Sony A9 and remote shooting with mobile

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Hello everyone, this is my first post on this forum.

I have a Sony A9 and was trying to take a self-portrait with the camera and my iPad using the Imaging Edge app.

All ok, apart from the shocking connection reliability and laggy/jerky live view, until I tried to touch focus. No luck.

I started troubleshooting and found that because I have back button focus set up the Sony cameras can’t use touch focus on the app - what the heck? Never encountered that issue with any other brand, and I have used quite a few! Anyway, I re-map focus to the shutter button and voila’…no luck again!

After a lot of bumbling around the net I discover that the Sony A9 is not compatible with touch AF from the app!

Is that for real? A professional camera like that does not allow the most basic function for remote shooting? I’m baffled.

 

The question is: has anybody managed to solve the problem? Any workaround to be able to do that?

I’d be very grateful for an answer either way.

Thanks in advance!

 

Flavio