How to share a 360° panorama without it being flattened

Upload it to an app that displays it as a sphere instead of a flat picture. On OradaOl, viewers turn their phone or drag to look around, and on Apple Vision Pro they stand inside it.

Why 360° panoramas get flattened

A 360° image is usually stored as an equirectangular file: a flat picture with a 2:1 ratio that contains every direction around the camera. It only looks right when a viewer wraps it back into a sphere.

Most photo apps and messaging apps do not do this. Instagram, for example, shows a 360° panorama as a flat, cropped photo. The same happens when you send the file in a typical chat app or view it in a normal phone gallery. The image is still there, but the feeling of standing in the place, with the sky above and the view behind you, is lost.

The fix: use an app that shows it as a sphere

To keep a panorama immersive, share it somewhere that recognises it as 360° and lets the viewer move around inside it. Facebook supports 360° photos. Dedicated 360° apps go further.

OradaOl is a free social network for 360° panoramas, on iPhone, Apple Vision Pro and the web. It was built for exactly this problem.

Step by step on OradaOl

1. Get the app or open the web app. Install OradaOl from the App Store, or open oradaol.app/app in any modern browser.
2. Sign in. Use Apple, Google or email. (Browsing as a guest needs no account; posting does.)
3. Choose your panorama. Pick a panorama from the iPhone Camera app’s Pano mode or an equirectangular 360° image from a 360° camera. OradaOl keeps it as a panorama and does not flatten it.
4. Add details if you want. You can add a location and ambient sound. Faces are blurred automatically on your device before upload.
5. Publish. Others can now like, comment on and react to it.

What viewers see

• On a phone: they turn the phone (using its gyroscope) or drag with a finger to look in any direction.
• On the web: they view it in 360° in the browser, without installing anything.
• On Apple Vision Pro: the panorama surrounds them at true scale. They turn their head to look around, as if standing where you stood.

Which files work

Standard equirectangular (2:1) 360° images work, for example from Insta360, Ricoh Theta or GoPro Max cameras and from 360° drone cameras. Panoramas from the iPhone Camera app’s Pano mode also work, but note that Pano mode produces a horizontal strip, not a full sphere.

If you shoot with a 360° camera, export the photo in its equirectangular (spherical) format, not as a “tiny planet” or a cropped view. That way the whole 360° image is preserved.

Sharing to apps that do not support 360°

Sometimes your audience is on a platform that only shows flat photos or videos. For this case, OradaOl can export any panorama as a watermarked video. The video moves through the view, so people on other platforms can get a sense of the place and find the original on OradaOl.

Quick checklist

• Export or save the panorama as an equirectangular (2:1) image, or keep the original Pano mode photo.
• Upload it to a platform that displays 360° images as a sphere, not to one that crops it.
• Check whether you want to add a location; near your home, Home Zone offsets it automatically.
• Let viewers without the app know they can open OradaOl in a browser at oradaol.app/app and look around in 360° there.

More guides

• What is OradaOl?
• How to view and share 360° photos on Apple Vision Pro
• How to take a panorama with an iPhone and share it as an immersive view
• Where to share 360° photos: which apps keep them immersive

Updated: 2026-10-27