iQmobile Banking 4+

I loved this app and used it frequently on both my phone and tablet. But the new version will allow only the portrait mode which makes it useless for my iPad and keyboard. It’s very disappointing to me because now I will have to go through the browser to the IQ website to do my banking business. I’m hoping they will correct this problem but it doesn’t appear that will happen.

So, the entire point of push notifications, or SMS notifications, is that they alert you to events. This is undermine in its entirety by the fact that iQ has coded their online banking app to send push and SMS notifications only when you open the app. In effect, they’ve used the push and SMS systems to create a useless in-app notification system. On a banking app, where timely alerts are essential, this is (I’ll be light here) less than optimal. As a late-diagnosed autistic adult who has struggled his entire life with budgeting, the arrival of the smartphone with online banking and accounting apps has been a godsend. I rely on immediate push notifications to help remind and nudge me to account for a transaction in my accounting app right then and there, in the moment. It’s simply standard-issue for banking apps to provide push notifications that properly behave as push notifications, and I implore iQ to correct this bizarre—and from what I understand intentional—misbehavior.

I liked the old set up better, it felt safer, I know it may sound funny but the difference to me is like righting on fine stationary and then writing on a napkin, this app. feels pretty flimsy! I hope my account is safer then it feels! Another thing that bothers me is, the first time I made a transfer I wasn’t sure if it actually went through because the transfer doesn’t show right away, on the front page, the old set up showed the transfer immediately. Businesses always think change is better but not always does the customer think so! I gave you three stars because I still love being able to do my banking from home. Thank you for the opportunity to share my opinion.