Ok so I’ve had Kik since 2 years back, it was awesome and worked amazing at that time. So I got a new phone and forgot about it and probably half a year later I got it again, it was great when I opened the app. It worked perfectly and I didn’t have any problems. So as time gone by I noticed a few bugs, example: I own a group so I’m the owner, sometimes when I open the app and a bot joins I try to remove it but it doesn’t give me the option so when I view the members, there’s two of me. The one that’s owner and the one that’s a member. So I ask the members if they see two of me in the members and they say no. I tried closing the app and reopening it but it never works so I just wait it out and let my admins do it for me. The update that I hated is when someone leaves a group chat, you can’t private message them. That update annoyed me a lot because I made some friends in some chats but they left but I can never get in touch with them unless I had them in my contacts which I do not. I’m only see that the bugs happen in the group chats. Also, the ads update, or what I think is a update is really annoying also because it really messed up al the chats I was in. I really hope they fix them because I love this app!

don’t get me wrong i do like kik. it’s just there’s so many little things that bug me. first, it freezes so much. i can barely navigate the app without having to close and reopen the app. it gets really annoying because of, well, obvious reasons. next, something just happened. so i signed out of kik (i’ll talk about something that has to do with signing out later.) and then signed back in and there were chats that i’m not even in or don’t know the person? i’ve met so many people on kik but i’d know if i’ve met them before. now, back to signing out. when you sign out and sign back it all your chats reset. i wouldn’t have much of a problem with this but sometimes kik sins me out on its own and there’s still messages on there that i haven’t gotten to yet, but then i couldn’t because it says “nothing yet”. there’s also this one chat that i’ve left long ago but it keeps popping up on my list of messages but when i try to leave again it says “you are not a member of this group” then why does the group keep popping up? moving on, there’s many group chats that are FLOODED with bots. i’m not even exaggerating when i say flooded. i guess you can’t really do anything about that but it’s irritating having to remove the bots over and over or ask an admin/owner to remove them. this app is pretty old too, so you can’t even use “oh it’s a beta app, you’re bound to get some bugs.” but other than these little things, i do like kik. i’ve met many amazing people and i recommend this chatting app if you’re able to tolerate these little things.

I have had and used Kik for many years and I don’t know what happened but this app is barely useable nowadays. There are 3 main issues but first let me state that for the last 2 years I had the iPhone 11 Pro Max. And I just got the 13 Pro Max. So these issues aren’t because of an old phone. 1: It’s so laggy! It freezes up all the time. While loading, while trying to type out a message. It just freezes. 2: With the new iPhone 13 Pro Max it will not notify me. At all. I never know if I have a message now unless I actually tap to open the app then it will refresh and be like “Oh! So n so messaged you about an hour ago.” - When I had my 11 Pro Max this only happened randomly. But with the 13 I have not once gotten a notification from Kik. 3: The ads make this almost unusable. I get that you need ads since this is a free app. However, the way you’ve put them in and load are making the experience difficult because of issue number 1 that I listed. The ad freezes and then you have to kill the app which you may or may not need to see another pop up ad. And some of them won’t even close even when you tap the X in the corner resulting in having to kill the app and restart it. I really hope this gets fixed soon because I really do love the app since I’ve used it for many years but I could seriously go to another app like discord and not have to deal with any of these issues. I’m trying to be loyal but it’s getting harder each day…

I started using App based on suggestions that it was a private way to chat with others. Used mainly for adult purposes, or any scenario where you don’t want anyone to see a chat in your phone’s text messaging. The addition of specialized groups you can join to meet others with same interests to you was an added bonus. Actually made some real friends with the groups. What I find very disturbing is the extremely high amount of bots that are in the App. They are usually disguised as attractive women who privately message you, and then try to lure you with spam or a phishing link. Of course, I just report and block and delete them, but when you’re getting up to 10 a day, you start to realize KIK has a major problem. They can also join private groups and wreak havoc with members. Remember, children (17 y.o.’s per KIK, but I’m sure younger are using App) can use this App, so this can create real problems to the unaware. When you report the Spam Bots every…single…day, you would think KIK would take more stringent action to prevent this. Nothing. It simply allows you to block them. I thought reporting them would get their accounts removed, but when I look at my block list they still exist years later. Especially disturbing because the Spam Bots are always sexually explicit. Not for younger, or people sensitive to sexual harassment. Take this seriously, KIK.

first off, i don’t get notifications for any on my chats even though i have them turned on. the ads slow down the app so much it’s unbelievable. kik constantly crashes on my phone to the point where i don’t even wanna use it anymore.. kik is nothing like it used to be. UPDATE- bruh it says i’m at max chats but i dont even have any open please fix this. yall added live but the chats don’t even work anymore.EDIT- as a new streamer, i’m struggling to keep a steady streaming schedule because of the lag i experience. my chat freezes, trying to make someone bouncer crashes my live, and i can’t even close my live without my live getting stuck.. i’ve done everything from clearing all my chats to deleting the app altogether but other than the bug related problems, the amount of racism me and my peers face on here is unbelievable. i don’t think theres a real banning system on here at all honestly. i have had over 30 fake accounts made of me with racial slurs threaten me relentlessly. they make accounts back to back no matter how many times i kick and block them. i’ve been sent videos of people getting lynched, shot, decapitated just for being a black woman on kik live. when will it stop? why can’t you IP ban these people? it’s been detrimental to my mental health and i can’t even enjoy streaming like i used to. fix this.

I was hesitant to leave a review but I felt called to share my words. After much discernment, I feel as though I can help someone else in need. George Washington once said, “if you want to help the world, leave a review on a social networking app, and I can think of no better role model than the Queen of England to base all of my life choices after.” Once the movie Hamilton came out on Disney Plus, I knew that my world was changed forever so thank you George for your words. And that’s when I decided to download Kik to attempt to launch my broadway career by sending unsolicited messages to the cast of Hamilton. Through the group video feature, I was able to talk to not only Lin Manuel-Miranda, but also the supporting cast such as Daveed Diggs, Phillipa Soo and Kyle Hatfield. Quick side-note about the cast, although their performance was great, I could not help but notice the lack of knowledge of classical English literature by the supporting cast. Like, who even counts in French nowadays. Anyways, my broadway career has yet to take off and I partially blame Kik for not giving me the same networking opportunities as LinkedIn. Although lacking in that area, Kik has provided me with the means to meet many nice women in the area - some which are popular on another platform: OnlyFans. My grandmother and I spend several hours searching through said platform - looking for a future wife for myself. With that being said, Kik is a great multi-use platform which is why it’s getting three stars from a great user such as myself.

I’ve used this app for years and counting, I’ve seen it through its ups and downs. I’ve tolerated a majority of people migrating to Discord, seeing Kik almost go bankrupt and shut down, then get revived by a new foundation. I’ve seen the emergence of ads, which was a little jarring, but I tolerated it. The Kik Live feature was at first strange, but I was able to ignore it. Now, not only does the UI for the Kik Live feature take up almost half my screen, but it is now to the point where the app barely even loads because of it. I cannot even so much as connect to message anybody, and yet the live feature functions just fine. I’ve reset my phone, router, everything when this happens, and yet the issue will still repeat and last for hours on end. I’ve tolerated a lot of things about Kik, but the UI and basic functionality of Kik has passed the measures of awful, it’s closer to non-functioning. The Live feature needs to be tweaked or Nixed entirely, because it’s a horribly distracting UI for a feature I don’t care for, and it’s starting to make the messaging feature of the message app close to defunct by this point. I’ve defended this app for god knows what reason to the ends of the earth to keep groups intact on it, and the amount of negligence in maintaining a basic, functioning server to message on a messaging app is astounding. I seriously hope something is done about this soon.

Ive had my kik account for over 6 and a half years. I remember a time when everything worked and it was fantastic, and it still is but its not the same anymore. as far as issues currently in the app there are times when kik triggers a notification even though none of my unmuted chats had a message, and most of all there are times where kik simply doesn’t update chats, it will act as if there has been no update to a chat since say 7:33 pm the day before when that specific chat has a reliable history of being active, especially in the in the hours since and its not just that chat, it does the same thing for all my chats. Closing the app entirely and even shutting off my phone doesn’t fix it and theres been more numerous occasions where i had to actually delete the app and redownload it and doing so resets all the chat history. Ive had a lot of good times and the app still seems to be going strong despite same sizable hiccups in the past but these current issues have ended up pushing me away towards discord and frankly, the format and mechanics kik has for joining new chats is incredible streamlined and is one of the main reasons i stay. I really hope the dev team can manage to fix these issues, id hate to see such a fantastic app go down the drain

No really, what's all the hype about? All my friends ask me if I have Kik, or FB, Instagram, Snapchat and some will even say if I meet someone online who has none of these then I wouldn't date that person. I'm not sure if anyone realizes how silly this concept is. Kik, FB, INSTA, all pretty much offer the same features.. except Snapchat which decided to take cheating or helping those who are sneaky get more sneaky. I mean Instagram even offers private messaging now so what's wrong with having Snapchat and not having the others? I'm not exactly the "app" connoisseur, and minus the sneaky part, what's the deal with needing any of them if you have a phone that texts people, offers FaceTime except the provider fees? Nothing really!! You can still delete the pictures, and you can still have ONE of these apps and not have to use them all. To make it more clear, it's a great app if you don't already have FB, Snapchat Instagram or any of the million app that offer free messaging and real time video chats. To those who are sneaking around, I can only say that Snapchat will not provide any guarantee that you will get away with anything since they oh so cleverly remind you that you can always take a screenshot!! To give you personal opinion, I could really do without all these hundreds of notifications going off on my phone and speaking to the same people on 4 different apps. It's stupid. Call them, hang out with them or use one app. Unless, that's simply not what popular people do, then my advise is, get a job and a pet and a couple hobbies I.e., a life, and see if you have time for all these apps!! 😂🤘🏻

The app used to be very versatile and active but with the shutting down rumor many groups have members that no longer use the app even owners. Is there a plan for an an update to make it so users can take a group back if the owner is no longer around? Like after a certain time period the most active member in the group is promoted to owner if the owner has been gone and no admins are available to inherit the ownership. Also with the ban cap. Many people tire of having to manually remove bans so that they can ban toxic members. Could we get an update where when a new member is banned after the cap. The longest ban would be lifted as the banned member most likely won’t be back after that time. We also would like a feature to hand over ownership without having to leave a group. Some people just want to pass on that torch and be another member for a while. Oh. And groups would automatically be deleted if all members exceed 3 months of inactivity?One last one. I highly recommend that the role play bot come back with a block feature that’s accessible. Even if the bot was misused. It was an excellent opportunity for role players to share their ideas and connect with people that had the same style. I loved the format personally of the old bot. Even just bringing that back would make my day.