First American Bank 4+

The First American Bank app is a pleasure to use. I use a multitude of apps to conduct my day-to-day on-line transactions…. this is without a doubt one of my favorites. Easy to navigate, user-friendly, and extremely flexible. I actually look forward to using it! Wish more apps were as enjoyable to use as this one. I can`t think of one negative aspect of this app. Everything I need is at my disposal.

The app no longer works unless you go out and buy a new phone. When you open the app, a pop up comes up telling you that you must update the app, if you go to the AppStore to update it, it tells you that it requires iOS 16, some phones can not get iOS 16 like the iPhone 7, 6s, and 6. That means that if you want to continue to use the First American Bank App, you have to go out and buy a new phone, and I guarantee you that there is no reason that the app NEEDS iOS 16, I am an app developer and you can choose the required version of iOS your app needs inside of xCode when you are building your app, the default used to be iOS 11 but I think they may have changed it to iOS 16. I have the iPhone XS Max and I can update it but I don't want to because updating your phone makes it go slower, also even if I wanted to get iOS 16, I can't because the newest update is iOS 17 so I would have to update to iOS 17.4. But don't worry, I have found Salvation... go to the first American bank website and tap the "sign in" button and sign in, it will take you to a page that is a 1:1 replica of the First American Bank App, you can then tap the export button and tap "add to Home Screen" to create an app bookmark on your Home Screen that works basically the same as the First American Bank App.

I don’t really care for this new update. I like we can just put our pin in and log right on. That is more convenient, but I hate how every transaction takes forever. The old version it totaled it right away and what the amount was said was what you had… I have to keep an extra eye on my budgeting because everything will be pending and says one total, then it clears and says another total and then a couple hours later there will be a different total with things pending again (even though I haven’t spent anything.) It’s frustrating to know what my actual total is and I make mistakes…so I feel I have to double and triple check what I have and it’s hard to do that if it’s not originally written down and my total keeps changing. Im not sure at this point what total to even go by to keep track of it since it always pops up something is pending. Plus they don’t have the little total under your transaction anymore and that makes it hard to back track what exactly I had previously before something was deposited or pending.

Just my two cents.