Meta View +12

Lots of bad reviews made me worried to even give it a try. It was an easy and painless pairing and setup, and my first photos and videos worked with no problem. Sound quality for music surprising good. I checked memory usage and thus far hasn’t been a memory hog (albeit limited use). Ray Ban optical quality is great. I’ll hold off on a five star rating until it has passed the test of time. My wife liked mine so much she got her own pair with a style that she liked better.

I can’t comment on battery life yet. Per the app and my Facebook settings, privacy shouldn’t be an issue although I don’t trust Meta. I’ll be watching to see if people find additional stealth tracking (yeah, I know my phone does it regardless now). Too bad individual liberty is no longer valued. But I digress—app functions well so far!

One thing that is frustrating is seeing within the phone’s storage setting that the app is using a lot of data. I went into the app and deleted all of my media yet my phone was still showing the app having 18 GB of documents and data. The app needs to better document how much data it is using and explain why deleting media does not change the data shown being used by the phone’s storage setting.

I don’t actually believe the app was using that much data, but since there was no real way to verify anything I just logged out, deleted the app, and reinstalled. They should make it easier than this, but one setting I’ve changed is the auto save feature. You’re better off auto saving to your camera roll, allowing iCloud to upload your media, and deleting the media from View to avoid having a storage issue. Not sure how this will work out so we’ll see. Again, FB should make the app more transparent when it comes to how much space your media is using within the app.

I’m going to get married in October. I’ll be wearing my Ray-Ban Stories prescription glasses. It’s obtrusive to reach up and press the button every time I want to make a video or picture. Especially if I’m facing my bride as she’s walking down the isle. It would be really nice to have an app extension on my watch that I can tap as needed to take photo and video of her coming down the isle to me. Please make this a feature! Before October! That missing star in my review is that. Everything else is perfect. When I go on walks my music and podcast are right in my ear not obstructing hearing my surroundings. If I want a picture or video while out it’s a tap away. I love it. Except that one missing tap for Apple Watch in those moments where it’s really needed.