Defender App

Browning Trail Cameras

About this app

The Defender App is the app companion for Browning Defender Series of cameras.
Utilizing BLE and WiFi to connect to the camera, you can now preview and download crisp 20MP images and full HD quality videos to the mobile phone or tablet without disturbing the camera in the field.
You can also change camera settings, and have a live preview image from the camera, right in the palm of your hand.

Ratings and reviews

The heading titles are in poor English. Ex. "No Connected" It is difficult to understand if the device is connected or not due to the improper use of terms. My phone shows wifi connection to the camera, but the app doesn't recognize it being connected. The tabs used when connected via WiFi stay locked, ie unable to access. The heading at the top reads "Disconnect". Are you asking me too or do you mean "Disconnected"? Browning, fire the guy that used the cheap third world app developers.

Initial connection is unnecessarily complex. For my Android phone (Pixel 3XL) I have to: 1) turn off Data AND WiFi before connecting to the camera. 2) Then MANUALLY TURN ON WiFi on my phone, 3) TAP the connection on the WiFi page on my phone once the connection is made, 4) SAY YES when it tells me the connection has no internet access and do I want to continue, 5) CHECK YES when it asks "do not show this every time"; 6) Then go to the app itself and click on the BLE <-> WiFi there, and then, fingers crossed, it makes the connection. So: - If I don't turn off both data and wifi it won't connect; - If I don't manually turn on WiFi on my phone at the right step, it won't connect; - If I don't hit the "yes I want to continue" button then it loses the connection. A few lines in the instruction manual and on the video would make this so much more straightforward. I'll update once I've used the app and cameras for a while. Thanks for reading. I hope this is helpful!

I use a Pixel 3 XL. I followed the video set-up instructions on the Browning web site and it works fine. This is my second Browning Trail Cam and the first that I can access remotely, so I'm really enjoying that aspect of it. Easy peasy to check the cam action from my phone! I knocked off a star for a few little niggling details like the slowness, lack of truly intuitive set-up/use, etc. NOTE: If you are running in "Battery Saver" mode, the app likely will not work until you turn that off.

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Fix Android 10 issue