I’ve had this speaker for about seven months now and I’m so glad I bought it. It is light and compact so I carry it around the house whenever I want to listen to music. I use it in the shower so now my neighbors get a free concert everyday from yours truly, and even though it is waterproof, I try not to get it directly under the water. Still, there have been instances where I’ve gotten water on it and, as expected, no damage. The strap on the back is like a military knot: so easy to undo when you want to, but super secure once it’s on (not actually a knot lol just a strap with a clip at the end). The volume goes high enough that my partner has teasingly compared me to a teenager blasting music. I am no audio connoisseur but the sound is great on this little speaker. Good bass too. I’ve used the Mini Bose speaker before — the rectangular one that kind of looks like a brick — and I honestly think this one sounds better. Doesn’t take long to charge, and I like that it tells me how much battery is left as soon as it comes on and also through the tiny lights at the top. Love that I can connect it from the app on my phone without having to go up to the speaker to turn it on. Two clicks on the middle button to skip, three clicks to go back. I’m not sure what else someone considering it would want to know but as a regular degular girl who just likes to blast music sometimes and appreciates a good bass, I’ll say this is one of the best purchases I’ve made this year so far.

Upgrading my Apple devices to iOS 14.3 resolved ALL of my previously issues with Bose Connect. Subsequent to the update to 14.3, the app works flawlessly the very first time I started it up; it immediately paired with my first Bose Soundlink Resolve, effortlessly found and paired with my second Soundlink Revolve (to enter Party Mode), and even the stereo mode fired right up. I have now used Bose Connect, from full start-up, on 5 occasions without any of the noted operating issues. I am really pleased with the outstanding sound quality of my Bose Soundlink Revolve, so I was exited to discover that Bose Connect could effortlessly pair multiple Bose devices (Just like Sonos, right? WRONG!). I purchased a second Soundlink Revolve, installed Bose Connect and have had nothing but problems since. Thinking my new iPhone 12 may be the problem, I installed Bose Connect on an iPhone 10. Same exact problems experienced. The Connect app is an unmitigated DISASTER. The app interface has a simple, no frills design that displays seemingly easy illustrations to pair and engage “Party Mode”. I just doesn’t work. In reality, you are lucky to get even one Bose speaker to operate. If you can actually get Party Mode to engage, one or both of the speakers produce audio cut-outs or stuttering. It gets much worse if you engage stereo mode. Is this the best Bose can do to support the interoperability of it’s fine speakers?

Purchased the QC35II in February of this year, the Bose connect app at that time was limited in it's functionality for the QC35II Headphones. When linking the headphones to the app this literally snuffed or bricks functionality on the headphones previously advertised when purchasing. I could not adjust the application of noise cancelling via the on device buttons, not adjust phone call or voice settings. I am very glad that Bose has since improved the iOS Bose connect app to allow QC35II owners to have full control on their headphones functionality. I can now adjust the voice over prompts to be off, and change the "Voice Command Button" away from being for ALEXA or GOOGLE, to now be exclusive for changing Noise Cancelling Levels from High, Low or OFF. I can now control the headphones simultaneous (self)voice playback feature to mute or off, which has been an anonyance of mine especially when using my headphones for ZOOM, DISCORD, or GOOGLE VOICE sessions when connected via Bluetooth on my desktop (Windows 10). Seems that Bose has been listening to customer reviews and criticisms. Thanks Bose for the important improvements. 5 stars from me for resolving these issues.

I love Bose products. Speakers? great. Headphones? Wonderful. Noise cancelling? Heavenly. So why in the name of everything holy and unholy is this app so bad? It used to SORT of work SOMETIMES. I could connect two speakers but no more for maybe 25 to 30 minutes before one fell off fir no reason even if they were in line-of-sight of each other and no more than 10 feet apart. Now? Nothing. Zip. Tried all three speakers individually and separately. I tried them already connected to my phone, not connected to my phone, and after I ‘forgot device’ on my phone. How can most of a company be the best in business then hire a room full of constipated squirrels to run their apps? OH! I almost forgot. I thought maybe it might work if I actually made an account and signed in even though I don’t see why buying a speaker from a company all of a sudden means we have to have a relationship and hold hands at the theatre. Freaks. But I was willing to try in order to, once more, PLAY MUSIC OUT OF TWO SPEAKERS AT ONCE IN 2026! Yet still it didn’t work. Thanks for nothing a-holes. It’s not like I have a million other things to do with my time. (That’s sarcasm for people who don’t speak English as a first language,, I very much have TONS of things to do other than sit with a phone and three speakers and an app created by a multi-billion dollar company trying to make that app fo what it was designed to do and which should have been easy ten years ago.)