Lasko 4+

Having previously owned and loved a similar model tower fan that just had a dedicated remote, I bought the bluetooth version thinking it would be more convenient. The app works fine, it’s basic 1:1 functionality with the physical controls. However every time I open the app I have to wait 3-4 seconds for the annoying intro/splash animation to play. I don’t think it’s starting from scratch as it happens if I literally swipe over to another app and directly back to the Lasko app. If I haven’t opened it in a day or so, the fan can be finicky to reconnect unless I manually kill the app and relaunch it (yay splash screen again). Sounds like a small gripe, but gets pretty annoying the more you switch back and forth in/out of the app. Imagine if every time you picked up the remote you had to stare at it for 3 seconds before hitting the button… It feels like needless friction.

The fan works great well …after I had my first one die on me it was like 6 months old but the costumer service was so nice and sent me a brand new one which is working great BUT…. The main reason I bought this fan was to be able to control it with my phone and this app is so frustrating I’m constantly having to reinstall it and restart it and it’ll work for maybe a day usually less and then it just completely disappears and I have to reconnect the fan to the app and sometimes that won’t even work 😑 who knows if this will even get there attention though the last review was from over 2 years ago and they were having pretty much the same issues I’m having and if I’m having issues now 2 years later so I don’t have much hope on this actually getting fixed. Sorry this is way longer then I wanted this to be…I never do reviews but this is just frustrating and annoying and ridiculous… I’ve done all the troubleshooting things and it’s literally the app that is the problem not the fan so maybe just maybe someone will notice this and fix it cause this fan was not cheap I paid more cause I wanted the Bluetooth option. So anyway I almost wrote a novel there sorry 😏 hope to hear back or atleast make an update cause I’m not the only one with this issue. I may end up just goin with another company if they can’t fix this .. alright sorry this is a rant now :) hope everyone who reads this has a great rest of there day ;) 🙃

It’s pretty cool cause I’m in my room on my phone and don’t have to look for a remote when I’m in bed but the one thing that’s really annoying is the app how it restarts every time you switch back to it from another app like there should be anAccessibility they could add on maybe to the control center to atleast turn on or off other than that it’s a great useful feature hopefully they can fix that issue an not restart the app every time you leave it. Update: so I found out instead of waiting for the whole app to reload if you don’t completely exit the app and still leave it theee while another app if you click back into it instead of waiting for the app to restart if you memorize where the buttons are you can click them before the app fully reloads making it faster to turn off and on the fan hopefully they can fix that small bug but that’s a way to make it a lot faster instead of waiting for 20 seconds