Edit - lots of bugs and issues with iOS 17. Consistently crashing. I don’t understand why developers aren’t fixing high priority items. This has been fixed. Edit #2 - can you at least give us the functionality to change the sound of the notification for this app? It should not be the same default sound for iOS notifications. This should be a simple enhancement. The app itself works on my iPhone 14 pro max. I’m using the NRL series with 4 blue series cameras. There are a few things that this app is missing and could use refinement. This app has a lot of potential by implementing refinements that I’m sure most users want. The general functionality (playback, notifications, live view) all work but it’s missing features and designs that other company’s are implementing. You can edit only basic settings of the NVR from this app. It is missing the functionality to edit other settings. If you want to edit other settings, like intrusion perimeter, you need to do it directly on the NVR. Please put all the setting configurations in this app as it is on the NVR. The UX/Ui needs work. Some things are simple but it could easily get refined to a design that competitors are implementing (Dahua, Ubiquiti, Nest). Speco blue can become much more user friendly by doing some UX/Ui refinements. For some reason the connection of the NVR sever losses signal in the app randomly (not often, but enough to raise concern). I think this is a kink that needs to get refined within the app to improve the connection.

On balance, this is a useful app and it serves its purpose as a portal for security camera monitoring. That said, it is in desperate need of some refinement in order to keep up with the times. On the new iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max the dynamic island obscures some features on the upper user interface, this just needs some tweaks to improve the experience. On the iPad the issues are bigger. The app is unusable on iPad OS 16 if you have stage manager turned on for multi-tasking. Any attempt to window Speco causes it to cease functioning completely. The app also really struggles with switching from portrait to landscape mode on iPad and frequently requires me to undock the iPad from the Magic Keyboard and spin it myself to get the screen to return to proper orientation. An iPad specific version that better makes use of increased screen real estate would be wonderful. This would be a great app if these maddening bugs could be ironed out!

Cameras and app installed yesterday working with the insta, tech. Worked great. Tried to view today and it started acting up and then it said app was crashing. Couldn’t get it to show the 8 cameras. Rebooted twice and it started working. Kinda. Then it stopped showing the views. Then it told me again that the app was crashing. I also have some inexpensive WiFi cameras that are much clearer with no crashing issues. Not impressed.

I absolutely dislike this new update, specifically the auto resolution function where the app lowers the camera viewing resolution to a lower quality to improve streaming. The issue is when you are looking at a live feed or even video using the app the picture quality automatically changes and produces a less than favorable view at a low resolution. It’s quite annoying and I feel it’s pointless. It would be nice if that function can be removed especially since I like to have my cameras showing on my iPad constantly and they always look blurry now due to this auto changing feature. When I change the resolution back to a better quality it only last for a few seconds and back to a crappy picture.