Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+

For anyone having problems with the app getting stuck during scuba dive pre-dive screen. I had that issue from the get go, the app would log the dive but never get past the pre-dive screen and the action button orange stripe on the bottom left was missing . The way I solved it was, I had to disable action button, set auto launch at depth to immediate, then completely uninstall Oceanic app from the phone and watch, then update both phone and watch to latest version (as of 8/1/26), reinstall phone app first, then watch app (click on install from both watch and phone’s watch App Store at the same time once the watch starts install), then ensure all the setup process is completed in the phone app. Then it all worked. This took me a LONG time to figure out, I tried just about every combination, and this worked. Hope it helps someone, but I hope even more that I’m an isolated case and that it just works for you. Once it works, it’s awesome! Makes my Apple Watch Ultta a worthy dive tool. NOTE: the pre-dive should be able to turn into a dive on the surface submerging the phone does not start a dive it just takes you to the main screen and water locks the phone.

I was excited to be able to try the app with the Apple Watch ultra. I used it as my backup dive computer on a trip to little cayman. The display is very readable and worked well comparing it to my main dive computer a Petrel 3. The issue I had was when I placed the app into the dive mode and did a giant stride into the water, the app apparently switched back to surface mode before I submerged and stayed locked in the surface mode ignoring the dive. It would be nice if the depth exceeded a certain amount ( 1 foot, 5 feet, 10 feet ? ) that it would switch back to the dive mode automatically. I missed logging 3-4 dives because of this issue. The Petrel 3 worked fine thankfully having all my data. My current issue is now my watch won’t sync with the app. I have deleted, reinstalled, given all permissions, etc. without any sync happening. It could be the iOS version or updates to the app, I’m not sure but it runs against Apple’s saying “ It just works” well this app just doesn’t work well. The latest update does allow my watch and phone to “see” each other. I now get a brief message that a sync is occurring. The issue I have now is that after the sync, since I had deleted and reinstalled the app, now after the sync, my watch does not show any dives in the log where my phone app does. I would expect a sync ( unless this is only a one way sync ) to result in the log on my watch and the log on my phone app to be the same.

Edit (1st Jul 2023): the recent updates have pretty much resolved all of my complaints below. I just dove for the first time again after certification and the app worked brilliantly. Not giving the 5 stars because I still feel a lot of this should’ve been figured out before rolling out to the public. Happy customer now. I can’t believe that Apple allowed this app to exists on the marketplace especially with an activity such as scuba diving where it is critical to have the right information at the right time. - The dive app in the watch ends without any notice as soon as you’re <1m depth. So if you start the dive on the watch and re-surface even for a little bit before descending for the actual dive, it will stop the dive monitoring and just go to surface mode. This is annoying and dangerous. I’m still a student but in my instructional dives, it was basically impossible to use since we were constantly surfacing. I can imagine this being a huge issue in a real dive as well. I found it was in surface mode mid dive and I couldn’t start the dive mid water for whatever reason even though I configured the action button. Supposed to have a 5 min timer before ending dive but that never happened - The no deco planner and location planner simply won’t open on my iPhone app. I have a 13 pro. Don’t care much about the planner as there are others that I can use but the auto surface mode really needs to be fixed asap. I wouldn’t advise using this without a backup computer.