IRobot Home (Classic) App Reviews

iPhone iRobot app. I love the app! Tells me everything I need to know about robot how to correct minor problems with it. This is the second iRobot I’ve owned and I’m happy to say that the app updated to me the requirements for the second one. The iRobot eight works so much betterthan my series 7 robot in picking up hair for my hairy dog. only problem is that it has developed a wine that is quite annoying. Since I purchased it through Costco, I’ve been tempted to take it back to them and exchange it. I just have not done so. I’m now on my third iRobot. It seems to be a bit noisier than the second one, but at least it has no whine. Interestingly, it sometimes leaves clumps of dog hair like the first one and some of the same spots, but thank heaven, not as many. I’ve had it about two weeks and we’re getting along just fine. I do wish you could figure out a way that a dog hair would not rap around the spindles for the rollers underneath the gray caps. I think once that were resolved some of the headache of having to clean those rollers would be abbreviated.

Not what I expected. The convenience of a smart vacuum is nice when you think about it but the areas that accumulate the most dirt and dust are areas the vacuum can’t/won’t get to but that is not a negative of the equipment. The negatives I have to point out is that when doing research for automated vacuums the main reason I went with this model was because i found it was the best at handling animal hair. That was found out to be not as expected. If this device handles animal hair the best I don’t want to know what other products do. This vacuum just wraps the hair around the spinning brush and spits out clumps of hair everywhere, that’s if it doesn’t just make a big knot and get stuck. Then if just compiles layers of hair on the main rollers such as a normal vacuum does and within a few minutes of vacuuming it needs to be cleaned. When I have to maintenance the vacuum every 2-5 minutes it pretty much cancels out the fact of it being automated. The vacuum always tells me “empty the bin” when I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to empty itself. I have had this vacuum replaced once due to lack of suction and ability to do a proper clean without spitting hairballs all over my house. It has not solved the problem and seems to be just a design flaw or a marketing mistake that it can handle animal hair.

Remarkable machine, great customer service. This is a technological marvel that actually makes life easier. We have 2 dogs and a 2500 sq. ft. house. Without Roomba, I would need to vacuum every other day. When the i7 is working, it does a great job of vacuuming between the monthly housekeeping services. It heads out each morning on the schedule I have set, recharges and empties the bin as needed until the job is done. If during the week I notice an area that is particularly dirty, I pull out my phone and tell it to clean that area…. much easier than pulling out the vacuum cleaner. It is amazingly good at mapping the rooms, maneuvering, and getting itself unstuck from tight spaces, cords, and obstacles. In the 3 years I’ve had this model, it has quit functioning properly twice. However, iRobot customer service is easy to access by phone, and the service reps are outstanding. They guide you through diagnostics and fixes. When once this didn’t solve the problem, they sent me a shipping carton to send the robot in for service, eventually replacing the robot. So, I’m giving the robot 5 stars for its incredible usefulness when it’s working, deduct 2 stars for the times when it has quit functioning properly, and add back 2 stars for the outstanding customer service.

Robbie the Roomba Robot. I absolutely love this Roomba. I never thought I would, until my neighbor brought hers over for me to try. I can’t say enough good things about Roomba, except for programming it. I finally figured out a way that works for me; therefore it’s a keeper. I’m 82 and have a lot of arthritis. I’ve always used a Hoover upright. I know that keeping a carpet clean in secret to the carpets’ appearance and long life. I didn’t think a Roomba would do anywhere as good of a job as my Hoover upright, or a Dyson would. When I started using the Roomba I was shocked at the amount of debris that would be removed from my wall to wall carpeted house. I have a 70 lb. Dog. Roomba is so easy to use and makes my carpet look so nice (I like long straight lines) I use Roomba approximately 5 days per week. Because my Hoover is so much work, I did not vacuum that often with my Hoover. I’ve figured out a way to program my Roomba which works for me. Programming a Roomba can be a challenge. It is for that reason I gave 4 Stars rather than 5. I know several people who have given away their Roomba’s due to the programming challenges. Now that I’ve finally found something that works for me; I’m ecstatic. I did purchase several extra blocking devices to control where the Roomba goes/or not. I also found starting the Roomba with my cell phone program works best for me. S. Dore’

Map editing locks ip and won’t always save. I have had the the Roomba s9+ and the Braava M6 for about a month now. After a month and several attempts, I think I finally got eack of them to map about 90% of the house. So far the units do not share the same map that I can figure out. Sharing maps would be helpful as the vacuum covers the house way faster and easier than the Braava M6. When editing the map the app attempts to save after every divider edit. Each save takes 45 seconds to a minute and often times out without saving. Adding exclusion zones is nearly impossible as the system times out after each attempt to save the zone. Much improvement is needed. On the devices themselves. I like that the s9 empties itself. The negative is that it cannot seem to crawl onto area rugs or mats to clean them-instead it just pushes them and many times just gets stuck. I used to have a Neato Botvac. It had no trouble climbing onto area rugs, bath mats or kitchen mats, but it did not empty itself. All in all I think the Neato cleaned better, but often needed it’s filter cleaned and dumped—thus the reason we changed to Roomba. Still not sure if it was the right choice. On the Braava M6-when you get it to wet mop it does a good job. It has a hard time climbing off of its base to get started. The wheels just spin on the plastic sometimes and I have to help it off to start.

Vacuuming and mopping robota. I live in a 2000 square-foot two-story home. Their are two humans and two cats living with us. I have the vacuuming robot vacuum most of the heavy used places daily. After I have the mop mop the kitchen and the hallway in the bathroom daily after vacuuming. Twice a week I have a heavy vacuum the whole downstairs does not get stuck or have any problems, the mop only problem is it cannot find the base again and sometimes besides that everything mops is great. Once a week I move the base on my vacuum upstairs and have it back in the hole upstairs. Besides if I miss something on the floor it has no problems with the upstairs. After today and vacuuming I move the robot mop into both bathrooms with the doors closed and it does a great job. How good a job this does keeping my house clean, I do not need to do as much cleaning, and I have my maid that comes only once a month instead of twice a month big change, sure worth the money. I signed up with iRobot for a monthly fee that takes care of everything from replacement bags to anything else the vacuum needs, and the cost of the vacuum, well worth the money I pay monthly for it.

Better than years ago but tweaks needed.. This i6 is worlds away from the one I had 10 years ago. After two mapping runs I am seriously impressed on the precision this unit can be programmed for on the smart map. That said, I was surprise/irritated that even with the advanced mapping, that it still requires light to complete a cleaning cycle, or it errors out. Obviously, the most convenient time to clean my common areas is overnight and leaving my house lit up for this is undesirable. Also, given the detail of the smart map, being able to see the actual location of the robot on that smart map in real time seems a worthy integration. If I am running a cleaning cycle from away from my home or even in the other room, it’d be nice to see where it is in the cycle. Having the green “done” area populate on the smart map as the unit covers that ground would be a great feature that relays quality info. Also, being able to manually steer the robot with an integrated in-app directional pad, even if only on local wifi control, is something even lower brands already offer. Directing it to a new room to learn, or driving it to my seat on the couch for some maintenance, etc... this in-app feature is a must. Forward, left, right, backwards... easy peasy. I’m impressed but for the cost... some additional programming would take this thing to that next level.

Better than expected. My husband ask for iRobot roomba for Christmas. He has everything and grown kids happy to have an idea. He has a large Rottweiler that lives with him in his man cave. He has to vacuum rest of house ( over 3000 sq ft) once a week because of all the black dog hair. It’s been an ongoing problem since he brought the dog home. He decided this roomba was his answer. He had raved about it since he got it, decided I needed one for the rest of the house(knowing it might quiet me about the dog hair), I thought he was just trying to get out of vacuuming. He went to Costco brought me my own. I have furniture everywhere. Plants, throw rugs, I really didn’t think this would work for me. I have got to say, I am shocked at how well this thing works! She goes around everything! I am loving her! I have scheduled her to vacuum 3x a week. She even goes back to her base to empty her bin! I still get out my old vacuum to do behind doors and closets, but this girl goes under tables, beds, she is very thorough. If you are on the fence, don’t be. I’m extremely happy with my purchase. My husband is too!

Roomba + Braava M6. We have an older roomba and the new M6. The roomba is a tank. It will do its best not to run into things but it really only works against walls. With that being said, I love our roomba. It is a necessity. When we leave the house, we prep the area and it goes around and around. People have said “well why have a robot if you have to still do prep work”. Well, it gets into the knocks and crannies that you do not typically get with a vacuum. When I start vacuuming, I try to finish vacuuming asap which leads to missed areas. The roomba doesn’t care. It’ll do the job. I will say, it is SO worth to get a roomba that has mapping. If this review has one thing you take away, get the mapping software equipped ones. It makes things just easier. My M6 has it and I absolute love it. It knows where to go and I can tell it to go mop where I need it to. With that said, iRobot needs to improve the user’s mapping experience. It’s difficult to draw a line in a room. Like I can’t split a room without it going from one end of the map to the other and sometimes that messed with how I design my map. It needs better functionality. 10/10 buy the robots, and buy the mapping ones.

Very unimpressed. Okay. So I got a new roomba 800 yesterday because I’m lazy and I hate vacuuming. And the box said that it could connect to an app on WiFi? So I’m like “yes. The epitome of laziness. I don’t have to bend down to press the clean button. I just have to click a button on my phone” so I downloaded the app. And started it up. It’s like “okay. Find a place for roomba with a strong WiFi connection and a clean area” so I did just that. Then it asked me to name my roomba. I named it stabby. And then it asked me to press the home and the button with a plus sign with a circle on it at the same time for two seconds and I’ll hear a noise. I pressed the buttons. No noise but it did turn on so I continued forward. It told me to look for a roomba/iRobot thing in the WiFi settings on my phone. So I did. But nothing showed up. So I tried pressing the buttons again for two seconds. Nothing. I tried for ten minutes. Still nothing. I moved right next to the router. And tried for another 20. Nothing. So I said “you know what. It’s midnight. I’m tired. Let’s do this in the morning.” So I did. When I pulled up the app, it told me that the app was down and to try again later. I did. And I didn’t get any farther than I did yesterday. So I put my roomba on a test run. Lil stabby works like a charm. This app is a dud. Save yourself a few wasted hours and don’t download it.

real iPad app please. It doesn’t matter how well this app works, any iPad app that only works in portrait mode gets no more than 3 ⭐️, so that’s its start value. If that seems harsh, I’d ask the developers to try using it while attached to a Smart Keyboard. I have other apps that do nothing more than flip the display 90º when in landscape orientation. It’s not much but at least it’s readable. That said, with regards to function, I’ve already wished I could tell it to cancel a session immediately. So far I can just pause and it tells me how long I have to wait before it’s cancelled. It also doesn’t seem to have the updated name for my device (just calls it Roomba, which is not its name). The name shows up in a lot of places, but not in the data for my registered devices. I also would like the option of some notifications. I have a multi-story house and would like a notification (preferably controlled in the job/favorite itself) that tells me when it’s done on another floor so I can get it and put it back on its base, or do another floor. I realize that some people wouldn’t want these bugging them at work but that’s why it needs to be a setting with the job definition — I too don’t want to see notifications when a job completes on the floor where the base is.

Wish the care & maintenance was better integrated. Love that I can use the app to adjust maps and cleaning areas and start/stop my roomba. But as someone who’s terrible about maintenance, I wish the app did more to remind me of those things. There’s a notification center in the app, and for as long as I’ve used the app there’s never beenANYTHING in there. But today I was just randomly looking through the help section and come across something labeled “care and maintenance” and opening it I find there are all these tasks which are apparently overdue. Why would that be in the Notification Center? What’s t Notification Center for if not that kind of stiff? Instead I guess I have to regularly go to the help section, then go to the “care and main.” section, THEN see what tasks are needed or coming up. And seemingly no notification for filter needing to be replaced. And I know I know, I could just task myself with those duties and not depend on the app. I just don’t understand WHY the app wouldn’t notify me about those things. It’s clearly tracking the robots use, as well as some cleaning needs, so why not just throw in reminders instead of making me dig around the app to find them (or in the case of filters not have them at all)? I’m spoiled by technology, so come on roomba, spoil me a little more with some reminders!

Great product. It’s a must have for pet owners The j7 plus and the brava jet m6 has been saving my life I have 2 Siberian husky’s that shad everywhere every day and as me and my wife are cleaning freaks I don’t know how we could continue to handle the Huskys with the j7 and the m6 it’s does a very good job I’m impressed on how much it clean the I think still room for improvement especially in the m6 because has been around 3 years that come out and that transition thing if you have wood flooring with transition like a T mold the mop won’t go over it and if it does probably is going to get stuck my house the main area is tile but the bedrooms are wood flooring and I can’t map the entire house because of this with the m6 but if you have a floor without transition it’s great I recommend but if you have a lot transition in your house unless it’s e very low profile transition don’t buy the m6 because you will regret but the j7 it’s a piece of cake goes everywhere it map my entire house and does an amazing job for hard floors for carpet I’m not sure because my house I only have hard floor there is a fewer rugs here and there and the low profile rugs does an amazing job if you have the very thick rug is not going to work on that I know because a had the thick one on my living room and I had to get rid of it but for mostly i think it’s a must have

Best purchase!. I'm 77 and had considered hiring a cleaning service but found prices to be ridiculous. I can still clean but, with back issues, vacuuming was a problem. Roomba, compared to cleaning service, has already paid for itself and given me so much free time. And it's fun! I had heard, years ago, the Roomba didn't do a good job....well this one (i7) does a great job. I have the perfect home for a Roomba as it is able to go under most of my furniture. It's amazing to watch when it stops to think (?) and then moves on to a missed area. The mapping feature is phenomenal. I have favorite areas set up and split up how the vacuuming is done so I can prepare certain areas, which doesn't involve much. Counter stools (2) are placed on counter, floor basket in living area is picked up, rug by entry also picked up. I have changed things on the map a few times and now have it just about perfect for my use. Reviewing each job for obstacles (not many) helps as well. I will pick a favorite area and while Blue (her name) is working, I will either dust another room or go out. I would definitely buy another!

Bad Mapping. The app works pretty well overall , but when I first got my vac I went out of my way to make a perfect map. Then after a month my vac had an error and the app suggested that I reset it. When I did I lost my map. Then when I tried again to create a good map, the vac saved a junk version with the vac always trying to drive through the walls and not able to find the doors. I attempted to erase the map and start again but unfortunately no matter how many resets I do, or map deletions, this map finds a way to come back. I have had to put keep out zones in my walls, and still the robot attempts to return home by going into the bedroom and through the wall into the dining room instead of using the hallway. My big issue is that once it saves a map, there isn’t any way to adjust it. There is an “update map” button but it doesn’t do anything. I want to correct the map by hand and have the robot verify and scale it perfectly, but without any input options, you are at the mercy of a dumb bot. Update: same issues as above even though they have gone through many software updates. On top of these though now it has newish features that just don’t work well, like scheduling the vac to clean every time I leave the house and it never does it.

Magic!. My robot mop has changed my life! My floors show everything! Wearing socks instead of shoes is so bad! It shows footprints galore! I’ve been a slave to my floors and so depressed that we spent so much money on them! I tried figuring out how I could afford a maid to just come once a day and mop them for me. I even made a new rule of everyone keeping shoes on! Do you know how hard that is when your kids are trained to take shoes off when they come inside! Impossible! Then my sister told me about this robot mop at Christmas, and I thought why not try it, $300 mop vs a new $15K floor can’t hurt to try. I do a quick vacuum in the morning and then hit a button on my phone and then magic happens! My mop cleans so well on my mat finish LVP floor. It took some time programming my favorite settings, but once I figured out my favorite it’s so easy! I love my floors! And even though they look like a mess the next day, it doesn’t matter, because you can mop everyday if you want! Sorry, you can let the robot mop everyday! Ha! I’ve had this mop 2 months and I’ve only mopped my floors myself 2 times. Once a month to get places the mop can’t get and to scrub my baseboards is completely reasonable! Worth every penny! I’m a big believer in having the right tools for the job. This mop is perfect for flat mat finish floors. You want to make sure your floors are vacuumed well first. Turn on a few lights or open windows. Then let it do it’s thing! Magic!

Big Roo Gets Through. I’ve been using my Roomba i7+ for some time now, and I’m thoroughly satisfied. Even with some of its quirks (it’ll miss certain areas within a specific cleaning map and often will clean areas outside of a specific cleaning map + add that area to the cleaning map without being told to do so, it’s also quite a bit nosier than I anticipated, but we’ve gotten used to it at this point), I still think it deserves 5 stars. I have wood floors and a husky mix who sheds quite a bit. The dust and hair build up can get outta hand quick. We swifter daily but went a stint without running the Roomba and it was all too clear the significant difference it makes. We were constantly tracking dust and hair on our socks or house shoes, with Roomba, that doesn’t happen. The device deftly maneuvers around corners and against the edges of furniture. It will run over cords every now and again, but for the most part, doesn’t get tangled up in them. I’ve only ever had a couple of clogs, which were quickly and conveniently resolved. I haven’t used the schedule features because I prefer to be around when it’s running, just to be aware in case it runs into something. But if you’re the type who generally has an open space and remember to put things up, you could certainly take advantage of that feature. All in all, there are still at least a few improvements to be made, but for what it is, I’m happy with it!

Pretty convenient. The first roomba I had stopped picking up well, after trouble shooting with the company we decided to have a new one sent out. Dealing with the company is great. The vaccum itself had been wonderful until it didn’t pick up well. Trouble shooting is all common sense and took forever on the phone, but they were just trying to help. The new Roomba doesn’t pick up well on my rug where the dogs usually lay. I have tried to run it twice and even vaccumed with my stick vaccum in the morning while using the roomba in the evening (I have dogs so the hair built back up a little). I believe it is refurbished as that is the only reason it would be different than the first. I am highly disappointed with this. The first one would make my rug look amazing after one session. I’m not calling back the company because I don’t even know what to say at this point and to go through the trouble shooting process while possibly ending up with another problem is not something I want to do. It does pick up “pretty”well in most areas so I don’t know. Another thought to add is I would HIGHLY suggest to spring for the extra accessory of self clean. I wish I had.

Iboto. I had an older Roomba that did a great job but the way my house is configured the unit had a hard time finding “home”. This new unit does the entire house and during the cleaning process when the battery gets low it docks itself, recharges and continues where it left off. You can literally set, cancel, or change the time you want the unit to start (and if necessary, you can stop the unit remotely with your phone app.). It does a great job. I use it everyday and I am amazed how much cat hair and dirt Roomba collects every time. Since I’ve begun using this product (remember I had one before the 960) my carpets look much better and I feel confident they are much cleaner. I have eight cats that are in and out all day and sleep inside at night. I don’t know how I made it without my “Roomie”as I call it. The only two short comings I’ve found are when the iboto cloud is down you cannot operate it remotely and the floor needs to be free of cat toys. They will easily get stuck between the rollers and stop the machine. I plan to buy the kitchen floor cleaner/mop next.

Great robot.. Upgraded from an iRobot S7+{?). We were real happy for iRobot’s excellent customer care and quality of parts. Using real iRobot parts, but I’m a cheapskate and try to used cheaper parts when possible. Unfortunately, replacement parts from generic manufacturers don’t always work so I’m buying iRobot arts more and more often. We upgraded to the s7 combo plus. This one has a high cool factor in that the mop is integrated into the vacuum and drops under the machine and it then proceeds to mop the smooth floor. The machine can tell when it is on a moppable floor and won’t deploy if it detects a carpet. If you want to clean and double mop the floor, it’s as easy as changing the preferences for a floor. We have tried several different soaps and waxes and have found it best to use the wax/soap sparingly. That saves the floor from getting sticky the shoe soles on your feet. If you want to clean it and remove the stickiness, simply add a bit more water and mop again. In brief, this is a well-designed device with plenty of power to do a good job that looks clean and fresh.

Best tool for housecleaning ever.. I was skeptical at first. Did not think a round vacuum could take care of square corners. I am so shocked and happy to see that these incredible brushes pull all stuff from along baseboards and corners into the vacuum pick up path. It does such a great job. I love my “HAZEL!” She is such a blessing. My floors are cleaned more often now and a better job is done. I am extremely pleased knowing that Hazel goes exactly where she is supposed to. For she “maps” out your whole house route and it’s kept in memory. Plus I have her attached to my Alexa device. This is the coolest thing. I don’t mind vacuuming anymore. Lol. Since all I have to do is ask Alexa Tell Hazel to clean. Initially I watched the entire route she did. She didn’t leave anything untouched that was able to be vacuumed. Also. This awesome iRobot can get UNDER furniture and it’s cleaned now more than ever !!! Everything just smells way better. Less dust. Less crap on floor. I am in Heaven with my iRobot. We got the one that empties itself. Oh my gosh. I love it. Just love it. If I had it to do over. I’d buy it again. Thank you iRobot. My mother-in-law has one. It’s not an iRobot. It does not do as good at all. This is the real thing. Love my iRobot. Rancho Cucamonga iRobot fan all the way !!

Series S9 Robot has series mapping / nav issues (do not buy). We have had an Series S9 Robot for about a month and it has not completed a room let along an entire floor my house. We have gone through 4 factor resets and replaced the robot each with the same results. The robot is unable to clean a specific room let alone the entire house. We have completed a mapping run that takes 10+ hours and got a good map 3 of the 4 times. After the first vacuming event the map is updated to not reprsent our house. The robot goes to the wrong side of the house when sent to a specific room. Can’t find its way back to the base station and regularly dies vacuming the wrong area of the house. It also has spend 10 hours vacumming one room with completing. (It cover the room in a hour and then spend the rest of the time spinning in circles and banging into the same walls over and over again). The next run it goes lost and has naviation errors. I have spent more time with support than I can count. At this point they should be paying me to perform testing for them. Do not buy an S series robot. I keep hoping they will figure out a way to fix it or update the software, but support has had zero success. Currently waiting for a supervisor to follow up before I request a refund and return the unit. Hopefully somone beside tier one support wil read this note and follow up.

Best gift ever!. I absolutely LOVE my Roomba. I tried MANY other robotic vacuums in an effort to “not spend that much on a vacuum,” but I ended up hating every one of them and returning them. My husband finally decided I was getting a Roomba if I was buying another robot vacuum. He ordered it for me without me knowing, and I can honestly say it’s one of my best gifts ever. He hates it but I love it. Here are the reasons I gave it 4 stars instead of 5… 1) It is loud/pretty noisy when it’s running, 2) I do find that I need to pick up a decent amount of stuff in order to make sure it does a good job, 3) It bumps into everything, sometimes pretty hard, even though the smart map is correct and nothing has been moved or changed, and 4) I do find that sometimes it will look like it didn’t actually vacuum in certain areas. I follow the maintenance plan, I replace the parts, and I clean it regularly, so I do everything I’m supposed to do and I still find that it doesn’t always do what it should but overall… I’m OK with that because of all the times that it DOES do exactly what it should. I’m actually getting my reminder now that it’s time to replace my filters, but with the replacement part purchase options (packs of two or three for most items) it makes the most sense to just buy the kit/bundle that comes with filters, round edge brush, and main sweeping roller.

A must for busy moms. One less thing to add to my planner, I never looked forward to sweeping, with four kids, it's a matter of hours before it needs to be done again. It's pricey, but it has saved me so much time I schedule it to clean early in the morning so when I wake up, it's clean! It also goes around shoes left in the floor, I don't have to worry it will absorb the laces. I've found that sometimes she does get stuck over climbing over the high chair legs, my toddler will wake up in the morning and say "oh no Bella, are you okay" and he helps her to her home. (Yes she's our pet) It is a bit loud, I just scheduled it to clean when I'm not in the area. It's great! It sends pictures of items or wires and you can select to block that certain area or ignore it since it's just a temporary item that can get picked up. This is my first roomba, I'd love to see how the mop works in sync with the vacuum, no mopping?!!!!! Oh gosh! Maybe later. Oh I almost forgot. I named mine Bella, I set it up with Alexa and now i just ask Alexa to have Bella clean a certain area and she heads on over there, that's my favorite part. Purchase extra filters and bags because you will need to replace often. It helps just having them handy. If you find a sale buy several of them.

Cleans well but mapping poor. We have had our iRobot for a few years now. It cleans well and it’s fantastic that it can get under the beds and furniture that otherwise would be difficult to vacuum, but the mapping leaves a lot to be desired. I remapped a few times on my own because it was changing room dividers on its own, making weird angles changing rooms and trying to fix it totally mess up the maps. My most recent remapping was three months ago with the assistance customer service. I’d done the same things I’ve done before deleting the old maps and sending the iRobot out everywhere in the house to create a new map. As before, it worked perfectly for the first several weeks, was in the area the app said it was vacuuming and did not travel to the wrong areas, but after that it started going in the wrong rooms. The app would say it was vacuuming a bedroom but it was actually in the family room, or in another bedroom it will travel a distance of about 35 feet to the kitchen (common wall with bedroom) and vacuum there indicating on the app it was in the bedroom, has the same problem in a walk-in closet where it will travel from the closet, thru a bathroom then thru a bedroom, around a corner and 15 feet down a hallway to get to an area to vacuum. There are a few doors I have to close now (did not have to at first because the mapping was perfect for a short time) so the iRobot doesn’t go in the wrong room. It seems it must be updates the have affected the maps.

I can keep my floors clean!. We have a fairly large main floor and 4 dogs, so as you can imagine, it’s a nightmare keeping up with the cleaning. We live on a few acres so the dogs have the dream life outside with as much playtime as they want, which means they bring in so much dirt! The roomba has made a huge difference with helping me keep up with sweeping up the dirt!! There are so many features to help you personalize or organize or prioritize where you want cleaned. It’s a learning roomba so it modifies it’s cleaning every time it cleans, which is super nice. One thing I would recommend is to allow roomba to send you notifications to your smart phone (everything will already be on your smart phone in the app) because if it gets stuck or needs cleaning it will send a notification or the message will be there when you open the app next. However, if you don’t see it, or hear the noise that the roomba makes when needing assistance, it will sit until you help it. This isn’t very often since it learns where to go and you will catch on to when it needs cleaning or when to empty the base. The only other con I can think of is that it doesn’t do a “fantastic” job on our Type of throw carpet, that being said, it does a decent job and really does know how to get itself unstuck etc. We just prefer a deeper vacuuming on our carpet which we use our other vaccum for, but all in all, it does a fantastic job. Definitely get this roomba if you have pets or kids that create a mess!!

Roomba is great, the app is not. I’ve had my roomba for about 2 years and love it, however, the app is another story. It is consistently glitchy and unresponsive, often taking an unusually long time to load and register taps. This has been the case for me over multiple devices, networks, app versions, etc. My friends who have roombas have experienced the same. Also, (coming from a designer) too many UX/UI elements are overly complicated and clunky. For instance, why does it take a minimum of 3 taps to toggle between # of vacuum passes? It should only take 1 tap. Often it takes even more since the app is glitchy and unresponsive. This is just one minor example, but is representative of an overall frustrating user experience, especially considering that this is an app from a major company for a higher end product. It seems that fundamental details in the app have been ignored while priority is given to adding “advanced” features that in real life make the app bloated and the experience even more awkward and slow since none of the features load or respond efficiently. I hope all of this is eventually addressed so that the app experience can be at the level of the physical product itself.

Who knew a vacuum could change your life. So my roomba who I have fondly named Harvey (as in the invisible rabbit in the 1950 James Stewert movie) and myself had a bit of a learning curve for the first week of our relationship. He kept getting stuck, tangled and ran out of battery before he could make it back to his burrow to charge. Then the most magnificent thing happened. I learned what needed to be moved or blocked off, my daughter learned to pick up her legos nightly and I moved the burrow (charger) to a more central location in my apartment. Now like clockwork when I leave the house on MWF off Harvey hops and vacuums up the misc things that accumulate on my floor (mostly pet hair and leaves from my house plants and they come in from the outside on our shoes). I used to vacuum 2-3 times a week with my dye on stick vacuum but now, dearest Harvey does it three times a week and even gets places that I was too lazy or ill equipped to reach. I empty the auto bin about once a month. Magic in my book. Thanks to some amazing talented engineers, I have one less chore to do.

Lil critter is amazing. In 2 story home, do 1 map of all rooms on 1st level, then block off top of staircase and do separate map on 2nd level and designate stairs as Keep Out Zone so Roomba won’t fall down stairs. If you label each room, you can set up automatic cleaning for each room separately or have option to do everywhere at once, and can use app to clean a room immediately. Roomba messages you when it finishes. Roomba doesn’t merge maps, so if you map each level (or room) separately, you need to actually take Roomba to where you started the mapping and it will end up there when done - it won’t go back to dock. Roomba shifts easily from floor to carpet to fringe-less rugs. While mapping, it doesn’t show Roomba icon but if it did then it would help me later designate Keep Out Zones (such as plant stands, pet water bowl, along hearth). It makes a lot of noise for about 3 seconds to empty the bin because the motor must push the dirt up into the bin, and this would be quieter and easier on motor if the bin was floor height. The app shows how many hours are left on the air filter and cloth dirt bag.

Helps Me Control Pet Hair. With three Labrador Retrievers, daily vacuuming is a must but pulling out a traditional vacuum every day does not always fit into the schedule. Scheduling the Roomba to run every morning has really made it possible to only need to deep vacuum once or twice a week. Plus, the ability to create “rooms” in the app has allowed me to create a room within a room (dog crate area within the living room), which is a tremendous help when they’re blowing out their coat. When that happens, by the end of a day, you can’t tell that their sleeping area was ever vacuumed so running it twice is helpful to control their shedding. Life in our house is definitely more pleasant with it. I also love that the app helps troubleshoot and keeps a check on when i need to service the Roomba or change out parts…otherwise this ADHD brain would likely never think about it…until maybe 2 am. There are things that aren’t “perfect”, like often hanging up on area rugs, but it’s convenience outweighs any cons by leaps and bounds. (And it’s fair to note that probably most of those cons are created by user error).

Makes dog ownership much cleaner. I love dogs, but the amount of stuff they bring in from the yard is horrifying! Grass, twigs, leaves, bugs and dirt seem to be magically transported from the yard to the house on a constant basis. I used to vacuum every other day and couldn’t keep up. But now that we have Rosie, that problem is under control. She industriously vacuums night and day to keep the house clean. It really is a profound difference in cleanliness. It’s not perfect, but it is a major leap forward. Complaints are minor: the map she created of our house looks like it was done by a drunken blind man. Setting exclusion zones works, but is not very accurate. She sometimes gets lost, crashes and burns when trying to dock, or closes a door behind her and gets locked in a room. And she is noisy. But overall, she makes life around here easier, so she is a welcome addition. With regard specifically to the app, it works well and communicates consistently. I would like more control over the map, such as editing it to correct errors. And the different cleaning zones should have a “clean now” button so you can run them as needed. Why set up multiple favorites to duplicate all those areas when a simple button push could do it instead?

Not bad but needs update badly. I can only justify 4 stars for this app...to begin with,there is a definite problem with part of the WiFi connection...I have an IPhone XS Max running iOS 12..I also have the newest Roomba I7 +... this is a very expensive unit and one should expect a flawless app to go with it! The unit will connect with your home network and will function as it’s supposed to...but when you use the “locate” function says “this function does not work unless your Roomba is on the same network “..I have tried deleting the unit from my network and re-installing it but always with the same result! Also... the next problem is with the mapping function...it takes at least 2 full training runs to map my apartment and then I can name the rooms etc.. I can tell it to clean one room and it will work once! Then all I get from that point on is the maps will reappear in a grayed out form and you will not be able to select any room at all for the unit to clean...you can edit,rename, and save a new configuration but you still can’t tell it to clean any of the rooms! This all tells me that the app is flawed! I’ve also read many of these reviews and others have the same problem as me! Again...when one pays this much for a Roomba one would expect these problems would be solved! Please update this app to work on all smartphones!

Very good app, great product. Setup of the Roomba was super easy with the app. For non-tech types they might want a little more in the way of help screens - and perhaps gentle walk throughs for the first few weeks of using it. Just know it works and doesn’t need much help from you once rooms are set up - minus occasional tweaks you may want to add. Roomba doesn’t always do exactly what it’s supposed to do. I’m assuming the problem is something between the AI of it and the app. But who cares? It works great, even with the occasional hiccup. It’s easy to send feedback through the app for any problems you encounter. Our 20-plus year old Hoover’s handle literally snapped in half last year. As much as I love tech stuff I thought a Roomba wouldn’t work well, especially with our two short hair but high shed dogs. I was wrong. Our house is cleaner than ever, the dogs are fine with it after some quick training (had a pocket full of treats when Roomba did its setup run - whenever the dogs got agitated about it I’d stand astride Roomba, call them to me and hand them a treat - worked like a charm). Buy a Roomba, slap 2 googly eyes on it, help it through the setup, and you’ll be set.

Roomba - the vacuum cleaner. We don’t have to vacuum manually at all since Roomba has been deployed. We are very happy with it’s performance. Apart from a few times getting stuck with wires or other objects we do not have to clean it out very often. I still suggest users to keep inspecting it and clean out once in a while to keep it performing at its best all the time. Noise level is tolerable but it’s up to us to manage when and how frequently it should clean so that it does not interfere while we are at home. Auto detect feature also available so that when you enter home it would stop vacuuming, although I haven’t used the feature yet. It would be nice to have at least a notification when the bin is full at the base station. It has been running for almost 10 months now. I hope it continues to work without breaking any parts for at least 5 years. Then it will be worth the money spent. We sure love a good reliable product that works with minimal maintenance for at least 5 years. Thanks To the great Innovators and Engineers who are working behind this great product. Salute!

Good but there is a BUG. I have owned several roombas over the years. I recently purchased a 675 during Black Friday. This was the first roomba I owned that could connect to WiFi and be controlled by this app. Recently, I noticed that the battery indicator about the “Clean” button within the app showed the battery level a little less than 50%. Initially, I thought that maybe this roomba may just need a long time to charge, and the bar wouldn’t move until the roomba was on its charger for a while. After a night of charging (and it said it was charging), the battery level indicator within the app was at the same level. I thought maybe the roombas battery was defective, but I ran it for a full job (around and hour and 45 minutes) with no issues. So after that, I believe that there is a bug in the app which doesn’t show the true battery level of the robot. I really enjoy the roomba app and the bot itself, but hope this can be fixed. I typically decide how frequently to use the roomba based on battery life, and my new 675 doesn’t have a flashing battery light when sitting on the charger like some of the older models I have owned. iRobot, please fix this issue. Other than this, the product is great.

What an amazing machine. I have been using Roomba 900 series for about 3 years. Wow my cleaning life has changed. I spend a little time picking up toys and odds and ends and let Roomba go from there. Drifting dust bunnies or dog hair from under the couch is now a thing of the past! I have found I prefer to have her vacuum smaller spaces so that it is nearly complete within a single charge. So while the main spaces run a bit longer, I will weekly place her in bedrooms and shut the door 15 min and done. This way the cleaning/charging cycle doesn’t take all day. I have started to see where our long hair winds up under the rotating arm more now than it used too but it’s motor is still going strong. I am a little disappointed that although iRobot used our data to create the zone system for the newer robots they didn’t update our app system on the older versions to do this as they implied when I consented to them using our mapping data in the beginning. Now after years of bumping into things she has a little trouble fully returning home to charge but this is intermittent. New rollers were a must after about 2.5 years , and after a while of emptying the bin in out trash can the bottom is slightly cracked but still functional for now. No problems with much of anything else.

Must have if you have pets!. A friend of mine recommended the iRobot to me because of my busy lifestyle and because she said it was a must have when you have pets. However, before going with the iRobot, I tried a cheaper knock off brand to try to save money. I have more than 1 cat so I am sure you can imagine how much hair and litter dust spreads around the house! I was sweeping and vacuuming twice a day. But the knock off didn’t clean well even though it had more brushes, it didn’t recognize stairs so I had to put up a baby gate each time I wanted to vacuum, and I had to empty the bin myself which ended up getting dust and dirt all over the place so it defeated the purpose of the vacuum. Then it broke after only 4 months, just passed the point where I could return it! I finally broke down and bought the iRobot. Now I don’t have to do anything up set up a schedule for cleaning and iRobot does the rest! Instead of constantly cleaning, now I can spend time doing things I enjoy. Best investment I have ever made hands down! The only downside is that I cannot pick it up and bring it upstairs to clean up there as well. I tried and it got confused. Therefore, I will have to invest in one for each floor. However, it is definitely worth it! My friend was right, the iRobot is a must have when you have pets! My house had never looked better on a daily basis!

Absolutely love this robot. My wife and I are hardly home and vacuuming is the last thing we have in our minds when we get home! We have a cat and she makes quite a mess from her litter box and tends to shed quite a bit of fur. After watching numerous reviews about the roomba I decided to pull the plug and buy one. I went with the i7+ for a few reasons. I wanted the the emptying base. And I also wanted the smart mapping. It has mapped my entire apartment minus the bathroom which we are still working on it to recognize the bathroom. We’ve already set areas for it to clean. I picks up all of my cats fur off the floor. And it has cleaned all around the litter box! It’s not meant to replace your normal vacuum but to lessen the amount of times you do vacuum. I don’t have a set schedule for it due to having pets so in the event my cat misses the litter box I don’t have the roomba going and dragging it around the house. Over the winter it picked up any road salt that our shoes brought into the house! All in all, it was worth the money! I do wish we could have a little fun with it. Maybe have the app have a “game” mode where you can control it like a remote controlled car and drive it around the house while it cleans? That would actually be pretty cool to do!

Automatic Cleaning. I can’t give 5 stars because it’s not perfect. It can never find its way back from one of the rooms in my home, and sometimes it can’t figure out how to get there either. However, this is a night and day improvement over the traditional method of vacuuming. Telling Alexa to clean the mess by the coach and then watching it happen is like something out of the Jetsons and far more likely to happen then the alternative; me getting off the couch, walking downstairs to the utility closet, carrying the vacuum upstairs, finding the closest outlet, cleaning the mess, emptying the bin, and finally returning the vacuum to the closet. In other words I can 100% overlook the occasional error or issue where I might have to “rescue” Roomba and bring it back to its home, in exchange for more frequent cleaning that is actually kind of fun to watch. Even moving it downstairs once a week to get the bedrooms seems really easy (and for some reason even though it’s larger and there are more rooms downstairs it never gets stuck). It could be proximity to the router. It seems to know pretty quickly that you have moved the home base though and it keeps track on the correct map.

Overall pleased. The mapping feature is pretty awesome and makes roomba super efficient being able to dock, empty/charge and then go back to where it left off. It’s not perfect and definitely can use some more development on how accurate what it thinks the house looks like vs what is the actual layout of rooms. These inaccuracies make setting up zones to vacuum and no go zones pretty clunky and I still just go and shut the doors of the rooms I don’t want it to go into when I leave the house. But still a very advanced feature. Excited at where this could lead to with a little more development. The self emptying is a huge upgrade as well. Just as the above notes on the mapping it isn’t perfect and does get annoying when it won’t empty on its own because it’s too full or it’s sucked up a pretzel stick or something that bridges across the hole and nothing can get out. Obviously when compared to emptying every bin with older models this is still leaps and bounds ahead. This will prolly never be a fool proof system but I imagine with a few minor design changes and several iterations this will also has potential to be way better than it is so far.

Best (noisy) buddy. I’ve got two of these little guys, Ira (880) and Dora (980). They are great little helpers. In trying to justify a reason to buy another model so i have one on each floor… Dora (980) is quite a bit noisier, but she is much more intelligent and much more powerful than my 880, so really have no need for a standard vacuum. The iRobot app is excellent. Best part is I can run Dora (the noisy one) at any time, from anywhere, and can program her to run only when I leave my home so the noise is a non-issue. The mapping is great so I know where it has cleaned and for how long. iRobot makes the best robot vacuums. They are modular so I can keep spare wear parts on hand and most all parts are interchangeable with my 2 bots. My 880 is 8 years old and my 980 is 3 years old. No problems except a couple changes of brush rollers, new tires (I actuall wore them bald on my older unit) and of course I keep many spare air filters on hand that I wash out and re-use. ROOMBA is worth every dollar! Thank you iRobot for continued parts support for all models and it has created a robust aftermarket for cheap parts if you are in a pinch! But the iRobot original parts are top notch and last years. Thank you!

Where are the diagnostic errors in the app?. Took one star off because although I get the error notifications on my phone (push notifications) I would expect to go into the app and be able to retrieve the error that way and get more information. Although the actual robot is with my elderly mom, I have the app so I can start it when I know she’s not home. It also allows me to get notified when there’s an error so I can fix it when I visit (for example the roller got tangled with something). But since I might not address the error right away (I don’t live with her) I ignore the notification that comes up. Few days later when I’m at her house, I expect to go into the history of the app and find the error and troubleshooting information but I can’t find it anywhere. I actually just wanted to report this or talk to someone in app support but all the support contacts lead to the roomba device support not the app support. Just seems like something that I’m missing. The app obviously has the information, I can see it in the push notifications. Why is it not available in the app under history or some other logical area?

Not ready for prime time (it turns out that it really is!). I just got a Roomba, and set it up last night. The vacuum seems to work well, but the app needs word. It could be me, but there are no instructions to help me use it. I did a “mapping” run, fine tuned the room definitions, and labeled them. Seems fairly straightforward, except it’s confused about which room is which tell it to clean the kitchen, and it will clean the family room tell it to clean the family room and it will clean the family room. I can find no way to fix it except go possibly a remap. I made a couple of favorites using the room names and of course since they don’t seem to be working, the favorites don’t work. I can’t remove them and start over. To me, it’s just not ready. It needs attention. Update: I have figured out. I think the issue I had with room names was simply that it didn’t update fast enough. All of the rooms are properly named, and I can send the robot wherever I want it to vacuum. I was too impatient. “Favorites” are useful when you want to specific rooms (1 or more) outside of the schedule. I had a bit of a problem finding out how to delete favorites, but I figured it out. My only suggestion would be to either include better app documentation, or make the app more intuitive.

pretty awesome. we have had a few robot vacuums. we had the roomba and it did pretty good but pet hair from our two dogs would keep causing it to error and we would have to untangle the hair from the brushes/rollers ever few minutes so it would resume. we moved to a shark (since the reviews were so high and it was cheaper) and its been the worse robot vacuum ever. the schedule would say vacuum every day at 9am and it would never work. it got caught on the simplest of things. called support which was very friendly but a waste of time as they walk u through resetting back to factory and starting over (which didn't fix it) so we gave it away. this iRobot works awesome with the dog hair. does an excellent job of getting in corners. it only cleans our hardwood floors. ONLY complaint is battery only lasts (on avg) 40min. and not a fan of having to replace the vacuum base bags because they are not cheap but again, not perfect as it does get hung on a few things but it at least tries to untangle itself. i would recommend to any of my friends or family.

Great App & Robo-vac System. Very impressed so far with this vacuuming system and app. Running the j7 currently and have a backup i3 for my second level. Have it all hooked up via Alexa too which is nice and one of the more detailed “skills” I have ever used. Seems like iRobot continues to add features and improve upon their software pretty regularly. Be patient as your Roomba learns your house, it will truly get “smarter” as it covers more ground and gets in the swing of things: Becoming more practical than it is just out of the box. I ended up buying my in-laws a 600 series as well for Xmas since I was so impressed. I have disabilities and this saves me a lot of physical pain from using a manual vac. I will say though, If you plan on buying something more than the 600 series, skip i3 and go to j7. The 600 is great for feeling around your smaller apartment or home, but the mapping in the j7 is a game changer if you got the coin to upgrade- little benefit of going ‘’middle of the road” model I’ve found. Overall though, I’ve been very impressed with all iRobot hardware & software I’ve tried, especially my j7!

Slow, clunky bad app.. While iRobot has good designs for their devices, the app needs serious work. It is insanely slow to load or save any settings. Trying to edit the map is infuriating. Every change takes 30-60 seconds. It needs to periodically updated because the borders will drift over time and your room dividers become inaccurate. Sometimes you get the perfect straight edge position and save it and the map automatically puts it as some horrible angle, so you have to start over... Or you edit and existing divider and upon saving it a duplicate is made so now you have two rooms overlapping each other. You should be able to make all changes at once quickly in app then push all the changes once instead of one at a time. Also the room dividers span across the house. So any kind of non-square room or floor plan causes problems and you have to split rooms in two (e.g. Dining Room 1 and Dining Room 2 - two halves to one real Dining Room) and make a combination of clean zones just to have one room cleaned correctly. Lastly changing a room dividers will also sometimes randomly delete a separate nearby divider, messing up your labels. This also ruins your schedule by the way. Bad design.

Like hiring your grandma to help you clean your house. The best thing about the iRobot app is that it’s attached to a Roomba. If other options existed, I’d go with those without looking at the reviews, but this is what we got, so I’m going to make the best of it. The strengths of the app lie in its mapping and scheduling system. Those are on point. Beyond that, there aren’t many other strengths. Here are some: the app glitches all the time, like it can’t refresh itself; it disconnects from the roomba all the time, so when I give it non-scheduled instructions for my Roomba from when I’m not home, I’m never really certain that the roomba will respond; it doesn’t communicate that the notifications to replace Roomba parts, like filters, are set on a countdown of days and not sensors, which means my Roomba might need a filter replacement sooner rather than later (‘cause my house is like a magnet for all the dust and fur in my neighborhood apparently); and even the shipping side of the app (you’d think they’d pay attention to this one), doesn’t work for me at all so I have to purchase parts from online retailers (we all know which one). Anyway, if I focus on the negatives, I’d be miserable since I love my Roomba, so I do my best.

Great App! Two Feature Requests. This is a great App, which let‘s you control your Roomba etc. (set schedules, define work areas) and customize your floor plan (keep out zones and cleaning areas). After each clean the you can review the completed job to check how well it was done and to look at photos Roomba took to define obstacles found. All in all really great and straightforward. I have two feature requests though: (1) Please program a ‚cancel job‘ option that let‘s you stop the current job without having your Roomba return to the home base and empty. There are several reason why this is a must have feature that I won‘t explain in detail. Just check forums on Reddit etc (I am not alone). (2) Please program the App so it can rotate. I use my iPad in landscape view in a fixed stand and it is annoying that only for this App I have to remove the stand and rotate the iPad to portrait view. iPads are mostly used in landscape view, iPhones are mostly used in portrait view. If you don‘t support rotate, then at least the App should support the standard view of the respective device.

J7/J8 Robot does exactly what I need it to do. Coming from the Neato D8 robot series to the iRobot J7/J8 robot series has been a great experience that I am grateful Neato went out of business and forced me to purchase iRobot vacuums. The interface is intuitive and does a good job at guiding you as a user through the process of setup, configuration, scheduling, and continuous improvement of the cleaning. The fact that I now have one app that controls both robot vacuums is a life saver and the auto-empty feature built into the charging station with the ability to empty bin less frequently has been a major game changer at my two story home with two dogs and a cat. But brass tacks, the J7/J8 robots just work. They start when they are supposed to start, clean where they are supposed to clean, and go back to their charge base/empty station when they are done. It’s exactly what I wanted out of a robot cleaning experience, less responsibility. No finding the robots stuck somewhere, no emptying the bin daily, no stuck brushes. Just a continuously clean tile floor provided by two robot vacuums that work like they are supposed to. Bravo iRobot!

Just a bad app. Just installed this on iPad for the first time. It doesn’t support landscape. Why would an iPad app not be allowed to rotate? Can you please just open up your API so someone can make an app that’s actually usable? ————— This app has gotten worse over time. It’s incredibly slow ever since they added the functionality to set cleaning preferences for individual rooms. And moving any room divider will completely delete any saved favorite and Siri shortcut that room was used with. Sometimes it deletes the room itself from the map and says you have an unnamed room, just from moving the divider a few inches. There’s a setting that seems to have been buried for letting the size of the room determine how many cleaning passes are performed. It’s still there, but as far as I can tell serves no function because you can’t actually use it when setting a new favorite or creating a new job. The only options are 1 or 2 passes. The app also now shows an annoying little button floating at the bottom of the screen saying “🔔 New Message” every time I open it. But there is no message because I have all recommendations and offers notifications turned off. The alerts for my robot are still enabled though. So if someone disables marketing notifications, iRobot has decided to just annoy them into turning it back on. What a scummy tactic.

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I would definitely buy this again. Since we purchased the Roomba 5 years ago I have been so happy we made this decision. I am already prepared to replace this one with another because It’s been so effective in cleaning our house. Even though I think the floor looks pretty clean when it starts, the bin is always full of debris at the end, showing that it’s picking up so much unseen dirt as well.

First robotic vacuum cleaner & WOW !!!. We are very pleasantly surprised with the cleaning ability of our j7. It is our first robotic vacuum cleaner, so it was with some trepidation that we took the plunge and bought one. We definitely don’t regret the purchase. In fact we now wish we had bought one years ago. The mapping of the house is amazingly accurate and so far we are getting approx 98% coverage in a cleaning run. Which is probably better than what I manage manually !

Disappointed. While the vacuum itself is great I’m extremely disappointed in after sales service. I contacted the Australian support service listed on the app and was hung up on after they found out I purchased through another authorised retailer. IXL Australia pick up your game. I purchased the 980 version for its wi fi capability which worked well for the first 2 weeks, now the app will not even open displaying an error message every time I try and open it. Your after sales support really does leave a lot to be desired on such an expensive item. Not happy

Love it!. Love our new robot. However it would be good if you could change the job part way through. Like if it is cleaning in a room and you suddenly need to use that room, would be good to skip the room. Also would be great if you could tell the robot what order to clean rooms so that you can clean rooms you need to use (like the office) first and then let it roam about the rest of the house whilst you work. Very reliable little fellow and it does a pretty good job.

Love the robot - hate the latest update to the app. The newest app update has completely cut me off from my robot. Not only does is force you to recreate an account that you didn’t ask for because of some backend change that quite frankly should never have been made into a customer problem - there is 100% absolutely no way of bypassing the login screen to troubleshoot the previous robot settings without doing so. Following that - I had to re-add and reconnect my robot from scratch despite having done so already twice before. When I’m in the middle of my workday - working from home during covid , super stressed out trying to spend 5 mins figuring out why my robot suddenly Is making beeping noises from nowhere with 10 mins to spare before I have to get into a zoom meeting. I nearly threw the robot out with the trash I was so frustrated. Horrible horrible customer experience - coming straight off the back of my robot not recognising walls despite being restarted and having firmware updates checked repeatedly and having everything cleaned and checked multiple times. When the robot finally gives up the ghost I’ll be checking out the competition brands. Fed up and over it.

iRobot S9+ Cleans well but …. Cleans very well despite having two heavy shedding in-door dogs over carpet (German Shepard’s) but… Algorithms are not perfect with confusion at times about not being able to park correctly on the base and mixing up rooms. At times quite rough with furniture despite regular cleaning of sensors. No ability to set a map of the house in stone. It dynamically changes room layouts and boundaries. Connects rooms together in areas where there is no connection, then tries to use this as the way into that room and fails to clean that room. A manual change to the map can cause a cascading consequence to the rest of the layout. Programmatically there are many things that can be improved. My son’s home-built Raspberry Pi robot has better and more reliable navigation and mapping ability of our house, all developed with the help of the open source community and for under $200. With the exception of cleaning, there are better robot vacuum cleaners out there for half the cost which Friends of mine have. I expect better from an expensive robot.

I love everything about my iRobot. I only just took a leap of faith and bought an iRobot i5+ and I can’t believe I didn’t do this sooner. It does a great job vacuuming and emptying itself, mopping etc. We have a Jack Russell and to have a vacuum cleaner that picks up the hear as often as needed is just amazing. The app is super easy to use. No matter where I am, work, home, out, I can just ask the iRobot to clean. I mapped my house but many times I just choose “vacuum everywhere” and I just close the doors for the rooms I don’t want done. The app has tips on how to clean your robot and troubleshoot. It is user friendly.

Buggiest software experience ever. This is the worst product that I have ever owned. I have a i7+ that is buggy as, don’t count on your robot following scheduling cleaning zones. It will randomly start cleaning whatever it wants for no apparent reason (Even though the same schedule worked perfectly fine on previous days of the week). I also have a brava yet m6 which is basically a door stop now. Can’t run longer that 30 seconds without stopping due to erroneously identifying a drop, this despite working for a year just fine. Troubleshooting has consisted of cleaning sensors, changing pads and restarting the device. Stay away from this company, their products are garbage and their software even more so.

Almost Great. The app does everything it says it will etc. however what it does need which I feel is missing is the ability to give the Roomba a path of exit defined by the user or a RTB path. My base is near my table which unless cleaning has chairs around it. My Roomba thinks that the table is there with no chairs and always tries to put through them then turns around. Probably screwing up my mapping. Real pain when you only want to clean one room or two quickly outside of scheduled “chair up” cleans.

Roomba exceeds expectations. I’m really enjoying my Roomba i7 which was a birthday gift. I never thought that an automatic vacuum cleaner would be useful for me but I have found it very liberating and am very surprised at how well it cleans. The only negative so far are the bags it uses which have a small capacity and are discarded when full. As there is quite a lot of plastic on them I feel they do not meet the current environmental standards. Also they are quite expensive to be buying on a regular basis. It would be better if Roomba could design a reusable bag.

Great help!. Was sceptical when it first came out as I did not think it will work. After a couple of year went by, the temptation was still not there to purchase until I went to a tenant house that have a robot and asked him how it was and he said it was amazing and even showed me the amount of dirt that it picked up. After that, I went home and did some research and decided to purchase our first robot on the weekend! It was amazing as the floor was always clean! After using this for a couple of years, we have recently purchased the iRobot m6 moo. Now I hope that this new robot will live up to our expectations!

iRobot is the best. I love my Roomba 980 and the integration with the app is fantastic. Only thing I think could be added-not because it’s needed but because it would be super cool-is remote control from the app. It’s a bit gimmicky but would be a fun little feature to play around with. Be even better if you could see through the camera on the mobile device while driving it.

Family time. My family time has been increased now that this wonderful machine has been cleaning my house whenever I need! It gets under my couches under my bed around the chairs at the dining table. You name it. This thing goes everywhere. I am so happy with this product that I’ve decided to also get the mob. I’m looking forward to enjoying that too. I highly recommend this product!

Great vac, app needs upgrade. The vacuum part is awesome! I love it and it is easy to work with and cleans great once it is familiar with you house. The only part that needs worked on is the app. I’m trying to do layouts of what section of the house is what but the app seems to be having a problem and doesn’t let me do it. Also it closes on me so that’s annoying even more. If that gets fixed I’d give it a 5 star but nothings happening yet…

iRobot Roomba 980. The best appliance in the whole house. Battery seems to last ages. Suction is great. I love the feature that increases the suction when approaching rugs or carpet. Bin size is more than enough (I was concerned about this). The app is great also. Just about to purchase my first replacement rollers after having the machine for 4 years or so. Extremely happy. Would purchase again if needed.

Robot vacs are a godsend. Our S9 has been fantastic but that’s not to say that it couldn’t be improved. The app has some clunky elements. There seems no way to add a room to a job in progress. It’s learning ability is a bit hit and miss - a room that wasn’t entirely accessible in the initial mapping doesn’t seem to get learnt once it is accessible - it’s like the robot stops at an invisible barrier. As far as I can tell I will have to map the entire floor from scratch to get it to pick up the extra space

IRobot vacuum cleaner.. Had iRoomba for over a year. Great machine. We vacuum every Monday morning and it enables us to do other things like sitting outside in the sun having breakfast. The floors have to have be cleared to allow access but apart from that it is hands off. Minor cleaning is done with a small handheld and I damp-mop every fortnight. It takes about one and a quarter for the house single level and has comes with two battery operated gates or pillars to exclude areas as required. I clean the output air filter after use and replace it after six months. If you have a busy schedule it and be programmed and can be switched on remotely with WiFi.

Best Investment Ever - Love my Roomba. I purchased my Roomba in 2018 when my wife was pregnant with our second child. I was apprehensive about spending the money at the time but now would be lost without this machine. Best money ever spent!!! I mean it, would buy another one in a heart beat the amount of time you can save! My lovely wife has always been a bit OCD when it comes to cleaning, vacuuming everyday. With a second child coming I knew she would be limited for time and wanted to give her something that would give her some time back. Introducing Roomba… 5 years later still going as strong as ever, had to replace a few parts along the way, (easy to do, no qualifications needed and I am not the most handy of people) but Roomba has done 111,000 m2 (27.4 acres/11.1 hectares). Roomba runs daily, it’s bin is filled and emptied daily. My wife no longer needs to vacuum daily as Roomba does the work for her. I can’t actually remember the last time she had the other manual vacuum cleaner out and don’t know where it actually is anymore. Put it this way, if my Roomba died tomorrow, it would be like losing a family member… I would be devastated. But it’s not a family member so at least I can replace it, and I so will! Love, love, love, love it!!!!

Helpful, but with it’s troubles…. My cleaning robot has its own will. Somedays, it works perfectly. Just the way you want it to be. Some days, it behaves weirdly, not going to the areas we’ve chose to, or heading into walls believing there’s a door there. It’s very helpful when it decides to work well. But somedays it is a nightmare. Has been two years since we’ve bought it and until today, there’s a corner of my bedroom that it does not clean, because it just does not map that area. For it, that area doesn’t exist at all. Frustrating, but still, helpful.

Good App. The app does offer a lot of useful options for controlling the robot. The main feature I’d like to see is a detailed progress report during jobs, so we can see which areas have been completed and what is still to be done. It can take many hours to vacuum the whole house and it would be handy to know which areas we can use again and which still need to be left clear for the robot. Currently it only tells you what it is doing at that moment.

Great, but docking😠. Really happy with the vacuum. We are in a pokey little place, but it bounces it’s way around fine. It gets stuck sometimes in the edge of thick rugs, but amazes me with what it can handle. The only issue is it fails to dock a lot. You can watch it go up onto the dock, then it turns at the last minute and stuffs it up, which pushes the dock to the side too. Not a big deal really, I just dock it when I get home or when it alarms

Cleans good but temperamental. We have had our J7+ for about 12 months now and it was amazing at the start but for some unknown reason it keeps either corrupting or changing the base map and glitches out. It forgets rooms and about once a month I have to relabel the rooms and put the dividers back in their original location. When it’s cleaning it does a really good job, extracts pet hair from carpets and sweeps right up to the skirting boards. Just a pain in the bum user interface that is very slow to respond and glitches often

God aweful app. I’ve had it with the app and this device, Its been great to just hit a button and clean but the app and having to use the app is the worst part. For whatever reason the programmers for months now have not enabled the function of the ‘submit button’ its driving my up the wall, spoken to support who cannot do anything about it so I have to resort to posting it here, the submit button does not function at all. “There is a new area to map” > “no, this is already a mapped area” Submit… submit… submit… you hit the button but it does nothing, it just blinks. Setting up a schedule cleaning area, one loop or two? Sadly, despite offering two loops you can only do one, as there is no submit button, and when you tap away despite highlighting you want two rounds to clean the floor, it accepts the tap away as a cancel and sticks to one loop, so you have to setup two schedules that run back to back to get two room cleans. Oh look, it found another mapped area i can’t do anything about cause the submit button doesn't work, and i cannot post video to these app store reviews. Cant email them because they do not have an email address, so phone the local AU support about it and they cannot do anything, they do not program the app, they cannot escalate the issue.. Just aggravating how poorly designed this app is and being forced to use it with my robot.

Favourites is useless on 900x series. It’s great when you are not at home to hear the loud jet noises but how many people will be out everyday? Great to keep it simple - as it works however can be better by 1. If Roomba can automatically stopped if cannot clean entire house. It recharges then 2-4hrs later comes back to life to complete the job. 2. The favourite should support the different settings (power or boost, edge or no edge) 3. Makes #1, #2 available on 800, 900 series!! There is no point doing a 15min clean on the 900 series as you cannot define room or path.

Sadie, my cleaning lady. This is a better Robot vacuum than the Samsung we had. It has a much more efficient way of going about doing its job. I swear I see it thinking about how it’s going to battle the table and chairs or some other hurdle. The app works well on my apple device too, unlike...... you know who! My only complaint is it doesn’t have bristled rollers. It still works well, but it doesn’t tickle up the carpet very well.

It started out great. My Roomba iRobot i7+ started at so well I loved it. It did what it was supposed to do. It went where it was supposed to go but within a few weeks it would just stop in the middle of room for no reason it wouldn't return to base it would cancel clean, sadly just like every other robot vacuum cleaner they never live up to the expectations would I buy one again probably not they're not worth the money you pay for them sadly

Quiet achiever. You know it looks pretty simple and could easily be underestimated but our i7 is a real achiever. We took a while to get to know it, by the time we did, it had built a map of our house and the floors were noticeably cleaner. We did not initially even have the app, but it was already in the job. We don’t make it easy, there are all kinds of obstacles that we keep moving around but it gets around them and does it’s job. It’s amazing how much dust and lint it picks up. We wouldn’t be without it now, it’s one of the more reliable members of the family. Good investment!

We love our IRobot !. ‘Dusty’ is a valuable member of my family, perhaps for efficient and reliable then others in fact ! Would be lost without her. I have an automated clean every morning and often will ask her to run the main living areas when I am heading home from being out knowing my kids have been solo so it is nice and clean when I arrive.

Brilliant!. This is my fourth robotic vacuum cleaner (and first iRobot) and they just keep getting better and better. This time it doesn’t matter what dog toys are on the ground, whether the sliding door is open (with only the screen door shut) or if the wine rack isn’t blocked off. The iRobot detects where it’s going avoids the obstacles and doesn’t get stuck. The only improvement I’ve found so far is that it would be good to allow one to reorder the “favourites”. At the moment the “clean everywhere” is the last on my list as it was set up first but it’s what I use the most. I’d like to be able to swap it so it’s first on the favourites list. I’m sure that having written this it will come in a future update of the app.

iRobot. I love my IRobot Roomba 150 So can this app Control it I tried To reach the screen with the clean button My vacuum can Tackle any Messes Works on all floor surfaces it has a 4 axis-motor system So That means The Cleaner Can Go North South East West And map shows Where Cleaner is going and end Of cleaning or when battery Is GETTING LOW The Cleaner Seeks the Base Station Even Works In dark in dark the cleaner Uses Ultrasonic Night vision in camera and ultrasound Sound Sensors only a active In the Dark and Uses X-ray Vision to Track Dirt only works in darkness And Shows the House Map And The o Dot means Where The Cleaner is Modes: Turbo Spot Normal Clean dock

David Stone. Has been a great purchase. I have a multi level home and I’ve mapped all the levels. When cleaning seperate levels, I select the level which I’m putting the vacuum on, and because of the mapping system it realises where it is and more efficiently cleans the areas. After cleaning you can see a map of where the vacuum has been so you know it’s been everywhere.

Good helper when it works. We purchased roomba about month ago. Didn't really know what to expect Friday but we were quite impressed with its mapping system and performance especially on the carpets. Unfortunately have to admit many times when I'm using it it gets stuck. I'm usually making sure the floor is tidy and free of debris yet somehow it gets stuck. Also I'm pretty sure before we bought we found the information that the battery life is up to 2 hrs but we never seen it going for longer than 1.20 mins. I like the app although not too sure why most of the time it says there was no dirt picked up. Overall is really good and loving it when it does the job right.

iRobot has changed my life!. I suffer with severe chronic fatigue syndrome so housekeeping is almost impossible for me. In the past I relied on cleaners to help me. This was ok but with pets, my house was only clean for one day a week when the cleaner came. Plus the cleaner struggled to vacuum under furniture. Now with my iRobot vacuum and separate mop my house is clean every day! At the start I went to some effort to tie up cords and elevate some furniture on castors, and I put chairs up on the table for cleaning, so now the robots rarely get stuck and the job is quicker. I’ve learned how to select clean zones which is great for under my bird cages and where the dogs sleep so I can clean these spots as often as required. I have a lightweight stick vacuum which I use about once a month to get the spots the iRobot can’t reach eg behind doors. The iRobots are really easy to maintain too, and even with all the pet hair, I only change the collection bag about once a month which is very impressive. All in all I’m thrilled with my iRobot army!!

Mostly Good. Well worth the cost. Cleaning the floors everyday was taking too much time out of our day with partner and I both working and 3 kids under 5. Only a few minor issue with losing map and having to remap. I have found myself paying more attention to what is left on floor. Will recommend to family

Great Timesaver. I bought the iRobot as we have a Labrador who lives inside. The hair can be a nightmare and working full time I was getting a bit sick of the afternoon hair pick up ritual. This little gem picks everything up, cleans under, around and across. I run it through the day on a schedule and do an extra one here and there from my phone while I’m in the office. The only issue I have is that after a couple of cleans I get a red flashing light and a notification that the cleaning base needs attention. And it doesn’t.

Good but has problems. The robots are great when they work (both Roomba and Braava) but the app often can’t connect - reason unknown - and when it does connect it takes ages. The Roomba with the big heavy base never seems to have trouble docking, but the Braava will often knock its base around and then can’t dock. Why make the base so light and with no grip? Also occasionally the Roomba has not been able to charge. Also, why have exposed metal charging plates? They are a little bit rusty on the Braava.

Mostly good. My only problem is that I have to restart the app 70ish% of the time to start an out of schedule job, not a big problem but it becomes annoying, the scheduled runs work fine, but it often has problems connecting to the bot at my request. If I force close the app everything is fine. Hopefully it will be fixed in the next update. Everything else is great.

This app is great!. It is SUCH a treat to be able to lay in bed and tell the vacuum to go do the kitchen/living room/wherever! You can use the app to send him back to his base, empty the bin (only with the emptying base), and to check and see where he’s been to make sure he didn’t accidentally miss anything. You can send him off for mapping runs, which is where he just roams around building a blueprint of the space, which you can then divide up into rooms, and set “clean” and “keep out” zones. All round a great user interface and excellent functionality!

Great when it behaves. Most of the time my iRobot plays nicely, but now and then it just does a small area around the charging station, then gives up and goes for a nap. A stern talking to, or a quick boot, soon wakes it up, then the bot goes about the job of cleaning as expected. My only real annoyance is due to the amount of cat hair it finds every week. Not the bots fault. But this means constant attention as it screams “empty the bin” then I find its only 1/3 full and mostly cat hair, but this has triggered the sensors into thinking it is full. Takes 3 empties to just get through an hour of cleaning in my small house. Lastly I had no idea an i2 did will not allow room settings in the app, you seem to only get that with the i3 and higher. So you cannot monitor or restrict the bot to a limited area unless you pile up socks at door entrances to prevent it going into unwanted rooms. I did buy the little sentinel box to remedy this but it only walls off one room at a time.

Would love to be able to create zones. I love my Roomba, however we have a large open plan home with areas that don’t require vacuuming everyday. I would like to be able to create different zones that could be scheduled to clean on alternative days as when unattended the bin becomes full and unable to be emptied to resume cleaning the remainder of the home leaving some areas uncleaned. If I could create zones then I could schedule different rooms “zones” to be cleaned ensuring all areas of my home are cleaned over the course of the week.

I regret the money I spent on it.. I did have problem with since day one. I purchased an irobot 7+ and the robot didn't detect the station, and to return and get a new one. And this second one only worked well for the first couple of months and since then only does the job 3 times out of 10 time. The problem I have are: it cannot find the room and goes back to its dock and sends notifications to my phone or it vaccums completely different area and says job finished. Can't find it's docking station and keep going to wrong places until its battery is flat and I have to search the entire house for it. It also goes on the docking station and sends me notifications to empty the bin because it cannot detect that it has an automated system to empty the been. Every time i checked Nothing was ever was stock in the rollers or in the bin window. I called customer service and they advised me to restart few times and if is still the same factory reset it. I did everything i got told and still back to square 1. I was very excited when I purchased it but now I really regret spending $2000 on this.

Very good. I have the i7 that auto empties. This is amazing!!! I’m so glad I paid the extra money to have it empty itself 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Couple suggestions. 1. Have it recognise it’s on a rug and lift its wheels up a little bit to help instead of having rug fold over constantly. 2. Option for robot only to be activated by the app or put child lock on the machine. I have a very adventurous little 7mo and he is wanting to touch it when it is at the base. He keeps pressing the start button and it scared him to death when it moved or empties itself. I don’t want him to be scared of the vaccumm so maybe a child lock? :) currently I unplug it so it does when not in use which is not ideal. 3. Sell individual brushes instead of a full pack 🤷🏼‍♀️

Life changing. If there is a fire, I’m getting my i7+ and M6 out first. I’ll then run back in for my family. There’re probably inside just messing up my house anyway. If you’re a man who doesn’t do a lot of chores around your house and are reading this and you’re on the fence about getting this for your house.. listen to me very carefully. Get your wallet out and buy this damned product. Your wife deserves it. Now go home, pour her a wine and watch this machine clean your floors like a pro. It’s amazing. You’re welcome.

Good at the basics. I was encouraged to buy a Roomba i7+ because the iRobot Home app is fairly accessible and the Roomba i7+, as an adaptive technology device, has been a game changer. However, my being a power user and digital native, I have some requests. I realise Apple Home and HomeKit does not support vacuum cleaners at this stage, however, iRobot can at least implement Siri Shortcuts. Using IFTTT as a workaround is less than ideal and Roomba wants to switch on my smart lights when its cleaning. The iRobot Home app needs dark mode support. The whitespace is jarring and I cannot make heads or tails of the map. Most buttons and text labels are accessible by VoiceOver but page order is confusing. For these reasons, I only use the app to do map runs, vac everywhere, dock and empty bin. I would like to take advantage of the map features and favourites but it’s a hassle.

Roomba i5. I absolutely love my Roomba i5. My back is poor so vacuuming isn’t an option for me. We have timber and tiled floors. I love how efficient it is at perseverance. My timber floors look shiny and feel clean. I do have carpet in three bedrooms so I do those areas on different days so as to not overwork it. Generally I run it twice a week and once a week for bedrooms. I have two small rise entranceways that it goes up and down very well. I did put a slim mat to assist with one doorway as it was just a few millimeters too tall. Problem solved. I put my dining chairs upside down on the table and it’s free to go. Perfect for cleaning the floors while I’m out doing something else. Definitely as efficient as my Previous two Dysons

Pretty Good. The app is pretty decent, it does what is needed. You can send the robots manually or schedule them to automatically work. The mapping is quite accurate and the ability to section rooms and to then just clean specific rooms is a good function. No real bugs or issues in the few years I’ve been using it. I would recommend to friends and family so I think it’s pretty decent. I have had some issues with the robots, but the app has been great.

Brava Jet M6 has made life easier. I love my Brava Jet M6. Purchased this with my iRobot vacuum S9. Mapping Brava Jet was easy except for getting it to map my laundry which has a 5mm threshold to the hallway and laundry. The added hiccup was the fact that the laundry was its home base. This was an issue because if you don’t have a large enough area mapped you’re unable to place dividers (doorways) or set a threshold for the mop to go over. (Will go over up to 6mm) After checking online for some trouble shooting and taking 15 mins to be with the mop to help it in and out of the laundry, with some gentle kicking as encouragement over the threshold it finally mapped the room. Once you’ve mapped then you can set thresholds so it will go over raised doorways or carpet to get to its next room. Once I had that all set up the Brava Jet M6 has been a dream. I have set my schedules so the vacuum and mop work seamlessly together. I have bamboo floors and tiled wet areas and my floors have never looked better. The mop is quiet so it’s not a distraction. The iRobot vacuum is a little noisey but not enough to be annoying! It is a bit pricey and if you’ve got the money I would highly recommend these products. The time and stress it has saved is priceless. I highly recommend this product and money well spent!

Problems with robot. Our robot is set for 7am finishes about 9 am goes back to base but keeps coming out to clean . The machine stops for approximately 20 seconds then takes off again. I love the robot but wish it would clean then back to charge without coming out again. It will not clean all required areas.

Reasonably intuitive. Does what it says on the tin. Takes a few focused minutes to learn. Robot doesn’t always put the doors in the right place but it’s easy to fix with a mapping run. You don’t have to become a master user to make it go and you can easily change things when you’ve worked out what it can do and how you want it to work for you.

Works great when it works. I’ve been having issues where it goes on to it base and not charge correctly after a clean. It so annoying to come back the next day to find it has no battery to clean. And because it a pressed model the battery is on it last legs so it ability to hold a charge is limited. So no cleaning for the day it doesn’t get charged. Be thinking of changing the batteries. Thank god it easy to replace part of the robot

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Needs homekite support. Good app, but needs homekit

A growing list of software issues with the robot. While the app is generally fine, there are issues with the robot that might be related to the app because they look like they are software issues. First, the vacuum (i7) doesn’t always charge when it returns to the base. There is no notification concerning the failure of charging until it’s the time for the next job and suddenly the robot cannot fulfill the job because it is completely discharged. It is not 100% clear why it gets completely depleted, but that’s beyond the point.The point is that the vacuum doesn’t try to realign itself so that it would get charged, and I get absolutely no notifications that the charging doesn’t occur. To the date, it has happened more than once over the course of last month alone. Second, the vacuum used to know where no-go zones were. Now, it just ignores them all, no matter whether i reset them or not.

Map bug. Map run icon doesn’t show in my app. I saw screenshots of where it should be on the right side of the screen near the battery status. But it just isn’t there. Missing buttons is such a basic developer bug. Embarrassing. And leaves the roomba almost useless if I can’t map my place.

Worth the splurge. Everyone should splurge and buy a proper Roomba, it will make your life easier.. one less thing to stress about is worth the money. I put one on each floor, opted for the self emptying one with bags, as I have pets it saves me having to empty Roomba frequently. I run them 3 times a week, have had them for a few years, if they get sluggish I just replace the brushes etc and they work like brand new again. Love the app and the mapping too. I have owned previous models in the past which worked well but the self emptying is the way to go!

So far it’s been great. Love it, no issues to speak of. Good mapping, excellent app control, does a good job vacummimg.

Great features and helpful. Using the app is pretty straight forward. I like the options. There are some areas the could be better. Like speed and responsiveness of the app when teaching and completing learning. As well whenever a new area is recommended, while completing the new area and it saves, errors always occur preventing the area from being saved.

Luv the lil guy. Like the mop and vacuum option, does a very respectable job for my small home

Confusing but awesome. Not a lot of info in box but loads on YouTube

After 6 months and regular thorough cleanings not charging and acting up. After purchasing my second roomba this unit is a step back in quality and ease of maintenance compared to 10 year old unit that required a new battery every 3 years and general cleaning was much more strait forward. The app is good when it works this unit is a clear example of to many features more to go wrong.

Awesome. Works really good, more than I was expected

Best thing since coffee. Bought 2 of them and a filter brush kit

Please add siri shortcut. I want to tell siri to stop or start my irobot. App is good, but long to open and siri would fix that

No obstacle review after 2 years. Purchased the robot vacuum in 2022 and the obstacle review was not functional. No pictures are taken nor shown in the app for obstacles. Contacted support and who said they were working on it. Two years later, still waiting.

Great. Great

Good app. Works well and the product health feature is useful Some of the links for product information and instructions don’t work though

A lot better then previous iRobot. A lot better then previous iRobot

I love it. Larry is the only one around here that pulls his weight.

Constantly requires reboot. Vacuum works great but connecting to the roomba is hit and miss. No changes to my wifi network yet I often get the message on the app that it is unable to connect to the roomba and a reboot is required. Reboot resolves the issue but I should not have to keep rebooting.

iRobot. Great dust chaser

Excellent. Love it cleans every single spot I don’t have to worry

App not working consistently; device not following orders. Recently, the app has been giving me trouble. Lots of error messages. Also, I will start a job that should take 20-40 minutes. But for some reason, the device is still running more than an hour later. I once found it in a room I didn’t set it to clean. It’s becoming unpredictable and untrustworthy which is really frustrating.

Great app. I have one suggestion. It all works well. It would be nice if I could see the floor map updating live as the robot was actually in the process of the current cleaning program.

Please fix the bugs. Crashes on iphone 8 when trying to modify quick jobs. Used to crash on ipad pro, when trying to edit a map. I don’t care about new app’s esthetics, just make it work.

Fantastic helper in the home. Allows me to multi-task when cleaning

IRobot. Tino. J’aime beaucoup

Bring back the old App !. What was an amazing robot is now a lost soul ! It has no idea where it is anymore. Terrible upgrade.Very frustrated.

Good Product. Using this for a week now. Its amazing. Made my cleaning easier.

Email verification doesn’t work. Why do you need this for a user to be able to vacuum?!. The issue. It doesn’t allow you to skip email verification. Inconvenient. What does my email have to do with vacuuming….?! Anyways, this is the world we live in. I am happy to comply. I send the code. I receive it. I enter it into the app and click Verify. Spinner loading forever. No vacuuming from app for me. I tried on wifi & 5G in case its a network issue. I also tried letting it spin for 5 mins. No luck. I used to use the app and it was great. Lately it has been a nightmare so I just stopped using it. I tried again after several months and its the same issue. I went to the contact page and there is no email address to make inquiries either. Only has email options for Investor Relations and Media contacts. This makes me really sour about the whole brand. Hopefully its sorted out soon.

Works Great. Works great.

Crappy update. The older version of this app worked well. But ever since the last update, this app is garbage. It can never connect and says to try again later. Defeats the point of having it since it can never start or stop the vacuum from running.

Landscape view for iPad Pro. This app is almost perfect... can’t believe you don’t have the landscape view available for iPad... ??

Performance has declined. After 18 months of use, the robovac takes hours to charge mid-clean, gets lost and can’t find its base, randomly cleans the same area repeatedly but misses entire rooms.

Homekit. WHAT no homekit but you have amazon alexa, what the.... The most stable operating system Apple and you do not offer homekit, sorry but this is an insult to iphone users. When will it be available, you have to answer us here by giving a release date which should be this year. PLS REPLY

Excellent. The app makes using the iRobot a breeze! Easy to program schedules and even do random rooms when needed.

Old app was better. The update was not an improvement. It’s now more difficult to control roomba. The old one was clean and simple. This seems overly complicated. Bring back the old one!

Problem. The app works really slowly since many weeks, Why?????

Single okay…multiples not working. I have been enjoying the system with my first IRobot. Works great. Just tried to add a second device and it won’t work at all. No clue how to get my second device added. Frustrated.

10/10 would iRobot again. They’re cute. Like training a pet you learn to become each others best companions. I will own one for as long as I live.

Says I’m not connected to WiFi. Can’t setup because it says I’m not connected to WiFi.... when I’m connected to WiFi

Flower. Flower seems to clean areas more than once, she got a little tired in the hallway last time out and I had to put her back on her charging station. She was cleaning for over two hours and not done that for a long time. She has been slacking off but maybe she will be better next time out.

Vasu. Using roomba from last 6 years enjoying clean floor every day. I love my roomba

Works great. This app works great and is easy to use. I can configure my IRobot easily with it. One thing that would be nice is to see live what the robot has vacuumed and what has not been cleaned yet with estimated time left to do the job.

3 huge newfoundland dog home ??!. We have had our Roombas longer than we have have our 3 Newfoundlands Capone 190lbs, Chyra 160lbs, and our newest pup Congo around 70 at only 5 months! So imagine not only the fur that comes off these babies but the SAND! We live on a farm and Roomba is pretty much the ONLY reason our furry sand boxes can come in the house! Sweeping and moping would be a full time job, doing it several times a day as they come in to say good morning, come in when it might be too hot/cold, and then come in for their bedtime play and cuddles. Roomba so quickly and easily cleans each of the rooms, you wouldn't even know they had been their ! We're a 10 yr family committed to roomba having had several over the years, our latest being 5 years old runs and sucks and cleans the same as she did the first day worth every cent of the price we paid ❤️ I could really write a book on all the reasons i love Roomba but the bottom line is - It's so impressive i would like to purchase another along with the brava 😍

Not cleaning properly. In general, I am happy but sometimes I have to relocate to clean almost every!!!

Recent update messed up connection. Can’t connect to roomba with the most recent update. So annoying!

Rosie my robot vacuum. 5 stars

Real good. As in awesome, except it gets stuck a lot other than that, real good

August software update. Since my J9 updated, it’s acting extremely random and not vacuum even half the house. It seems to get lost and moves around randomly turning the suction on and off. I’ve tried hard reboots and nothing works. Driving me crazy.

Very Impressed. I’m completely impressed with how the IRobot vacuum operates and how well it captures pet hair. It’s amazing how the machine is able to negotiate obstacles and get into tight spaces to pick up hair and debris. Coming home to a clean house takes an enormous amount of pressure off and allows us to do more important things as a family. A superb product !

iRobot. We bought two, one for the main floor and the other for the upper floor. We truly enjoy our Robot, it also safe us time and clean well.

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Bin Detection. It is amazing, top of the line! This is the only self emptying robot vacuum that can detect if the dirt bin is full. The other robot vacuums continue running with a full bin not picking anything up. I can tell if we haven’t ran it in a while, it makes a few extra trips back to the self cleaning base. My first robot vacuum went in straight lines but kept going over the same area over and over. No self cleaning bin. My second robot vacuum had LiDAR technology, and showed where it was in the cleaning and what it had already cleaned. It was fun just watching it make the lines of where it’s been. Also had no go zones so rarely gets stuck. No self cleaning bin. The only thing I wished it showed where is was at during the cleaning. Also if you could remote control a portion. It’s currently in the dining room, for some reason, it tries going under the table and through the chairs even though there is a clear path to the rest of the house.

Helps Me Control Pet Hair. With three Labrador Retrievers, daily vacuuming is a must but pulling out a traditional vacuum every day does not always fit into the schedule. Scheduling the Roomba to run every morning has really made it possible to only need to deep vacuum once or twice a week. Plus, the ability to create “rooms” in the app has allowed me to create a room within a room (dog crate area within the living room), which is a tremendous help when they’re blowing out their coat. When that happens, by the end of a day, you can’t tell that their sleeping area was ever vacuumed so running it twice is helpful to control their shedding. Life in our house is definitely more pleasant with it. I also love that the app helps troubleshoot and keeps a check on when i need to service the Roomba or change out parts…otherwise this ADHD brain would likely never think about it…until maybe 2 am. There are things that aren’t “perfect”, like often hanging up on area rugs, but it’s convenience outweighs any cons by leaps and bounds. (And it’s fair to note that probably most of those cons are created by user error).

Not a toy. I’ve had it for 17 months cleaning my first floor approximately 480 sq ft of hardwood floors and numerous throw rugs. It does a good job of vacuuming up the dust and dirt. It seems it has sensors for everything because it’ll let me know when there’s a problem with it or the immediate environment it’s in. I haven’t replaced the rollers yet but they’re definitely getting worn and cut up. It learns unique things by taking pictures and asking questions about stuff in those pictures. It generates a map of where it cleaned. It can get hung up on the throw rugs if they bunch up at the edges. It’ll send out an alert to the app for help if it’s stuck. My biggest complaint is that I can put it on the charging station thinking I’ve got it set correctly only to find out the next day that the battery is dead. I’m doing better but then there’s times that the docking station goes offline and I don’t find out about it until it’s supposed to start a scheduled cleaning operation. Then I have to unplug it and wait 20 seconds and plug it back in so in initializes. I’m 73 years old and appreciate the help keeping my house clean.

Amazing Smart Home App. This is one of the best products and accompanying apps I’ve used in a long time; and most importantly, my life and time are enhanced by this little Roomba. We are still deciding a name for our Roomba, but we love that we can creatively command our Roomba with her unique name with our Alexa. Contrary to some of the other reviews we read for this app, we found the app is actually very user friendly. Connecting our Roomba to the Internet was straightforward; the graphics are very cute and the professional videos explain all the steps. It’s really one of the best end user training processes in an app I’ve seen. And if we had issues, their help section is pretty detailed (not that we’ve had issue). We were also able to link multiple user accounts to the same Roomba. So my girlfriend and I can both interact with the Roomba and not share a password. Some of the cool features we already enjoy is the maps we see after every completed clean (we have a Roomba 960), the real-time updates in what our Roomba is doing as it is doing it, the customization of a schedule for every day of the week, and the ease of using the app for what it is meant to do - get the Roomba to start and stop cleaning. As a tech person, what I find rewarding is that it performs firmware version updates over WiFi to the Roomba itself. So the actual robot software, and not just the app, are improving over time Great job iRobot! We are very happy with your product.

Great upgrade from previous models. J9 roomba combo is a great upgrade from the previous models. I have tried many robot vacuums but this one out performs the other. There is no security risk since it does not capture live videos. The height of the roomba is optimal. It can easily clean under low clearance couches, beds and other day beds. The robot works very well at medium suction and works autonomously around the house. Roomba app works very well. The navigation is great. It has not once stuck anywhere in my cleaning experience. It is not loud at all. I have placed the docking station away from my high traffic areas so that when it uploads all of the dust, I can avoid the upload noise. The mopping function is great and works very well with the Bare floor solutions that you can get from any retail shop. It leaves a nice minty smell around the house. I have named my J9 combo Buddy as it is in its true sense. Highly recommend the purchase to anyone who is looking to purchase a vacuum mop combo robot. I cannot stress enough the ease of use. This is a must have for all pet owners who have shedding buddies.

Designed to be annoying. Rebooting is a terrible experience; it seems to only work under a very specific set of circumstances: on the charger, connected to WiFi, app needs to be closed. Make sure no other phones have the app on while doing this. The device itself cannot dock itself if it has switched WiFi or has disconnected from the app in any way. Trying to make it retry connecting is impossible because the app has no controls for this; only way is to close and reopen the app. The functionality of the app is annoying: I don’t want to create “favorites” all the time; I just want to select some rooms, in a specific order, and have it run. Instead, it tries saving everything as a new job. They could have built a simple app, but instead tried making the most complicated mess they could thing of. Feature bloat with no added value. I hate the “suggestions” and ads trying to get me to buy more stuff I don’t want. The “help” takes you out of the app to generic support website; not really anything in the app like troubleshooting. I wish there was a streamlined “light” version without all the feature bloat, ads, and unfinished ideas.

I love Miss O’Malley, most of the time…. I didn’t want a robot vacuum cleaner for Christmas. I thought the technology was too new and wonky, but my spouse was determined.(I think he wanted it and Christmas was just an excuse.). I was wrong. She is the sweetest little thing with her cute little chimes and curious explorations. She’s gotten stuck a few things, but she’s training us on how to keep her working environment OSHA compliant. I have her scheduled for just less than an hour a day so she doesn’t have to lose time running home to charge. Granted, she doesn’t have the suction power of the big boys, nor can she get into square corners or pull out her hose to pick up straw or leaves tracked in, but she is faithful to get up every morning and complete her task without grousing. She works everyday while her behemoth cousin is dragged out of the closet every two weeks or so, grumbling over the floor and scaring the cats. The cats track her everywhere she goes and she runs them down on occasion, but I think she’s just playing their game. No, they don’t get on and ride. Addendum: Well, she has her problems. She gets lost on occasion and runs out of battery. She doesn’t always adhere to her schedule and tends to go back over the den multiple times. She’s having an affair with my husband’s chair and tries to tuck under it anytime she makes a pass near it. Sometimes, she will come all the way from the far bedroom to cozy up to it and then return to her scheduled run. She got stuck under it once and has had this weird obsession ever since. She is throwing errors and has been reset soooo many times. But she is still doing a good job of cleaning and is cheery about it, though she is a bit of a drama queen and demands a lot of attention. I’m still glad we made the purchase.

iPhone iRobot app. I love the app! Tells me everything I need to know about robot how to correct minor problems with it. This is the second iRobot I’ve owned and I’m happy to say that the app updated to me the requirements for the second one. The iRobot eight works so much betterthan my series 7 robot in picking up hair for my hairy dog. only problem is that it has developed a wine that is quite annoying. Since I purchased it through Costco, I’ve been tempted to take it back to them and exchange it. I just have not done so. I’m now on my third iRobot. It seems to be a bit noisier than the second one, but at least it has no whine. Interestingly, it sometimes leaves clumps of dog hair like the first one and some of the same spots, but thank heaven, not as many. I’ve had it about two weeks and we’re getting along just fine. I do wish you could figure out a way that a dog hair would not rap around the spindles for the rollers underneath the gray caps. I think once that were resolved some of the headache of having to clean those rollers would be abbreviated.

Iboto. I had an older Roomba that did a great job but the way my house is configured the unit had a hard time finding “home”. This new unit does the entire house and during the cleaning process when the battery gets low it docks itself, recharges and continues where it left off. You can literally set, cancel, or change the time you want the unit to start (and if necessary, you can stop the unit remotely with your phone app.). It does a great job. I use it everyday and I am amazed how much cat hair and dirt Roomba collects every time. Since I’ve begun using this product (remember I had one before the 960) my carpets look much better and I feel confident they are much cleaner. I have eight cats that are in and out all day and sleep inside at night. I don’t know how I made it without my “Roomie”as I call it. The only two short comings I’ve found are when the iboto cloud is down you cannot operate it remotely and the floor needs to be free of cat toys. They will easily get stuck between the rollers and stop the machine. I plan to buy the kitchen floor cleaner/mop next.

Roomba is great, the app is not. I’ve had my roomba for about 2 years and love it, however, the app is another story. It is consistently glitchy and unresponsive, often taking an unusually long time to load and register taps. This has been the case for me over multiple devices, networks, app versions, etc. My friends who have roombas have experienced the same. Also, (coming from a designer) too many UX/UI elements are overly complicated and clunky. For instance, why does it take a minimum of 3 taps to toggle between # of vacuum passes? It should only take 1 tap. Often it takes even more since the app is glitchy and unresponsive. This is just one minor example, but is representative of an overall frustrating user experience, especially considering that this is an app from a major company for a higher end product. It seems that fundamental details in the app have been ignored while priority is given to adding “advanced” features that in real life make the app bloated and the experience even more awkward and slow since none of the features load or respond efficiently. I hope all of this is eventually addressed so that the app experience can be at the level of the physical product itself.

Very unimpressed. Okay. So I got a new roomba 800 yesterday because I’m lazy and I hate vacuuming. And the box said that it could connect to an app on WiFi? So I’m like “yes. The epitome of laziness. I don’t have to bend down to press the clean button. I just have to click a button on my phone” so I downloaded the app. And started it up. It’s like “okay. Find a place for roomba with a strong WiFi connection and a clean area” so I did just that. Then it asked me to name my roomba. I named it stabby. And then it asked me to press the home and the button with a plus sign with a circle on it at the same time for two seconds and I’ll hear a noise. I pressed the buttons. No noise but it did turn on so I continued forward. It told me to look for a roomba/iRobot thing in the WiFi settings on my phone. So I did. But nothing showed up. So I tried pressing the buttons again for two seconds. Nothing. I tried for ten minutes. Still nothing. I moved right next to the router. And tried for another 20. Nothing. So I said “you know what. It’s midnight. I’m tired. Let’s do this in the morning.” So I did. When I pulled up the app, it told me that the app was down and to try again later. I did. And I didn’t get any farther than I did yesterday. So I put my roomba on a test run. Lil stabby works like a charm. This app is a dud. Save yourself a few wasted hours and don’t download it.

Love my Roomba but needs improvement.. I have a dog that sheds…a lot! And my Roomba helps me keep up. It does a pretty good job but doesn’t replace vacuuming and mopping completely. It does well on hard floors but just okay on rugs and mine are low. Some improvements are needed. The mopping function requires changing the mopping pads frequently otherwise it gets dirty and spreads the dirt. It also requires frequent filling of cleaning solution and the app doesn’t alert me when the solution is empty. It does not replace regular mopping as it does a mediocre job. It also gets lost while mopping and vacuuming at the same time. So, I no longer use the mopping function. The app is pretty good but it would be nice for the app to tell me what it has completed when it goes back to charge. The battery is not great. It doesn’t last very long so it takes the Roomba 4 hours to clean about 800 square feet. It has to go back to recharge 3 times for this area. Overall I’m glad I have it but because of the improvements needed, I think it’s much too overpriced.

real iPad app please. It doesn’t matter how well this app works, any iPad app that only works in portrait mode gets no more than 3 ⭐️, so that’s its start value. If that seems harsh, I’d ask the developers to try using it while attached to a Smart Keyboard. I have other apps that do nothing more than flip the display 90º when in landscape orientation. It’s not much but at least it’s readable. That said, with regards to function, I’ve already wished I could tell it to cancel a session immediately. So far I can just pause and it tells me how long I have to wait before it’s cancelled. It also doesn’t seem to have the updated name for my device (just calls it Roomba, which is not its name). The name shows up in a lot of places, but not in the data for my registered devices. I also would like the option of some notifications. I have a multi-story house and would like a notification (preferably controlled in the job/favorite itself) that tells me when it’s done on another floor so I can get it and put it back on its base, or do another floor. I realize that some people wouldn’t want these bugging them at work but that’s why it needs to be a setting with the job definition — I too don’t want to see notifications when a job completes on the floor where the base is.

What an upgrade!. My first encounter with an iRobot involved a remanufactured 600 series vacuum. I was amazed at the amount of debris that little guy would pickup with every job. Unfortunately it did not survive an encounter with a “surprise” my little terrier left in a hidden corner. My next iRobot was another 600 series, also remanufactured and it also worked at or above my expectations. It did not survive an attack by that same little dog. After observing the cleaning ability of more advanced models, I decided to upgrade to a j7 and wow, like two different machines rather than with just minor improvements designed to tempt customers to buy another. It does what it promises to do and the differences between my early models and this model were and are still astounding. I won’t go into all of the great abilities this newer model demonstrates since it’s not my job to help sell these things, but I will say I am more than just satisfied but I will not live in a house by myself again without one of these little extra smart guys helping me.

Automatic Cleaning. I can’t give 5 stars because it’s not perfect. It can never find its way back from one of the rooms in my home, and sometimes it can’t figure out how to get there either. However, this is a night and day improvement over the traditional method of vacuuming. Telling Alexa to clean the mess by the coach and then watching it happen is like something out of the Jetsons and far more likely to happen then the alternative; me getting off the couch, walking downstairs to the utility closet, carrying the vacuum upstairs, finding the closest outlet, cleaning the mess, emptying the bin, and finally returning the vacuum to the closet. In other words I can 100% overlook the occasional error or issue where I might have to “rescue” Roomba and bring it back to its home, in exchange for more frequent cleaning that is actually kind of fun to watch. Even moving it downstairs once a week to get the bedrooms seems really easy (and for some reason even though it’s larger and there are more rooms downstairs it never gets stuck). It could be proximity to the router. It seems to know pretty quickly that you have moved the home base though and it keeps track on the correct map.

Great little machine. I bet that the very first o r when they came out years ago. To my surprise, the battery died, they sent me a brand new vacuum. Husband got the vacuum in the divorce. Lol. I debated over the self empty and the there options. It’s not hard to empty bin but why not let it do for. It is designed to give you more time and less chores. The machine is great. I live 2 blocks from the beach and even after kicking shoes, we still get sand in house. I tried a test. You swept the home, Vinny laminate planks, and swept it into a dust pan. The. I Floors felt good to walk on barefoot. The I let, Robby, my vacuum do it’s thing. It picked up so much stuff. Wow! I still had stuff on floors. Ps I have 2 birds that constantly throw food or it spills seed all vet floor. Headache! Now I don’t have to deal with that. I also have a rug and front and back doors and an area rug in living room and he vacuums them with zero problems. I also bought the met but I haven’t set up to use it. I think I’ll do it tonight. I hope it’s as good as the vacuum. 💯❤️💯❤️

Like hiring your grandma to help you clean your house. The best thing about the iRobot app is that it’s attached to a Roomba. If other options existed, I’d go with those without looking at the reviews, but this is what we got, so I’m going to make the best of it. The strengths of the app lie in its mapping and scheduling system. Those are on point. Beyond that, there aren’t many other strengths. Here are some: the app glitches all the time, like it can’t refresh itself; it disconnects from the roomba all the time, so when I give it non-scheduled instructions for my Roomba from when I’m not home, I’m never really certain that the roomba will respond; it doesn’t communicate that the notifications to replace Roomba parts, like filters, are set on a countdown of days and not sensors, which means my Roomba might need a filter replacement sooner rather than later (‘cause my house is like a magnet for all the dust and fur in my neighborhood apparently); and even the shipping side of the app (you’d think they’d pay attention to this one), doesn’t work for me at all so I have to purchase parts from online retailers (we all know which one). Anyway, if I focus on the negatives, I’d be miserable since I love my Roomba, so I do my best.

Worth the investment.. My wife and I had talked about a new Roomba for some time. Our old, and still working unit is a push button start. Having the ability to set up zones, keep out areas, assign zone names to the rooms, and schedule cleaning in different areas has been a huge time saver. We have two large dogs that shed. There is no carpeting downstairs, and we are very fortunate to have ample square footage on the main level We have a three foot dust mop that we had to use every two days, along with a Hyla(Swedish version of a Rainbow) vacuum every 5-7 days because we always forgot to hit the start button on our way out. Putting the Roomba on schedule has dramatically increased the lack of fur found in the floors(intended purpose). We now dust mop every week and run the Hyla every 12-15 days. My wife is extremely pleased with this, and that makes me happy. The app monitors the system and has even auto shipped new bags to us. Just be ready when it empties the onboard bin, it’s like a mini jet engine taking off.

Great robot.. Upgraded from an iRobot S7+{?). We were real happy for iRobot’s excellent customer care and quality of parts. Using real iRobot parts, but I’m a cheapskate and try to used cheaper parts when possible. Unfortunately, replacement parts from generic manufacturers don’t always work so I’m buying iRobot arts more and more often. We upgraded to the s7 combo plus. This one has a high cool factor in that the mop is integrated into the vacuum and drops under the machine and it then proceeds to mop the smooth floor. The machine can tell when it is on a moppable floor and won’t deploy if it detects a carpet. If you want to clean and double mop the floor, it’s as easy as changing the preferences for a floor. We have tried several different soaps and waxes and have found it best to use the wax/soap sparingly. That saves the floor from getting sticky the shoe soles on your feet. If you want to clean it and remove the stickiness, simply add a bit more water and mop again. In brief, this is a well-designed device with plenty of power to do a good job that looks clean and fresh.

As of Cyber Monday, app is broke.... I contacted customer support and have been trying to get this set up for hours. Rep told me to do certain things in an app on my iPhone 11 with the latest iOS, such as select the menu in the top left, and I have no ability to. I cannot connect my iRobot Roomba 960 I just bought to WiFi either using an Apple Airport router on 2.4Ghz after turning off the 5Ghz. I’m an intelligent guy and I’m sure your customer support is too, and they said everything would work if I switched to 2.4Ghz and that’s not the case. The app tells me to connect to WiFi (when I already am). Initially it was done on 5Ghz but I got same issue on 2.4Ghz. If I hold down home and other button to have Roomba 960 emit WiFi, I can join that and hear “you are connected to Roomba, please continue in iRobot home app”. Guess what happens? I get into the app and it gives me the error that “robot cannot be added”. The app itself, even after closing and re-downloading multiple times, ALWAYS brings me to the “Add Robot” screen. There is nowhere else for me to go or try. I can’t be the only one with this issue. Please fix this or I’ll send the item right back, and judging from your recent drop in share price and your financial statements, the last thing you need is revenue revoked and more inventory. Please fix this ASAP. It’s pretty much useless until then and I seriously will just return it and buy a Shark. Edit: saw someone else say they shut down iPhone so I tried and it worked afterwards. Looks like it is related to a bug in iOS. I contacted customer service and asked them to put up the notice for others cause I literally spent 3-4 hours on this adjusting extraordinarily unnecessary settings on my computer and router for a bug.

Where are the diagnostic errors in the app?. Took one star off because although I get the error notifications on my phone (push notifications) I would expect to go into the app and be able to retrieve the error that way and get more information. Although the actual robot is with my elderly mom, I have the app so I can start it when I know she’s not home. It also allows me to get notified when there’s an error so I can fix it when I visit (for example the roller got tangled with something). But since I might not address the error right away (I don’t live with her) I ignore the notification that comes up. Few days later when I’m at her house, I expect to go into the history of the app and find the error and troubleshooting information but I can’t find it anywhere. I actually just wanted to report this or talk to someone in app support but all the support contacts lead to the roomba device support not the app support. Just seems like something that I’m missing. The app obviously has the information, I can see it in the push notifications. Why is it not available in the app under history or some other logical area?

Rambo. Absolutely love them, I have 2 of them , one upstairs (older model need to empty myself) and this one. Once in awhile my Rambo gets confused and heads off doing something different than what I suggested, however we don’t always have the most efficient spectrum wifi as neither has any of our neighbors so I’m thinking it’s that. I’m going to be seventy in may and I’m very persnickety about my house cleaning and both are on my top list when I suggest to friends and family. I actually have a Shark that empties itself, it is now only doing my foyer area on the ground floor and many days I have to run it several time for it to do a decent job, unfortunately I have degenerative disc disease and I’m not able to do vacuuming myself, I am hoping in the future to be able to afford the third one for the downstairs foyer. Very hard these days when prices keep going up I would definitely give both even though my one I bought I have to empty five stars.

Better than expected, I am impressed.. This little guy really does keep the floor clean. You can leave debris on the floor and the next day the floor is clean again. It is unexpectedly thorough and aggressive, always trying to hit all the parts of the room it can reach. It even cleans behind the main sofa where it just barely fits between the sofa and wall. It has an unusual hatred of one our electronic picture frames, gliding under the tight space under the side table and pulling the frame’s power cable until the frame is disconnected. It’s kinda funny coming home from work to find the picture frame disconnected. Doesn’t do that with any other item such as laptops or printer. It also gets stuck inside the guest bathroom as it circles around behind the door and inadvertently shuts the door closed. We have to remember to leave that door closed or it will go inside and be trapped every time. The most impressive part for me is the way it navigates the dining room table and all 6 chairs like a boss. No matter how the chairs are arranged from the night before, it finds a way around everything and keeps the floor clean. It’s so nice eating barefoot without your feet stepping on food particles from the night before. It also accurately mapped the entire first floor, about 1500 square feet, including pantry and laundry room. It takes about three to four sessions to get the entire floor-plan clean. It will do a portion then go back to base, unload, recharge, then go back and continue until everything has been cleaned. Impressive.

Somewhat Disappointed. Six months after my previous review when I had a worthless vacuum after upgrading from my ten year old model. My son tackled the problem and realized that our WiFi had been setup with a dash in the name. Apparently, the iRobot app must have updated not to accept characters in the WiFi name - my son changed the name of our WiFi and it’s working perfectly. This was after six months of discussions with the company and their IT Specialists who decided to send a new robot (which didn’t work either) and our purchase of another full size vacuum. I still prefer the iRobot to the other brand I tried. Previous Review: I’ve had a Roomba for many years and six months ago upgraded to the j7. I have been without a vacuum for over a month after the app stopped connecting to the robot. I have opened many cases by email, talked with the representative(s) by phone and just keep being told someone will contact me “soon”. I wouldn’t recommend this product to anyone at this point. The app is worthless!!!

pretty awesome. we have had a few robot vacuums. we had the roomba and it did pretty good but pet hair from our two dogs would keep causing it to error and we would have to untangle the hair from the brushes/rollers ever few minutes so it would resume. we moved to a shark (since the reviews were so high and it was cheaper) and its been the worse robot vacuum ever. the schedule would say vacuum every day at 9am and it would never work. it got caught on the simplest of things. called support which was very friendly but a waste of time as they walk u through resetting back to factory and starting over (which didn't fix it) so we gave it away. this iRobot works awesome with the dog hair. does an excellent job of getting in corners. it only cleans our hardwood floors. ONLY complaint is battery only lasts (on avg) 40min. and not a fan of having to replace the vacuum base bags because they are not cheap but again, not perfect as it does get hung on a few things but it at least tries to untangle itself. i would recommend to any of my friends or family.

Lil critter is amazing. In 2 story home, do 1 map of all rooms on 1st level, then block off top of staircase and do separate map on 2nd level and designate stairs as Keep Out Zone so Roomba won’t fall down stairs. If you label each room, you can set up automatic cleaning for each room separately or have option to do everywhere at once, and can use app to clean a room immediately. Roomba messages you when it finishes. Roomba doesn’t merge maps, so if you map each level (or room) separately, you need to actually take Roomba to where you started the mapping and it will end up there when done - it won’t go back to dock. Roomba shifts easily from floor to carpet to fringe-less rugs. While mapping, it doesn’t show Roomba icon but if it did then it would help me later designate Keep Out Zones (such as plant stands, pet water bowl, along hearth). It makes a lot of noise for about 3 seconds to empty the bin because the motor must push the dirt up into the bin, and this would be quieter and easier on motor if the bin was floor height. The app shows how many hours are left on the air filter and cloth dirt bag.

Horrible product and terrible customer service. Our Roomba was a mid-range model, so not the cheapest. It hasn’t worked properly since we got it out of the box. The biggest problem is that we have mapped a regularly scheduled job and it often times only does one or two of the rooms and states the job is finished in the app. There are a myriad of other problems that would take too much time to write down. We initially called customer service, and the person helping me did some troubleshooting and admitted that there were errors that didn’t make any sense to him, so he was going to refer us to have the product sent in for repair or replacement. When someone did the follow up to start that process, they wanted to go through all the trouble shooting again, which was exactly the same thing the first person did, but then told me that there was nothing wrong and refused to go through the process. So we now have been living with a product that doesn’t work and is outside of the warranty. Just one more big complaint, it has a massive amount of trouble with thresholds and getting stuck all the time. I can’t say enough bad things about this product or the company.

Slow, clunky bad app.. While iRobot has good designs for their devices, the app needs serious work. It is insanely slow to load or save any settings. Trying to edit the map is infuriating. Every change takes 30-60 seconds. It needs to periodically updated because the borders will drift over time and your room dividers become inaccurate. Sometimes you get the perfect straight edge position and save it and the map automatically puts it as some horrible angle, so you have to start over... Or you edit and existing divider and upon saving it a duplicate is made so now you have two rooms overlapping each other. You should be able to make all changes at once quickly in app then push all the changes once instead of one at a time. Also the room dividers span across the house. So any kind of non-square room or floor plan causes problems and you have to split rooms in two (e.g. Dining Room 1 and Dining Room 2 - two halves to one real Dining Room) and make a combination of clean zones just to have one room cleaned correctly. Lastly changing a room dividers will also sometimes randomly delete a separate nearby divider, messing up your labels. This also ruins your schedule by the way. Bad design.

Had been great but…. ... after changing my robot schedules this morning, now I can’t seem to edit schedules anymore. I can add new items to the schedule, but cannot see what is there or make changes to it. After a call to Support, were they had me try rebooting the robots and that didn’t work, I was told my only choice supposed to do a factory reset. Unfortunately, that throws away all of my cleaning maps, scheduling information, room names, zones… You get the idea. What a major pain in the backside! Dear iRobot: please read what I wrote before you respond. I DID reach out to your support staff. THEY told me my only choice was to do a factory reset, which I did. Then I spent the next day or two retraining the robots to relearn the house, relabeling all my rooms, and rebuilding my schedules. As I said, a major pain in the backside! With so many people reporting similar problems, have you guys looked at your app to find the source of these issues? One more data point for you: I noticed that after getting everything redone, the app kept crashing. Fortunately, it did not throw away all my new work.I also needed to delete one of the room lines I created, because apparently your app crashed if I tried editing the schedule containing more than six or seven rooms.

Pretty convenient. The first roomba I had stopped picking up well, after trouble shooting with the company we decided to have a new one sent out. Dealing with the company is great. The vaccum itself had been wonderful until it didn’t pick up well. Trouble shooting is all common sense and took forever on the phone, but they were just trying to help. The new Roomba doesn’t pick up well on my rug where the dogs usually lay. I have tried to run it twice and even vaccumed with my stick vaccum in the morning while using the roomba in the evening (I have dogs so the hair built back up a little). I believe it is refurbished as that is the only reason it would be different than the first. I am highly disappointed with this. The first one would make my rug look amazing after one session. I’m not calling back the company because I don’t even know what to say at this point and to go through the trouble shooting process while possibly ending up with another problem is not something I want to do. It does pick up “pretty”well in most areas so I don’t know. Another thought to add is I would HIGHLY suggest to spring for the extra accessory of self clean. I wish I had.

Tempted, but have questions. Amazon’s threatened purchase of iRobot meant that a security and privacy conscious person could no longer buy any Roombas. I read on Engadget that iRobot is pivoting to an Apple-like respect for our person data, and that one can operate the app without connecting it to any cloud services — this is my dream, and the new iPhones have plenty of computing power. In fact, computer chips are incredibly powerful now compared to the rockets that got us to the moon, surely they can navigate my house without calling mom? I even have a permanent Home Hub Apple TV that manages my smart home. My dream: complete robot autonomy, the robot can call out when stuck and respond with bells when I am trying to locate it. It needs no app or internet and communicates, like Tinkerbell, with chimes. Can we operate the new Roombas with zero internet connection? Or will they be crippled, dumber than a $100 Eufy?

We love Molly. I named my iRobot Roomba Molly. She vaccines well but I do have to check on her as she has a tendency to get stuck under my recliner or pick up a belt , scarf, or dog pull toy, and drag it around with her.... We try to do a walk around the house to make sure the floors are free of anything she shouldn’t pick up. We also check and clean the filter at least once while she is vacuuming. We have a large hairy dog and she picks up every last hair off the floor! If I could do it over again, I’d buy the Roomba that can self emptying because it would return to its base when the bin needed to be emptied. With Molly, she stops wherever she is and alerts us by making a sound and sending a message via the app to my phone . Then we have to go find her . A minor inconvenience but nothing that makes me want to give her up for adoption ☺️I’ve scheduled Molly to vacuum every afternoon at 12:30. If I want her to run earlier or later or even not at all, I can reprogram her via the app from where ever I am, work, the store, another state, etc. I love her!

So good!. I had a roomba for a few years and it never worked right. It got stuck under the dishwasher a million times, it might have re-homed itself 1 in 200 tries (almost never), and was impossible to manually put on the charger. It would say the bin was full when there was nothing in it, except dog hair clogged on the way into it the bin, it never finished a job, it ignored the ‘invisible walls’, and I could go on. I returned it to Costco even though it was very beat up. Kudos to Costco for taking it back, even years later cause it sucked! This new one is AMAZING! It doesn’t do any of the things wrong the old one did. When it says the bin is full, it’s really full! It re-homes itself almost every time. And it goes back and charges itself for a while, then finishes the job. Never knew it was supposed to do that! I have nothing good to say about the older model, and it was so bad that i can’t believe how great this newer one works. Great job Roomba on the new models! I love it!

Very responsive, but two tiny problems.. I have had my Roomba Combo j5+ for a while now and I want to say it is amazing along with the app that tells me what part of my house it has cleaned. The only 2 problems I am facing is: 1. When adding a task to your Favorites, and you toggle the “Clean Everywhere” to on, it doesn’t let you start the task, even when the roomba is ready to vacuum. It would normally give you the option to put a time limit on the robot as well when the “clean everywhere” toggle is set to “on” but I don’t see that on my iPhone. 2. Along with favorites, you cannot control how many “Passes” the robot does in a room. This is when you are adding to favorites or if you are asking the robot to clean the space right then and there. This is only happening on my iPhone, my iPad is fine, everything works like intended. I believe it is because of the software version my phone is on, and the app is probably not up to date. My phone is on IOS 17.4 If the developers can please fix this, that would be great! Thank you!

Not what I expected. The convenience of a smart vacuum is nice when you think about it but the areas that accumulate the most dirt and dust are areas the vacuum can’t/won’t get to but that is not a negative of the equipment. The negatives I have to point out is that when doing research for automated vacuums the main reason I went with this model was because i found it was the best at handling animal hair. That was found out to be not as expected. If this device handles animal hair the best I don’t want to know what other products do. This vacuum just wraps the hair around the spinning brush and spits out clumps of hair everywhere, that’s if it doesn’t just make a big knot and get stuck. Then if just compiles layers of hair on the main rollers such as a normal vacuum does and within a few minutes of vacuuming it needs to be cleaned. When I have to maintenance the vacuum every 2-5 minutes it pretty much cancels out the fact of it being automated. The vacuum always tells me “empty the bin” when I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to empty itself. I have had this vacuum replaced once due to lack of suction and ability to do a proper clean without spitting hairballs all over my house. It has not solved the problem and seems to be just a design flaw or a marketing mistake that it can handle animal hair.

Love my 2 robots, Ferguson (960) & Philippe s+. After moving into a larger house, I decided to get another Roomba (s+ with automatic disposal.) Ferguson is at least 5 years old and still does a fantastic job! I decided to have Ferguson clean the Master suite with foyer and bathroom. I honestly can’t say anything negative! Philippe is newer, purchased only a few months ago. At first I had a little trouble. It was very difficult for it to map the house even with every light on. I had a 1.5” 8 x 10 rug in which it constantly got stuck. Since I couldn’t make a keep out zone yet… I was frustrated. I contacted customer service thinking I was going to return it.. but my helper told me exactly what to do and could see my robot’s mapping system. I reset the robot and removed the rug for now. It did a great mapping job and now I’m giving it a few days of “vacuum everywhere “ and will then put up my keep out zone. Very nice not to have to empty the bin after each run. Thanks!

Most people on here are reviewing the actual iRobot hardware. The app is 100% garbage.. I love the iRobot. It doesn’t absolutely fantastic job. I have no complaints whatsoever with the physical robot that is in my house. However, the app is absolutely terribly developed. Not one thing on the app is intuitive. The app is absolutely littered with bugs. And if they’re not bugs, then the app is so unintuitive that after nine months of using it, I still can’t figure some things out and I am a very tech literate guy. As an example, you absolutely cannot delete schedules. You can modify schedules, but you cannot delete them, the way I found to delete my schedules when I wanted to change was to delete the app delete all the data for the app and reinstall the app. A note to the developers if there is a way to delete them, let me know. Additionally, it seems that now I can’t create new schedules either, my schedule button only gives me the option to run the Roomba when I leave the house. Every other button is gray. Here’s another bug, it’s hit or miss if it shows you the dirt event locations on the map. I am using a Roma 960 so there are certain parts of the app that don’t apply to me such as zones and mapping and for the most part the app does what it needs to do but I’ve had way way more success just linking it to my automation and not dealing with the app. It does the schedules way better, it alerts me way better. I can’t stress enough that my problem is not with the hardware which works fantastic and everybody should have a robo vac because it’s unbelievable how much dirt it picks up every day. come on developers fix known bugs that people are complaining about from three years ago.

Expensive, but worth every last penny!. This little guy is so amazing! Once he/she gets used to the layout of your home, you rarely have to vacuum or sweep. Pair it with the Braava jet, and it’s a wrap. The Braava jet is a little special at times in terms of navigation, mapping, and returning home. The vacuum is relatively quiet, but if you are not a heavy sleeper, I don’t recommend programming him/her to clean at night. The Braava jet is very quiet and I have not experienced the streaking that the other reviews mention. Or maybe since my floors are clean, I don’t mind if I can see tracks on the floor in the light. If the Roomba gets stuck on anything like the edge of a blanket or carpet, he can get him/herself unstuck more often than not. Just make sure you pick up any cords on the floor. The app is intuitive and interactive. You can program your fleet to clean by room, by area, and also schedule time. They also can be programmed to start when you leave the house! Amazing.

Good vacuum, software not great. I’ve owned an i3 and an i7 for about 2 and a 1/2 years. Our biggest complaint with the i3 was its inability to remember an obstacle such as an in floor air return and it would get stuck on it every few days. We bought the i7 6 months after the i3 in hopes that it’s “intelligent, learning” abilities would recognize places it has gotten stuck and avoid them. I can say after 2 years the robot is no smarter than the i3. Our i3 has been less problematic as a whole. The only noticeable difference is the i7 more accurately identities a given room. Short of that, the i7 makes the same strange choices the i3 does, gets stuck in the same place the i3 did and avoids/navigates no better. Had I known this 2 years ago, I would not have bought the i7. We continue to enjoy our 2 Roomba’s though are uncertain we would buy another if one of the two dies. The J7 appears to navigate in-floor based obstacles the same as the i7 and we keep a tidy house so the obstacle avoidance AI isn’t a needed feature for us. These are good robots. We used to own Neato products who did have better navigation skills but were deeply unreliable.

Never buying another product from this company. I created an account after downloading the app under the assumption that my wife would be able to share the device with me but it doesn’t work that way. We’d have to have one account logged into 2 phones. It’s 2022, eufy (a competitor) already does this. I then found on Reddit that iRobot used to allow device sharing but the company stopped doing it about a year ago. So…I guess we can login my app into my wife’s account? I work from home but she doesn’t. The alternative is texting her to turn the vacuum on. It’s such a simple thing to do for the company. I’m a software engineer. This is one database table that joins a user record to a device record. It’s almost trivial to implement and an obvious benefit to the end user. The fact they had it and removed it means there is some other underlying reason for taking it away from their customers. It’s not cost. That database table is too simple and small. I don’t know why they made this decision but this is our first iRobot device and I’m committing to never owning another. Now I’m looking forward to the day it dies so I can throw it away and delete iRobot’s existence from our lives. Yes, it’s a very small thing and I’m more put out by it than I should be. But if they’re doing this then what else are they going to get wrong or take away later? What happens when they decide to axe our model from their software to try and force us to buy another despite the product still functioning well? Good consumers and producers are thoughtful about their relationship. This company missed the mark on something small but meaningful. So their app gets a bad review from me.

Terrible app. There isn’t a day that goes by using roomba and its companion app that doesn’t cause issues. The app is so laggy and not super intuitive at all. For a while I was having issues with mapping, so I ran the mapping feature and for at least 5 runs the map wasn’t saving after at least 3 hours of running. Running a command on the app has at least a min or 2 delay. There’s constantly connectivity errors when no WiFi issues are present on any other device. The reboot feature is terrible and there is literally no way to actually tell if the device has rebooted, or if it’s currently rebooting. The roomba itself constantly needs fixing and once it’s stuck, it’s game over for the run. It’ll be confused on its location and spend the next hour trying to find the dock. A simple 15min run turns into an hour. Forget having any kind of small rugs, or furniture with flat bases. Or furniture with legs, it gets stuck on everything. I don’t understand why the roomba software itself hasn’t been updated in year and half. Half of these issues can be fixed with a software and firmware updates. The only good part is that it’s pretty good at picking up pet hair, loose dirt, and kitty litter.

It’s just roams around the house exploring and cleaning at the same time. It makes me laugh I watch this thing exploring my place discovering things and it’s kind like a little animal like a pet in a way. But it does do what it supposed to do it cleans the house it goes over my carpet and cleans the carpet once in a while it gets in the trouble and he gets snagged up onto a wire or he gets caught in some sort of situation that I can’t get out of and you might need to give it a little helping hand here and there. But I think overtime the iRobot company will improve its algorithm to make the machine behave a little bit more appropriately to get itself out of strange situationsLike getting caught in the situation where it can’t get out of which is extremely rare. I look at as it he work in progress. Anyway I really like the machine. I have given it four out of five stars just because I know we can always have the machine improved with his algorithm. Otherwise I would give it five stars just to say that it works just fine it cleans the house and I’m satisfied with it.

Better than expected. My husband ask for iRobot roomba for Christmas. He has everything and grown kids happy to have an idea. He has a large Rottweiler that lives with him in his man cave. He has to vacuum rest of house ( over 3000 sq ft) once a week because of all the black dog hair. It’s been an ongoing problem since he brought the dog home. He decided this roomba was his answer. He had raved about it since he got it, decided I needed one for the rest of the house(knowing it might quiet me about the dog hair), I thought he was just trying to get out of vacuuming. He went to Costco brought me my own. I have furniture everywhere. Plants, throw rugs, I really didn’t think this would work for me. I have got to say, I am shocked at how well this thing works! She goes around everything! I am loving her! I have scheduled her to vacuum 3x a week. She even goes back to her base to empty her bin! I still get out my old vacuum to do behind doors and closets, but this girl goes under tables, beds, she is very thorough. If you are on the fence, don’t be. I’m extremely happy with my purchase. My husband is too!

Good but there is a BUG. I have owned several roombas over the years. I recently purchased a 675 during Black Friday. This was the first roomba I owned that could connect to WiFi and be controlled by this app. Recently, I noticed that the battery indicator about the “Clean” button within the app showed the battery level a little less than 50%. Initially, I thought that maybe this roomba may just need a long time to charge, and the bar wouldn’t move until the roomba was on its charger for a while. After a night of charging (and it said it was charging), the battery level indicator within the app was at the same level. I thought maybe the roombas battery was defective, but I ran it for a full job (around and hour and 45 minutes) with no issues. So after that, I believe that there is a bug in the app which doesn’t show the true battery level of the robot. I really enjoy the roomba app and the bot itself, but hope this can be fixed. I typically decide how frequently to use the roomba based on battery life, and my new 675 doesn’t have a flashing battery light when sitting on the charger like some of the older models I have owned. iRobot, please fix this issue. Other than this, the product is great.

App needs work but very close!. I love the i8 and mapping, especially the ability to create keep-out zones which eliminate the need for the infrared towers. The app has a few issues that I’d love to see fixed, however. The biggest problem I’m having is when Roomba encounters an issue; I open the app to try to see what it is, and the app places a banner across the bottom third of the screen forcing me to choose if I want to resume or cancel the current job. The problem with this is that the banner gives me no clue as to what’s wrong, and it’s covering the options I need to click to figure out what the problem is and fix it. I’m then forced to cancel the job prematurely. When I start Roomba up again, it starts from the beginning of the cleaning cycle, and in a large home this is a waste of battery life and a big annoyance. This really needs to be fixed in the next update. A small annoyance is how the map will zoom out suddenly when setting up a new zone; very counterintuitive and unpleasant, since you’re usually zoomed in close to focus on the zone when you set it up. Also, even small modifications to the room dividers will cause the app to switch the names of the rooms adjacent to the divider (or remove the names entirely) so you have to go back and rename them when you’re done. And I’m not sure why, but the app deletes any schedule you’ve set up, if you make any modifications to the room dividers...even if you’re just straightening an angled divider in a way that makes no functional difference to the map or the schedule. It’s also difficult to find the option for training runs, as it’s buried in a not very intuitive place that you wouldn’t think to look when you’re setting up a new Roomba. Overall I’m really impressed with how close the map matched my home layout after only a few days of runs. I really think with some modifications, this could be a first-class app.

i3+ adequate tech, messy UI. The i3+ is our 4th Roomba, started with a 460, I believe. The vacuuming and self-emptying works great on our hardwood, carpet, and tile. Getting the beta mapping was nice, and worked out to map and schedule with a few hiccups. We set ours to do the kitchen area and one other room each day, so each day’s tasks get done on one charge. No pets, no kids, and not a lot of movement of furniture or other obstacles, so mapping works well. The UI of the app leaves a lot to be desired - would be nice to have landscape mode on an iPad, for example, and the layout of the interface is both very busy and hard to navigate. We don’t need a photo of a Roomba on the home screen taking up half the screen to know what the app is for! The widgets for interaction seem to have been added ad-hoc, having 6 different formats on one screen. House-cleaning should not be adventure quest, where the user has to poke, tap, swipe, and double-click every object on a screen to see if it might do something useful. Find a designer who has read Don Norman, and do it all better! /rant

Great App & Robo-vac System. Very impressed so far with this vacuuming system and app. Running the j7 currently and have a backup i3 for my second level. Have it all hooked up via Alexa too which is nice and one of the more detailed “skills” I have ever used. Seems like iRobot continues to add features and improve upon their software pretty regularly. Be patient as your Roomba learns your house, it will truly get “smarter” as it covers more ground and gets in the swing of things: Becoming more practical than it is just out of the box. I ended up buying my in-laws a 600 series as well for Xmas since I was so impressed. I have disabilities and this saves me a lot of physical pain from using a manual vac. I will say though, If you plan on buying something more than the 600 series, skip i3 and go to j7. The 600 is great for feeling around your smaller apartment or home, but the mapping in the j7 is a game changer if you got the coin to upgrade- little benefit of going ‘’middle of the road” model I’ve found. Overall though, I’ve been very impressed with all iRobot hardware & software I’ve tried, especially my j7!

Brought rugs back to life.. When I first got itI stayed with father in between construction jobs. I got it to help him clean the house floors and rugs while I’m not there. I set it up and let it go. It would fill the trash bin in 30 minutes. I would empty it so it could continue vacuuming. The first week I had it going daily and have to empty the bin 4-5 times before it got done daily. After a month it was down to 2-3 bins. Now it cleans every other day and the bin has to be empty twice a week or longer. Then one of my dads friends stopped in and asked him when did he get new rugs? He looked so confused and said he hadn’t, they where the same rugs. His friend asked, well when did you wash them, because they look so clean and bright? He said he didn’t and asked me if I did it? I said no, it’s the rumba vacuum, it’s vacuumed it so regularly and been doing so well that it’s gotten all the dirt out and that’s what made them look so new. Lol. He didn’t believe it until I show him me empty the bin and he seen how much dirt it had gotten in just that morning vacuum.

Who knew a vacuum could change your life. So my roomba who I have fondly named Harvey (as in the invisible rabbit in the 1950 James Stewert movie) and myself had a bit of a learning curve for the first week of our relationship. He kept getting stuck, tangled and ran out of battery before he could make it back to his burrow to charge. Then the most magnificent thing happened. I learned what needed to be moved or blocked off, my daughter learned to pick up her legos nightly and I moved the burrow (charger) to a more central location in my apartment. Now like clockwork when I leave the house on MWF off Harvey hops and vacuums up the misc things that accumulate on my floor (mostly pet hair and leaves from my house plants and they come in from the outside on our shoes). I used to vacuum 2-3 times a week with my dye on stick vacuum but now, dearest Harvey does it three times a week and even gets places that I was too lazy or ill equipped to reach. I empty the auto bin about once a month. Magic in my book. Thanks to some amazing talented engineers, I have one less chore to do.

Visually impaired customer for over 15 years. I have to let you know that because the inception of the robot has taken the blind community in many places by storm. We truly appreciate that when we clean we can have something to either go behind us or clean first and then we clean. It is how you use it and when you use it that are so many customizable situation‘s. It would be difficult to name them. I want to thank you for improving everything. I wish it talked more and we had that option. I will tell you that is a big request. We want it to say rather than just make noise. Making noise still helps so don’t take that away, but if it’s spoke, what was going on more often and gave more descriptions instead of error numbers, we would really appreciate it. Other than that I can’t think of a better device that has happened in the last 15 years then to be able to run a device that will help you assist you with cleaning not necessarily clean everything but assist. Thank you.