Chelsea Piers Fitness App 4+

The “Notify Me” option doesn’t work for me. I would expect that turning this on would start notifying me at the time when the class is open for registration. Instead it sends false notifications. For example, I turned on this feature for a class I wanted to take 3 days in advance and it would send me a notification now that the class is open for registration now which is false because you can only register for
a class 25 hours in advance. Very frustrating especially when it’s so competitive booking a class and I’m paying a lot of money to miss registering for the class I want because this feature doesn’t work right. Please get this feature to work!

The new app allows you to turn on notifications for when you want to be pinged about a class you want to take - which is great, but then they removed the old app’s ability to know on the waitlist you are. This is crucial information as I knew that if i was #1 or 2 on the waitlist and there’s about an hour left to the class, Im likely to get in. In the new system, I’m only informed of my waitlist number when I sign up (24 hours away) and if I get in (information that might also come too late seeing as I need to plan ahead to get to the gym on time). Also, it’s weird that I’m only notified by email when i get into a class and not also by phone notifications.

Mostly better class and event browsing and scheduling, but a few fairly significant issues:

1. Notifications consistently ping me in batches of 3 for the same class. And they send right after booking when you book a day in advance (which is always). Had to turn them off because they’re useless.

2. Adding to calendar works great, but the app requests full calendar write *and read* access, which makes no sense. You have to reject access, then go into privacy settings on iOS and select add-only privileges for the app, and then it works.

3. It absolutely needs Apple Wallet support—notifications need to be off because of (1), and always-on location sharing should not be required for this app; using Apple Wallet passes can give location based prompting for the check-in pass on both the phone and an Apple Watch, without requiring notifications or location access to the app.