Skyward Mobile Acces‪s‬ 4+

I’ve used Skyward since sixth grade, and I have ultimately associated it as a trouble causing app at times. Sometimes it is annoying to navigate, as I have to log back in each time I come back to the Skyward screen no matter how short I was being away from the app window. Same goes for Skyward on the computer. The changing/renewing your password every six months can often be very annoying and much of an inconvenience. Since I’m doing remote learning this year due to COVID-19, I couldn’t access Skyward until several days ago. I sent multiple emails to the district and received an e-mail only until recently on a way to renew my password. Very annoying, now I have to do major housekeeping with my Skyward account because I couldn’t get in. It’s an inconvenience to not only me, but my teachers, as I’ve had to tell at least one of my teachers this year that I couldn’t do two quizzes they assigned in Skyward because I couldn’t log in and wasn’t getting any help in trying to get my password renewed. I appreciate Skyward for being there so I can see my grades, but it definitely likes to mess with you it seems.

Although this app works it’s not the best. It’s nice that it auto signs out when you clear the app and that it recognizes you fingerprint as a sign in option. But, if you switch apps it and then return without fully closing the app it crashes, which is extremely annoying, especially if you accidentally click the home button.

This is for skyward in general, why do I have to change my password every six months?! Why?! Every other password protected service doesn’t make you switch your password and, most of the time, they have more personal/sensitive information than your grades. I personal could care less if someone else saw my grades, but I get why people wouldn’t like to have their password stolen and people be able to see their grades. But. It should have an option to make it so you didn’t have to change your password every six months.

Tl:dr - it’s buggy, has its problems, but it does what it needs to.

Half the time it does not recognize my face ID while I have no issues with this on other apps. Sometimes it does not recognize my passcode. Other times it tells me I have invalid credentials even though my login info is current and I haven’t changed anything. The push notifications are only temporary and do not show up other than the single time they originally are displayed; when you go to look at the app later it does not show you the new info and you can’t go back later to find what it was because it does not save them in the notification screen. I receive push notifications about administrative messages and it displays the same messages that were there before. This would be a good app if not for all the bugs.