CASIO WATCHES

I love my G-SHOCK DW-H5600, it’s everything I need in a watch hardware-wise, but its usability is hindered significantly by the CASIO WATCHES app and how it manages the connection between the phone and watch. The watch will not stay connected to the phone via bluetooth for more than ~2 weeks at a time, requiring me to open the CASIO app to force it to reconnect. This doesn’t always work, sometimes the app will say the watch is connected despite the bluetooth symbol on the watch flashing and push notifications not being delivered to the watch, and only opening and closing the app repeatedly seems to force it to reconnect. The time synchronization feature is wildly inconsistent in how often it synchronizes, and often times will not update for days after a flight until forcibly reconnecting the watch to the app. Also, the permissions that the CASIO WATCHES app claims it needs to automatically connect to the phone are overly permissive and are not actually required. Why do I need to grant the app smartphone location permission and background location information for it to make a bluetooth connection to a watch that doesn’t have location based features? This hasn’t always been the case - when I purchased the watch two years ago it didn’t claim it needed location information to function. Overall, I love my watch, but the user experience with the connectivity issues makes me an unhappy user and makes me seriously consider switching to another brand or product. Ideally, I would use the CASIO WATCHES app to set my watch settings, once, and then never have to open it again until I want to change the settings.

This watch has so many useful functions and is easy to setup with the app. I am happy I didn’t have to set the watch the old fashioned way; because, the app is much more efficient. I like that this watch keeps track of my steps and really enjoy having so many alarms. I got a Traumatic Brain Injury during Operation Iraqi Freedom while serving in the U.S. Army as a 25B Information Technology Specialist, Information Systems Operator/Analyst that made it so I do not feel hungry anymore along with some other issues; but, I set these alarms as reminders for me to get some food and drink water. This has helped me a lot because for a long time I would forget to eat for days at a time. I am happy with the purchase. I feel like anyone can benefit from wearing one of these watches, as long as you take the time to set it up and read about it to learn all of its capabilities

I really like this app. It works as intended and it does it flawlessly. I have 2 different G Shocks synced up to this app, one of them has the ability to send pushed notifications, etc. It works good no disconnecting issues whatsoever. The other one only connects to the phone to sync up the time, it does this in the background or by command. Either way I have never had an issue. Another good thing is it sends the data over to apple health and with one of the latest updates it now also sends it to apple fitness which means you can close your workout circle without having to wear your Apple Watch all the time (which I love being able to take a rest from it - too many notifications for every single thing)