Independent US Audit Clears DJI Drones – 2026 Ban Update for Photographers - NEW CAMERA

DJI used two weeks to anoint the Pocket 4P as a cinema product at Cannes rather than a consumer product at its own event, absorb a fourth US-block casualty with Osmo Mobile 8P, watch the FCC fight enter its most adversarial phase, and collect NAB hardware that validates the pivot. Here's what happened — in priority order, with our take on each.

After 5 months of testing, an independent audit found DJI drones (Air 3S, Matrice 4E) have ZERO critical security issues. No backdoors. No data sent to China. No malware. The FCC's main justification for restrictions just collapsed.