It could be useful but it doesn’t really work

I’m giving this app two stars because it is a good idea and I wish it would work properly.

What many people need is a real warning when they leave their iPhone. If we walk away from our iPhone we would like to have a noticeable sound or very distinctive haptic vibration. This app has two major problems:

1) It is not able to determine with any sort of accuracy when I am separated from my phone. E.g., I am in my living room watching TV, with my iPhone in my pocket and Lookout warns me occasionally that I am being separated from my iPhone even though my AppleWatch is still only 1-2 feet from my iPhone. Earlier today I did some testing and walked away from my phone being left in a conference room and I was not warned until I was 50-60 feet away. Why the huge variance? The app cannot tell if my iPhone is two feet away or 50 feet away from my AppleWatch. Fix this problem and you potentially have a nice app.

2) The second problem is that the vibration on my watch will not get my attention. My watch is vibrating every 10-15 minutes with new texts and I am not always checking the screen. To check my screen I need to put on my glasses to read the small print. You should have the AppleWatch make a sound and have a large icon on the AppleWatch screen so we can easily glance at our watch and see it.

A few other ideas include the following:

Allow us to be able to tell Lookout not warn when the phone is in our home location(s) or at night. These are simple time and geolocation options we should be able to configure to.

Pete N. (Chicago) about F-Secure Mobile Security