AeroGarden 4+

This new app has landscape mode, which is great. Been waiting many years for this “feature” that I think all phone related apps should have. I shouldn’t have to rotate my phone for anything other than movies.

Cool.

But now, it makes me sign into the app almost every time I open it? This isn’t my credit union’s app. I don’t need additional layers of security. One sign in per six months or even a year should be sufficient.

Also, the buttons that raise and lower the light on my FarmXL 12 cause the lights to keep going even if you just tap them once. It’s terrible.

Yesterday was feed day, and instead of warning me, it just gave up and reset the time to 14 days. Scary.

Overall, I want to love this app, but I basically hate it until they fix all these problems.

They’re going in the right direction with the landscape (vertical, iPhone orientation) design. But almost every other aspect of this app is broken out of the gate. One extra star for making the orientation vertical.

Version 2.0.1 was just released that addresses the need to login each time you launch the app. If you hold down the Up/Down arrows in the app then it will move the light until you release the button. The tap behavior will be corrected in a future release. The timer on adding plant food for your Farm has also been resolved.

I just downloaded the new app for my Farm and Bounty Gardens and what a huge difference. The ability to change the amount of time for the lights and the intensity, along with the duration of sunrise and sunset is soooo much easier to do now. It’s much clearer in navigation and you don’t have to have your phone oriented in a certain manner in order to look at anything.
The only fault I can see at this point is the login screen. When I was typing in my password, the page kept getting a popup and it would move my screen to the bottom, which can be a real pain if you’re trying to see what you are typing in. But this isn’t so bad that I felt it needed to lose a star.
I am very impressed! Bravo Aerogarden!!!

Thank you! We are looking into the login issues that have been reported.

I found the updated app while starting a new garden and was happy to see a brand new interface. Also happy that I don’t have to hold my phone sideways to use the app! This version provides a lot more information than the old one did and generally seems nicer. Light/dark mode which I just noticed is a plus.

However, every time I tap the icon on the home screen, I am presented first with the screen from the old app and then it quickly switches to a screen with a download option. I have to tap that to move on. It sends me to the App Store, then I have to open the app. Those extra steps are annoying and that’s one reason I did not give the app a higher rating. But this version is definitely a big step in the right direction!

It sounds like you are using the old app icon instead of the new one. If you launch the new app directly it will not take these extra steps. If you need assistance with this please contact our support team and we will be happy to assist.