FreeStyle LibreLink - US App Reviews

Needs to be so much better. The Freestyle Libre as wearable technology is a wonderful breakthrough in diabetic management, but the app is so rudimentary it’s a joke. People want to be able to use and synthesis the data being captured. The daily curves should be able to view actual reading numbers (the Dexcom app does this by scrolling with your finger across the curve and the reading numbers show up). Notes are viewable by hovering on a note, but only for the current day. Unavailable for historical daily graphs. You should be able to view more than one day at a time on the daily graph. For example, you should be able to view a 14 day, 30, 60 day graph as so many blood glucose apps will. Which brings me to another point. Libre data should be shared with many more apps. OURA, My Fitness Pal (or other popular meal tracker apps) so people can see the impact real time of particular foods. The app needs some serious work to take advantage of the advance this wearable technology represents. Ask diabetics what information they want! The data is already collected. Step up your game here.

Great System - a few recent quirks. As with the other review, CGM readings are low compared to both finger stick and 90-day A1c. However, knowing exactly how different foods and supplements affect BG is EXTREMELY valuable. I realize that FDA allows +/- 20% error, however, it would be helpful to have some guidance on reconciling finger stick and A1c differences due to tolerance issues. I realize that finger sticks are also subject to the +/- 20% error. The app has recently been sluggish to respond and if you tap the "add a note" a second time during the delay you get prompted to enter a second or third note - not a problem to "cancel" but it's quirky and I thought the developers would want to know. It is also sluggish to make readings - up to 30 second delay. The sluggishness may be partly due to "Battery" "Low Power Mode" being turned on - Developers: check this please.

Long time user. I’ve hade this sensor and app for about 3 years now so this review may be long. I find the gradual improvements Abbot makes are worthwhile but they are generally reactive to people’s complaints rather than proactive which would truly be better. The app: it’s good but I have nothing to compare it to. It would be nice if they would convert to an A1C periodically. Also would like to be able to connect to other health apps for tracking, such as apple health, or various activity health bands such as Charge. I haven’t had too many issues with the app and am happy with it. Product: The improvements in the skin glue is great. The past year no more ripping off my skin and leaving open wounds - the libre comes off easier yet sticks better. I wish we could put it somewhere other than an arm - I am fairly clumsy and it rips off when I bump into doorways. Although not recommended I put one on my belly and readings were comparable to my averages - but my pants waistband kept rubbing it. I wish they would give skin color options. Smaller and flatter would be nice.

Free Libre. I have the type that is an upper arm sensor, changed every 14th day. It reads continuously, I think but doesn’t show the continuous feed until I wave my iPhone in its vicinity. It appears to correspond tspot checks against my other, finger-stick glucometer which is from the same line. Occasional early sensor failure is a problem. One major problem which I have heard will be offered soon as a new device?It cannot be set for an alarm if out of range with blood glucose. I go very low at night and often don’t wake or have d dramatic symptoms. The new one, don’t know when Iit is out, is supposed to be able to be set for high and low alarms. I really need those alarms for lows and don’t know when it will be released. I have numerous night time lows. As of now, I set a regular alarm clock to wake for checks at regular intervals and critical intervals. Major design feature no new app yet! Otherwise, very helpful and satisfied.

Update. This thing was and is life changing for me. Had an average of an 8 A1c for almost a decade and no doctor could help me get a good handle on it until I put one of these on my arm and had 24 hour feedback. Now I am under a 7 A1c consistently outside of occasional sickness spikes. Had Covid (which was like getting a common cold) and by blood sugars stayed elevated for about two weeks though I felt fine after the first 3 days of small cough and chills. Only complaint is I use my iPhone 10 to scan it and everything was perfect until the last couple of months it takes much much longer to scan when I hold it up to the monitor and it only vibrates to let me know it got the reading about 75% of the time. PLEASE!!! Update whatever downgraded things or let me know it is Apple and I’ll get a new phone with a less communist company. Thanks!

Readings Are Way Off!. I have been using this app with my iPhone 11 Pro Max for about 6 months. I started with the freestyle libre meter to read the sensor and changed to my smart phone because you have the option to leave notes which I thought was fabulous. I would say what I ate what I drank how long it was before I measured and how long after. I left all kind of information I started relying on it 100%. lately, the past couple of days I've been getting very low readings in the 40s and 50s. really scared me! I ate my glucose pills I drink juice I did everything I could to get my blood sugar up. And even after eating something high in carbs afterwards it will start falling quickly. That is just not like me. I decided to start testing my blood at the same time I test with the meter and found it off by about 100 points. Phone = 186, Freestyle sensor reader = 284. One Touch Ultra 2=244. All I can say is they're not even close. The scary part is I didn't even know. If we have to keep checking the accuracy of the phone app, it's a waste of time. Might as well just use the blood glucose meter and poke my fingers again and stop getting the Freestyle Sensors sent.

Horrible!. In less than two weeks I went through 4 sensors. I fell off less than two hours after application in the middle of a low blood sugar event. Yes, I know you can fill out a form online for replacement but out of the 6 times I tried it only worked once. You can call customer support and waste 20 min answering questions to get determination if they’ll give you a replacement. It doesn’t record lows in your logbook “unless it lasts longer than 15 min”. I’ve had several go much longer and have yet to have a low event show up in my logbook. CS will just tell you to turn blue tooth of and reset. Useless! In addition I uses a huge amount of your battery. Last day I had a sensor that worked 47% of my usage was the Freestyle app. Put the 14 day back on the market until you get this thing right. Zero stars should be an option.

One flaw but otherwise great. I feel the Abbet freestyle libre is a great product, and this app is excellent for viewing my trends throughout the day and sharing with my healthcare team. The big key is knowing where my glucose levels are trending either up or down, which is much different than what you get from point in time blood glucose readings. I did find one flaw I would like the developers to correct, on a recent trip to Hawaii on a cruise ship it took me four days to go from California to Hawaii and back, and I crossed many time zones. I needed to keep changing times each day manually to match time zones and this essentially broke the app. I did revert that time to a prior or future time zone but then my phones time and time stamps were all off. It was a frustrating situation. I understand why you do this to prevent manipulation of the time to extend usage but you should consider another way to meter usage such as an internal or external time countdown to the sensor that can override these scenarios. Basically international travel is difficult with Libre based on the app design and needing to change times manually. Thanks.

First Impression-Abbott arrogance. My first impressions are below, here is an update. Abbott had the server back up on April 20 as promised. I have been using the app for about 20 days. It does the job but the inability to export a simple CSV file with history of readings is frustrating and is not technically challenging. Because of this I am going to stick to my “arrogance” comment in the title. I have bumped stars from 1 to 3. ====================== Original review follows ====================== I downloaded this app on Thursday April 27. Like others, I immediately saw “Error communicating with server” After uninstalling and reinstalling, restarting my phone and checking Abbot’s website, I called support. Support tech asked me a series of questions unrelated to the app. I kept asking if we could discuss the server connection issue. Turns out he was just gathering marketing info. Once he had everything he wanted, he said “The server is down and will not be up until Tuesday”. He seemed to already know this but did not have the courtesy to say so immediately. I now realize Abbott has known this for days but lacks the decency to save users the frustration of a useless interrogation or to post a notice on their site saying their server is down. Let’s see if it’s really back up on Tuesday, April 30 as the tech said it would be. With this kind of medical data, I am surprised that Abbott does not seem to invest in readily available server failover services.

Works very well. I have been using this app with the libre 2 sensors for a few years now. I think the both work very well. I like the convenience of not having to stick my fingers constantly. You do still need to verify the sensor is accurate from time to time but you at better the several times a day. You do get an inaccurate sensor or a faulty one from time to time. I have saved the box and faulty sensor then I called customer service, they sent me a box with replacement sensors and instructions on returning the faulty sensors. They were super easy to work with and very polite. I would absolutely recommend this product and app over the competitors. I’ve tried them and ended up happy with the one.

What I’ve been looking for. Been testing for years. With my work and family schedule it was a pain to try to test or remember to test enough to make informed choices. This is a game changer. Not only is checking my readings easier and faster, it’s way more convenient. I was also disorganized the thing wouldn’t stay on. It has. Well. However as a confession I did buy some covers off a website that have no adhesive over the sensor but around it. Like a giant bandaid. I can work out at gym, mow, kayak, no problems with it coming off. Now recommendations. First, can you make it so the readings can be shared with Apple health? Second, can you also consider partnering with or developing a management app that allows tracking of carbs, exercise, etc? That would make this absolutely perfect. Keep it up!

A few app Enhancements would be nice. I found this app to be quite useful. I was prescribed the FreeStyle Libre by my PCP and my insurance has been dragging their feet authorizing coverage. I realized, after more investigation, I could utilize my smartphone to read the sensors and gave it a whirl. It’s been fascinating to see the trends in my blood sugar throughout the day and try to figure out what impacts my blood sugar. Some enhancements I would like to see would be the ability to delete a manual entry (I accidentally entered a manual reading for the wrong day) and for the app to have some bidirectional communication with the Apple Health app. I have a blue tooth glucometer and app that communicates with Apple health and it would be such a time saver for when I do need to manually check my blood sugar if I didn’t have to then enter it again in the LibreLink app. Otherwise, this has been a great alternative to frequent finger sticks.

Why don’t these things work ?. I have been using Libre products for a couple of years. This is my third sensor in a row that has given me a good reading and then on the next attempt I am told “sensor error: glucose reading is unavailable. try reading again in xxx hours”. Typically this happens if a I change a sensor before bed and take a single reading before I retire for the night. The next attempt to read the next day gives the above error with a 4-12 hour delay before I can read my glucose again. I love these things when they work, but dang if I can figure out why they are so fickle. I changed my pod at 1:30p today and got a good reading about an hour later. Life happened and I was unable to check again until 9:40p and I got the above error with a 4 hour recheck time. 4 hours from will be the middle of the night. I am betting I get a 12 hour “recheck time” in the AM because I will miss the window while asleep. My frustration level is through the roof.

Helps me as a diabetic. I’m 12 years old and was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 11 and before I used to use finger sticks, which took up too much time, stung my fingers, and also would leave tiny holes in my fingers after pricking. But then I started using LibreLink and it has helped my tremendously. Now taking my blood sugar is just in a matter of seconds, instead of around 2 minutes getting everything set up with fingers sticking. If I had only one problem with this app is that it’s not as accurate as finger sticking, and this is because it has a 10-15 minute delay. Which basically means that when ever you check you blood glucose you are getting your sugar from about 10 minutes ago. But like I said before this app has helped me a lot when managing my diabetes, and it helps me feel more free, like diabetes isn’t holding me down, and that I’m taking care of my diabetes.

Changed my life and my habits. I have been using this CGM for 3 years (one of the first) the data has matched my blood stick whenever I compared it at the Dr’s office. I have had only 2 in 3 years that had issues and the company sent replacements in a couple of days. I control what I intake now because I am much better educated about the impact of various foods. I have found BAD items that can make me soar to 300+ readings and learned how to spend an entire week with an average of 116 in just two weeks. Before, I was getting frustrated with higher readings when I was just getting a blood stick snapshot at 148 when I woke up, now I understand the Dawn Effect and see that I was below 100 many times between 2-4:30 and slowly was creeping up as I began to stir and wake up! But I NEVER saw that data before.

Update the App to work with iOS 14 please!. I have been using the Freestyle Libre 14 day sensor for a couple of years. I used the app on my iPhone. On New Years 2021 at midnight, it stopped working. Abbott customer service is not open on holidays or weekends (so don’t have a problem or emergency except M-F during normal business hours) so I had to wait until Monday to call. They said they would send me a new sensor but were unhelpful as to why it stopped working. I waited until Wednesday (my normal sensor change day) to apply my new sensor that I had on hand....it wouldn’t work with the app either. Another call to customer service, they would send me another sensor. I finally dug out my reader and charged it up....and the sensor worked fine with it. Numerous calls to customer service and the technical support still provided no answers. I finally got on the App Store and read all the “fine print” and it says that the app only works on iPhones with iOS up to 13.6. Apple is now up to 14.4.1! Abbott needs to update their app to work with the current IPhone operating system!!

Free Style CGM.. Have been using the FreeStyle Libre sensors for almost 1 year now. I find the differences between CGM and finger stick are greatest during moderate to severe excessive activity. When you complete the activity and relax the readings come closer together. Also, overnite while sleeping they are very close. This is helpfull if you wake in the middle of the night feeling not quite right, you can just reach for the meter and scan. If readings are within range go back to sleep in confidence. I experience some days immediately after installing a new sensor reading can be off ( low ) by about 35 units. But after a little movement and a couple hours they get within 7-10 units. I used to have to finger stick 8-12 times per day now my fingers can heal. Still very much angry that my Medicare supplement insurance will not cover and the discount card only discounts $1.00. Don’t know how much longer I can pay out of pocket.

Be careful entering your email address. The app is a little glitchy. When you setup the app, you enter your email address. But you only enter the address once, not twice like some apps require to be sure you entered the right address that is free of typos. I entered my address wrong. I noticed it during set up but there was no back button to go back and fix the mistake. Then, once I was done setting it up I went to my account profile to correct the mistake. You can change your name and birthday and password but you can’t change your email address. With the incorrect email address, you can not link app-to-app (I was trying to link to Veri). I called customer support to see if they could do update my email address from the back end. The answer was no. The only option is to deactivate your account and the reinstall the app with a new account. But that also means you lose the sensor you bought because the sensor only calibrates once. This would be an easy fix for the developer: (1) either add the space to enter the email twice to confirm the right address, or (2) have a back button on the set up pages so people can fix their mistakes during set up, or (3) have a back door via customer service to fix wrong addresses without losing the sensor. The sensors aren’t cheap. When I finish this sensor, I’ll likely switch to a different model and not use Libre because this was an annoying defect in the app.

Great App but…. I’ve been using this app for about 2 years and it’s been pretty good. I had some trouble with the 14-day sensors, but I think I had a bad lot and Abbot resolved that. The graphics are simple, straight forward, and easy to follow. The alerts are great and not too intrusive. Overall it’s easy to use and provides the real-time information I need to make healthy choices. The only thing about it that I done like is the lack of compatibility with the Apple Watch. I know sensor tech in the watch needs work, but at the very least there should be a watch app that mirrors the readings from the iPhone app. There is not reason why I couldn’t see my recent history on my Apple Watch that updates when I scan my sensor. When will this be compatible with Apple Watch?

No Apple Health reporting?. The sensor is extremely useful for me as I am attempting a transition from medication to diet controlled type 2 after weight loss and significant lifestlye (diet & exercise) change. However, I notice it is not transferring glucose data to the health app and I can’t figure why. While the technology is wonderful, the app is relatively lacking in design from my traditional onetouch. I would like to know why the apple health app isn’t receiving the data. I gave 3 stars for the ease of use, level of data driven information this provides for sugar control, but I have to deduct 2 stars. 1 because the app is not communicating with apple health and a second because the app is overall not as good in design as my onetouch. Overall, I’d say if insurance pays for it, I recommend it. This device offers a well deserved level of 3 stars for its function. Could easily be 5 if these app issues were improved upon.

FreeStyle Libre Not connecting to server on IPhone 8. Update: My app is working now, after trying for at least 5 hours. I did call the help line and I too was given the “server down” story. I don’t believe the server storyline. I believe the server is just fine. I believe there are too many users trying to long in/register at the same time, and after a predetermined period of time/tries, it times out. I must commend Abbott for this absolutely terrific system. I drive a lot, and testing my sugar levels while driving is dangerous. With the sensor and my iPhone, I worry no more. Way to go Abbott! * (one star) I just purchased two sensors. Unfortunately, the FreeStyle Libre App encounters an “Error communicating with server” immediately upon opening. It’s accompanied by a small rectangular box with the words “try again.” I tried reconnecting many many times to no avail. Therefore, the app gets one star. If there were a -0 star, I’d be more the happy to select it.

Very Inaccurate & Inconsistent. I’m a type II diabetic recovering from open heart surgery. My docs want my glucose readings to be within a set “constant carbs” parameters which means a lot of finger sticking. We are trying the 10 day Freestyle Libra system and comparing the readings against my Ultra Onetouch glucose meter readings. The Freestyle Libra readings are so far removed from the Onetouch readings as to make it unusable for valid glucose measurements. Very disappointed in this system. I cannot make a direct correlation of the difference between the two systems. Sometimes the difference is 10 mg between the two and at other times the difference has been as much as 70 mg. The Freestyle system cannot seem to tell if my glucose is going up or down. It also cannot hold more that 8 hours of data which means I miss significant data at night. Nor can I set my upper or lower limits for glucose levels. The only “alarm” the it sends to my phone is when the 8 hours from last scan is up. I have had three significant hypo events that it did not acknowledge. The same with hyper events out of my target zone: no alarm. A scan is required to get any data whatsoever out of the system. This is an expensive system that most insurances won’t pay for. Being grossly inaccurate makes it pretty much worthless.

Scanner vs Phone. Freestyle Sensor 1 & 2 scanning only gives you one choice of readers, you have to select the phone or the reader. If you start to scan it with the reader you can only use the reader during the 14 days. if you use the phone to start scanning it you can only use the phone for the 14 days. You can not switch it or use two different scanners with the same sensor. Hopefully with Freestyle 3, that will change. And two, hopefully the new change you don’t have to put it on your arm but your on your belly or buttocks. encourage Freestyle to make a reasonable usage of switch by doing combine readers where either reader is program to see on both. although Freestyle 3 is out in Europe and other countries. It is not available in the US yet. Remember other countries has different rules and their FDA are not like the US and Health Insurance -WE WILL have to wait longer.

Well worth it!!!. I have had this system in place for about a year now. I use it all the time and it helps me manage everything to the point my Doctor’s can’t believe how good my numbers are. I take less meds because I can better manage the types of foods I eat and when. suggestions - the screen does not switch to side view and I makes it hard to see logged reading at times. Also, with the iPhone XR it’s having a hard time reading the sensor but eventually does read it. The graphs should readjust with to smaller graph when they are out of range for the screen numbers. I tried adding a pic here so you could understand my comment but it would not allow me. I would be happy to send the pic to you if you give me an email. Other then these little issues, very well thought out design and VERY USEFUL TOOL!!!

Problems. When this product first came out I didn’t believe, it was too good to be true, but when I tried it I was stunned. When #2 came out, again too good to be true but it is! What a game changer for diabetics. I think I told everyone in the state how this will change their lives. It wakes me up if sugar level goes too low, I don’t know how it works but AWESOME. All good, right? NO! I currently have three packages waiting for me to return - two sensors and one reader. I keep having failed messages, Let’s tell the truth - like many diabetics (long time, 50yrs) I could be better at checking my sugar this device makes that easier. I can check my sugar levels while driving! ; I can get alerts while driving, hiking, at my desk; anywhere, any time!!!!! GAME CHANGER!!! However-what is going on there? Far too many errors, far too many problems Their response is great but what I need is reliability. Please Abbot please find out what is causing these issues rather than sending out replacements. Which IS. GREAT but……lives are at stake here.

Love and hate. Love the capability and the easy to read screens. I’d LOVE to see the average glucose converted to A1C on the reports. Just wish I could use this app all the time. I’ve been a customer for years, long before US approvals. And the Libre changed my life!!! Every country in the world except the US only waits 1 hour for a new sensor to warm up, and the sensors stay usable for 14 days allowing me to easily remember to apply a new sensor every other Sunday. Therefore I have to use my reader for 11 hours while this app blocks the ability to read a new sensor. I don’t keep or use finger sticks any more, haven’t for years. I sure hope nothing bad happens to anyone in the 12 hours you block readings. Then again days 11 -14 the app blocks readings, so again I am forced to use my reader. Being I sometimes travel allot, trying to keep in mind if I need to pack a new sensor for a trip is no fun when the day of the week it expires always changes - so I stay with the 14 day reader (as all sensors are the same globally - at least for now)

love it. i have been a diabetic for about 5 years now and using this has made life so much easier. i had some troubles at first but have made adjustments so it has become a lot more reliable. at first i had trouble getting the sensor to stay in my arm so now i use a tagaderm and it stays just fine, you could pick it up at your local grocery store or ask your doctors office and they usually will give you some. compared to the dexcom i used the dexcom a couple years ago and it was my first CGM and i loved it. one thing i liked more about it was being able to just view it without having to scan and being able to view it in my “widgets” on my unlocked screen and it being compatible with an apple watch. i also liked that i was able to place it on my stomach instead of just my arm. what i like a lot more with the libre is that it is about the size of a quarter and being a young college student, it is a necessity. i also love the fact that it does not need to be calibrated with actual finger stick tests. the app i think the app is very navigable and allows me to check overall averages up to 90 days is very convenient when talking to my doctor. i don’t have any problems with the app. i am so thankful to be able to use this type of technology and any update with anything i said above would be appreciated but using as is, is relief enough to my everyday life.

Convenient But has locked up and I added an update. I let the app run in log mode for 21 hours in the background after taking a reading. When I tried to take the next reading, I switched to the home screen, pushed the check button. It turned dark and then back to light. It did not engage. This has been the case every time since. I’ve tried pushing everything I could but the button did not reset. As I pushed the many buttons each one functioned as designed, except the check button. Update: I decided to take a chance. It looked like I was going to lose my data if i deleted the app. But wait , I decided to follow the old adage. If it doesn’t work, reboot it. I shut the iPhone off. Restarted it and the Libre app. That fixed it and I didn’t lose anything. There is still a bug, but there is a work around if it happens to you.

Great product and app, yet would be perfect if it connected to Apple health. This is a fantastic product, especially for someone like me. I have diabetes and lupus (a disease that severely compromises your immune system). Sticking yourself every day causes the chance of gaining an infection to increase. I have had multiple infections in my fingersBecause of sticking myself. With the new libra system, I have yet to have one single infection and I have been using it for almost a year. The only reason I did not give it five stars was because it does not allow you to connect to Apple Health. That would be fantastic for someone like me because all my medical information is stored there and on other health apps. Also, my doctor is not aware of how to gain a number to receive my readings directly. Libra May want to reach out to physicians across the country and give them a designated number so patient can participate in this program, libre link.

Love. I actually have been a type 1 diabetic since I was 7 years old, I am now 25 and work for a family practice that deals with a lot of type 2 and type 1 diabetics. I have showed a lot of patients this product after I tested it out myself, and the doctors I work for have written a lot prescriptions for this item and have actually had me come into the room with them and the patient to inform them and show them how this product works. The doctors I work for have told me to contact the company for more information on insurance coverage, drug rep information to report back to patients and even becoming either a sponsor or something involved in this company because I truly do believe this will make any diabetics life easier as it has made mine. I work for a very busy practice and am very forgetful, this monitor has made my life that much easier and my Hemoglobin A1C come down from 9.2 to 7.8 within 3 months (this glucose monitor has a reminder setting that will alarm you within 1-2 hours to retest your blood sugar once you apply that setting) I highly recommend this product and can honestly say it has made managing my type 1 diabetes’s more reasonable.

Ready to take care of myself. Even though my insurance doesn’t pay for it I decided to try the freestyle libre paying for it myself. Being a relatively new diabetic type two I despise having to stick a lancet to my fingers;some days I just skipped checking. With this application I find myself checking time and time again to see how different foods and activity affect the reading; being able to make notes of how I feel, exercise done, etc motivates me to follow a plan and take care of myself. Alerts for highs and lows are really important, hopefully by next version they are incorporated. It is too much to ask for a scale that communicates with the app but having some space to note it and follow progress would be nice. Also on the wishlist: scan with the Apple watch, sharing feature available in other countries, and free chocolate for life!

Why Can’t I download on IPhone 6. This app works pretty well. It is consistent with the reader & generally within just a few points of a manual glucose reader. I like all of the graphs & info that it breaks down. As long as you scan once every 8 hours, it will download all of the sensors data. The biggest issue I have is that I can download the app on my mom’s iPhone 6. I have the 11 so I will scan for her sometimes. But because her phone doesn’t have the capability of scanning the sensor, she can’t even download the app. This means that I can’t share her data that I scan with her. In the share section of the menu, it tours that you can share your glucose readings with family and friends. What it doesn’t tell you is that their phones must also have the capability of scanning the sensor whether they need to or not. Even if someone can’t or doesn’t need to scan the sensor, they should be able to download the app for sharing purposes.

Behind the times. So I used a freestyle, libre version one for years and the app has always been terrible. I got a freestyle Libre 3 two weeks ago. I love the live readings and the live alerts, but it’s practically useless when you consider the functionality of today’s technology. It doesn’t sync with Apple health, it doesn’t have any widgets, it doesn’t show live readings on your Apple Watch. All of these things should be a piece of cake for them to put together in this day and age -the only excuse that they could possibly have development time and money, which is to say they don’t have an excuse. I’m getting an insulin pump in three months and I’m gonna switch to the Dexcom if they don’t get their act together by then. I should be able to have the sensor on my arm and glance at my Apple Watch or my phone and see the live glucose widget feedback instantly. If I have to open the app to see my glucose, I might as well still be tapping my arm. it’s 2024 and I can have chatGPT make me an app, you should be able to provide your customers with features that have been available elsewhere since 2020.

Needs work. Diabetic since 2003. This is the first time a continuous reader seemed worth wearing, but it still needs work. Sensor issues are one thing (8 hrs is too short for consistent nighttime coverage; inaccurate lows are misleading; 1 out of 4 sensors comes unstuck or stops working), but let’s talk about the app. Decent UI, though the graphs are problematic: you can’t compare consecutive 7-day periods, only the last 7 days/14 days etc. Averages are not useful if you can’t track over time. Also, it’s maddening that the axis changes with each graph - can’t easily compare one to another if the axis isn’t consistent! And it irritates me that I can’t export my data to CSV. Seems inappropriate that i can’t back up or examine my own data. Also, why isn’t there a customer service or support feature in the app? All they have is the user manual and such - no way to report issues with the app. Makes zero sense that I have to call during business hours if my app is malfunctioning. For example, my app keeps crashing at the moment whenever I try to sync my new sensor. If I reinstall the app I’ll lose my data!! Unacceptable.

What the eff?!? I’m so over it smh. I can only get two meters a month which makes sense since it lasts 2 weeks. My last meter had days left on it but it started giving numerous error messages before it just said it’s unusable or something. I had to go out of my way and get another refill request n pick it up two days after the failed one. I installed the new sensor n waited an hour to check my blood and it gave a reading but with the symbol indicating to do a actual finger reading. That’s what it says all the time now. And out the blue it says it’s unavailable and to wait 4 hours! So is this one going to stop working too and only after just installing it hours before?! And if it’s going to be so freakin inaccurate all the time why don’t you people include the strips and lancets to check by finger? Oh I have to go buy another regular meter huh? Well what the heck is the point of this one?!? It’s 3:30am and I have no idea what my readings I can’t get up and go by a meter now nor should I have to! I shoulda listened to my co worker and not get this brand

Such a joke & rip off!. Stuck the sensor on my arm, went to download the app & get the same error message everyone else is getting about the server being down. So I call cust service & they wanted to create an account for me. I don’t want that. I want to be able to use the app!! My pharmacy won’t have the reader until at least tomorrow so I figured no big deal, I’ll use the app AND save some money...looks like I will be forced to pay out of pocket for the reader because the app seems so unreliable!!! I find it hard to believe with all the money invested that they are STILL experiencing servers problems!!! I don’t believe for one second that the servers are down. It’s not like we are talking about some freaking photoshop app here. With the amount of money I have to pay EACH month for this I shouldn’t have a problem from the moment I try to use it. So now I have this thing on my arm & who knows when I can start getting my readings!!! Watch it will go to waste and then there goes more money I’ll have to shell out

3hr Delay to transfer to Apple Health. I’ve been using Libre sensors for a couple years. In so many ways I prefer your sensors to your more expensive competitor. However, you have really dropped the ball by delaying transfer of blood sugars to Apple Health for three hours. When your competitors make these results immediate. You can’t claim you are trying to provide the best care for diabetics, if you are purposefully preventing them from using other, more capable diabetes management tools than your own log. At best this is a contradiction to your own marketing Dept messaging. At worst, it’s corporate bad faith. Part 2: Developer suggested I contact customer service for help. It turns out, Customer Service informed me, there is no support for data sharing with third party apps including Apple Health Kit. Word of warning, if your hoping to use another app to manage your diabetes, you will have to manually enter each scan into the other app. Abbott, the idea of a CGM only reaches its full potential if you facilitate the user getting this data into their preferred management app. In other words, you need to implement Apple Health Kit integration. As your product currently stands, your in the dark ages as compared to your competition. Next time someone complains about this, you could just tell them you’ll pass the request on to the developers.

Best thing so far for glucose monitoring. I have been type 1 for 10 years and have to say that this app allows me freedom in ways I have not seen anywhere else so far. Instead of manually poking my finger for a blood reading, the scanning is painless, easy and allows notes for food, insulin, etc.. I have two constructive criticisms. The 12 hours that I am without reading during scanning makes me anxious. As funny as it sounds, I have come to love seeing the entire readings as it brings a new level of insight to managing my BS. So if there is a way to start syncing a new sensor 12 hours prior to the existing one expiring to have no gap in readings that would be great. The second suggestion is that I would love to see an Apple Watch app that displayed the BS reading when scanning. I have never used a dexcom or other continuous BS monitor as all of those are considered medical devices and is a different insurance deductible and is way too costly to obtain. The freestyle libre reader is great for me because it is considered a pharmacy benefit and is actually cheaper than buying a month worth of test strips for manual checking. Keep it up and keep innovating!

Life simplified. I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic at age 26. That was 35 years ago. I am an active elementary school teacher. I love to exercise and swim. Frequent testing in public, class, meetings, restaurants, social gatherings has always felt like a necessary evil. I love that I can “test” on the fly without missing a step in a busy life. I can also check as often as I like without budgeting strips. The sensor tells me not only where I am at the moment, but how long I’ve been there and which direction I’m heading. Huge for understanding the impact of glucose, insulin and activity on my body as everyone is unique. I love the mountain of information I can see at any moment and how easy it is to share with my doctor. The reader was just ok, awkward, not very responsive, hard to add/edit notes and who needs one more thing to carry? The app is SO much easier and who is ever more than inches from their phone? Love, love, love. Life changing.

There is no current update for your app.. I’ve been using the freestyle Libre 14 day for INXS of a year. The last time your app was updated was it year ago. For the last month I’ve been having an issue with getting my sensors to scan. I’ve gone through the rigmarole of having customer service replace my sensors. But the problem is not with the individual sensors. In addition to going through all of that with your customer service division who by the way doesn’t listen. I have had my phone checked by my service provider and Apple. It appears that your free style libre libre link is not compatible with the current Apple update. I have now been without a glucose monitoring system for a month. Since I had been using your system for over a year when my other monitoring system broke I did not replace it. Your customer service department has replaced seven sensors. This would be wonderful but none of them will work because your app is out of date and no one seems to want to own up to this or give any idea of when it will be updated. How sad. I really really liked having this CGM but if it doesn’t work what good is it? I don’t expect that you will respond because that would be taking ownership of the issue. Please fix it soon.

Useless!. I hope I can change this review. I placed a monitor on my arm and waited 1 hour for the App to scan it. After one hour the App said “you need a new scanner”. I rescanned the sensor and I am waiting another hour. I am pretty sure it will say the same thing. Reading the reviews I see some messages saying that you have to do the first reading with some sort of reader (which I do not have). In any case, how stupid is that if true. I re-read the instruction on the sensor and there is no comment on that. In any case, why do I have to buy a reader? If this App is worth anything, why force people to buy a reader? Update: I called and was sent a new one. I could activate with the phone only and it has been working for 2 days. My problem now is that the readings are all over the place. I understand that intersticial glucose is different from blood glucose, but I had 104 in the phone and 147 on the blood. Also there are some low readings like 66 that are totally off. I don’t even have diabetes or inject insulin (prediabetes). I will update. For now, I went from 1 to 2 stars. Update 2: Day 3 is getting better. The values are less crazy and smaller differences from blood glucose. Increasing to 3 stars.

Just. Doesn’t. Work. I received FreeStyle and was very excited about it. Started using it exactly two weeks to the day. I knew I didn’t want to carry the sensor reader that came with it and was happy to see I could track it with my iPhone 11 Pro Max. Downloaded this app and was quickly dejected. It just didn’t work. I called and asked why. My telephone representative was awesome. She took the time to research, asked me for the serial number on my sensor and told me that the app needed to be updated to work with the newer sensor I have received. So I will wait. Hopefully soon it make it worthwhile. I chose this over Dexcom and I hope I don’t have to swap. Update: Awesome!! I received a response this morning letting me know that the app is under review by the FDA. Hopefully, 🤞🏾, an updated app will be a an early holiday gift. Thank you!! Update: I guess this app will never be updated. It’s been months sense I was told they were looking at it but my assumption is that there “look” was never a clear and positive one. 😔

Love it. I love this. I went from a 7.3 A1c to a 6.3 in just 2 months. The only difference was knowing what was going on. I was only scripted for 4 tests a day. With this, I can test as many times as I want. In addition, the sensor lasts 2 weeks and I can scan on my phone, so no more getting somewhere and not having my meter. The only time that it was an issue was my fault when I forgot the sensor ran out that day and didn’t take a new one when I was out for the day. Lesson learned. It does tell you how much time is left on the sensor, but I ignored it. In addition, the best thing as far as I am concerned is the directional arrows. I had always hated not knowing the context of the number, but with the arrows, it gives me confidence to treat the number accordingly. 100 with a straight up arrow, ok get some insulin, 100 with a straight down arrow, get a snack, etc. Putting on the sensor doesn’t hurt in the least either. Overall, love it!

Buyer Beware! Useless. Now on my 7th sensor in two weeks. Three have fallen off, 1 never worked from the beginning, and 2 just quit and said “replace sensor”. Seventh times the charm? Worst customer service I have ever dealt with. App support team is ill-equipped to provide support beyond basic support script of “you did something wrong, sorry for the inconvenience.” And, the support team is strictly available during bankers hours on Eastern time, M-F. Good thing diabetes only an issue during those times. Good grief. I am highly suspicious of good reviews in App Store. Before buying, make a smart choice and read the Developer Responses. Clearly these are not responses from “developers” who would be genuinely interested in receiving constructive feedback or offering insightful and helpful troubleshooting for an app to which they devoted their career. Instead, the responses are “please contact support”, which indicates to me these are canned responses from bots, as so many of the reviews specifically mention a user has attempted to contact support with no meaningfully positive outcome. The cognitive dissonance between my reasonable expectations of the promise of groundbreaking if nascent technology and my two-week experience is a chasm I cannot overcome. Thoroughly disappointed. Please conduct due diligence.

Extremely inaccurate. Please don’t waste your money on this brand of glucose monitor. Readings are never even close to what my finger sticks show and could lead to severe medical issues if you only rely on what the monitor shows. There is no way to calibrate finger stick readings with what the sensor shows so it cannot “learn” and become more accurate. I stopped using the Freestyle Libre 8 months ago and switched to the Dexcom G7, but my Dexcom expired and I need my paycheck to pick up my next prescription. Saw I had an extra Freestyle and thought it was better than nothing, but this isn’t the case. It’s useless. Sensor reading on first use was 105. Finger stick 185!! Had I not remembered how wildly inaccurate the Freestyle was I would have not taken any insulin and went hours with high blood sugars. Getting ready for bed and just checked again. This time the sensor say my sugar level is 60 (I don’t feel low sugar effects) so I did a finger stick and my sugars are 110. Again the sensor could have caused me to sleep with high blood sugar had I of eaten or taken a glucose tab. Go with the Dexcom G7! Smaller, 30 minute warm up, has the ability to calibrate with finger sticks so it learns, but the main reason is it extremely accurate. Just removed this Freestyle sensor and trashed it. Thank God it was my last one.

Love the app, want more sharing options. I love the app. It give me the ability to check quickly and get back to my business, but it doesn’t share the data to any other apps. I use two other apps to keep track of my overall health and glucose levels, the iOS Health app, and One Drop. I was using them before I got the Freestyle Libre, and I loved the experience and how simple it made sharing my data with my doctors, but the LibreLink, while I can share with my spouse and others close to me, that application doesn’t quite work for physicians. That’s why I like using the other apps. Isn’t it possible to allow LibreLink to write to Apple Health or share data with other apps like One Drop? If this feature were available, I’d say that the app would deserve more than five stars, but for now I can only give it four. Just more data sharing options please!

Pretty Useless if you ask me. I’ve been using the Freestyle Libre for a little while now. I very first one I used fell off in less then a week, so I went out and bought the pads that help the sensors stick on better. They worked better for a while, I sensors actually stayed on. I then had a sensor tell me after scanning it to wait the hour like they do. After the hour was up I scanned the sensor only for it to tell me to wait 10 minutes and scan again. After waiting the 10 minutes I scanned the sensor again with the same message. After about 3 or 4 scans it tells me to replace the sensor because it’s bad. Now I pay for these out of pocket. After the first few issues the sensors worked great for a while. Now recently my last 4 in a row have not worked, each giving the same issue. I scan it, it tell me to wait the hour. I wait the hour and it tells me to scan again in 10 minutes. Wait the 10 minutes, it says scan again in 10 minutes, after 3 or 4 times it says the sensor is bad. I have one more sensor to try but I’m not really hopeful that it’ll work either. I have the latest firmware installed on everything. Good luck everyone!!!

Stores your data in their own cloud. No Health integration. You need to create an account to upload your data to their service. So it constantly leaks information to them about your activities that can be reconstructed from your continuous blood glucose such as: when you woke up, your activity level, when you were eating a meal, even what kind of meal you ate. And, of course, your diabetes health status. And this is presuming your instantaneous blood glucose is the only day that they are helping themselves to, and they aren’t logging your location data or IP along with it, which would combinatorially increase the amount of information about your life that they possess. Information is ruthlessly cumulative, can be combined with other information, and can’t be recalled once it is out there in the world. It does not support integration with Apple health. The whole point of apple health is to have one place to manage policy for your health information on your iPhone! Until I tried to find my data in Apple health I didn’t even know it was allowed to have iPhone health apps that don’t use it.

Features. I love this device. It’s life changing! However, there are two major features (maybe one is a bug) that are missing. Would you please turn on or fix badge notifications on iOS 14.3? Lock Screen, Notification Center, and Banner notifications all work great. I even have sound. But, not Badge notifications. This really hampers my progress by not giving the hourly notifications I’ve configured in the notification style that I choose to employ badges). This should be a relatively easy thing, no? Hopefully not and really hope you can enable. Second I assume is an RFE. Apple Health integration would be very helpful for us data / analyst types as Apple Health, while a bit lackluster in configurability, is otherwise an excellent dashboard to help monitor health, in general. I currently workaround this issue by using iPhone Shortcuts. But even still, it requires manual entry of the glucose reading and also double manual entry for insulin reporting, assuming the user wants to retain data in both applications while hoping for the day they’ll integrate (as do I). I do save on excess screen taps this way, though. And mostly I want this because the brilliance of the device itself deserves nothing less than the best out of the application used to interface with it. Your changing lives with the hardware. So can we go ahead and bring it up to the finish line?

This has added 5-10 years to my life. I had always wanted a CGM since they were first developed and extremely expensive. I went from being a very responsible T1D to falling completely off, and almost dying multiple times. Health insurance played a major factor is this as well but my decision to take control again was the ultimate factor. Instead of pricking my finger once a month maybe, I now monitor my glucose levels hourly. I check after meals obsessively because I want to know exactly how by body reacts to what I consume. Believe it or not, I had no idea stress Sky rockets my glucose levels. I never would have known that before the Freestyle Libre. My only complaint is that I cannot get it to sync with my Apple iPhone 7+. It would make this device 1000x better for me if I could utilize this feature and I’m not sure what the issue is. Thank you for continuing to improve a life changing product. 🙏🏼

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Well worth it!!!. I have had this system in place for about a year now. I use it all the time and it helps me manage everything to the point my Doctor’s can’t believe how good my numbers are. I take less meds because I can better manage the types of foods I eat and when. suggestions - the screen does not switch to side view and I makes it hard to see logged reading at times. Also, with the iPhone XR it’s having a hard time reading the sensor but eventually does read it. The graphs should readjust with to smaller graph when they are out of range for the screen numbers. I tried adding a pic here so you could understand my comment but it would not allow me. I would be happy to send the pic to you if you give me an email. Other then these little issues, very well thought out design and VERY USEFUL TOOL!!!

Does not write to Apple Health/Readings inconsistent. It would be great if the developer would use the free API that Apple provides to let the app send results to Apple Health. Also, it seems that each transmitter is calibrated differently. Every time I change transmitters (every two weeks) my levels change drastically even though my routine stays the same. I compare at least once a day with a finger stick, some weeks Libre is much higher, and some weeks much lower. I always wait 10 minutes to get the Libre reading because interstitial fluid is about 10 minutes behind blood. The first 48 hours of readings are usually erratic, then more stabilized for the next 12 days, but almost always significantly off (at least 15 units up or down) from the finger stick numbers.

Great App but…. I’ve been using this app for about 2 years and it’s been pretty good. I had some trouble with the 14-day sensors, but I think I had a bad lot and Abbot resolved that. The graphics are simple, straight forward, and easy to follow. The alerts are great and not too intrusive. Overall it’s easy to use and provides the real-time information I need to make healthy choices. The only thing about it that I done like is the lack of compatibility with the Apple Watch. I know sensor tech in the watch needs work, but at the very least there should be a watch app that mirrors the readings from the iPhone app. There is not reason why I couldn’t see my recent history on my Apple Watch that updates when I scan my sensor. When will this be compatible with Apple Watch?

No Apple Health reporting?. The sensor is extremely useful for me as I am attempting a transition from medication to diet controlled type 2 after weight loss and significant lifestlye (diet & exercise) change. However, I notice it is not transferring glucose data to the health app and I can’t figure why. While the technology is wonderful, the app is relatively lacking in design from my traditional onetouch. I would like to know why the apple health app isn’t receiving the data. I gave 3 stars for the ease of use, level of data driven information this provides for sugar control, but I have to deduct 2 stars. 1 because the app is not communicating with apple health and a second because the app is overall not as good in design as my onetouch. Overall, I’d say if insurance pays for it, I recommend it. This device offers a well deserved level of 3 stars for its function. Could easily be 5 if these app issues were improved upon.

Takes a beating!. What can I Say! I live a busy lifestyle, I will be honest here and let you guys know that I hate the glucose monitors with their finger pitching. This freestyle libre works wonders! By eliminating just that! Just like everyone checks there phone constantly, I do the same with my phone and sensor! I do not know what I would do without it. I have better control of my diabetes and also love that when I go to the gym, it does not interfere with my workouts!! Also you guys can go 3 ft Max under water for 30 mins Max and you will be ok! I wish I could get sent some more freestyle libres but Covid took a toll! :(

Missing basic functionality; app often unresponsive. Missing basic functionality such as getting the glucose levels at any place in the graph when you slide over it. Now I can only see the exact number when a scan was made. I know you have the data (how else would you generate the graph) - should be easy to get that slide/hover display implemented. Each time I go to scan my sensor I have to click many times for the Scan button to respond. After that it takes forever to do the scan. This didn’t use to be the case but started happening somewhat recently. Came to the App Store today to see if an update was available (that might fix this issue) but I have the latest version. So instead I’m writing this review. Expecting more from such a dominant player in the GCM space.

Got it to work. No clue why but the WiFi in my car was the only way I could get this set up. My home, GFs home, and work WiFi were all a no go. Anyway I’m up and running and love this thing. I use to check my level in the morning and that was it. Since my numbers are usually good, I rarely bothered to check again plus who has the time or wants to take a meter everywhere. I now check before I eat anything and can see how it affects me. Seeing my levels helps and encourages me to make smarter food choices and motivates me to push workouts a little harder. Apple Health integration is needed and insurance companies need to fully cover the cost.

Poorly made app. App is pretty garbage. These are critical tests to surviving diabetes and it’s like they put no effort into it. I’ve now had numerous iPhones, the app lags HORRIBLY on any iPhone. Press the “check glucose” button…nothing happens..press it again…nothing happens..press it a third time…5 second delay then you can finally scan! Oh wait! It scanned but no number showed up? Guess I’ll do it a 4th time! Measurements can be up to 50mg/dL off of a blood test. 50 points is significant. Also the app always errors if your sugar is dropping. If it starts to drop and you need to test, and this is when it’s most important, you will get an error that says please try again in 10 minutes?! I thought this was a joke seeing you can literally pass out, have a seizure and possibly die in that time frame depending on how quickly your sugar is dropping. It’s almost as if the developers have absolutely zero understanding of diabetes.

Freestyle Libre 2 NOT Compatible with iPhone App. The Freestyle Libre 2 is NOT COMPATIBLE with the iPhone APP. Save yourself a half hour call to their tech support line asking 20 minutes of questions, designed to document you have not received medical treatment or lost consciousness as a result of the fault you are calling about to free them of any medical liability before they will tell you that the APP is under FDA review and they don’t have a date for release. You just need to use their reader to activate and scan your sensor. So one more electronic device to carry around with you until their product becomes fully functional. One more incomplete product released to the public just a bit too soon to work as advertised. It would be nice if these early released products warned you, if you want to get in on an early release without full functionality and what the limits are. Disregard this after they get the APP fully functional.

Stopped working on 6th day😾. I have been using this app on my pet child, Mr Cuddles and it has been very valuable to check his BG, as it has been out of control. I had to switch his insulin so very important to be able to monitor his BG to see if it works better and the sensor stopped working today which would be the sixth date since it’s been placed on him. I called the company this morning and was told that this is a very common issue but because it’s for my cat they will not replace it but if it was for a human they would. This company is more than happy to collect the money from pet owners, as they allow the sale with a prescription from a veterinarian, they know this is a common issue in humans so therefore it would be in pets also but will not honor their product.

Beware readings are 30 points lower than actual. I thought I was doing so well and was actually looking forward to my A1C results feeling confident it was in the mid to high 5’s. Imagine my surprise when it was 6.3! My doctor said the A1C was right. My glucose was 144. I told her my CGM was not anywhere near that high the entire day of my blood draw and the reading 30 minutes after my blood draw was 100 (fasting). She asked me to scan my arm in her office. I did. It was 89. We waited 20 minutes and her tech pricked my finger and it was 121. So the reader was reading 32 points TOO LOW! This lead me to think I was doing well and I ate things I normally would never have eaten. She just called in the Libre2 to see if that is more accurate. I am prediabetic and trying hard to avoid diabetes and this is my best tool but not if it doesn’t work!

Would love to give 5 stars but not linking to Health App. I am amazed at how accurate this device is and how much transparency it is for helping me bet my blood glucose and a1c under control. I’ve been a type-2 diabetic for about 6 years or so and hated sticking my finger to find out glucose levels. I was offered to be a part of the Omada program through my company and, as part of that, I was provided a trial sensor. It is making a WORLD of difference. The sensor is read really time but the blood glucose level lags by about 20 minutes or so. With that in mind, if you get your readings just before eating, then twenty to thirty minutes later you can see how your blood glucose is doing and take corrective action if necessary. Be sure you don’t go more than 8 hours between scans or data is lost. But, if you’re like me and want to stay on top of this for a longer healthier life, you will find yourself scanning about once an hour or so. If Aabott would connect the app to the health store I will GLADLY give this thing a 5 stars, because I value it that much.

I love this app but.....edit to add. This app make keeping track of my blood sugar super easy. I’m a mechanic so a lot of times my hands are dirty and I would have to take time to go wash my hands to do a finger stick. With this there is no need. I just pull out my phone and 15 seconds later I’m back to work. My only complaint is when I rip off a sensor by getting it caught on something I have to wait tool long for the sensor to realize I’ve damaged it. I would like to be able to do it manually. Edit: I found out how to quickly bypass the old damaged sensor. Just apply the new sensor and scan it. Hit “Yes” when prompted. Good to go.

Update. This thing was and is life changing for me. Had an average of an 8 A1c for almost a decade and no doctor could help me get a good handle on it until I put one of these on my arm and had 24 hour feedback. Now I am under a 7 A1c consistently outside of occasional sickness spikes. Had Covid (which was like getting a common cold) and by blood sugars stayed elevated for about two weeks though I felt fine after the first 3 days of small cough and chills. Only complaint is I use my iPhone 10 to scan it and everything was perfect until the last couple of months it takes much much longer to scan when I hold it up to the monitor and it only vibrates to let me know it got the reading about 75% of the time. PLEASE!!! Update whatever downgraded things or let me know it is Apple and I’ll get a new phone with a less communist company. Thanks!

Absolutely useless. I will keep submitting this review no matter how many times the developers manage to get it removed. The hard work of the Abbot technical scientists on the medical device teams Is ruined by lawyers and Cracker Jack computer programmers. The freestyle CGM is the best advance in the history of diabetes since insulin. Ruined by this app. And even more ruined by the freestyle Libre 2 app. Inability to silence alarms, forced use of the critical alerts, inability to use both the reader and the phone, frequent errors and software lockouts with any high rate of glucose change (like during intense exercise). In anticipation of your response I will *not* call your 800 number. If you want more stars fix the problems and listen to your consumers. Someone kick these bozos out of the conference room. Listen to your true scientists. They worked too hard to have their work ruined by this app.

Such a joke & rip off!. Stuck the sensor on my arm, went to download the app & get the same error message everyone else is getting about the server being down. So I call cust service & they wanted to create an account for me. I don’t want that. I want to be able to use the app!! My pharmacy won’t have the reader until at least tomorrow so I figured no big deal, I’ll use the app AND save some money...looks like I will be forced to pay out of pocket for the reader because the app seems so unreliable!!! I find it hard to believe with all the money invested that they are STILL experiencing servers problems!!! I don’t believe for one second that the servers are down. It’s not like we are talking about some freaking photoshop app here. With the amount of money I have to pay EACH month for this I shouldn’t have a problem from the moment I try to use it. So now I have this thing on my arm & who knows when I can start getting my readings!!! Watch it will go to waste and then there goes more money I’ll have to shell out

Love this monitor!. I have been using this system for almost 3 years now and it has been an absolute life changer for me and my blood sugar management. Any diabetic or pre diabetic should have this system. If you are serious about monitoring and managing your blood sugar, do whatever it takes to have a continuous monitor. Whatever issues or difficulties I’ve experienced have been minor compared to the benefits. The one time in 3 years I had one that didn’t work properly, it was quickly replaced by a very efficient customer service experience. I have no complaints. The GCM system is my best friend!

Love this sensor & easy to use app. I’ve been using this app and 14 day sensor since March and recommend it to any willing diabetic. The sensor is easy to insert and does not make noise like other sensors I’ve used. Granted it also does not communicate with my pump. I only use the iPhone app for scanning, which is easy. My results are at times spot on! Besides the initial one hour wait time, there’s no calibrating. I can share my results with my endocrine and up to 14 (I think) total people. The app also lets you add in food, exercise, and notes - I do this for high or low sugars with food to track trends. My doc even commented on my notes. I’m very pleased I found this sensor!

Best thing since sliced bread!. My A1c has dropped from about 8.6 to 6.4 since I started using the Freestyle 14 day glucose sensor a year ago. Having the phone app has encouraged me to test very often. It’s so easy to swipe over my arm that I’m averaging 13 swipes a day. This has allowed me to see what time of day I tend to go high. I’ve adjusted my insulin to reduce those highs, with my doctor’s okay. I’d postponed a knee replacement for two years because of my diabetes being under poor control. This week my doctor said my diabetes is now under very good control. New knee ahead, thanks to information provided by this continuous glucose monitor.

Wait longer than one hour for more accurate results. After applying the arm sensor stick patch thing, wait for perhaps four hours before taking the initial scan. I found that interstitial “air” reading could be 30 points lower than comparative blood readings when waiting only one hour. The “air” vs blood reading became much more in line, within ten points, up or down, once I began waiting four hours. .... This is of course anecdotal data based on less than ten tests of both waiting-time methods. ..... I love the system. ... Water resistant medical tape is your friend. .... I WISH I COULD SEE AND upload the full data file of hidden measures and comments and events to my email and SPREADSHEET. Via your meter and by the consumer app on my cell phone. CAN I GET THE PHYSICIAN system?

App Verses Reader. I just switched from the reader to the app because the pharmacy filled my script with the 14 day censors rather than what the doctor prescribed which were the kind that only works with the reader. I started 2 weeks ago with the reader and was testing about every 30 minutes during waking hours. Loved using the reader, the only drawback was having to carry 2 devices (it and my phone) However , the app developers have made a major misstep. They need to understand the power of sounds as motivation and how beeps and rings stimulate seratonin and dopamine receptors. The absence of these sound ‘rewards’ on the app are a big disappointment. When I scan with my phone it barely makes a noise and it’s not at all pleasant. There’s nowhere on my iPhone or within the app itself to set tones. Please add this feature.

Love and hate. Love the capability and the easy to read screens. I’d LOVE to see the average glucose converted to A1C on the reports. Just wish I could use this app all the time. I’ve been a customer for years, long before US approvals. And the Libre changed my life!!! Every country in the world except the US only waits 1 hour for a new sensor to warm up, and the sensors stay usable for 14 days allowing me to easily remember to apply a new sensor every other Sunday. Therefore I have to use my reader for 11 hours while this app blocks the ability to read a new sensor. I don’t keep or use finger sticks any more, haven’t for years. I sure hope nothing bad happens to anyone in the 12 hours you block readings. Then again days 11 -14 the app blocks readings, so again I am forced to use my reader. Being I sometimes travel allot, trying to keep in mind if I need to pack a new sensor for a trip is no fun when the day of the week it expires always changes - so I stay with the 14 day reader (as all sensors are the same globally - at least for now)

Updates needed. I love being able to use my phone to take readings. That’s a huge step up. But the app itself leaves much to be desired. Such as: The ability to send the phone data to my Dr and not just a day at a time or a total summary. Like the “modal day report” from the auto assist software. She needs to see a summary of day to day information and she can’t get that unless I use the reader. Which defeats the purpose of having an app. The ability to calibrate if required. Everyone is different and different spots on the arm can also vary. We should be allowed to calibrate if necessary. With this sensor my readings are regularly 15-20pts lower than blood readings (with the 15 min delay and during stable periods). Syncing with apple’s health kit, Fitbit, myfitnesspal etc. When these apps work together to sync activity and carbs, life is easier. Just syncing would health kit would be enough to add activity levels and (more importantly) carbs eaten. Add this information twice on different apps is unnecessary and annoying. The ability to scroll over the line and see readings at any given point. The data is there so why I can’t I see it? These features would make the app more competitive with others for CGMs and glucose meters. I hope to see some updates soon.

Needs faster updates, more features. First, kudos to Abbott for essentially cannibalizing their cash-cow glucose test strip business with the Libre. Abbott has always demonstrated more innovation than Roche or Johnson & Johnson, so the Libre represents an aspect of the “Innovator’s Dilemma” for which Abbott deserves far more credit than most of its competitors. Second, the Libre system and especially the iOS app lacks some essential features like Apple Health and Tidepool sharing. Making CGM data difficult to export without Abbott’s proprietary software is stupid in an era of open data standards championed by JDRF. Dexcom has the lead here and the Libre will ultimately fail without more open data exchanges, regardless of the Libre’s slightly lower cost. Overall, it’s great to see tbe Libre as a viable CGM competitor; I hope they continue to innovate more rapidly.

Love the convenience. I have been using the Freestyle Libre for just over a week and love being able to just scan my arm, and have been checking my blood more frequently. I have been testing as well with my regular glucometer just to see how things measure up and have found that the readings on the Freestyle Libre are between 20-40 points higher, but I am contributing that to possible port misplacement and will see how things compare when I put on the next port. I hope on the future the sensor will not be sensitive to X-ray scanners as I travel for work and requesting to opt out of X-ray to have manual pat-down does slow me down and is a bit unsettling at times. Overall, so far, I am pleased and if the measurements between the sensor and my glucometer begin to align I will come back and raise my rating!

Usually accurate, needs more features. The app is fine in so much as it accomplishes what it says it will. However, that is really not enough when you compare what is being offered by your main competitor. Abott really needs to: 1. Make this app useable for the Libre 2 system. I don’t understand why this hasn’t happened yet. 2. Make this app compatible with ios widgets so users can add it to their lockscreens/apple watch and easily see their data at a glance. Your main competitor has had this feature for a while now. 3. Allow for easy transfer of data to other diabetes management apps. Users should be able to have access to the vast amount of features offered by apps like Sugarmate, mySugr, and Apple Health without having to spend hours manually transfering data from your app to the other. 4. If you don’t want to make data-transfer easy, then please offer more features. A low-glucose alarm option is absolutely necessary. If you genuinely care about the health of your customers, and understand the risks of sleeping through a low, then you will acknowledge that an alarm is vital.

Deleted this app forever today. I have used this app on and off for 2-3 years, it is ok when it works but it has always been vastly inferior to the Libre reader device itself. My reason for giving it the heave-ho today is basically Abbot’s tone deaf response to a widely known issue. Every time they update the EULA, privacy policy, or terms of service, it kills your sensor completely within moments of your click. This is widely known in the diabetic community and has been reported many times. Yes, Abbot is very good about sending you a free replacement but that is a real pain, and a totally needless inconvenience. So this morning, after enduring this fiasco one too many times, I decided to permanently delete the app when I saw the popup asking me to accept or reject their latest lawyer-tweak. Goodbye LibreLink, I tried to like you, I really did!

Could be much better.. Sensor application can sometimes be disastrous if the tiny filament bends instead of penetrating the skin or hits a vein resulting in bleeding and a useless sensor and some can just be duds. Then dealing with Abbott Corporate to have them replaced is usually an hour long phone call. It could all be done online in a fraction of the time if they would create a portal for that. They are good about replacing them though. The app doesn’t seem to keep up with the iPhone updates. Right now I’m having a problem with a delay. When I scan my sensor there’s a long delay before I get a reading or I have to start over if it won’t cooperate at all. It sure beats sticking your finger but I feel the technology could be much improved.

App works, but such limited functionality. I have not had any issue with the app reading my sensors. But my main complaint is the fact it is very barebones. No integration with Apple HealthKit. No Apple Watch app. No widget to bring up the app and be ready to read the sensor. This is far easier than carrying around a dedicated reader, but the lack of integration into HealthKit has me really wishing my doctor had prescribed a different monitor that has an app that does these things already. (The competitor’s app has tighter integration into iOS and most insurances cover them the same... Wish I had fought harder to get the Dexcom G6 over this) If you don’t care about integration with other health and fitness data, this will work fine for you. If you want your glucose levels to be integrated with other health apps, look elsewhere until Abbott gets with the times.

Loving this so far!. I just got my Libre today and inserted it into my arm, so this will not be a proper review until I use it a bit more. However, there are some features I would like to be added in a possible future update of the app. Overall, the app is easy to use. It was super simple to set up and I love how I don’t always need to carry the reader around to use this. It makes it super convenient because I always have my phone on me. I like what I see so far and have had no issues. What I would like to see in a future update: - Getting glucose readings on an Apple/Android watches. I work a job that’s always moving and I would just like to have my blood sugar at a glance on my Apple Watch. I can’t always stop what I’m doing to check my glucose when I don’t feel well or when I am busy. - Alerts for when glucose is falling/rising rapidly (after a meal, exercise, or taking medication). In the past, I have had major crashes in my glucose. I try and push through what I am doing until I am able to test, and sometimes find I am low. Having an alert on the app might prevent hard crashes so that the person can treat their glucose accordingly. - Being able to set an alert to change the sensor every 14 days. I am a forgetful person and my biggest hurdle now that I have a CGM is going to be to change the sensor. I have an insulin pump that I (typically) change the infusion set every 3 days, and sometimes I forget to do that. With something inserted for longer than that, it might become difficult to track. Although it is nice that there is a reminder on the bottom of the home screen of how many days you have left to change it, (if there is not one already) a push notification might be nice, gentle reminder as well.

2nd chance seemed to work. I’m redoing my review from 2 stars to 4. The first one I put on per guidelines had everything. It hurt all the time, people saw and asked me about it, all the readings were 20 mg/dl to 80 mg/dl. I was debating just forgetting this or putting somewhere else on my body. Instead I decided to try it one more time but more on the upper part of the arm (actually on my tricep area). Since doing it no one can see it when I wear short sleeves, it doesn’t hurt and after 24 hours all readings are within plus/minus 10 mg/dl. I give it 4 stars because it’s not perfect and you can’t delete reading you enter including blood draws so functionality can be improved. But I am enjoying much more.

App does not play well with iOS 13.1.3–Please fix!!. After updating to iOS 13.1.3 (on an iPhone 8), the app has a slight lag between scanning, showing the “Scan complete” message, and showing the result. Also, the app is crashing (and the only resolve I can find is to delete and reinstall) in the following scenario: - Let’s say your sensor is defective (bummer!) - If you apply a new sensor and scan, you get the expected message of ending the old sensor and starting the new one, and the prompt to tap No or Yes....Unfortunately, the app freezes, you can’t tap no or yes, and the app eventually crashes after a minute. Again, unfortunately, I can’t find a way around adding a new sensor before the old one expires. This is a scenario that happens if your sensor falls off prematurely or your sensor is returning crazy readings (both happened to me within 1 month). To top it off, your data is not saved! Please make the following fixes! 1) Fix the bug that causes the app to freeze and crash when adding a new sensor and stopping an old sensor 2) Enable us to update the app or delete the app and retain the data. We have logins! I love this app—It gives me so much insight into my levels and is SO convenient. But this experience has been extremely frustrating.

Can cause life threatening issue.. Love the convenience and ease of testing. But I have had three sensors in 10 months give me crazy readings. 30–50 points higher than glucose test Or 30-50 points (mg/dL) lower than glucose test. I went dangerously low believing the sensor was correct and my “shakes” were not glucose related. The first two times the company apologetically and quickly sent a free replacement sensor arriving in a few days. Today I was told a new guideline prohibits sending a replacement or even acknowledging an issue unless I have their branded reader (I’ve always just used my iPhone) and “calibrated” finger stick to prove their arm mounted sensor has a life threatening error. The new guidelines also turned a three minute tech support call into a forty minute detailed grilling, requiring reading off dozens Of numbers, arrows and codes from phone app and sensor box- which if I had not kept, would preclude “any” help. But even after all that. resulted in no action or replacement. Terrible and dangerous client support experience. Even when escalated to “corporate resolution department” all I got was same nonsensical legal clap-trap. I suspect failure rates are much higher than FDA finds acceptable and by clamping down on replacements, Freestyle is trying to prevent a re-call or new “black box warning” required on medical devices that have issues. This worries me. And should worry you and your physician.

Works very well. I have been using this app with the libre 2 sensors for a few years now. I think the both work very well. I like the convenience of not having to stick my fingers constantly. You do still need to verify the sensor is accurate from time to time but you at better the several times a day. You do get an inaccurate sensor or a faulty one from time to time. I have saved the box and faulty sensor then I called customer service, they sent me a box with replacement sensors and instructions on returning the faulty sensors. They were super easy to work with and very polite. I would absolutely recommend this product and app over the competitors. I’ve tried them and ended up happy with the one.

Apple Health integration. I really like this app as it has made me checking my glucose level easier. There are a few things that I would request. There should be some sort of alert or alarm for when levels get too high or two low.y levels dip while I’m asleep. Being that this is a health issue a feature like this would be extremely helpful. Like many people have requested there should be some data sharing or integration with Apple Health. So many reviewers are requesting this feature be added and the developers responses have been simply “thanks for your feedback”. You would think it would be more of a priority to add in these features as all other similar products offer this. While the Libre system is more affordable than others, we shouldn’t have to deal with subpar technology

Good product, except one thing. Overall, this a good product. Fairly accurate readings over a 24 hr period. Easy to use and very convenient. The only problem (which is a BIG problem for me) is that there is no larger tape circle to cover the sensor. So if you sweat a lot in the summer, like mowing the lawn or other physical activities, the thing will become detached because the thing won’t stick to your arm due to the sweat and then you’re out of luck. This has happened to me NUMEROUS times and I’ve made suggestions but none seem to make it to the right people. My wife is Type 1 and she uses a pump and transmitter. Her transmitter comes with special tape that will secure the transmitter to her arm. Are you telling me Abbott can’t think of that? C’mon man……

What happened with 2.8.1?! Stuck in an app-boot-lop. NOT OK.. The app used to be functional and would work just fine no matter what kind of scenario I’d use it in—5G, Wi-Fi, no-internet, it really didn’t matter so long as my phone was charged and functional—and now? It keeps telling me “error communicating with server” with a “RETRY” button (there’s no way to dismiss this screen). When I tap on “retry”… it tries to connect again and fails. Then tells me to retry and the cycle repeats. I’m stuck in a loop after this last update. I’ve deleted/reinstalled the app, no change. I’m running the latest version of iOS on an iPhone 14 pro, so I know that isn’t the problem. The app was working FINE before this last update broke it. Whose idea was it to turn the diabetic monitoring/logging/note-keeping app into an always-on, always-connected, product?! The app is a tool I rely on to keep me healthy and safe, regardless of the crumbling stability of the servers it’s trying to connect to on the other end. As things stand right now… the app WILL NOT WORK for me because if the loop it’s stuck in. I can forgive most shortcomings of a tool like this, but this is NOT OK. Fix the app. In the meanwhile, I’ll be looking at and researching competitors to Abott’s CGM system/app ecosystem. I have my original reader that came with my sensors, and I’ll be using that in lieu of the phone app (for now, until the app gets fixed or my sensors run out). But, I may have to reconsider getting the sensors next time and might go with one of the competitors. It’s not as if this stuff is free: I’m paying for it. As such, its not unreasonable to have an expectation of it being fully functional at all times.

Okay but some real glitches. I realize that if you go more than 8 hours between readings there will be a gap in the data. What is frustrating are the unexplained short to medium length gaps that randomly appear. Sometimes a reading that is reflected in the log is missing from the daily or last 24 hour chart. In some cases the gap has the clock icon indicating a time zone change. Not sure what causes that in the middle of July when I have stayed at home all day long. Sometimes the timing of the gaps appear correlated with use of the phone to place or receive a call, an activity one would think was anticipated in developing an app for an iPhone. Not huge issues but very frustrating when they appear. Makes one lose confidence in the app generally. What else is going wrong that I do not see.

Doesn’t work with the libre 2 sensors. What a waste of money. My doctor ordered the libre 2 sensor which I opened and put on my arm, only to find it doesn’t work with this app like the libre 1. Well that would be fine and dandy if they have provided coverage on this app until the libre 2 app was available. Now I have to call the company and see if they will help me with the sensor ordeal. I’m sure this one will be damaged now I’ve got it on my arm but can’t activate it. Of course it’s a Friday night and the pharmacy is closed and probably would have to order the reader device because it isn’t likely to be in stock. Poor customer service. Someone dropped the ball big time on this product launch. Also no where on the sensor box does it indicate that it isn’t compatible with the app. Naturally my pharmacy placed a label over the part that said it had to have the reader version 2 so I can’t even use my old reader to use the sensor.

Interface refinements needed. The app and the entire system are great. Access to data is a game-changer for treatment decisions. That said, the user interface could use some refinement. For example, do any of the developers actually pick a meal type (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, or Snack) when entering test data? The selection area for each choice is SUPER small and prone to mistakes. Lastly, pushing data to Apple’s Health platform is a must-have integration for this to get 4-5 stars. Even my doctor and health insurer are pushing data to Apple Health so HIPAA and other compliance issues are no longer an excuse. The only logic here is that Abbott does not want to share data. That’s a poor/greedy business decision and against the needs of patients who should be able to see their own personal data displayed across multiple metrics for decision-making.

Disappointing results. This review is not about the app but about the quality of the glucose readings. I’ve been using the system for three months and to date I’ve had to ask Abbot to replace two sensors. They have always been prompt to work with me but unfortunately their sensors are not accurate. I would think entering fingerstick readings would help the system calibrate but that rarely happens for me. At times the sensors are 40 mg/dL high which is very inaccurate for a diabetic. So I’ve come to the conclusion that I can no longer purchase the sensors as finger-sticks are much more accurate. I cannot recommend the system as it is not ready for prime time. Maybe in the future Abbot will find a way to manufacture sensors that are more accurate but for now steer clear of the system.

Okay could great. This app would be easily to make better even great. It works, no problems scanning, etc. Suggestions: - using notifications to remind you read your data. Device only stores 8 hours, why not simply use notification system to notify at 7 hours and 45 min since last reading. Would be easy to and with normal notification system do not disturb would make it all work as expected. - remind to read before bed. Might be harder but i would at notifying in evening a reminder. - definitely export data to health app. These days there is no excuse not to. One can ONLY read the data with abbott app so sharing it so folks can have health data all in on place makes so much sense. Help patients use their data do not prevent them from using it. -Use a drag-able line to see glucose level and time similar to weather apps. This also easy introspection of daily and trend info. - show daily mins and max when looking at any daily graph. - allow graph zooming to show 1 day, 2 days, etc. so folks can look at multiple personal events on one screen (like travel).

So glad it’s finally here in the US but it could use work. I have been semi-patiently waiting for this app to make its appearance state side and I am thrilled to find that is works as advertised! That being said, I would like to see some additional functionality. I am using an XS phone which is capable of reading NFC devices without the app being open; that would be welcome here so I didn’t need to go through the whole rigamarole of unlocking the phone and opening up the app, and instead i could just swipe. I also would like to see better HealthKit integration (that is to say, any HealthKit integration at all). Finally, the charts are much nicer on the iPhone than on the reader device but I would like to be able to customize my view of them a bit more. Being able to pinch to zoom or change the Y axis on the graph for better visibility would be welcome. But overall I am thrilled to see that the app is here and now I don’t need to carry the reader everywhere with me to monitor my blood glucose. Having the ability to scan myself with the iPhone itself leads me to check it more diligently.

Diminishing Performance. I have used the 14 Day FreeStyle Libre for many years and have been well pleased with the sensors. I have been able to manage my diabetes without the need to do multiple fingersticks each day. I have been having problems with the Apple App on my iPhone. Over the years this App has become troublesome. Scanning of the sensor has routinely required multiple attempts and various technical problems. Sometimes the App indicates it has obtained a reading, but fails to actually show a reading other times it takes a reading but fails to beep. I have never had problems with the FreeStyle Libre Reader. Unfortunately the Reader isn’t as friendly in adding comments to the data. The manufacturer seems to ignore these problems and since they now have two new improved sensors, the 14 Day FreeStyle Libre has become the neglected poor stepchild.

Super annoying alarms. App thinks it so important it won’t run unless it can send you a blaring alert notification to let you know you sugar was too high recently and you MUST keep rechecking it as if checking it will lower it. The old Libre app app for the first gen sensor was fine. This things is just frustrating and annoying. Try turning your phone in airplane mode when you sleep… you’ll get another warning from this app. Super intrusive and self-important in ways that don’t seem to provide any real benefit for the consumer. Also, just like the last version, many failed readings where the app says it gets a reading then shows it failed. Seems buggy or ill designed. If it doesn’t read then why not keep trying until it works? Somebody over there doesn’t test with real uses and doesn’t understand user experience testing.

Running Slow. I have been using this app for four years. It used to work great. About two months ago, around the time of the last update, it started running so slow. For instance, you scan a sensor, it takes about 20-30 seconds for your glucose to appear. It used to be instantaneous. You tap something, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. It’s very frustrating. Do your developers even test the functionality of your app before sending out an update? And frankly, the fact that this has been going on for two months now and it hasn’t been fixed shows you just don’t care. The recent reviews are full of complaints regarding this issue. And the blanket response from developers is we need more information about this problem? Really? Read the reviews again.

Useful, but…. I’ve used the FreeStyle Libre 14-day sensors for a couple of years now and appreciate being able to scan with my phone. I have pre-diabetes, had gestational diabetes, and have a deep family history of diabetes, so this is an important tool in (hopefully) preventing development of the disease. Issues I have with the app: 1) It doesn’t share data with Apple Health. This would be helpful to me and/or my doctors for consolidating my health data and possibly gaining further insight into my health. Why doesn’t it offer this option? 2) It doesn’t observe my phone’s dark mode setting, nor does it have its own dark setting - I am blinded by light when I scan at night 3) It doesn’t have the option for haptic-only feedback so scans can be as unobtrusive as possible. This would especially desirable at night, but also when I’m scanning while with a group of people - I’d rather not draw attention to myself when scanning. 4) The interface is a little clunky. A) Swiping left doesn’t take me to the previous day’s graph, but rather to the menu, even though the menu bar icon is in the upper left corner, and in some modes is also in a drop down; I must use little arrows at the top of the chart to navigate through days, which is much less intuitive. B) If I take a scan and add a note, I can’t change the time of the note; I must navigate to a different screen to enter a note that’s not associated with that scan. C) I can’t tap on the note icon on the chart to access a note, instead I must go to the menu, select logbook, then use the arrows to get to the day I’m interested, look through the list of notes for that day, *then* select it to see the note. D) see previous comments regarding night time scanning and scanning while with people (I.e. at a meeting at work)

It would be great if it worked consistently. I have iPhone 7 Plus and update the iOS whenever available. The reader that is supplied with the sensors works without fail every time. However, the phone app only reads the sensor successfully about 5% of the time, and randomly without rhyme or reason. I have called the Freestyle Libre customer service line. The representative with whom I spoke was unable to figure it out. He told me a technical specialist would call me within 2 business days to help me solve the issue. I never received another call. This is very frustrating—I chose the Libre for the convenience, including being able to use my phone to monitor anytime and anywhere. And, I really don’t want to have to carry the reader everywhere I go and risk losing it. I’m at a loss...::

Zero Stars if Possible. Over the course of 2 months, I purchased 6 sensors; 2 of them didn’t work. That’s a failure rate of 33%! So what do I mean by “didn’t work?” Readings of in the 50s to 60s when my finger pricking stated readings of 110 or so. I called the first time this happened and was told to give it a few more days. The second time this happened I called and asked for replacements. I was told I needed to research dates, times, and readings. Keep in mind that just being on the phone for the first and second call quickly adds up to an hour. The first call should have informed me of the prolonged process they would expect me to follow. When I asked the second call associate to reference my first call he indicated that the note only said “call dropped” which it hadn’t, so this confirmed that the call center is unprofessional and disinterested in providing good customer service. Save your money and seek a better product...or just keep purchasing sensors until you get one that works.

Does not work with LibreLink 2 sensors. My doctor switched me from Libre 14 day to Libre 2. To my surprise the Libre 2 will not work with my iOS phone the way the 14 day sensor did. I called Abbott customer service and was told only the new meter (which I had to buy) would work with the Libre2 even though in several counties in Europe the iOS software works with Libre2. It seems Abbott has been unable to get the FDC to approve the iOS software! My Endocrinologist says not to go back to the 14 day sensor as he thinks they will get approval soon. This seems like another example of our government being more of a hindrance than a help. If you can use the software in Europe why not in the US. That’s stupid. Perhaps we need to terminate the present leaders of the FDC and hire the folks from Europe and Australia!! I am highly frustrated.