Logi Circle Security Camera 4+

So, the first update in nearly two years and you’re going to wish they hadn’t bothered. Instead of tapping on the icon and seeing your camera feed, you are now met with a confirmation page where you can opt out of email contact or select continue. But once you do continue, it just removes the pop up and you then have to tap log in. This activates another pop up saying you’ll be taken to a secure log in. Click ok and you jump to another page where you sign in with your credentials (on first use only). This activates another pop up which asks if you want to open in the original page (unbelievable, I know). Then you’re back to the first page. Now if this is your first time, you’ll see your cameras. But, if not, you’re stuck on this log in page and you can’t see any cameras! I’ve deleted the app and downloaded again but it still won’t work. And it throws an error when you leave your house, saying smart location failed to update the service with your device location, despite setting it up again after re-installing. So no way of seeing your cameras now. Unless you use a PC.

Currently in the process of replacing a number of Logi Circle cameras thanks to this totally frustrating, relatively useless app.
Used to be quite good, now defeats the entire point of security cameras; it would be an equally useless burglar who was around long enough to get spotted on them! By the time you’ve opened the app, been switched to Safari to log in, entered your email, entered your password, selected various pics of planes, trains or automobiles numerous times then returned to the app which is still on the log-in screen, force-quit the app and reopened it hoping to view the camera any thief, vandal or ne’er-do-well would be long gone!
Perhaps a marketing ploy to force us all into upgrading to Logitech Circle View cameras? I can see no other “benefit” to this upgrade, which is a shame, as I used to rate the entire Logi experience quite highly. Trust the reviews and look elsewhere.

Although setting up was a pain once up and running the system is very easy to add new cameras to.
My minor criticisms are that the notifications are slow to come through, meaning most activity has finished before I can get to ‘Live View’.
At least once a day I get a notification telling me that one or all of my cameras are offline but I can’t diagnose if this is the fault of the cameras or my Internet Service Provider. Also, a ‘Camera Back Online’ notification would be reassuring.
Slight annoyances with the app are that it only works in landscape mode, downloaded videos and stills have no time or date stamps attached, in the app there is no video length indicator (the duration in minutes and seconds) and a nice touch would be the inclusion of + and -15 second skip buttons, much like in other video and podcast players, or the ability to playback video at 2x speed to speed up reviewing.