crowded city street, or a wild mountain trail without ever having to decide where to point your camera. That’s the appeal of a 360 camera: you capture the entire scene and worry about the framing later. DJI is now making that idea even more compelling with a new Osmo 360 II update that improves low-light video, cleans up close-range panoramic photos and, perhaps most usefully, makes it easier to send all those massive 360 files to the cloud.
Firmware v01.02.03.10, alongside DJI Mimo 2.12.1 for iOS and Android, brings several practical upgrades to DJI’s newest 360 camera. And because some of the biggest changes are about what happens after you press record, the update could be interesting even if you haven’t bought into 360 cameras yet.
The Osmo 360 II is DJI’s latest attempt to make 360 shooting feel less like a niche experiment and more like a genuinely useful everyday camera. Launched globally earlier this month, it can capture native 8K/60fps 360-degree video, has a claimed 14.5 stops of dynamic range, and uses DJI’s AI SuperNight 2.0 processing for low-light shooting.
And unlike a conventional action camera, you’re not constantly worrying about whether your subject is actually in frame. Mount the camera on a selfie stick, helmet, bike or car, hit record and capture the entire environment. Later, you can reframe the footage into conventional horizontal or vertical videos. DJI calls this a 4-in-1 approach because the camera can also produce traditional action-camera-style footage and creative perspectives from the same recording.
Now DJI is making that workflow a little easier.
Night shooting gets better
The most obvious image-quality improvement in the new firmware is for SuperNight mode. DJI says v01.02.03.10 enhances 360-degree video quality in SuperNight, specifically improving detail reproduction. That’s useful because nighttime footage is one of those situations where a camera’s processing can make a very noticeable difference.
The Osmo 360 II was already built around low-light shooting. Its square HDR sensor design, large 2.4μm pixels, f/1.9 aperture and AI SuperNight 2.0 are designed to produce cleaner footage in darker conditions. DJI also says the camera can shoot 8K/60fps 360-degree video while maintaining its wide dynamic range.
The firmware isn’t reinventing SuperNight, then. It’s refining something that’s already one of the camera’s headline features. That could make the difference for travelers and creators who tend to shoot when the sun isn’t cooperating — think evening city walks, concerts, night markets, ski trips or sunset hikes.
Close-up 360 photos should stitch better
DJI is also improving panoramic photo quality, with the update specifically targeting close-range stitching.
That’s a small-sounding change that makes sense for a 360 camera. Objects that are very close to the camera can make the seam between the two lenses more noticeable. Better stitching should make those situations look more natural.
The Osmo 360 II can capture 120MP panoramic photos, so this isn’t a camera designed solely for video.
Finally, there’s somewhere to put all that footage
Perhaps the most useful addition has nothing to do with image quality. The new firmware adds cloud-storage upload, allowing footage to be uploaded to Baidu Netdisk, Quark Drive, OneDrive, Google Drive and NAS. For anyone who has used a 360 camera, this could be the upgrade that matters most.
High-resolution 360 footage is not exactly friendly to phone storage. The Osmo 360 II helps on the camera side with 105GB of usable built-in storage, but once you start shooting 8K video regularly, having a straightforward way to move those files elsewhere becomes increasingly important.
It also makes the camera more attractive for travel. You can spend a day shooting everything around you without immediately worrying about how you’re going to shuffle files between the camera, phone, laptop, and external drive.
DJI Mimo gets a fresh look
The camera isn’t the only thing getting an upgrade. DJI Mimo 2.12.1 also brings a redesigned interface and several creative-editing improvements, according to the update information supplied by DJI.
One particularly fun addition is Personal Watermark. Users can upload a profile photo and turn it into a custom device watermark for exported footage, Live frames, stickers, and other creations.
Mimo’s One-Tap Edit tools are getting attention too. The update adds In-Camera Highlight Detection, which can identify and mark exciting moments while shooting so they can later be selected more precisely during editing. There’s an important limitation: DJI lists this feature as supported on the Osmo Action 6, not the Osmo 360 II.
The app also gets improved portrait framing, with One-Tap Edit now designed to produce more naturally framed portrait shots.
That distinction is worth making because not every Mimo feature in this release is specifically for the Osmo 360 II. But the broader direction is clear: DJI is trying to make the jump from shooting to shareable video less of a chore.
And that’s becoming increasingly important for 360 cameras. The biggest obstacle to buying one isn’t necessarily image quality anymore. It’s the thought of having to learn an entirely new editing workflow just to turn that cool 360 clip into something you can actually post.
The Osmo 360 II already addresses some of that with features such as Spotlight Follow, which can track a subject and let you export a conventionally framed 4K video from 360 footage. It also has replaceable, scratch-resistant lenses, 10-bit color, water resistance to 10 meters without a case, and up to 100 minutes of continuous 8K/30fps recording under DJI’s stated conditions.
The latest update doesn’t fundamentally change what the camera is. It makes the overall experience a little more polished. And that may be exactly what potential buyers need to see. A 360 camera is much easier to justify when it isn’t just another gadget in the camera bag, but a way to capture an entire experience first and decide what the final video should look like later.
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