Dexcom G7 4+

The app itself is works well for me and I like the features it does have. My issues with it are the features it lacks, starting with dark mode. Why, after all these years, is there no support for dark mode?! When I wake up in the middle of the night to deal with an alert it makes it that much harder to see, process, and understand what the app is trying to tell me when I'm being blinded by the glaring brightness of this solid white screen. I already set my screen brightness at its lowest level at night and it's still not enough. I don't have this issue with the Tandem t:connect app when I need to use my pump, because they actually implemented a dark mode.

My next issue is with the watch app and how few watch faces the G7 complication even supports. I just updated my watch to watchOS 11 and the photo watch face, which I had previously been using the G7 complication with just fine, no longer shows the G7 as an option. Why????? Why does there seem to be so little support for developing this app? Why does it take so long to get anything updated in this app or to add any features? If the issue isn't Dexcom and instead it's healthcare regulations that are slowing everything down, why can't Dexcom be more transparent and open about it?

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This app is almost good. It’s missing two features that are standard in every other app in the AppStore. And with those features it would be 4 stars.

1. Most important. Be able to dismiss alerts from the Apple Watch. I get alert, dismiss the alert of the watch, but a minute later it alerts again. Making me have to open the app on my phone to dismiss the alert. If I’m in a meeting or somewhere important I can’t be pulling out my phone or having Loud critical alerts going off every couple of minutes for something I’ve taken care of. An even better feature would be to let me get a 1 minute quiet notification on my watch that I could clear before even setting off a critical alert. But as the way it is now, I’m going to have to turn off critical alert notifications, which is not a good thing.

2. This doesn’t seem like a big one, but it is. Dark mode. It exists on Dexcom Follow app, so I know there Devs know how to do it, and they should be using shared libraries, so why am I blinding my self at night to check my Blood Sugars? A device and technology so advanced it can tell me my blood sugar every 5 minutes just by looking at a screen, when just 20 years ago we were peeing on sticks, and not long before that peeing on the ground and watching for ants. But yet my retinas burn when I check my blood sugar. And my I get just as embarrassed as everyone stares at me thinking I didn’t mute my phone for the meeting. Please fix this.

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Recently switched to the g7, and I had high hopes. Certain things are much improved, like the urgent low alarm sound (the g6 urgent low sounded like an air raid siren, so this g7 chime sound is much less jarring). I use the Tandem pump and t:connect app, and I don’t want to have alerts/notifications for the same thing (highs or lows) on two different apps. For the most part I’m able to disable the notifications here since I prefer the tandem notifications, but the constant pop-ups that notifications are disabled when opening the g7 app are quite annoying.

One bug I’ve not been able to deal with that urgently needs a fix is that the app freezes when I go into the Connections menu, and it doesn’t respond to any of the options on that screen or clicking into any of the other sections of the app either. So in my experience this part of the app is useless, and I have to close the app and restart to regain functionality. I’m not able to end a sensor when it starts losing accuracy near the end of the sensor life, and I’m forced to wait for the sensor to expire so I can start a new one.

Other than those things, I like the interface and having the Clarity integration into the main Glucose screen of the app.

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