Let me start by saying I am a certified programmer of Lutron, Crestron, C4, and all the top integration programs. I also work with app development, Linux, and Ubuntu. So I’m pretty versed in the world of lighting and integration apps. I’ve been a LONG time user of Hue, who are the pioneers of the color changing RGB. Well, actually Kolor Kinetics was until Hue bought them. In any event I’ve had Hue products still going strong for over 10 years. Problem is outfitting your house with Hue will set you back a fortune, and Hue is late getting out the newest stuff because they want to make sure the public is getting a perfect product. Anyways that’s how I stumbled on Wiz. The old app was horrific. So bad I bought 2 Downlights and never opened it again. One day I noticed the similarity between a Hue bulb and a Wiz, so I bought a bunch, saw the new app, and I was blown away. Of course I know it’s the same company but that’s the point. This IS Hue. It’s the baby brother. They won’t tell you that because they’ll lose money but this is them. The Hue app is incredible and this is not far behind. There’s bugs, but I see them get worked out on updates. What’s incredible is it works with everything including SmartThings and Home Assistant. My advice would be buy up all the Wiz stuff you can while it’s affordable. And take your time to learn the app. The only thing that drives me crazy is no music sync. But then that’s when you have to buy Hue I guess.

Like others, I was a little hesitant to download the new app after some of the really raunchy reviews out there. But I realize time was running out and I had no choice so I took a deep breath and made the plunge. Everything works so well. And has so many new features that are really cool and really gonna make using the WiZ lights easier. I should say that I had my app on an Apple device and I use my Apple login. Maybe that makes a difference and makes the transition easier. I also realized that several years back when my father started using the lights (we had a shared Apple family account) there was an original set up that only had one light - our first WiZ lightbulb. But then there was a second account they had all the lights and all the configurations. I accidentally loaded the old account first and seeing only one light almost had a stroke, thinking all the other reviews were right. But then, after some thought and taking a few breaths, I signed out and resigned back in using the other account and everything appeared as it should and worked great. So maybe some of these negative reviews. The individuals have multiple accounts and they accidentally tapping into an old account. Just a thought. But so far the experience has been great and everything is working very well.

I got two WiZ lightbulbs at the clearance isle of my local store at $0.99. Now I think I know how they got there. The setup was tedious and took almost an hour as the lightbulbs refused to enter pairing mode. The app itself has some nice features, but they only work 10% of the time, with the bulbs randomly going offline way too often. Every time I try to do something with the light I see the “unknown issue occurred, try again later” message. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. No matter if I want to change light color, mode, turn light on/off, go into settings, anything - there’s always an error message. The app is EXTREMELY poorly built. A lot of the buttons, instructions, graphics, menu items, etc. do not fit onto the screen and are not clickable. I can see a button that I want to press, but I only see the top few pixels of it and can’t click it. Most of the instructions (especially in pairing mode) only showed the first few words, the rest was off-screen, making the already painful pairing process even worse. A lot of the elements that are meant to be centered are all over the place. There are a lot of typos in the app interface. For reference, I’m using an iPhone 13mini, my WiFi is provided by the latest Spectrum modem.A note to the dev team: if I don’t see significant improvement to the app within the next few months, I’ll be returning the lightbulbs to the clearance isle of my local store - where they belong - and advising everyone else on here to do the same.

After switching from the original WiZ app to V2, we have had nothing but issues. Most annoyingly is that I am the primary Owner. I then go through the steps to create a profile for my wife, share it with her and then everything is good for 2-4 days. Then when I go into the app to turn on or off lights, all my rooms I have setup(which the setup process is impossible at time) then grey out and it tells me that the owner has changed my accessibility or whatever. Go to my wife’s phone to access the app(who is set to owner as well) and then it does the same thing to her. Have to delete both setups on the phones, start the process all over and sometimes when trying to setup the bulbs, it will fail on finding the bulbs for 4-6 hours. I have to wait a day or 2 before WiZ v2 will FINALLY find the bulbs and let me add them back into my rooms. And yes, rooms. I have multiple rooms setup with this app and I have to go through the whole process each time this happens. And why are you guys limiting what settings I am able to set to the 4 quick buttons? I like having Night Light, Day Light and TV Time as easy access and I can only choose 2 of those for the easy access buttons. There is just so much wrong with this app. Please bring back the old app. This one is horrid. Oh and to boot, if you download the old app, that’s still able to be downloaded from the App Store, it just crashes out so you can’t use it.