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Phone Buddy Phone Lost Alert App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Too many false positives and shorten battery life too muchI liked the idea of the app, but regardless of the settings that I choose, it keeps giving me false positives, saying my phone is going away or lost, when my phone is in my pocket and my watch on my wrist. Also cut my battery life on my iPhone down by about 25% and my Apple Watch down by about 50%. Also needs much more granular settings for the alarm, it is ridiculously loud and annoying. I never use my ringer on my iPhone or watch, just silent mode. But Phone Buddy doesn’t seem to support that. I just removed the app, as I am going on holidays and need my battery life back..Version: 7.0.2
✓ Annoying appThe app will run actively in the background of apple watch and show the little icon on the top of watch face constantly, when it’s not running in the background, you will get a notification suggesting you to turn on “phone alert” which I already turned on yesterday and somehow turned off by itself. Just annoying..Version: 6.0.3
✓ Does not work with wrist temp and sleep focus on S8 watchI cannot use this app as it prevents logging of wrist temperature of my series 8 watch and it also disables the locked display in the Sleep Focus. It took me several weeks to realise this app was the cause of the problems along with two weeks support and diags with Apple Health which amounted to nothing. Is there a timeline for fixing these issues as I think the app is brilliant in what it does (and Apple is unable to do) and would like to get back to using it again?.Version: 7.5.1
✓ Battery Hog!While the app performed as advertised for me in terms of functionality, it absolutely clobbered my watch’s battery. It cut my Series 6 battery life in half! When I uninstalled it from the watch, everything went back to normal. Good concept but impractical, for me, with this heavy power hit..Version: 6.1.1
✓ Not even close to being efficientDont waste ur money people. I should have read the reviews first. This app is not accurate. It doesnt work well My phone was always with me and yet suddenly i get a message saying its going far away from my watch. 🤦🏻♂️ And when i need it to alarm (like purposely go far away from the phone, it doesmt alarm my watch 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ Pls fix this! (May 11,2023 iphone 12, apple watch 8).Version: 7.5.1
✓ Was good, now it’s AWFUL!I’ve had this app for several version of the iPhone and Apple Watch and the first iterations of this app worked fine, without false alarms but after recently updating this app and being pleasantly surprised by all the great additions to the functionality of this app I was impressed. THAT WAS SHORT LIVED. This app is horrendous with false alarms, no matter how much I tinker with the distance and time setting it’s constantly going off. With me working in the medical field with patient care, it’s very rude and startling to patients and family members having loud and obnoxious fire alarm sounding alerts randomly blaring out of your phone and watch, even when both your phone and watch are on your person. I’ve even went as far as completely shutting down the application when I need it the most but the application is still making my phone alarm randomly. I’m super disappointed in this application now and I feel I have no choice but to remove it completely from my phone..Version: 7.1.0
✓ GarbageI had to remove and reset my watch after this app put the watch into syncing mode for 2 hours..Version: 5.1.0
✓ Not bad.It does what it is supposed to do, moving from Samsung watch 3 where it is built in I’m surprise not to see it in the series 6 I have just bought. All I want is a simple setup where when my phone loses the Bluetooth connection from my watch I get notified on the watch, that’s all I want to happen but I find the app is far to over complicated and the notifications hard to stop and customise. Yes it does the job but I feel it could be slimmed down a bit. Edit. ... also I have found when active it won’t let the sleep watch face( when putting it in sleep mode) activate, It some how over rides it, so either you risk tapping the watch while sleep tracking is active or have to constantly disable the app before bed. Edit edit... emailed video of my issue..Version: 6.1.1
✓ Too often receive lost phone alert with phone next to watchI did all I could with configuration- set distance far and increased time. I also set to not alert on home WiFi. No joy. I still get random alerts for no apparent reason. I guess I need to be a big boy and remember my phone because this app gives too many false alerts to be useful. :( The developer suggested that I may be having problems in my environment with distance and simply use lost phone alerts instead. I had the issue with the phone and watch being within inches of each other. Unless my body generates a field that could through their process off, I don’t see what environment is interfering; it’s not like there are walls to go through or metal objects in the way. This issue didn’t just happen at home. BTW - iPhone 12 Pro and Watch Series 6, so this isn’t an issue with older hardware. Downgraded the review to 1; reminds me a bit of the iPhone - you’re not holding it right but worse..Version: 6.1.1
✓ Stops monitoring the phone-watch signal strength after a whileI bought this to notify me on my watch whenever my phone was left behind. I have a habit of leaving my phone in my car when getting out. It works perfectly for 24 hours or so, but then stops monitoring the Bluetooth signal strength unless you close the app and reopen it. So basically every time I get in my car I have to make sure Bluetooth is on, the app has recently been closed and reopened, and that the app is monitoring tHe connection strength. I played around with setting up automations but it ended up being more trouble than it was worth. I contacted support and they were very quick to reply and sent me an invite to their TestFlight beta testing. Those beta versions didn’t fix my problem though. I don’t use this app anymore unfortunately, but props to the devs for their own efforts and trying to help with my issue..Version: 7.1.0
✓ Great idea mediocre implementationI love the idea and paid the 7 dollars for it but while using it I get tons of notifications about watch and phone moving apart when they’re both on me, I can go in to the app on the phone and see that the accuracy is off quite a bit I’ll have 66% meanwhile my watch is on my wrist and phone in that same hand. Keep working on it I believe this will be a great app once locked In.Version: 4.0.0
✓ Causing issues with wrist temp tracking?My Apple Watch recently stopped tracking my wrist temperature. It stopped working the day I downloaded phone buddy (it’s was the only app I downloaded that day). Can the developer advice of this is causing issues with wrist temperature tracking on the Apple watch? I have changed nothing on the settings and the only difference is that on that day, I started using phone buddy. Is it something to do with the need for constant blue tooth for phone buddy to work clashing with wrist temperature tracking requiring the phone and the Apple Watch to be in sleep focus mode? I’m trying to figure out the problem. But otherwise, phone buddy is a great app..Version: 7.5.0
✓ Nice try I guess... watch battery hog!Bought the premium version to alert me when I leave my phone behind... which I do alot. Sometimes it’d work great... sometimes it notifies me when I’m a mile away. I might could deal with the inconsistency, but this app is a battery hog to the watch. I was getting 48 hours out of my series 3 prior to this app, now it’s closer to 18. Why Apple doesn’t add a haptic notification to the firmware for phone out of range floors me. Garmins do it... WTH Apple?!?.Version: 5.0.0
✓ Didn’t work on my iPhone 13 pro with series 7 watchSupport was quick and responsive, but I could never get the alarm to sound on my watch when my phone was left behind. I would get a notification when swiping down on the watch screen, but no alarm, and the only way to see the notification is to swiped down on the watch screen. I need an alarm when I walk away from my phone, so this app did not help me. I found the problem. When using Life 360 location service app phone buddy does not work properly and does not sound an alarm as it should on my watch. So there is a bug when using this with other location services. I hope the developers can fix this because this is really a useful app..Version: 7.4.0
✓ Don’t botherHave really grown to regret purchasing a lifetime license for an app that seldom works. I set this up exactly with the default settings suggested in the app. I keep the app open on my phone. It only works on occasion and more recently stopped working altogether. And you know what? I can already guess what the developer response will be. I don’t have time to contact them and troubleshoot an app that should work flawlessly. If I have to seek customer support after reading all the other negative reviews I already know this app has become worthless and I got taken for $7.Version: 4.1.0
✓ WTHWell thought I’d get this app to stop me from leaving my phone. Works once. Everyone I test it the distance and phone list is disabled!! Why. All I want is my watch to alert me if my phone is not with me. I was contacted and told all I need is phone list enabled. So I’ll try that..Version: 7.0.2
✓ Paid version/lifetime alertsWanted a simple alert on watch for when bluetooth connection is lost/left my fone indoors..... a 25 percent battery drain (12 hours lost)when using the app is unacceptable. Uninstalled !!!!.Version: 4.0.0
✓ Working Unstable - Do Not BuyHaving iPhone 11 Pro Max iOS 15.3 and Watch Series 7 os 8.4. Bought this app, configured it, and it looked ok. Battery health is 89%. However I’ve found that is working for the Distance Alert only when the phone app is in memory. If you accidentally swiped it up, it not only didn’t send notifications but it even disabled Distance Alerts buy itself. The Phone Alert was disabled by itself after I had restarted my phone. Besides it an annoying dot with the arrow appeared at the top of the watch screen when that option has been allowed. That dot overlapped the regular red dot indicating new notifications. I want my money back. Period..Version: 7.3.0
✓ Please stop begging for reviewsIt is always disappoint to see a good developer beg for reviews. Please stop the minimal and distracting updates just to ask for reviews. Stable apps with material and meaningful updates are what we users are looking for. Your app is a good one, but 5 stars became 3 stars because you are clearly performing frequent updates just to get the opportunity to beg for reviews. The app works well. Let her market do what it does..Version: 5.1.0
✓ Save your $The connection between my phone and watch only work for a couple of days before The two devices stop communicating. When they stop communicating you have to open the app on the watch to reconnect the devices. Unfortunately on one of those times when they weren’t connected I lost my phone. It’s a great idea but I don’t think the technology in this app is worth paying for..Version: 6.1.1
✓ Nothing new for a monthly sub - ask Siri & she tells you for free! FailIt’s handy info but there are plenty of free alternatives and ping iPhone is a built in feature we have the find my app to find any Apple device and it’s all free. 99p a month is silly money for little information and a whole chunk of battery life if you set a complication just to say it’s active & I presume it’s always pinging the BT chip for the signal (or is that WiFi or 4G?) then should we lose our watch skip apples find my and pay £9 for a one time find. No thanks. Nice enough if it were free or a one time fee which could be done using ads in the phone app or similar ways instead of bleeding us for so little - I got loads of subs & don’t need more going out for info that I don’t even need to look at. All of apples apps do a far better job as does Siri! “Hey Siri what’s my watch battery?” or ”Hey Siri...ping my phone!”... Hey Siri cancel this subscription lol 🤦♂️.Version: 4.0.0
✓ Great app but battery problemThisbis a great app that helped me many times when i leave my phone behind, but i noticed tgat witht the new update of the iphone (IOS 14) and the update for the apple watch (watch OS7) battery started to drain like crazy,l. I used to put on my watch for a whole day but aftervthe updates that changed and my apple watch could even turn off due to battery issues, and i noticed that when i disable the phone buddy app i get a better battery life..Version: 6.0.0
✓ Phone Buddy UsageApp works as described. The distance alert function is very sensitive to the available settings. Just walking around your home can trigger an alert if any signal interference is detected. Power usage is high, evening when the watch is stationary and not being worn. Once these issues are addressed, this will be a must app to own..Version: 6.1.1
✓ My Phone Buddy experiencePhone Buddy is exactly what I was looking for but it didn’t work well for me. The problems I’ve experienced with Phone Buddy were 1) a significant battery drain if I used “Phone Alerts”, this is something the developer is working to minimize. 2) If you own two Apple watches and switch between them “Distance Alerts” will constantly give you false alerts. If these problems were fixed the app could be quite useful. I have walked out of my house without my phone multiple times but I always wear my watch. I thought Phone Buddy’s distance alerts or phone alerts would help but unfortunately no..Version: 6.1.1
✓ Waste of timeIt just doesn’t work. But at least you have a week to find out for yourself.Version: 4.0.0
✓ Drained Battery Didn’t Alert Complication DisappearedWanted to like app but first dealbreaker issue was drained watch battery in only 12 hours. Used to lastentire day on 1 charge. Was only using lost phone alert & second dealbreaker was it didn’t alert when left phone in condo garage and went all the way back to apartment, several hundred yards and 11 stories away. Lastly, complication initially showed on watch face then disappeared and couldn’t get it back. Strike 3. Uninstalled app and considered it a $5 loss..Version: 6.1.1
✓ Prevents sleep modeGreat concept but a few issues making it a problem for me. As previous reviewer mentioned, whilst active, it prevents watch entering sleep mode, so I have to turn in and off daily, which means I have to remember to switch on the app to remind me not to forget my phone! Again, after charging (during which it loses signal because of wall thickness in my home), it needs to be turned on again - not sure if there is a way for it to automatically become active each time the Bluetooth connection is reestablished- but I haven’t found it yet..Version: 7.4.0
✓ My phone says it’s lost, but my watch doesn’t.I was delighted when I found Phone Buddy about a year ago (late 2022). It worked intermittently but reasonably to start with but recently, has not. If I leave my phone behind, my phone makes a noise and says that it’s been left behind; but my watch? The complication on the watch face says my phone is lost, but there is no sound or haptic. In other words, the App is now useless. I’ve spent some time communicating with the developer but no solution has been suggested. I think I paid about £7 for this App but I’m now deleting it from my phone. It was unfortunately, a waste of time..Version: 7.6.0
✓ Doesn’t get thereTried this app for a while. In the end, I gave up on it. Either I would get false alerts, even with the phone next to the watch, or worse, no alert after leaving my phone in the car. Unreliable and disappointing..Version: 7.5.0
✓ Ok but not greatThe biggest issue is, a big drain on the watch battery. Also without the GPS tracking allowed, the phone lost is too trigger happy, it keeps going off at home, from my experience of using it..Version: 7.1.0
✓ HGood app but no option to change the alert ringer.Version: 7.5.0
✓ I don’t like the indicator on watchCan you remove or hide the indicator on the watch interface when I enable the alert but not lost my iPhone connection?.Version: 6.1.1
✓ Alarm going off every few secondsI just downloaded this app tonight and the thing is driving me crazy! Says I am moving away from my phone when my watch and phone are both with me. Keeps alerting me my phone is lost when it’s right here. Just had a horrible alarm sound. I’m Seriously about to delete the damned app and chalk it up to a $5 mistake..Version: 6.1.1
✓ Significant bATTERY DRAIN - DO NOT BUYDO NOT BUY THIS. The App drains Apple Watch battery. It’s always looking for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi in the background non-stop. You’ll end up with 8 - 10 hour battery life. You will not get a refund after purchase. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED..Version: 7.5.0
✓ Phone buddyApp works amazing very happy but it’s a complete watch battery drainer any suggestions.Version: 4.1.0
✓ Doesn’t work. And poorly designed app overall.App doesn’t work - full of false positives. I’m on iPhone 12 Pro with most recent iOS 14 release with Watch 5. Phone is right next to my watch and the alarm keeps going off. Also - no option for vibrate only? I’m the only person who needs to know - not everyone in the restaurant. In addition to the false positives, the developers found a way to complicate a very simple concept. This app should have 1, 2 or 3 options max… not 10+. I just don’t get it. The Watch complication is also useless when it could provide a lot of value. And the core product simply doesn’t work. Save your money..Version: 7.0.2
✓ I would give it zero if possibleDo not waste your money on this. All it does is go off and tell you the phone is lost when the phone is in the house. It’s supposed to know when both are on the same network but that doesn’t work. If you send a support request it’s like sending a letter to Santa and expecting a reply. They will not answer any requests for help. The number of False positives makes it useless because I just shut it off as I get sick of hearing it go off. I actually lost my phone and surprise surprise; just when you need it; it’s off because when you didn’t need it, all it did was ring. Great concept awful delivery..Version: 6.1.1
✓ App works well... but drains battery.First off the app works well. I’ve been waiting for something like this ever since I switched from a Samsung Galaxy Watch as this feature was built in to that. I can’t believe something so simple isn’t built into WatchOS as standard! The app alerts you when your watch and phone are disconnected which is exactly what it’s supposed to do. However there is a price to pay... and it’s battery life. Since installing the app I would estimate my battery life is around 15-20% worse. Not a massive issue if you charge your watch every night but if you like to go a day and a half to two days between charges this will have a big affect on it..Version: 2.0.2
✓ Good idea, buggy app.The app, in theory, is a great idea. However, the phone lost alerts keep randomly cutting off with a message of “unexpected shutdown, turn lost alerts back on”. I’ve tried both through the app and watch, still keep receiving the same notification. It would be great if this paid app worked correctly..Version: 7.5.1
✓ DisappointedAs much as I really wanted this to work, and I paid 4.99 I’ve been very disappointed ☹️ I’d have my watch on with my phone in my hands and my watch going off like crazy saying my phone was missing 😵💫 over and over, I finally had to turn it off! And folks we have cox WiFi top of the line and I’m 10 feet from the WiFi when it would go crazy!.Version: 6.1.1
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