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Filtrete Smart 4+
A smart way to cleaner air.
3M Company
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- Free
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Description
Filtrete™ Smart pairs with your Filtrete™ Smart Air Filter and Filtrete™ Smart Air Purifier to help you understand and manage your home’s air quality. It provides useful tips and alerts customized to your home’s environment, and will notify you when it’s time to replace your filters based on air flow and usage – not just time.
With this app, you can
• Pair multiple Smart Air Filters to track their life, and receive filter change notifications based on real usage
• Pair Smart Air Purifiers to manage your indoor air quality – monitor and clean your air while remotely controlling your device by turning power on/off, setting different fan speeds, etc.
• Scan the barcode of your non-smart Air Filters, and set timers to receive filter replacement reminders
• Remember your filter type and size, and easily order replacement filters
• Monitor outdoor air quality in multiple places, and view short and long-term trends
• Receive tips and alerts to improve air quality
What’s New
Version 2.6.13
Thanks for using the Filtrete™ Smart App! We are constantly reviewing feedback and making changes to improve our app and your experience. This update includes:
• Bug fixes and improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Great product.
Great way to monitor the state of our house furnace filter.
Privacy and ruination of product concerns
Do not call the number that pops up if you have an issue — you will have to listen to a guy tell you how great they are during the « outbreak » — they can’t even call it a Pandemic — and that you can’t use their filter material for making face masks.
5 minutes later if you do speak to someone your call may be monitored or recorded.
When you do get to a guy he will have you call another number 1-469-391-9358. You are welcome: I just saved 5 minutes you would never get back again.
After speaking a total of 15 seconds with the CSR, I can confirm that It is not possible to use the app without either providing a location for a smart air filter or by agreeing to share location.
What is worse, when adding a filter, even though you are instructed to pair with the filter by Bluetooth, and pairing succeeds, if you refuse to share your location, or you do not key in a location, the app refuses to go any further and « locks » the sensor.
Thus if you start the app again the Bluetooth sensor is « locked » and cannot be added to your « account », even though you just paired with it.
This is a deliberate design choice Designed to harvest your location and « punish » anyone who doesn’t by bricking their sensor.
Huge red flag on privacy and deliberate ruination of product.
Other than that, it gets one star because it was easy to install and to delete.
Doesn’t work
The barcode capture function is useless and crashes every time you try to add a product. You need to update the application
App Privacy
The developer, 3M Company, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- 3M Company
- Size
- 89.9 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Copyright 2024 3M Company
- Price
- Free