About Dexcom G6 (Dexcom)
Always know your glucose number and where it’s heading with the Dexcom G6 and G6 Pro Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Systems –indicated for diabetes treatment decisions with zero fingersticks and no calibration.* Before you start making treatment decisions with your G6 or G6 Pro, work with your healthcare provider to learn how.
Always know your glucose number with just a quick glance at your compatible smartphone or smartwatch. For a list of compatible devices visit www.dexcom.com/compatibility. Dexcom G6 and G6 Pro provide real-time glucose readings for patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes every five minutes. Dexcom G6 and G6 Pro are indicated for children, age 2 years and older.
The Dexcom G6 and G6 Pro Systems provide personalized trend alerts on your smart device and let you see when your glucose levels are going too low, or too high, so you can better manage your diabetes. The Alert Schedule** feature lets you schedule and customize a second set of alerts. Custom alert sounds are available, including a Vibrate-Only option on the phone for glucose alerts. The only exception is the Urgent Low Alarm, which you can’t turn off.
The Always Sound** setting, which is on by default, allows you to receive certain Dexcom CGM Alerts even if your phone sound is off, set to vibrate, or in Do Not Disturb mode. This allows you to silence calls or texts but still receive audible CGM Alarm and Alerts, including the Urgent Low Alarm, Low and High Glucose alerts, Urgent Low Soon Alert**, and Rise and Fall Rate alerts**. A Home screen icon shows you if your Alerts will sound or not. For safety, the Urgent Low Alarm and three alerts can’t be silenced: Transmitter Failed, Sensor Failed, and App Stopped.
Other features:
• Share** your glucose data with up to ten followers in real time. Followers can monitor your glucose data and trends in real time on their compatible smart device with the Dexcom Follow** app. Share and Follow functions require an internet connection
• Health app access so you can share retrospective glucose data with third party apps
• Today View widget allows you to view your glucose data on the lock screen of your smart device
• Add a shortcut to Siri to run by asking Siri to read your current glucose value, using a custom phrase
**Not available on Dexcom G6 Pro CGM System
Apple Watch
View your glucose information, trend graph, and alerts and alarm right from your wrist with the Dexcom G6 Apple Watch app. Watches require compatible smart device to use app.
Customer Reviews
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What's New in Dexcom G6 (v1.15.0)
Dexcom G6 Contact Information
To reach Dexcom G6 customer service and technical support, use the official channels below. For the fastest reply, choose the developer's official website.
Dexcom G6 Subscription, App Deletion & iOS Support
How do I cancel the Dexcom G6 subscription?
Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad, tap your Apple ID (your name) at the top, go to Subscriptions, select Dexcom G6 from the list and tap Cancel Subscription. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; you can keep using the app until then. See Apple's official subscription management page for details.
How do I delete the Dexcom G6 app?
Touch and hold the Dexcom G6 icon on the Home Screen, choose Remove App and then Delete App. Important: if you have an active subscription, deleting the app does not cancel it automatically - you must first cancel your subscription using the steps above.
Dexcom G6 purchases, refunds and billing issues
Report billing or refund requests for Dexcom G6 through Apple's Report a Problem (reportaproblem.apple.com). For the app's own technical support and contact, use the developer's official website or the Dexcom G6 App Store page.
Distribution of Dexcom G6 Reviews
Of the last 50 reviews shown, 34% are positive (4–5★) and 66% negative (1–3★). App Store overall rating: 3.1 / 5
Dexcom G6 Positive Reviews and Ratings
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Downloaded the app after getting an Apple Watch - love it. Haven’t had any issues with signal loss myself (iPhone X, almost always near me). I am using the watch complication with the older Apple Watxh face (Modular), but like everyone else here would love to see an update supporting some of the newer Apple Watch faces (e.g. Infograph Modular). Sometimes the numbers don’t update on my complication (I see “- - -“) but this is an Apple Watch issue, not Dexcom. Tapping it opens the Dexcom app and fixes the issue. Keep the Dexcom Apple Watch app running in the dock, and keep the Dexcom app on the phone running in the background to minimize this from happening. But the most impressive for me was Dexcom support. I contacted the email address Dexcom keeps posting in replies to other reviews, and got a personal call back on my phone from a knowledgeable tech support rep. I thought my Dexcom app was ignoring my high alert repeat settings - but turns out dismissing high alerts on the watch is not the same as dismissing them in the Dexcom iPhone app. I now dismiss alerts in the Dexcom phone app and my alert repeat settings are honored. Again - was an Apple issue, not a Dexcom app issue. Thanks Dexcom for innovating! While the app can always be improved - you all push the boundaries more than other CGMS providers when it comes to innovating within the constraints of the FDA approval process.
I really love my dexcom however I have a few complaints about the app. It would really be great to have an option to put in notes. Sometimes I will write have to write on a sticky note, but those can easily be lost between doctors appointments. Also I have recently gotten sick for the first time since getting my dexcom so I have been checking for ketones. I looked and there is no option in the “Events” to log ketones which I find incredibly odd, like why not? I have seen a lot of reviews talking about the signal loss problem. I personally have found that the recommended site for your transmitter, your lower stomach, produces the no signal problem a lot more often than other places. I alternate sites between my biceps and left and right lower stomach (always above my belt and pants line as this can cause interference) and I prefer my arms as when its on your stomach it is easier to sleep on and lose signal, your belt or pants may mess up the signal, and you happen to move your torso a lot and if I don’t stand just right at insertion I can feel the sensor every time I move. (TL;DR): No option to input ketones and no option to make notes (First paragraph). There is a signal loss problem at times but I have personally found that its usually the insertion sight that is the problem (Second paragraph).
IOS 13.1.2 appears to fix most issues. Also using iPhone 11 Pro Max. Strongly encourage those setting up a new iPhone use the “Quick Start” setup to save in my opinion significant time because the process transfers data including transmitter info for the sensor from one phone to the next. Should one not follow this process, use iCloud for setting up a new phone or have any questions then definitely get Dexcom tech support on a call before beginning a data transfer or setup process. There are some unique steps you’ll need to follow during new phone setup and they can help you. Updated review to 4 from 1 stars. Still do not recommend downloading until Dexcom or Apple certifies the app and system will work with the latest iOS and latest iPhone models but should one not have this option then 13.1.2 should address many concerns. Upon certification I’ll update to 5 stars. Still get occasional transmitter signal drops after a certain amount of inactivity or when other significant Bluetooth use is occurring nearby (like on an airplane or in an Apple Store). But I often get the signal back in short order. Dexcom, also updated the app upon launch to identify there are known iOS compatibility issues so patients are aware problems may be present. A word of encouragement to Team Apple. I appreciate you want to be known as a healthcare company. Please do what you can to only launch new iOS versions when it’s fully known how a health app that’s this important may not correctly function. Some of the problems initially experienced were frustrating but it seems better now so thanks Team Dexcom and Team Apple.
I just discovered the second alert setup where you can establish a second time-bounded alert for, as an example - night time. As soon I set the (11:30 - 6 am) night time 2nd schedule, where i substantially tightened up my max and my min alert values, the G6 app started crashing each time I tried to get back into “alerts” to make edits. That first started about 10 pm and now, a hour-ish (at 11:20) its pretty apparent b/c of my current 44 reading that alerts aren’t working (??)...luckily I still feel lows and wake up, so I’ve corrected...but something weird is happening in the app. So, since it’s taken me a while to type this (11:20 -11:46) I did just get a low glucose alert at 11:32. Something weird is going on because I didn’t get any alerts prior to 11:30 during the time when I should have gotten my normal alerts outside of my 2nd more specific schedule. My normal schedule is low alert at 65 and urgent low alert at 55 so getting to 44 without an alert (again, all that occurred prior to 11:30 and I did get an alert at 11:32 based on my second alert schedule) makes me think my normal alerts are somehow on the fritz but my 2nd more specific alerts are working??? Needs fix for the alerts section - getting to 44 ain’t great!
I've had a Dexcom for several years now, and truly think thay are amazing. These devices really are life savers and have saved me from going into dangerous lows more times than I can count. I am very very active and because of this see my blood sugar rapidly fall frequently. I try to take all the steps to minimize the lows from occurring with activity But it is still happens frequently with my high activity level. The biggest downfall to the G6 for me is the lack of functionality with the Apple Watch. With my old G5 I could set up as a compilation on the watch face so with a glance I could see my levels. The new G6 is not available as a complication on any watch face and it really drives me insane. It's a strange thing to complain about, because I could easily pull out my phone and look, or carry the receiver; but I had gotten used to it always being on my watch as a g5 user. So the transition to the g6 not working with the Apple Watch as a complication has been frustrating. Other than that, I think it's amazing. The only other issue I have had numerous times is when it's time to change the sensor, I have had 3 or 4 sensors error out on warm up saying no restarts allowed. (They were new sensors). Dexcom has replaced these, but it's a pain when it happens.
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Although i love having a Dexcom and being able to follow trends has been a game changer, i cannot stand the critical alerts. Most of us have gone much of our lives without the incessant, obnoxious beeping during a low blood sugar and i just don’t understand why it isn’t an optional feature… If someone tends to get low without being aware, they should turn it on but many of us are very aware of when we have a low! I have been a type one since 1994 and went on the Dexcom 5 years ago and this is the one thing that truly makes me consider just going back to manually checking my blood sugar. I am a massage therapist and i get low while working often, and no client wants to hear this awful alarm while they are trying to relax. Before i had the Dexcom i could easily just drink some Gatorade without anyone knowing i have low blood sugar but this alarm can literally be heard throughout each room in the spa i work at. I literally end up keeping my blood sugar around 200 for each work shift to keep from having to deal with these alerts!!! Please make the critical alerts optional! Diabetes is annoying enough and this is completely unnecessary for so many of us!
The first and most important thing to say is that managing my diabetes without a CGM for over 30 years was incredibly difficult and challenging, and shoutout to everyone who deals with the things we deal with. The G6 has changed my life in so many ways and I’ve never been happier and never had an A1C as good as now. When used with an Omnipod pump I feel like I’m always ahead of the ball with diabetes management. Gone are the days of roller coaster highs and lows, and life is just so much easier to manage. The only reason why I give this 4 stars and not five (I’d give it a 4.5 if I could) is that the CGM is sometimes wildly inaccurate on either end, and only because I’m so familiar with my body am I able to recognize the Dexcom is in error. That said, once I calibrate it usually goes back to reading accurately fairly quickly. And the one time it didn’t, Dexcom support team shipped me a replacement within a few days. So if you have diabetes and do not currently use a Dexcom G6 I would highly recommend doing so. It has made life more manageable and allowed me to feel in control of my diabetes rather than the other way around.
I’m a new dexcom user and have been on the G6 for about 3 months. I did not opt for the receiver and use my iPhone X to setup and monitor my levels. I honestly don’t know how I was living without this device. I really haven’t had any issues with the app and I’ll only get signal loss when I’m actually out of range of my iPhone X. I love the Apple Watch integration but that does have its issues. I use the modular watch face on a series 4 Apple Watch. There are a few times where the numbers will not display but I usually just tap on the section and it opens up the g6 Watch app and shows me my numbers. It would be great if I could just glance at it. My main complaint would be if the complications could be updated to use the new watchOS 5 Watch faces. I’m stuck using the old modular face. I mean it’s totally a first world problem but oh well. Also if the g6 could connect to my Apple Watch when out of range of my iPhone would be great as well. I thought I read something about support for that and that would be amazing! Also for the other reviewers and readers, if you’re not using the Sugarmate app in conjunction with this one, you’re missing out.
I love what this system does for me. Prior to Dexcom, I used a different glucose monitoring system that I also loved, but due to insurance coverage, had to make the switch. I wasn’t happy. But within 5 minutes of the thing working, I was sold. I was already VERY serious about my self care in regards to controlling my glucose levels, but with this system, everything is SO MUCH easier. I love that I can know my numbers every second of the day, and that helps me make informed choices about what I eat and when and when I need to inject and how much. There are only two things I would improve/change at this point: I wish the device were smaller and or thinner (big ask, I know) and that instead of FAST ACTING or LONG LASTING as “names” or labels for insulin, we could actually load the app with our specific insulin names so that when we add injections to our data, we could be more specific. I have 3 different insulin types and only two categories to choose from. Other than that, completely satisfied and thankful!
I have been using this for over 4 months now. My A1C has gone from 9.7 or so to 7.5, I love that it lets you know readings pretty much instantly. I know highs and lows right away, I have had better control of my blood sugar. It helps to know what foods affect me for the better or worse. I use to eat things I thought were ok to eat, only finding out my body’s response tells me I’m wrong. It is still a bit hard on some days to keep in range. I have had a good last 7 days with only one of them not in range. I’m getting better at it slowly. It has been so nice to not have to stick a finger for blood. The Dexcom G6 is easy to use, easy to change sensors and transmitter. They always come in time, I even get reminders from Fairview Pharmacy when they know it’s time for me to order, sometimes if I had not called yet to order, it’s nice to get a reminder. They send sensors or transmitters out any day I want to receive product. This is by far the best system I have been on. I also see a diabetic nurse and a dietitian. It has all helped to get things under control.
The app is pretty straightforward, and as others have said, pretty no-frills. Those frills can be had from a number of other apps; I myself use Sugarmate for the additional information and tools available there. I’m just using this platform to voice my desire for the app to have a ‘Dark Mode’ option. Like other apps that have a default lighter background screen, when Dark Mode is turned on in your phone’s brightness settings, everything changes to a much darker color scheme. So the white background could go black, and other colored details switched if necessary to harmonize. This would be most helpful when looking at the app at night, in darker settings, or getting ready for bed. The current white screen has a somewhat blinding effect at those times, or at least, all the ‘blue light’ that makes up a white phone screen has a very stimulating effect on your eyes & brain.. at a time when you're trying to wind down. I, and I’m sure most users of this app, look at it many many times throughout the day, and thus it would be very appreciated. Thank you !!! 🙏☺️
The device itself is a lifesaver. I’ve been using the Dexcom G5 then G6 for several years now and it is fantastic (aside from not being able to recharge or replace the transmitter battery, but that’s a different topic). The app is mostly great and I appreciate that the main functionality of the app is front and center…if you just need to look at your glucose, it’s right there. However, there are a few annoying UX issues with the Dexcom app. First, the widget in the iOS control center often resizes itself to be way too large (larger than the screen itself) and requires me to either scroll down to even see the details or collapse and re-expand the widget to reset it. This happened in the G5 app as well and on my previous and current iPhone. Another other issue is that I wish I could future date data entered into the “events” within the app, even if no more than 30 minutes. For instance I often check my blood sugar, determine how many carbs I’m about to eat and then take insulin 15 minutes before I actually eat. I like to record the time between when I took it and when I ate it, but that would require me to remember to come back to the app. Being able to future date it no more than 30 minutes would be an easy development change and would also prevent users from mistakenly adding data to the wrong time of day completely. Also, within the events I would love to have the ability to add notes. I imagine it might cause some reworking in the Clarity app to display them, but they could be added as footnotes like some other apps have done. Also, now that you have opened up the API to other developers like myself, a notes field attached to an event could be useful for other apps. Even if you just limited it to 160 characters, it would allow me to simply note what type of food I had. Not every carb responds the same way.
I love this CGM I used the other one Freestyle but in one year I had to replace 7 out of 24. The D6 stays on better and is easier to use. The D6 updates a graph every 5 minutes verses putting your phone near the sensor to get updates! The graph shows we’re I am going so I can adjust. When I do get a bad sensor it is vey easy to get a replacement, the only complaint I have it takes 5 or more days to get the replacement and Medicare only aloud me 3 a month so I had to buy some to keep me going. Very expensive! Most bad ones are good for hrs then they go south for 3 or more hrs i calibrated very 15 minutes and it will come back for a while but I replaced it as soon as I get the new one. I wish it would last more then 10 days! I love that it works with the tandem pump . My a1c1 went from 8.4 to 6.9 because of the sensor and pump!!! First time in 30 years I was under 7!!! Medicare pays for my three sensors but remember they last 10 days so three are 30 days but there are 7 months with 31 days and one with 28 days still working with Medicare about this!!! SO MUCH BETTER THAN finger pricks!!!!!!!
Dexcom has changed my life! I have been a Type 1 for 23 years and I am over 60. I thought I knew how digestion worked and performed finger sticks 5-6 times per day in my maintenance plan. Unless I dieted with chicken salads and no carb life style, my Hemoglobin A1C was usually around 8.0. With Dexcom and being linked to my Apple phone and watch, it is incredible what I learned about digestion alone due to receiving blood sugar readings every 5 minutes! The graph is incredible and a really useful part is when you engage with the app and input your carb intake, your insulin doses and even exercise. It is easy to learn. As soon as you do the inputs, you can see how and when carbs digest and when the insulin works on it. Immediately after beginning use of the Dexcom I lowered my A1C from 8.0 to 6.9 and without dieting. Pretty much been eating what I want, just smarter. Only one concern for me is a skin issue. I use my hip areas for Dexcom placement. After a few months the areas of placement are leaving the skin a bit red and irritated. Trying products to help the issue.
Wow. Just wow. This app and the accompanying new system have changed my life. I can hardly remember the last time I pricked my finger. It’s amazing that I can finally relax for a little while, knowing “my BG is fine; it’s not alarming, so it’s in my range.” Y’all, unless you know the stress of life before CGMSes, you can’t possibly let understand the life-changing benefit of always knowing what my BG is and where it’s headed. Not only that, but with Share, my dh can know, while he’s at work, out of town, whatever! He knows my BG and where it’s headed!!! Just by checking his phone. It’s brought so much calm to our lives, and our marriage is happier, too. He was able to pull me aside on our recent vacation and push some buttons on my pump and help me avoid a high, all without me even having to think about it, because his alarms (on his phone) are set to stricter levels than mine, so he’s alerted to my BG fluctuations before I am. Sometimes I can go hours and even a whole day without thinking about my BG when he’s with me. It’s such an incredible blessing for us. Thank you, Dexcom!!!
Since starting to us the Dexcom 6 Gluse Monitoring System, I don’t think about my blood sugars as often as I use too. Don’t get me wrong, when you’re a diabetic it’s always on your mind but having the Dexcom G6, elevates the worry. Imagine being able to see what your glucose levels are automatically, without pricking your finger several times a day. Now, based on your levels, you can make better choices on what eat thru out the day and how to adjust medication to react in your body towards the food consumed. It is a wonderful device and within 2 quarters, my A1C is at the lowest it’s ever been at, 5.8 and average blood sugar is 102mg/dl. I can’t say enough about my experiences. Customer service is great because we are dealing with electronics and latency failures are real. Sometimes, what tests good in manufacturing fails later in the field and that’s when you need Great customer service and tech support to help troubleshoot and/or replace the components as needed. Absolutely, great device for managing glucose levels. I need a commercial like Patty to really sell the device!
I started using the Dexcom g6 three months ago. I am thankful for how easy it is to look at my phone and not worry about pricking my finger while chasing my one year old around. I rely on the app almost exclusively. For me the biggest issue is it often will lose connection. Normally at night. I have to turn the Bluetooth on and off and restart my phone half the time also. The most annoying thing is how when you have an alert set for high, instead of alerting me again in the 20 minutes I have set, it alerts me with every new reading. The alarm going off every 5 minutes has got me some really strange and worried looks in public places. I’m sure that when your reading changes at all during those 5 minutes, that’s what’s making a new alert but that needs to be fixed. It should give you the option where you set your high alert. It doesn’t alert you again for 20 minutes (or however long) unless it’s gone up an extensive amount, which you could also set. Overall I am thankful for the product and its ability to use on my phone.
Dexcom G6 Negative Reviews and Ratings
This app is a game changer and I understand that however there are a few things (this may just be on my end but still.) I am getting signed out and having app errors at least twice a month if not more (more often then not more), which means I have to delete the app redownload the app, and do all of the onboarding sign on things. Really tedious and super annoying, but this happens very often. Another thing I also seem to be having issues with it the connection through me devices. Sometimes it will be working really well, and then all of the sudden I won’t get readings for my numbers for hours or even days. Which is really upsetting, especially if this happens when I’m out and I don’t have access to my meter. Another issues is receiving notifications, and I’ve gone in and checked, and redone them several times now to try and get them to do what I set them to be. I’m not sure about you guys but when I’m low i get to be especially Cranky, and hearing the beep every 5 minutes absolutely ticks me off. The beeping I understand is necessary however if I’ve taken action I don’t see the need for it to go off every five minutes. This being said I’m not sure why my notifications setting aren’t being activated, or used. A lot of the other issues I’ve had in the past aren’t really problems anymore besides the connection issues. This app overall has helped me a lot, and it’s been very good to keep and constant track of my blood glucose lvls.
Overall, this is a good app: there are places to log medications, exercise, meals, and illnesses, the high and low alarms are customizable to an extent, and the graph is very useful to monitor trends. My biggest complaint is that it doesn’t do enough: there are no free-form notes, it only has the options to log insulin or oral medications, not both, the high and low alarms are not customizable enough, and the arrow is almost meaningless. Free-form notes would be extremely useful as not all carbs, illnesses, symptoms, and exercises are created equal, and just logging that they happened isn’t sufficient to see overall trends. Long-term type 2 diabetics are often on both oral medications and insulin, and being able to log both would be extremely useful. The high alarms are close enough in their settings, but the low alarms need to have options to be set higher for those of us with delayed gastric emptying and for those of us whose doctors don’t want them going below 100: telling me I’m already at 100 doesn’t prevent it from going that low. The trend arrow doesn’t necessarily reflect what the graph shows: the graph will show my glucose has dropped 20 points in the last hour, but the arrow says it’s holding steady when it obviously isn’t. It’s still a decently useful app, it just isn’t useful enough.
But to be honest, a lot of options just aren’t there. Not a lot of information is available, the graph is hard to read as there are no lines except for going into a low blood sugar, the alerts don’t really work (you can set it to remind tell you that you have a high blood sugar every 30, 40 minutes, but no matter what you set it to, it still just alerts you every darn time it reads a high blood sugar), and the Apple Watch connectivity is so slow and erratic that you should not pick up and Apple Watch just for this system, as I did. It’s supposed to tell you if you’re blood sugar is going up or down, but they don’t seem to realize insulin takes 3 hours (on average for most people) to be fully used. When my blood sugar that’s going down 3 or 4 per 5 minutes, as expected, it apparently doesn’t read that as enough of a decrease to note it. I haven’t really been able to tell what exactly it needs to register a steady increase or decrease, let alone a fast drop/rise. So I can’t really rely on that feature that well either. So right now I’m paying a lot of money to check my phone to see my blood sugar, which is fine, still better than pricking, but considering the fancy app and all the promised features, , the cost of the whole system (recyclable/reusable sensor placers please?) and that my relatively ancient medical systems have far more user functionality and data without touch screens, the app NEEDS to get a overhaul.
Still the same issues after the latest update. Reminder…. This has still not changed. Still has not gotten any better. Not even a release to attempt to improve it. Update. lol. Just like Dexcom. “Oh we want to talk to you!!!” They listen so well. No matter if it is to a review or to the customer when they do contact support. Again, I wouldn’t want to have to live without my Dexcom system. But such poor support for their application both on the phone and the watch and disregard for anything the customer says is so said. I am a software developer if my products cared about my customer like the Dexcom software team I would not be in business. ***************************** I know you are moving to the G7 but a lot of people are still stuck on the G6 and for what you charge for the Sensors and Transmitters you should do a lot better on the application. No historic information without loading clarity and then very little at a glance. Learn from Sugarmate please. And it is well past time now for an iOS 17 update and a watchOS 10 update. The one little complication we get on the watch is now unusable the text is so small. :-( Please give your software some more love. P.S. please don’t comment that you would like to follow up with me. Just read the message, look at the application running on actual devices, compare to applications like sagarmate, and spend some time to make the software as good as the hardware.
If I had a dollar for every time this app crashed, I could buy a sensor without insurance. Fix this. I think it’s unbelievably inconvenient to receive a notification about a low blood sugar, I go to open this app and acknowledge that I see my blood sugar is low, and then the app crashes. So I try to open the app again. I know if I don’t click “OK” within five minutes my phone will start beeping at me. I’m a college student, and when I’m not in class I’m at work. Do I want my phone to be ringing with alarms in class or at work? No, that’s why I keep it silenced 24/7. If this app continuously crashes while I try to respond to the notification, I cannot prevent this alarm while simultaneously distracting myself from my other work. Fix this app from crashing. One of my biggest issues with diabetes is how much time it takes for me to manage it on top of my other daily activities, so I thought a CGM would save time from checking my blood sugar with a meter. As it turns out, since I’ve upgraded from the G5 to the G6 sensor and downloaded this new app, I have been spending MORE time using this app simply trying to see my blood sugars than I was before when I had to manually calibrate the app twice a day with a finger stick reading. I have a widespread connection to the diabetic community, both on and off campus, and I cannot express my disappointment in this app enough. Until it’s fixed I won’t be happy with it.
All of a sudden this app keeps alarming, telling me it can’t find my transmitter and that I need to uninstall the app and then reinstall. I reinstalled the app but then had to log in to my Dexcom account again with user ID and password. I have to re-enter the transmitter SN which luckily I still have stored in my Omnipod 5 controller. I had to re-enter the sensor ID which I happened to remember because it was one I hadn’t seen previously and very easy. I’ve been through this twice today and the first time was in the middle of teaching a class at work. What in the world has happened to this app? I can’t get it to reinstall on my Apple Watch at all! I noticed this is a new version updated a week ago. Perhaps the developers need to revise it again because something is not working properly. Please fix what’s wrong or advise me on what to do to resolve this issue. Thanks. UPDATE: App crashed again tonight while I was driving and requested I delete and reinstall. This technology is why those of us with diabetes are able to drive and not worry about hypoglycemia. Tonight makes three times I’ve gone through this process of delete/ reinstalling in a week. I’ve still had no luck getting it reinstalled on my Apple Watch. Per suggestion of the app developers, I have submitted a service ticket on the Dexcom patient portal. I noticed many users are having the same issue so hopefully we will have a resolution to this serious problem soon.
I don’t know if it’s the sensor and system itself or if the app is just trash, but it seems to always lose signal! Both my daughter and I use dexcom and between the two of us, every hour one of our systems are going off that signal is lost. It does this especially at night which is why we got it... To know about low blood sugar at night. Problem is, it loses signal and doesn’t find signal for hours! Last night my blood sugar went horribly low, but did my dexcom go off? No, it was busy saying signal lost and looking at the chart between midnight and 7am there’s no data at all... This is a problem both my daughter and I have. It has this problem all the time! Also every day there’s gaps of no data from it not working and this is for both of us. The app says on occasion that the latest ios isn’t fully supported.. I don’t know if that’s the cause, but my iOS hasn’t changed since getting the sensor which was over a month ago, plenty of time to update the app if that’s truly the problem! It’s so bad my daughter doesn’t even want to wear it because she still has to check her blood sugar by finger because it says signal lost... 🙄😑😒 I just went a looked, out of 31 days, 19 have gaps of no data. 19 out of 31! That’s more than half! And that’s just on mine, my daughter’s is the same or worse! Right now while writing this, my daughter’s says signal lost... and hasn’t had any data for an hour and a half...
I’ve only been using this app for a few days now, and it seems to lose connection with my transmitter. I keep my phone on or close to me almost always and I have lost connection with the transmitter. It’s happened the past two nights while I was sleeping for 4 1/2 hours (phone was next to the bed charging), and in the middle of the day (it’s been going on 20 minutes now) and there’s no rhyme or reason as to why this is happening. Also I don’t get notifications on my phone when this happens (even with my notifications on with the sound on). (I’m using a G6 unit with the IPhone XR iOS 13.2.3 if that makes a difference as to my set up with both my phone and Apple Watch up to date on the software). If these keeps up, I’ll probably edit my review to something lower, and delete the app. We’ll see how this is going in a week. I’m hoping they fix the issues with the app being used with this most recent update of iOS. Edit: (15 days later). Good luck with this app. Still junk. I’ve tried contacting customer support and they don’t know their heads from their elbows. And when I have spoken to someone the first person made it clear updating the app to work with the newer iOS is not a priority but the G7 is then blew me off, and the second person couldn’t figure anything out if it wasn’t on their script to follow to help a person out. Save yourself some time. Don’t use a Dexcom product, and sure as hell don’t waste your time with this app.
I am a long time user of the Dexcom sensors from this and previous generations and would rate them very highly. However, the latest update is what drives me to write this review for the app. The lack of ability to manage notifications effectively (I know we have the ability to set up different profiles and tweak which alerts make noise, but this is not a very effective system. when I still cannot e.g., snooze an alert for a set time period.) has long been a major pain point but two things in this update have made it much worse. One is the inability to now silence some alerts at all without shutting off your phone. I understand this is the intended design for “critical alerts” now, but believe this is a poor design that does not really promote safety (when users have no way to effectively manage alarms, they are trained to ignore them or seek out means to eliminate them altogether). There are also situations where it is totally unacceptable for a device to be making noise. The second issue (which I hope is a bug rather than intended). Is that notifications now pause any media that is playing even when they are silenced and the phone is silenced. If this is a bug it should be fixed quickly. If it is intended design, it is unacceptable. This will force people to eliminate alerts altogether (which does not ultimately promote safety).
Dexcom's tech is a must-have for modern diabetics, and they are the clear choice for CGMs today. Unfortunately, this means there isn't much pressure for them to improve their tech until a significant rival starts to outcompete them. Because of this, their products never seem to strive above basic functionality, and they tend to be inconsistent and overly expensive. Their software (and hardware), for example, is buggy, annoying, and sometimes straight-up anti-consumer. You can't silence alerts (even when their sensors are calibrated incorrectly), you can't use sensors after exactly 10 days even though many of them still function normally, their sensor applicators regularly fail during insertion, you can't recharge transmitters (which effectively forces you to buy more), and they intentionally delay blood glucose readings being saved to HealthKit so other diabetes apps can't compete with their own app for blood sugar predictions. Dexcom is a bad company that doesn't have your best interests at heart, but they are the best choice we have at the moment. I would really like to see Dexcom start to take these complaints more seriously and actually offer a more pleasant experience. Until then, it seems like they are content exploiting their quasi-monopolistic control of the CGM market and don't feel the need to drastically improve or challenge anything for our benefit. I can't wait for an alternative big-name CGM to arrive to kick Dexcom out of its current stupor.
Look. I love this app. Love the graphs. The alerts are good too for a heads up on what’s going on. But my GOD the alarms!! Over the top ridiculous. When you’re low or high and hit your limits the volume of the alarms, especially if wearing headphones, is insane. I’ve almost driven off the road multiple times , dropped weights, and literally pulled the headphones outta my ears on runs due to the volume of these alarms. They need to be adjustable or incrementally get louder but these alarms will absolutely deafen a brotha. These alarms alone make me wanna not use them at all. I don’t know why this hasn’t been addressed. Due to this I almost always silence the alarms but then what’s the point of having the Dexcom on? Please fix this. Also with the new update of the calibration alarms it’s like, my god!! Another alarm I can’t adjust?! I’m not always able to calibrate when it wants. Can’t silence them or adjust these alarms. So every 5 minutes I get an alarm for something that absolutely is NOT an emergency. This alarm needs adjustment features too. This is a simple app that doesn’t need a lot of features. Could be great but this is why it has the rating is has. It’s well earned. Bottom line… Dexcom is life changing technology. The app has a lot of catching up to do. Please fix this Dexcom
You really need to allow your customers to have autonomy with their equipment decisions. I totally understand wanting to make sure people are not missing alerts and I understand there is risk on your company’s end with allowing this feature to be turned off. However, some customers, like myself, cannot be having alerts going off when our phones are silenced, even if they are important. I do not need an Amber alert going off to tell me that my sensor is disconnected. Allow an intense vibration alert rather than the noise. Something like a phone call vibration that still gets attention, but is not disruptive. I am a lecturer and I require my students to have their phones silenced during class and exams. I cannot have my equipment negating the policies that are set for them. I am understanding if they have medical alarms as well, as I’ve been dealing with Type 1 for 20+ years. However, requiring these alarms is not practical and an unethical decision on Dexcom’s part to require it to use the app. Please fix this and allow people to make decisions on their own. Require a legality, liability, and risk statement acknowledgment when people choose to turn off critical alerts if it is truly a concern.
With this version, I have to calibrate the dumb app once a day! Why??? I get calibration needs, so developers don’t get on here and try to preach your excuses. Before I would calibrate it when a new sensor is put in, but this dumb thing makes me do it once a day! Just like the stupid sensors that 1 out of 4 have some issue with them, now you have to make the app even more in line with the stupidity of the sensors? Plus the iPhone widget on my home screen shows one number then you click on it to open the app and it shows a different number. Every time. And both of those are different than the numbers shown when you swipe over on your Lock Screen! Lol this app...All this comes from a guy who loves what dexcom is supposed to do and it’s an awesome device...when it works. And when I don’t have to calibrate each day. I really wish there was a better CGM, I’d switch in a heartbeat. 🤞🏼for the coming years that one may show up. Again, love it, but they need to figure out their app for sure. Make it better and more people would be drawn to dexcom. Instead, you’ve got long time users like me who know the many many frustrations from the app and sensors who try to say nice things to others who might need it, but then the negatives turn them off. What are these developers getting paid to make these apps? Too much.
Two stars because Dexcom as a product is amazing and has changed my fiancé’s life. However, it seems pretty clear that the company’s product strategy focuses only on the hardware and not their mobile apps. Least of all, the Follow app which hasn’t been updated beyond minor bugs fixes possibly ever. But even the Dexcom G6 app is basic and limited. There are major bugs, inconsistencies, grammatical errors, and even duplicates of the exact same question on the FAQ page. Dexcom releases app updates maybe once a year, if we’re lucky, and they certainly don’t have anywhere in their apps or on their website to report bugs or give feature suggestions. There is so much potential for the Dexcom apps, but it’s wasted (it doesn’t look like they even employ a software product manager). Thankfully, they have open APIs, so there are some great third-party apps that are way better than Dexcom’s app, but it’s really disappointing that they don’t put more focus here. While their hardware is much better than their competitors due to being so hands-off, it’s not that huge of a competitive advantage and the mobile space is definitely where their competitors can quickly gain some ground on them. I hope Dexcom puts more strategy behind their entire product solution in the future instead of only focusing on the hardware.
I have been using the Dexcom for several years. I am Currently using G6 because OmniPod hasn't upgraded yet. Today I got a message that the app stopped working and that I needed to delete it, go to the App Store, and redownload. I did that but as a result I lost a sensor and transmitter. Fortunately I had one left of each so could restart. Now I have to notify Dexcom for a replacement because insurance won't cover if it's too early to reorder. Dexcom has always been good about sending replacements but this issue should not have happened. If the app stops working then when reloading it there should be away to bypass having to use a new sensor and transmitter. If I didn't have a spare then I'd be without a sensor until the replacement arrived. This means my insulin pump would have to be on manual and I'd have to hope I don't drop low during sleep at night. I read someone else's post about dropped readings, warning beeps every 5 minutes, etc and I concur with those issues. I hope those are the bugs you fixed. Update- I did contact Dexcom through the self service help desk and never received a follow up from them. I plan to call but am dreading it because the last time I called I got someone on the phone who was so inexperienced and couldn't problem solve beyond a script she was given to read. I informed my doctor about the advice I was given from the Dexcom support person and my doctor balked at what I was told. My doctor and I both knew the advice I was given was incorrect. Years ago I remember getting Dexcom support from people who were experienced in troubleshooting and who could actually give sound advice. Some of the issues people encounter cannot be fixed simply by a tech support person reading from a script. Please educate the staff!
Update: July 30, 2020. Alerts STILL not working. Highs blare top volume night and day, though occasionally they sound at the volume the phone is set to. LOWS DONT ALERT. EVEN URGENT LOWS!!! NO SOUND! Even though the volume is up and the phone is not silenced, the lows don’t sound and the highs blare loudly, causing everyone in the room to stare at me and jump as it goes off. FIX THIS. Deleting the app and trying-installing, logging out and logging back on DOES NOT HELP. I’ve had URGENT LOWS with NO ALERTS. I depend on this app for my life. As a single parent, this app needs to do its job to help me be safe so I can be there for my kids. This faulty app will kill me Or someone else if you don’t get it sorted. I love the idea of this app, but I’m afraid I will need to switch back to an older version of the dexcom with a receiver. The alerts are sounding only part of the time, and the app says the alarms are turned off even though I have repeatedly checked to be sure they are on. Sometimes it will alert, sometimes it doesn’t. I just started with the g6, so I’m currently using my g4 with receiver alongside of it to check accuracy. Luckily I was wearing the g4 as well, because the g6 app didn’t alert me of a bad low during the night (even though it recorded it, it didn’t sound), and my trusty g4 receiver alerted me and woke me up. Please fix this!
I have been experiencing a lot of lost connection errors and they’re beeping and noisy warning science and I’ve have my G6 transmitter right above my right pocket in my pants where I have my phone and it often times like most of the time will not be able to read the transmitter from that position in my pocket, which is just below the transmitter at night I run into the similar problem where I said it on a platform next to my bed which should be able to see my transmitter very well, but if I don’t have the phone turned in exactly the right way, which is sometimes hard to remember or figure out it will give me the same lost connection noisy signal in the middle of the night and my wife doesn’t like being woken up by it so I try hard to align the phone so it will just keep reading unless there’s something that’s actually I know the transmitter signal is important but why can it not see my phone, it’s clear and if I leave it in the dining room, which is a good 2030 feet away from the bedroom with some walls around it. It actually makes connection so I am frustrated. What can I do to solve this problem?
I’ve had the Dexcom G6 for a couple years now and every year I have multiple problems with the app. I am currently unable to download the Dexcom G6 For unknown reasons. I have also reached out to support through Dexcom manufacturer and they cannot fix my problem. They told me my iPhone Xr was unable to collaborate with the Dexcom G6. The problem started with the app telling me that the app was no longer working. I would have to delete the app and re-download the upload the app and log back in to be able to have the Dexcom G6 to work. I deleted the app and followed the process as necessary and now I am unable to even have the option to download the Dexcom G6 app through my App Store leaving me having to ask for a new prescription for a different kind of glucose monitor from my endocrine, this has me unable to use my close loop glucose monitoring system with my Dexcom G6 in my tandem insulin pump. I am doing finger pokes until I can have a different prescription prescribed to me for a different kind of glucose monitor or Dexcom G7 so that it’s compatible with my phone and I’m actually able to download the app and have it work adequately. Love the app when it’s working has changed my life withT1D but way too many problems to continue having it as my glucose monitor for my closed loop insulin pump system.
This app is ridiculous. I be disabled all notifications and it still doesn’t stop it from buzzing and making noise. Now, apparently I have to enable updates to even use the thing. Sorry, not sorry, not happening. The tandem app provides much better data points and measurements. And doesn’t squawk incessantly. I’m a hairs breath from just deleting it entirely. The only reason I don’t is cause I’m not sure if it’ll will affect the sensor. I doubt it, but I’m not taking the chance. The sensors never last 10 days as is. None of your information, but I have gastrointestinal paralysis. So if my sugar drops it’ll be low for an hour before any sugar consumed hits my blood, guess how many times it alerts me in that time (with the alerts turned off), it’s at least 4…. And you want me to turn alerts on? All in all it rates two stars at best. It’s a functional app that manages to connect to your glucose sensor. That’s it. Anything else it’s trying to provide, information, feedback, alerts, is a failed effort. Not to mention a the amount of useless noise it makes. Edit: the company contacted me about the review and stated that if I was having an issue, submit a ticket at their website. Like I haven’t called about the issue multiple times. Sorry guys you lose another star for the abjectly pathetic response.
After the first alert, the alert volume defaults to the highest volume. This is ABSOLUTELY frustrating, especially while sleeping or in the office. I called Dexcom and they said it’s a bug in the app, NOT USER ERROR, and told me to tell the developer. Aren’t they the developers? Anyways, please... for the love of all things, fix this. It’s been happening for about a year and I’m losing sleep. iPhone 6s. Also, I second what someone else recently said about needing to snooze high alerts. If you’re sleeping and you take insulin for a high, your blood sugar is NOT going to come down in 5 min or 10 min, but low and behold you keep getting alerts every five minutes anyways. You need to be able to snooze these for at least 30 min! We have to instead go into the app and CHANGE the high alert settings in the middle of the night because you don’t have a snooze button for a common sense issue. *TO DEXCOM- I noticed that you reply to everyone asking them to contact tech support to tell them about the issue. I DID THAT AND WAS TOLD TO COME HERE AND WRITE A REVIEW BECAUSE THEY SAID THEY COULDN'T DO ANYTHING AND IT’S NOT USER ERROR. I’m not contacting your tech support again. You know what problem I’m having. Why don’t you contact the people who work on updating the app? You work together - you’ve gotta figure it out. Unbelievable.
I’ve always had the issue where I lose connection a lot but was willing to deal with that. For a long time now maybe since I’ve updated the app?? I don’t get any notifications yes I have them on! In the app and in my regular phone settings. I’ve changed nothing and use to get them. This is a big problem as I have been running high without even knowing until I went into it and checked. I’m sitting here at 5 am trying to figure out what the issue is cause I’m not getting notifications. Not on my lock screen or when I’m in a diff app and I have those turned on to do so nothing at all!! That’s just not fricken good!!!! I’m so irritated. It also took me over a month to get more G6 supplies It’s usually one automatic with my mail but didn’t this time and I had to call several times when they said they’d follow up with me, with someone higher up cause it was something in the system. Or they just told me it was confirmed to have shipped. I went without my G6 for right around a month!! My sensors also randomly can’t find connections and then fail and make me replace them when it’s usually a new insertion so I basically am wasting them too! I need this for my health to help me! I’m not feeling like this is helping rn. Please someone help me or change the app.
When the app is actually working, it continually sends out alerts for low and high blood sugars without taking into consideration that changes to the body take time. Alerts happen every few minutes even after correcting the situation. This is particularly fun in the middle of the night when the alerts are so loud (and btw cannot have the volume adjusted) that it wakes everyone in the household. And as briefly mentioned at the beginning of the review, this happens only when the app is actually working. VERY, VERY FREQUENTLY the app loses the signal and yet more alerts came fast and furious. This is definitely a Dexcom app issue since any other apps on the phone that utilize Bluetooth function flawlessly during these signal loss events. And to further prove it’s an app issue the supplied little black receiver rarely loses signal. It functions fine. Now let’s talk about the messages that come stating that Dexcom is performing testing on the app and you won’t receive readings! Or even better a message that the app has just inexplicably stopped working. No reason or suggestions…just that it stopped. Thank you manufacturers of Dexcom G6 for subjecting the public to a P.O.S. system that you clearly know doesn’t work (hence all the outages and messages regarding testing).
The cgm has changed my life completely. Being able to literally open my phone and monitor my blood glucose is like magic to me. However with this new update it does not allow me to modify and customize my application and disease to the specifications i meed as an individual. With this mew update it will not allow me to keep notifications or sounds of while still being able to use my app. Which was never a problem until now and is very frustrating. Every time i open the app ot asks e if i want to continue then after 2seconds of it showing your bc reading it then forwards you to another page forcing you to turn notifications on for that app or else you cant use the app other than closing it and reopening it. This software issue needs resolves and the capabilities of customizing my physical health should have more options not less. This new update has made this app virtually useless now. I use my t-slim pump to monitors my blood now. Which is a loss because the dexcom app shows you countless readings and can tell you exactly what they are. Unlike the tslim pumps monitor. P.S. please at the least put the software back to the way it was, so i can use the app without getting my phone constantly bombarded by dinging notifications
When it works, I like it...however I experience signal loss 5-7 times a day and that’s even with my cell phone being in my hand, lap, nightstand table, which as long as it’s within 10-12 feet, this is not supposed to happen. I’ve notified Dexcom at least five times about this, and they continue to tell me that the software may not be compatible with my iPhone 12, and if Apple does an automatic update it can cause problems. However, I don't have automatic updates enabled on my phone, so this shouldn’t be causing a problem. At one point, Dexcom sent me a new transmitter to see if that was the issue, but the same thing has still continued to happen. It doesn’t really help when I keep experiencing signal loss and the phone is right next to me! The other thing happening is I’m having to re-calibrate more than I should as there is often times a 40 to 50% error. Dexcom can signal urgently low blood sugar, which for me is set at 56, yet my Glucometer shows 110! This sort of thing has happened numerous times as well. As I said I like it on the times it works but it’s seeming to get worse and worse each time I change out the sensor. Dexcom needs to do some serious work on these issues.
This app is super accurate and it has made my life so much easier, however I would love to see an upgrade to the events portion, specifically the ability to add notes to the “carbs” and “exercise” events. One of the main functions of this app for me is to be able to track how certain lifestyle and meal choices effect my blood sugar levels, specifically how certain foods effect the rise and spikes of my blood sugar, and how my insulin handles specific low-glycemic and high glycemic foods. To be able to add a note of what specific type of food I ate in the carbs event would be incredibly beneficial, and in reviewing my Dexcom charts my healthcare provider and I could better determine how to better adjust my insulin regimen and eliminate or increase certain foods in my diet. Similarly, a notes function on the “exercise” would be helpful to keep record of how certain aerobic or strength training exercises affect my blood sugar rises and drops. Being able to track over time how my blood sugar reacts to different types of exercise via a “notes” section in the exercise events would be incredibly helpful and beneficial to my awareness, knowledge and control.
Even though Dexcom knew they had software bugs, they continued to insist that they were not responsible for any of the issues that have and still are occurring constantly. Yes its set to time sensitive, as per your brand new instructions for notifications. Yes we know your also the same corp that owns and markets insulin pumps, even though we can’t rely on this corporation to tell the complete story. I’ve been a dexcom user for 7 yrs. Thats when i woke from a coma to find out that my world was never going to be the same again. The G7 is not FDA approved for certain pumps. They will try to push it on you every time anyone called for tech support. Dexcom has never and I doubt could ever become a cgm which never needs the use of BG sticks. LOL funny since I’ve had to calibrate every single day multiple times a day and night. Since Dexcom G4. This corp. Has put the blame on this company and that issue, or on the end users. Even though for weeks they were aware of the bug issues. I hope and pray that any sick child may have faired worse than I did. FYI if thats the case, this is where your eyes should be looking. Ive had one issue after another. Don’t ever put your complete faith in these devices. Always check and double check. ❤️
I’ve used this app now for 6 months and it pairs with the sensor take so much of the tedium of traditional blood checks out of your day; the benefits of only having to swap out equipment once every 10 days as opposed to 4 times a day with traditional methods cannot be understated. The downside of this app (And if I could give it 2.5 stars instead of three I would) is that if you go high or low everyone in the room is going to know you’re diabetic. The app cannot be muted and if you are even one mark over your target your phone will be going off every 5 minutes. In a corporate setting this can be disastrous if you are in a meeting; best case scenario everyone’s reminded that you’re diabetic and the social complications only compound from there. I could understand being unmutable for lows, but to be at a lunch meeting or board room after lunch and to have your pocket screaming, or to be out with friends and have everyone ask if you need help when you’re hitting 171 (and you can adjust it higher but then what’s the point) leaves me wondering if the convenience is worth it at times. I feel for now that it is, but they desperately need to add better options for these alerts.
I use my Dexcom G6 with my Apple Watch series 4 all the time so I’m not sure what that person was talking about??? As for my own experience... my Dexcom I thought had always been accurate until yesterday, my newly place sensor been to show me that I was going low 78 just after I had eaten a carb filled breakfast out and then continued to drop 70 so we stopped at a grocery store and bought apple juice, yogurt I ate those plus a baby bell cheese, next reading 68, we turned our car around and went to the ER on the way to the ER 59, 43, “LOW” what the Dexcom reads when you are below 40 we call OnStar and ask them arrive at them to advise the local hospital we are on the way. When we arrive at the hospital the juice and yogurt were kicking in 48, through admission process it’s 65 in triage the triage nurse does two Bedside Blood glucose right hand 178, left hand 180 my husbands meter 207, so now we realize that the sensor has failed, I tried to calibrate the sensor and was not able to do so. Called Dexcom and they are sending me a new sensor (to my home and since I am on vacation and I only brought the one sensor that failed so now It’s finger stick city til we go back home AaaasRrrrrGhhh!
I use the OneTouch Verio IQ glucose meter and the app for my iPhone 11 that syncs with the glucose meter and it is wonderful. Your blood sugar automatically transfers from the meter to the app, then you enter carbs, insulin and there is a section under EACH for you to be able to put notes in. I really feel that the Dexcom G6 NEEDS this feature as well. For example, currently you can only enter “events” like the number of carbs but it doesn’t allow you to put notes anywhere as far what it is you ate (because we all know different foods react differently in our bodies). I for one love tomato soup however it severely spikes my sugar. In the Dexcom software I would love to be able to put the carbs that I am eating so my endocrinologist can see how that food affects my insulin. It would be great to be able to enter (in a notes section under insulin) how much insulin is correction, how much is your carb ratio in order to get that total you’re entering into the “events” for insulin. All this is helpful for our drs to evaluate and tweak our overall Diabetic control/care. It’s a very simple thing to add I would think. Download the OneTouch App and see what I’m referring to. My endo really likes to see my notes. I also have several autoimmune diseases which cause me a great deal of pain and the more pain I have the more it affects my sugars but yet there’s nowhere on the Dexcom app “events” for me to put any “notes“. Like when my sugar is rising but I didn’t eat anything it’s just from the pain. This is one feature that I REALLY hope the developers will take note of and add. The more info our endos can see the better they can tailor our care. PLEASE... PLEASE add this easy software feature. Thanks in advance! :)
I have been waiting for years and years and years to get a dexcom because after struggling with checking my sugars consistently it sounded like a dream. Now, FINALLY after I get it-IT LITERALLY DOESNT WORK. It’s been days since my phone and my sensor have been connected and honestly I’m burnt out from trying to get it to work. I’ve called tech support at least 15 times since getting it 4 months ago. They always tell me the same things: Turn bluetooth on and off and wait, make sure nothing else is connected to your bluetooth so there’s no interference, turn your phone on and off, delete the app and reinstall it. None of these are consistent solutions. and when it does work, I stay connected for maybe 2-3 hours until I lose signal again. At this point it feels so unfair that I’ve waited and had such high hopes for this device and for it to not work? How am I supposed to manage my diabetes and live a healthy life if my devices don’t work and nothing I do fixes it. I am so sad and so disappointed in dexcom and their product. I am exhausted from calling their technical support lines and feel bad for their customer service employees-theyre just doing their job and have to tell my the scripted solution. It’s not their job to fix dexcom’s problems. The only reason this is 2 instead of 1 star, is because at the very least i can still use the receiver i guess. But it’s very extremely inconvenient because my endocrinologist and family members can’t see my stats through the week. Which has been even HARDER because my doctor can’t see my glucose levels because they aren’t doing in person appointments because of covid 19, and they can’t see data through the clarity app. I am really just so sad and they’re nothing technical support can do to help.
The developer changed the app with no warning. I woke up this morning, noticed the app widget that I use on my phone’s Home Screen was empty, so I opened the app. I get a warning indicating that the app has stopped functioning and I needed to delete it and download the app again, then sign into it using my Dexcom credentials. Ok no problem. But here is the problem, I just changed my sensor and transmitter yesterday. Once you delete the app all of that information is gone. There was no warning about that from the app. If they had warned me I could have maybe taken a screenshot of the serial numbers. But instead, no warning. So I have a choice, I can remove my new sensor to get to the back of the transmitter for the serial number on that, thereby wasting the brand new transmitter or I can go digging through trash in the dumpster of my community to find my trash that went out last night. Fast forward 30 minutes and now I have both hooked up to the new app. The widget is now blank. Apparently that function no longer works. This has been a very frustrating experience. This transition was handled poorly without thought to what users will be experiencing.
So I am literally a brand new user and first I’d like to say, that there is a bit to be desired about this app. First is the fact that you have to leave the app open on your phone in order for it to actually take readings, that by the way is listed no where, not on the app itself or on Dexcom’s website or in the instructions that came with the device. That means my phone’s gonna need constant charging, boo. Second is that it literally takes 2 hours for the sensor to warm up and actually become usable, this is insane, why must it take so long? This seems so unnecessary, to take 2 hours. Third, having to stay within 20 feet of my phone, means having to take the dang phone everywhere, including to go pee, ugh can’t get that range a tad further? Fourth, customer support (I talked to 5 different people), and although 3 of them were ok, 1 was great and 1 was awful, why did it seem like all but one had responses that seemed less than urgent. I was so excited to get my new Dexcom, I am less than impressed and like I said I’ve literally been using this thing for less than 24 hours. Wish Dexcom would do better. I’ll update once I’ve been using it longer.
Dexcom user of 6+ years here, and the iOS app from the day it released. What once was clean and offered a nice feature extension over the receiver is looking very much the same all these years later, and the quality of the experience is falling victim to patches with rough QA. The most recent update, paired with recent Apple updates, makes the UX positively infuriating. To the point that I’m about to quit using the app altogether and just rely on Loop and Nightscout. Notifications on the watch can’t be muted without muting all notifications (which is especially great if you’re a grownup in meetings, or a kid in class, or…a human being with ears and nerves.) Even silenced notifications mess with Bluetooth audio volume, sometimes until the app is force quit. All notifications, even muted, force CarPlay disconnects/reconnects of 8-10 seconds. The concept is great, but the updates seem poorly tested and overall low-effort. How about a CarPlay app? A watch app with usable notification controls? Clarity reports summary built in? Dark mode? Even if no new features are on the roadmap, that’s fine. Just please stop making the user experience *worse* with every patch.



