2.0 represents a lot of work. Thank you all for that. I’m a big Wyze fan (with 16 cameras to back that up…and there’ll be more).
However, I have to say that in some ways 2.0’s overall usability has not been improved (in my experience one day into 2.0):
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I miss the 1.x icon. The happy camera lens stood out by design and it’s not blue, which is the most popular app icon color. (I might have kept the original icon and denoted the 2.0 upgrade by changing the color of the stripe along the bottom of the icon.)
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Camera names have been shortened in Home/Device view, yet ~25pc of the Home screen is left blank (thumbnail + name + white space). More cameras appearing in the same amount of real estate is great, but this design wastes screen space rather than maximize it. I’d like a fairly traditional iOS option of list or grid view, which would solve a lot of issues here.
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I miss the full width thumbnails with full camera name on top left.
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Shortcuts icons are larger, slightly reducing the number of visible shortcuts on an iPhone X. Admittedly, we only lost 1/2 of an icon…but.
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I believe the brief on-screen notification of a successfully run shortcut has been removed (shortcut icons just pulse momentarily now).
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Sign out, which I use when the app or my connection is janky (not often), is not longer one tap away, it’s now two taps. (There are a few other examples of actions requiring an extra tap.)
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Filtering events by camera now requires two extra taps in both directions.
The following complaint is fully subjective, but I’m curious if it bothers other users:
Discover and Shop tabs alongside my cameras and event tabs somehow leaves me feeling uneasy. I know my streams aren’t being shared, but I’d like my data tabs isolated from the community and shopping tabs.
A least-worst solution might be placing Discover and Shop underneath a tab titled Wyze:
Home | Events | Account | Wyze
But I’d prefer Discover and Shop be relocated altogether.
Again, I’m a fan and, having worked on software, I know this stuff is more easily torn apart than it is to code. Wishing you all continued success.