Kik Messaging & Chat App App Reviews

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Good app that went downhill. I have had and used Kik for many years and I don’t know what happened but this app is barely useable nowadays. There are 3 main issues but first let me state that for the last 2 years I had the iPhone 11 Pro Max. And I just got the 13 Pro Max. So these issues aren’t because of an old phone. 1: It’s so laggy! It freezes up all the time. While loading, while trying to type out a message. It just freezes. 2: With the new iPhone 13 Pro Max it will not notify me. At all. I never know if I have a message now unless I actually tap to open the app then it will refresh and be like “Oh! So n so messaged you about an hour ago.” - When I had my 11 Pro Max this only happened randomly. But with the 13 I have not once gotten a notification from Kik. 3: The ads make this almost unusable. I get that you need ads since this is a free app. However, the way you’ve put them in and load are making the experience difficult because of issue number 1 that I listed. The ad freezes and then you have to kill the app which you may or may not need to see another pop up ad. And some of them won’t even close even when you tap the X in the corner resulting in having to kill the app and restart it. I really hope this gets fixed soon because I really do love the app since I’ve used it for many years but I could seriously go to another app like discord and not have to deal with any of these issues. I’m trying to be loyal but it’s getting harder each day…

Better, but still needs work. After the last update and my last review, you fixed one of the major issues and complaints I had; you fixed the notification bug, now they come though again and I can actually talk with people again, however there's still two issues that plague the app; the ads and the bots, I'll go over both issues: 1. The ads are extremely frequent and annoying, they're often unskippable or straight up lock you in them so you can't access messages easily, I've had to close the app a total of three times to get out of some ads. 2. The bots, dear god the bots, they're out of control. Over the last month, I have gotten over 35 invites from random sex bots trying to scam me for a website (and since my last review, twenty more have added me), this can all be fixed if you simply add the ability to disable people from inviting you or if you purge the app of these bots. Please PLEASE do something about the bots, I can wait with the ads, just put something out that either purges all the bot accounts or give us the feature to disable invites -A user who had used your app since 2018

“ Unrecoverable Error “. I’ve been a user of kik for a total of 2 1/2 years and there’s no doubt that the app itself is a really cool way to communicate with others around the world ; digitally. Although recently , I’ve always had issues where I would be using the app continuously and as I were to exit the app and go onto different ones , sometimes a notification bubble would appear saying “ Unrecoverable Error “ which I fail to understand is about as it tells me that Kik is incapable of generating the previous chats I have and would order me to sign out and reset the app as a ways of allowing it to function better. In no way do I have anything against the app at all , there’s just a few minor issues here and there but overall—don’t let this concern stop you from trying it out. And maybe also the profile pictures when it comes to group chats that I join—sometimes as I change the picture for my user , it doesn’t generate into a chat that I previously join which causes some people to question why it’s the same and what not. Again—only minor issues with kik but overall , it’s a decent social interface that allows many people to communicate with one another globally which is something that I do give Kik credits for. All in all , it’s a great app. Just wish that they could possibly do something about the “Unrecoverable Error” notification on my kik.

Downgraded. Kik must have new owners because now it’s ridiculous. It has been temporary banning people for no reason and suspending many accounts that we can’t get back. Now it’s to the point that we can’t even make another account because it tracks your IP ADDRESS. So if you’ve been hacked, or sent a request KIK NEVER UNBANS YOU AND YOU CANT MAKE A NEW ACCOUNT. Even snapchat or any other app doesn’t do that. So I recommend going to Snapchat or another social media app. Because Kik is no longer user friendly and becoming way too strict. I know they’re trying to be nice to the people but to the point they track your IP?!? And they ban you without a reason. What’s worse is I’ve never had a temporary ban before maybe one 2 hour one from 3 YEARS AGO!!’ I wasn’t even active on Kik and it banned me ?!? Are you serious ?!? Half of my friends even been suspended or temporary banned and it doesn’t tell us why. Have people reported me? Like Kik should tell you what happened and not do it for no reason. I’m starting to think Kik has even been hacked. This is Stupid now half of my friends can’t even go back on Kik. And Kik wonders why everyone uses snapchat

No fixes, bugs or otherwise. Every update just makes the issues worse. I was getting notifications some of the time but now since I did the most recent one…none, nada, zilch, nothin. I don’t know for sure when it started getting so bad. Either when they added that ridiculous Live feature or started running ads again. Doesn’t matter the cause, they just never fix the problems, then create more the next time & have a severely awful contact feature (that’s on the web, not the app). In the last 6 months or so I’ve also had issues where my messages are sent to the Server but just dangle out there for any length of time & might get Delivered eventually. MIGHT! This happens randomly & frequently. I’ve waited overnight for a message to be Delivered &, well, then it’s pretty useless. If the basics of delivering messages & sending notifications isn’t fixed ASAP I’ll just go w/out the app. Yes, developers, I’ve read all of your helpless FAQ & such & went through the steps provided fixing none of the issues. Even deleted & downloaded the app again, which, obviously, fixed nothing.

Help. Hello. I am messaging about something that one of my friends recently got on their kik app. I am not in contact with them over kik, but they have recently told me about a feature given to them out of nowhere to where they can choose and send up to 5 images at once. My question to you guys over there at kik, is why is she the only person I know with this feature? I have only found one other instance online, and a friend of hers who has it. I personally do not have it on kik, and I tried many things like using different devices and accounts in order to get this, but with no prevail. The extremely scary part is the fact that she has 5 different alt accounts all with different information and used on different devices and each and every ONE OF THEM have the ability to choose 5 images at a time. Please contact me to see if there is a way for me to get this ability

app is slow, buggy, and it crashes too much.. first off, i don’t get notifications for any on my chats even though i have them turned on. the ads slow down the app so much it’s unbelievable. kik constantly crashes on my phone to the point where i don’t even wanna use it anymore.. kik is nothing like it used to be. UPDATE- bruh it says i’m at max chats but i dont even have any open please fix this. yall added live but the chats don’t even work anymore. EDIT- as a new streamer, i’m struggling to keep a steady streaming schedule because of the lag i experience. my chat freezes, trying to make someone bouncer crashes my live, and i can’t even close my live without my live getting stuck.. i’ve done everything from clearing all my chats to deleting the app altogether but other than the bug related problems, the amount of racism me and my peers face on here is unbelievable. i don’t think theres a real banning system on here at all honestly. i have had over 30 fake accounts made of me with racial slurs threaten me relentlessly. they make accounts back to back no matter how many times i kick and block them. i’ve been sent videos of people getting lynched, shot, decapitated just for being a black woman on kik live. when will it stop? why can’t you IP ban these people? it’s been detrimental to my mental health and i can’t even enjoy streaming like i used to. fix this.

Terrible. I basically never write reviews unless it’s beyond amazing or god awful. I used to use this app back when it first came out up until highschool and it’s fallen so far from where it used to be. The app is awful now. It’s laggy, crashes all the time, has random bugs, ad pop ups constantly, bot accounts, ugly buggy interface, animations are choppy. I’ve only had the app for 2 hours now after not using it for 10 years and I was immediately taken aback by how bad it is. I joined two rooms and was already being messaged by several spam accounts. Then it crashed, then it froze when I was going to the menu. I’ll press an option and it’ll hang for 5 seconds before doing what I needed, that’s just the ones I encountered in my very short time back on it. Beyond disappointed. The app used to work flawlessly, it did it’s job perfectly NO ADS EITHER. A secondary messenger app that was essentially iMessage for people who didn’t have iPhones. I could’ve forgave the bot accounts and ads if the app actually worked well and looked good. There’s nothing redeeming here to make me want to use it. Uninstalling and deleting my account.

Good for chat but security flaws. I started using App based on suggestions that it was a private way to chat with others. Used mainly for adult purposes, or any scenario where you don’t want anyone to see a chat in your phone’s text messaging. The addition of specialized groups you can join to meet others with same interests to you was an added bonus. Actually made some real friends with the groups. What I find very disturbing is the extremely high amount of bots that are in the App. They are usually disguised as attractive women who privately message you, and then try to lure you with spam or a phishing link. Of course, I just report and block and delete them, but when you’re getting up to 10 a day, you start to realize KIK has a major problem. They can also join private groups and wreak havoc with members. Remember, children can use this App, so this can create real problems to the unaware. When you report the Spam Bots every…single…day, you would think KIK would take more stringent action to prevent this. Nothing. Especially disturbing because the Spam Bots are always sexually explicit. Not for kids.

The “fixes” make it worse. Will there ever be a time where the programmers at Kik ever make it so this app simply just works? Every time they release a new version it might fix one thing and then make something else worse. The app does not perform well if you use an Apple product. Using it on iPhone is better than iPad. It crashes on iPad when you try to look at someone’s profile pic and it does t update the group chat when you come back to it to scroll and see what you’ve missed while you were gone. With the most recent update pictures and videos are marked “explicit” even though they are not and now I can’t view the videos and pics people share by clicking on them. It sometimes make it bigger and opens up but mostly it doesn’t anymore. The app is slowly going downhill with too many bugs and glitches and inconsistency among different hardware to run the app.

Going way downhill. I previously gave this app a 4 star rating. The actual “chat” feature works most of the time, but more on that later. I’ve had kik for over 7 years, and I saw it improve, and now it’s going downhill. I loved the video chat feature, then they got rid of it. I loved the custom emoji shop and kik points feature. They got rid of that. I loved the many game bots. Most of the good ones are gone. In the past year or so, they’ve added ads, which I noticed made the app slower and crash more. Also, pop up ads (usually for dating apps) come up when you open chats, and you’re constantly asked to personalize ads. Now, you can’t type while the app is still connecting to the internet/data. Half the time you can’t even go out/into different chats while it’s loading, either. This all started about a month or two before the whole “kik is leaving” thing, which is why I believed it. The app has been going downhill for a while. Beyond that, they’ve added some live video feature that contains a lot of sexualized content, some of which appears to be from minors based on the previews it gives in a banner at the top of the screen that no one can choose to remove. As it stands, I cannot recommend someone new download and use kik. For now, I say just use discord or some other chat app.

Needs more organization options. This is a great messaging app and I have made a ton of new friends who are into the same things I am. HOWEVER: some MAJOR organization needs to happen. I really don’t like how unorganized it is! 1. It should be able to be organized by groups and direct messages, like two separate chunks, so you have your directs in the top and groups in the bottom, separated by a line or a category or something. I hate having to scroll through tons of messages just to see where the notification is coming from!!! 2. I wish I could flag messages that I want to return to at a later time. So I’d like to be able to read them but then flag them so I can keep them at my attention. 3. Wish I could pin certain groupchats to the top. 4. there should be options for “turn off all group notifications” so i don’t have to go into each one separately and do it manually. As well as would love an option for “alert all groups with this message”. 5. I’d like to be able to add people into a group chat FROM my singular chat that I’m having with them. There should be an option from the personal message to “add to a group” which then populates with all the groups I’m in, from which i can choose which one to add them to. Not having to exit the chat then go find the group then go to add people and find the person from a list of recent chats in order to add them, would be great. Otherwise I love the app.

Gotten better!. Kik has gotten a LOT better over the past few updates! So many bugs that made kik quite insufferable have basically faded out of existence (at least on my device). I quite like the new interests feature, though I would like to make a suggestion. If possible, people could enter their own interests in the text field, so that fans of similar shows could find one another and such. I feel like it would be a great touch and allow the kik profile to be more personalized than just name, photo, and emoji status. Alternatively, you could swap the interest bubbles with a short-in-character-limit bio section? Nothing too long, maybe about the length of a tweet! The only complaint i have (as with any messaging service) is the bots. They have become quite frequent, and find their way often into group chats. I know that these bots are difficult to weed out half the time, but any efforts to control them, I’m all for.

“Live” has ruined this app. I don’t care to chat with strangers live, especially when most of it goes directly against the terms and conditions as its basically porn, and the app now automatically picks a random person who is live and sticks it above the last conversation I had. The result is that I go into the app and click on a conversation I’m having, but as the app loads, it loads tons of live people along the top and then also some random live person. Thus instead of opening my personal conversation I clicked on, the live one often loads. Also the recent editions constantly pop up a blue screen to have me make sure I don’t lose my info, but when you click on it, it doesn’t offer an update, it instead takes you to settings. Using this app, I usually open it and close it twice to get past the b.s. auto-loaded content and just get to the conversations with people I know. It used to be great before live—I wish I could disable that.

Why are there so many bugs?. Troubleshooting with the app has completely crashed for me an my friend almost, and it’s become very annoying. Our messages will get stuck on Sent and it’s a gamble if they will arrive or not to the chat, and half of the messages never display Delivered and that’s also a gamble for if they actually arrived or not. We’ll get notification sounds for new messages and once we open that chat that we guessed it “arrived” in, it’s not there most of the time and we have to send the message again. I’ve tried doing what the help articles for Connection troubleshooting and Red Recipients along with the Notifications article which are all the same thing, but they’ve done literally nothing. The only noticeable difference was at the beginning whenever one of my messages displayed Delivered, but it never happened again and it appeared to only have worked for the first two minutes. I’ve had to redownload the app as well, which didn’t work in the slightest either. I can’t keep turning my phone on and off every two minutes in the hopes that my messages will actually reach my friends. Please make an effort into fixing this.

So much has changed. Used to use this app back in ehhh... 2015ish? It was on an old phone, I know that. I can’t remember exactly, but wasn’t there the ability to send gifs straight from your phone? That really needs to be a thing, if not! If so, please bring it back! I find it hard to share my quick animations with friends without it. Another thing: there’s a massive bug going on with the name/profile picture system. In one group the picture will be right, but the name is not. Many scenarios like that, except it corrects itself in private messages. Lastly, it would be nice to have a way to report dead groups. There are a few hashtags that I’d like to get my hands on, turns out the group is flat out dead, but I can’t do anything about it! It clogs up the search and is very frustrating to work around. However, for nostalgia sake, I seem to keep coming back to this app. That, and it’s one of the few that I find is the easiest to search for public groups.

Update Nov 24th 2019. I’ve used Kik for over two years now. Yes, the video chat option is now gone yet that hasn’t improved performance. Kik fails to get new message alerts to my locked screen. Even while in the app there are issues. I will get the alert sound or vibration if my phone is silenced that I have a new message yet nothing shows up in the chat I’m in and when I go back to my list of current chats there isn’t a new message there either. I have to leave Kik, close the app entirely and restart it to get the new message to show up. This delay is even noticeable when the alert that someone is typing goes up on the top of the screen yet the messages you just sent them stay on D for delivered instead of changing to R for read even after you receive a new message in the same chat! I’ve restarted my iPhone several times with no improvement in the app’s performance. There are now ads on every screen in the app so maybe so much priority is being given to their refresh rate that only the barest crumbs of the app’s ability are left for my messaging functions. I’m actively seeking a replacement platform which saddens me as I was so excited to hear that Kik would be staying.

Why adds. Honestly I’ve been using kik since it’s released date I’ve been through it all supporting kik and using it as my main source of messaging and connecting with other people and friends but I simply cannot understand why in the world do you need adds it now feels like a last ditch to support the app for longer and it feels like you guys have given up on the app a lot of people have come to love please guys change it back to how it use to be with no adds the app is much better without them and people will start leaving if it’s not changed I remember a time that we were able to play games in the app itself and a time were it was fun to use this app but the adds simply just kill the app entirely and is just not a good thing for the longevity of the app please I strongly suggest that this add be removed you guys can implement so many great things in that app that can get more people to get the app and communicate with others in the app itself please I really don’t want this app to just die overtime I hope you guys evaluate my review and make the needed changes

Needs To Restore Chat History & Stop Force Closing/Crashing. I really like using the Kik app, including to get to stay in touch with friends. But I really don't like that it won't restore and/or bring back the chat history, including the recent chat history & any messages from chatting with my friends from before, whenever I log out & log in again, and I really don't want to have to keep asking my friends to show me their recent chat history to catch up from the last time I chatted/talked with if mine gets cleared off. Also, the app is now starting to keep force closing, including on when I'm trying to send a message to my friends and/or in the Kik groups that I'm a member on. I want to see them get the chat history restored whenever we log out and then log in, and also fix it to stop it force closing a lot while using the Kik app. I want to be able to retrieve all my previous chat histories, so I don't have to ask any of my friends the same thing again, and also needs to be fixed to make it stop force closing / crashing a lot, even when I'm typing a message and/or trying to send a new reply.

Pros and cons for sure. I’ve had this app for a bit now. On and off and through multiple accounts. It’s great in many ways, I’ve found many friends and had many laughs. The community overall is full of nice people. But lately it’s died down, sadly. There’s been an overrun of bots that kinda drove people away, and many of the bots- besides rage- just don’t work anymore. Now they’re pushing this new live thing that not many people even use. Sure, some do. But it’s really not that many. And the ads oh my goodness. It’s great. Has a good base and start and all, but slowly it kinda… fell apart. I hope it gets better soon. EDIT: Unable to make your own groups now because of the blacklist thing. I get it, but it’s annoying. I get that you use it to get rid of bots but it really messes with people. The info video basically tells you to either start a new account (and people have accounts for years and don’t wanna restart) or get a new device like. Seriously man? Stop this nonsense and work on it a different way rather than messing with good, creative people.

New messages function is broken. I’ve had the app for about 2 years. In the past it’s been alright… lots of message loading issues and general glitches. Plus I have never been able to receive push notifications, even though I’ve done the troubleshooting and done everything recommended to turn on push notifications. They just don’t work. Which is annoying. Now the new message function is broken, which is just as frustrating as it sounds. I’m getting new message requests from friends and I’m 100% unable to view or access them. So I essentially can’t chat with those friends at all and their messages are just hanging in cyber limbo. I contacted customer support and they said they’re aware of the issue and that there is no fix for it, but that they’re working on it. It’s been broken for about a week now. You would think that an app pretty much dedicated to chatting with people would be more concerned about the fact that… people are currently unable to chat with each other. From what I’ve read, all iOS users are experiencing this. This is a huge glitch for what is probably over half of their user base. What’s the point of the app if I can’t talk to my friends? Kik developers need to get their act together and fix it before people just ditch for Snapchat entirely.

Great alternative. I downloaded this app because my boyfriend and I cannot text regularly and have decided to delete our Instagram and snapchats, so this was an option. At first, I wasn't so sure because I'd used it before and I just didn't like it. But it has been a great alternative. It is quick, very easy to use. I have an iPhone 7 and I've heard of it causing problems for the 7, but it has not caused me any problems at all. The only problems I find with Kik, is it will delete messages on its own. And I typically do not delete my messages. So when I go back to look for something, whether it be a picture or an important message, it will be gone. If that could be fixed it would be perfect!! The other is for some reason it is detecting a network error every time I try to change my photo, which is a little strange. Other than that I see no problem with kik, and it is very useful.

Good, but it has NO ACTUAL SUPPORT. Kik overall is pretty good. Me and my friends actually uses it almost everyday and we enjoy it. I really would give this app 5 stars; HOWEVER, I am giving it only 1 star because good luck trying to actually talk to an actual human whenever you need customer support. Especially if it’s something specific. I’ve been trying to get help regarding my kik bot for a while now and I’m about to just give up. Tried using the help center, YET it does not help. Tried asking my question in the center, I can’t do it. Tried viewing my support ticket, but I CANNOT login and yes i have an account for it. Tried emailing kik, all I get was freaking automatic replies that says the SAME THING: “We got your email, try looking into the help center” which again, DOES NOT WORK. I tried reaching out to kik on social media, but again that does not work. So I’m just like screw this and give this app 1 star. It’s good overall but I should be able to EASILY contact an actual human if i need extra support. You can’t have any sort of product, but not have good support for it.

Used to be good. Not so much anymore. I have had this app for 8 years now and it used to be so much better when it was just chatting and video, without all the extra features they have now. If I don’t want be live or watch anyone be live I still have to deal with seeing them on my feed. Why? Live is very pointless and everyone on it are pervs and trying to promote sex and being inappropriate indirectly. It’s very annoying. It’s also not more the features, it’s the fact that the app has SO many bugs now bc of these features and it continuously freezes. The only reason I’m still on this app and tolerating this is bc of my old friends that I talk to on the app, however if it continues and it’s not dealt with I’ll have no other choice but to leave the app. Also why do I keep receiving messages from bots or females asking for n**es? Please fix this it’s ridiculously annoying. Focusing on making the messaging better rather than adding pointless features.

Was good, now pointless. Kik used to be ok. Fun, rooms for every taste, and a few good features. It had its issues (too many bots, spammers, and a heavy focus on adult content). But it was still fun. You could meet a lot of fun people, could find rooms you liked, and learned to dodge the crap. HOWEVER, this release is broken garbage. The sex and bots are still as rampant as ever, but now you get far too many pop up ads, and CANNOT join ANY rooms. Absolute garbage. Pointless. And I put in a service ticket where I explained everything (my account, what phone, what os, the problem, the things I had tried, etc). I received an automated response apologizing for the issue and asked me a small list of questions they needed as additional information. Most of which I had already provided in my initial contact. I wrote back with concise answers to each. A day later I got another automated response with another list of questions, several of which were repeats of the first. I patiently provided those answers. It has now been 2 weeks and I have not heard a peep in response despite two more follow up attempts on my part. Point is, their service is as bad as their app. Unless and until they fix this version steer clear. It is a waste of time!

Love it (but I don’t like the new updates). Ok so I’ve had Kik since 2 years back, it was awesome and worked amazing at that time. So I got a new phone and forgot about it and probably half a year later I got it again, it was great when I opened the app. It worked perfectly and I didn’t have any problems. So as time gone by I noticed a few bugs, example: I own a group so I’m the owner, sometimes when I open the app and a bot joins I try to remove it but it doesn’t give me the option so when I view the members, there’s two of me. The one that’s owner and the one that’s a member. So I ask the members if they see two of me in the members and they say no. I tried closing the app and reopening it but it never works so I just wait it out and let my admins do it for me. The update that I hated is when someone leaves a group chat, you can’t private message them. That update annoyed me a lot because I made some friends in some chats but they left but I can never get in touch with them unless I had them in my contacts which I do not. I’m only see that the bugs happen in the group chats. Also, the ads update, or what I think is a update is really annoying also because it really messed up al the chats I was in. I really hope they fix them because I love this app!

Its ok but.... I like this app I’ve been a member for going on five years so I’ve definitely seen changes with the original developers compared to the current version. I understand the need for ads in order to pay for the app as it’s free however your website claimed they wouldn’t be intrusive i beg to differ as they appear inside of chats as ad banners this isn’t a good way to add apps into an app and it makes me want to uninstall it, however as i have friends on here I won’t. Instead I’m offering a different type of way to have ads a way that kik used to do ads. There used to be kik points which allowed you to get different emojis, and stickers. You earned these through both games and video ads which the user chose to watch or see. What if you did a system like this again? And have emojis, stickers, and custom themes we could get with points. It would be a great non intrusive way to include ads to keep the app running and add some more fun back into the app! Hope this review helps!

Don’t like the ads, bring back the games instead. I’ve been on kik for literal years. I chat with my friends pretty regularly and I’m apart of many groups. I took a break from it however to focus on my schoolwork and when I came back, there were ads? It looks distasteful and completely distracts from the themes set up in the groups (why would you even put them in group chats??) and it’s annoying. There’s plenty of other ways you can earn money with ads that...aren’t by blatantly shoving them in consumers’ faces. In fact, that’s the quickest way to lose consumers! What happened to all the games and such? And the kik points? I frankly loved that update but you’ve gotten rid of it! How about implementing the games and the kik points and using those as marketing for ads and such so that everyone is happy. I actually don’t even want to use this app until the ad banners are gone because it’s so ugly and obnoxious. It sounds harsh and I’m sorry but there were literally other ways you could’ve gone about this. I used to play the games a lot and I didn’t even care about the ads I got in those because the games were fun while waiting on replies. Please fix it, I don’t want to stop communicating with my friends (because kik is some of their only means of communication) but I’m going to have to find other ways apparently because this is just...terrible.

The Ban System. Let me start off by saying I am writing this not for my sake but for my girlfriends sake. I have been a member of kik for almost five years. I have always loved the app and enjoyed it a lot. My girlfriend, however, told me about the ban system set in place. I believe the perma ban system you have set up where if you prove there is wrong doing you can lose your account is acceptable. I do not, however, believe that the temporary ban system in place is fair. My girlfriend is an admin of a group chat and is worried because someone is falsely reporting them because their friend was removed from the group because they were rude to others. One of the admins has already received a temporary ban due to these false reports and quite frankly I don’t believe it is fair that they did. I believe a better system for temporary bans should be in place to prevent innocent people to be banned. Thank you for reading this and I really do enjoy the app but I strongly believe that to make the app even better the temporary ban system needs to be changed.

Worse program. If I could give this program a negative star I tke it to the store I would. KIK is one of the worse chat programs with absolutely no support. Many times as I sent a message earlier often just sit in the sending mode taking for ever to be delivered. I had made up a new profile because I was getting bothered by unwanted people on my first one. Unfortunately I forgotten my password so went to the help center to see how to get a new one I followed the directions. I did exactly as I was supposed to and according to the program my password was changed but it would not except my password during login. So I figured I would just go back and change it again but KIK only lets you change the password once a day, but I tried to change it again then it told me I had to wait three days. Then I wrote to the help center and all you get from them as an automatic response telling you to go back to the forgot your password website which of course does absolutely no good. Now I’m locked out of the program for the next three days so I’m not waiting that long. I downloaded Snapchat using that and much happier so anyone reading this I suggest you do the same as I did.

I'm Disappointed – Again.. Video chat isn't working again... It was fixed for a little, then it happened again. Furthermore, now Kik doesn't show "Camera" under pictures that I've taken on Kik. Problem #1: I have been trying to start a video chat over and over, and it keeps saying "Failed to Join Video Chat" because of some "Problem Connecting to Network." Except my network is still perfectly fine. It's letting me send messages in a fraction of a second, so why does Kik suddenly say that my network connection is bad only when I want to start a video chat? The video chat feature was working perfectly fine yesterday, so why isn't it working now? Furthermore, why is it saying that there's something wrong with my own personal network? That's not right. Please fix this, because I'm positive that it's not my network that's acting up - it's the Kik app that's acting up. As for the while camera photo thing, this is brand new to me. I've never had this issue in the past, but ever since today's update, it's happening to me. I was reading up on the update history of Kik and it says this was fixed in the past, but guess what? It's happening again and it needs to be fixed again...

We Don’t Want Ads!!. Recently had an update for Kik that allows other companies to advertise whatever they want on here. Usually I’m okay with this in some form as long as I get to close out the ad and not have it in my face 24/7. Now I have exactly that.. a banner ad hanging over the top of my chat whenever I try to message someone. I think this would be less of a problem if it wasn’t blocking a part of my conversation, but I’m honestly considering leaving Kik for good if they don’t fix this. I completely understand that they need to make money, but there’s other ways to do that. They added the ability to customize your chat room themes. I don’t know why they didn’t just monetize this with a little micro-transaction system. I would have gladly thrown in a couple dollars to help support their app if they had chose this path. Instead, we are stuck with ads hovering over our conversations. Don’t settle for this! Let our voices be heard! Remove these ads or we walk away! Until they change this to some degree I will leave my review as a 1 Star

Public groups. I love this app so much. The only thing that needs improvement is the public groups. I feel like sometimes the groups are too hard to find just by typing in the name of it. For example if I type in song it’ll only show groups who’s tags start with song and not things related to songs. Also the groups only get one tag. Please add an option to make related words for a group so a group can put as many tags as they want that are related to what the group is. So if a group is for singers/songwriters allow them to be found by searching up words like, music, singing, sing, song, songs, songwriting, singer, etc. etc. This feature NEEDS to be added to make the groups more easily found. And of course the groups that don’t want to be easily found don’t have to add more words that relate to their group. Please make this a feature. Otherwise I would give this app a solid 5 stars. Everything about it is perfect and super easy.

Improvement on the Emoji Selection. I have little to no issue with this app, it works for everything I need it to and has a beautiful display, along with that nothing is confusing/ it’s very easy to use. Despite enjoying Kiks transparency I do see a problem with the current “Emoji Status” options. From the millions of Apple emojis I have access to we are allowed to pick a very stereotypical selection. In this review I hope to raise awareness for us girls out there that feel boxed in by the superiority of males Kiks current Emoji selection seems to curtail. Supporting my argument, if you scroll all the way down the list you’ll find some sports related emojis, there are no “female” sports emojis able to be selected; no volleyball, no softball, etc. Emojis are meant to be gender neutral and up to this point I believe we have achieved this. I’d like to clarify that I’m not angry with this, only slightly upset. I see this issue having a very easy fix, just give us customers a wider variety of emojis to display themselves. Thanks for reading :)

Video chat. I’ve been using Kik for maybe 3 years. I’ve never had any issues with chatting with my friends. Until recently at least that I’ve noticed, when I try to video chat with a friend of mine I can’t. As soon as I turn on the camera it the camera bubble disappears two seconds after I turn it on. Even if my friend start the video chat first I can’t join them by clicking on their bubble. Then on top of that half the time it won’t even let me turn on the camera and sometimes when I do try to turn it on it won’t let me turn it off. I use to be able to turn off my phone and it would work but here recently that doesn’t even help. I’ve updated my phone turn off my WiFi, put my phone in airplane mode. And nothing! It’s frustrating when you want to talk to one of your long distance friend, who lives in a different country and you can’t..

Get rid of the Live Feature. I’ve used this app for years and counting, I’ve seen it through its ups and downs. I’ve tolerated a majority of people migrating to Discord, seeing Kik almost go bankrupt and shut down, then get revived by a new foundation. I’ve seen the emergence of ads, which was a little jarring, but I tolerated it. The Kik Live feature was at first strange, but I was able to ignore it. Now, not only does the UI for the Kik Live feature take up almost half my screen, but it is now to the point where the app barely even loads because of it. I cannot even so much as connect to message anybody, and yet the live feature functions just fine. I’ve reset my phone, router, everything when this happens, and yet the issue will still repeat and last for hours on end. I’ve tolerated a lot of things about Kik, but the UI and basic functionality of Kik has passed the measures of awful, it’s closer to non-functioning. The Live feature needs to be tweaked or Nixed entirely, because it’s a horribly distracting UI for a feature I don’t care for, and it’s starting to make the messaging feature of the message app close to defunct by this point. I’ve defended this app for god knows what reason to the ends of the earth to keep groups intact on it, and the amount of negligence in maintaining a basic, functioning server to message on a messaging app is astounding. I seriously hope something is done about this soon.

Don’t bother with this app. I thought this app was nice at first. After using it a while it became clear that you cannot use it unless you verify your personal information to the owner and admins of chat rooms. In order to stay you are asked to submit your age, exact location and a live picture or you will be removed from the group. I reviewed Kiks community standards and even wrote regarding this issue. I received a response that this is not condoned by Kik and that it would be investigated but it still goes on to this day. I do not feel that this is something that Kik should allow to happen. I feel as if the group owners/ admin are being predatory picture collectors gathering whatever information they can about you. I understand the need for safety but when I am asked to provide this information to admin that do not provide their own information then there is a problem. I do not have a problem with the app itself and think Kik has done a good job with it. I do however think that the way people are misusing it is discouraging. I would not recommend friends to use Kik unless they are comfortable with sharing so much personal information to individuals whom you have no idea who they are.

Bug Issues!. This app is eh. It has a decent text chat, with some nice emoji features and gifs and can allow for some decent groups. The texting is often fluid and there have only been a few app crashes here and there. However, there seems to be a bug with the group texts. You have this option to mute the group for an hour, a day, and until you turn off the mute (forever). So, I have all my groups muted until I want to turn them on. However, I still get notifications from these groups despite muting the groups. I’m not supposed to receive these notifications. I’ve been forced to turn off notifications for Kik all together because I receive so many. I’m in a few large groups and so the notifications pile up. But this problem shouldn’t be happening. I’d ask Kik to look into it. There is also, occasionally, a problem with the app itself. It’ll be stuck on the “loading...” State and you won’t be able to text anyone or receiver texts. Kik bugs out and basically you can’t do anything until it decides to stop. And so I hope Kik does something about these two issues.

this app is dead.. i have used kik for many, many years. 2392 days, in fact, as of writing this. i’ve made so many friends and met so many people with the same interests and hobbies as me on this app. there have been ups and downs. but at this point? god, it’s awful. it’s not salvageable at this point. the ads are not only annoying and make the app incredibly difficult to use, but are also almost exclusively for scam porn sites. speaking of, what’s with that “live” feature? you just *know* everyone on those is gonna be using it like a free onlyfans. and that’s just scratching the surface. the app has been almost completely overrun by spam bots. they join your group chats, spam random emojis and nonsensical sentences (“i'd wanna dialog with hot guys 😇” real quote, copy and pasted) and flood your DMs with scam links. let’s not even talk about the creepy old men who use the app that make it unsafe and/or uncomfortable for anyone who might be even vaguely feminine-presenting to use the app, or how badly the app has been lagging for the past few updates, or the way the kik team has apparently, and rightly, jump ship and given up on this app. the community guidelines seem to not even exist anymore. sexual harassment is a staple. why is this app even available still?

Please and thank you. Hey kik team I have some things that’ll make kik a lot better than it already is. Allow people who use kik to add a story like off Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to have a timeline like Facebook and Instagram. Allow kik to have a page where photos are located on and show how many followers they have and how many people they follow. Allow kik to have video call and audio call like Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to show the number of messages they have unread like Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to have message requests and private accounts just like Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to go live just like Facebook and Instagram. Allow kik to turn on private accounts. Allow kik to make comments just like Facebook and Instagram. Allow kik to have a business account like Instagram. Allow kik to save videos or pictures that others post on their timeline or story like Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to have a close friends list like Instagram.

So yeah. So if you have time to look at my review thank you so much this is going to probably be very long so I hope you read all the way through it so the app works just fine I mean if you get it with a friend you guys contacts and that’s OK but they are very inappropriate group chats on this app so if you’re not looking for any of that type of content you might actually by accident stumble in there I may start to be intrigued by it which can be very bad as much as it is your own action if you do decide to win groups it can be very harmful like severely because I myself started going in groups just to make friends and I found myself digging a deeper hole then I will wanted and I just went onto some wrong groups and then I just continued going on these chats and always going on them and it just really got me not to a good place . I’m so glad that Jesus saved me and now I don’t go on this app but I just wanted to let you know just in case anyways thank you for reading this review🥰😊😇❤️🙂 Jesus Christ loves you the Holy Spirit is amazing and God is good🙃

App is falling apart. The app used to be very versatile and active but with the shutting down rumor many groups have members that no longer use the app even owners. Is there a plan for an an update to make it so users can take a group back if the owner is no longer around? Like after a certain time period the most active member in the group is promoted to owner if the owner has been gone and no admins are available to inherit the ownership. Also with the ban cap. Many people tire of having to manually remove bans so that they can ban toxic members. Could we get an update where when a new member is banned after the cap. The longest ban would be lifted as the banned member most likely won’t be back after that time. We also would like a feature to hand over ownership without having to leave a group. Some people just want to pass on that torch and be another member for a while. Oh. And groups would automatically be deleted if all members exceed 3 months of inactivity? One last one. I highly recommend that the role play bot come back with a block feature that’s accessible. Even if the bot was misused. It was an excellent opportunity for role players to share their ideas and connect with people that had the same style. I loved the format personally of the old bot. Even just bringing that back would make my day.

Lot of good and some bad. I have had this app for like 2 years? And have made soo many friends. In fact once the video chat came out a group i was currently in was so hype, we spent a bit on it but it didnt work all the time back then so we gave up. There clearly has been lots of change since then and i enjoy most of it. There are a few bugs that well, bug me. First off the problem with changing pfp. Im in so many group chats (not rlly) were a lot of them have changed their pfp but it doesnt change when they text, and neither does their name. Which is more of a minor inconvenience but i still like to see that change. Another bug that i see often is when it would take me back to old “unread” messages even when i was talking during these times. I love all the things that have been added but these bugs have never changed. A cool thing to see in the future too is possible more backgrounds of possibly putting your own pictures for backroads and maybe adding a bio and making the background pick a little bigger, while i get why its that size i like the picture that i put and some arent fit for that format, and with the actual profile picture covering it it makes it harder to see the pictures. This app has definitely done its job of letting meet new people and talk to old ones and i would like for some of these bugs to finally be worked on after so long.

Wouldn't recommend downloading this. I've been using this for about a year and a half because I needed it for business, some clients were on it. It does work, but there are some very annoying things about it that you should know. The biggest dealbreaker is when you send graphics, it only keep them for certain amount of time in the message, then it's gone, forget about it. The fact when you log out there's no message history when you login, I find that horrible. And the last very annoying thing is I travel, and I access Wi-Fi, or through LTE. I would say it logs me out twice a month and makes you authenticate. All conversations and history at that point is gone, lost. You should see the process involved to re-authenticate, it's so incredibly time-consuming and amateurish, that you can't believe what you're seeing, with these tiny little dinosaur animals. There is potential here, but I don't know if anyone serious about the thing anymore, would like to see you develop more. At the moment I would not recommend it to anyone.

New Message Notifications Broken, Poor Customer Service, No Plans to Fix Issue. In the latest update of the KIK app, the “new messages” notifications pop up but you’re unable to access or read the new message. At this time I was unable to find a “fix”. So after having to complete an extensive (and confusing) search to report the issue, I was able to email their tech team to inform them that I receive the notification for new messages but I am unable to read them. Their response was, “we know there’s an issue with new notifications and at this time there are no plans to fix it.” Unfortunately the App Store won’t let you download an older version (at least that I can find). If you want a messenger app that you’re already a member of and can only receive messages to those in your history list of people who have already contacted you, then this app will suffice. If you wish to direct new friends to your KIK app or want people to find you via their search function, good luck. You’ll get a notification that you received a message but won’t be able to access it. I used to love this app as it reminded me of the old Yahoo Messenger. I guess I’ll have to find messenger app since they said there’s no plan to fix it.

STOP WITH THE NEW FEATURES YOU JUST BREAK IT MORE!!!. So I got a notification to update my apps like I always do. Everything seems alright and I see this kik update promised a new feature. "Emoji express" so yeah I happily download the new version hoping I'll get some of the other new features. First off, I didn't. Kik why is your updates so spotty? There was a feature to send multiple pictures at once, a feature I wanted but every time I updated I never got it. There was also a feature that let you write a bio on the settings page, also never got. Then I see some people finally got the profile picture rings, something I had gotten weeks ago before the next update got rid of them. I get none of these but instead nothing but bugs. My profile picture will no longer change. Just like the emoji express when I go to change it I get a message that I have a network error and bad signal. But I'm hooked up to wifi with data support if it did need that. How is there a network problem when my messages send just fine? Kik you are breaking a good app and the few good features by trying to add more. Please fix the profile problem and just take awake emoji express.

Great app. Only a couple things that bug me.. This is a great app, but there are a couple things that bug me. I really don’t like the placing of the video call button. It’s so easy to accidentally press it. And another thing is the app has been so slow to type out messages ever since I upgraded to an iPhone 8. I don’t think it’s my phone, but there is a chance it could be, even though I tried everything to fix it. There’s also a bit of an issue with the bots on here. I made the mistake of talking to a ton of bots about a year ago, and they are still messaging me even though I muted them for forever. One of them (I think it’s GameBot) still sends notifications even though that one is also “muted.” Other than that, this app is amazing. I have been using it for a couple years now. I really like the games you can have in the chats. But hopefully you can fix the issues. Thank you.

A Warning to all young girls... it’s not worth it.. This app absolutely ruined my life, or at least it felt like it. I spent a huge portion of my childhood on this app, age 11 to 18, and it was traumatizing. I was repeatedly groomed and continued to return because the attention was so addicting. I was exploited sexually and manipulated every day of my life. I was attached to my predators... It took my boyfriend finding my accounts in 2020 for me to finally stop, even at my adult age. It was nearly my entire life; I was obsessed with it. I have countless friends that experienced the same thing. This app is a danger to young girls and the youth in general. The amount of child porn on here is probably ridiculous, and I know my pictures are out there somewhere. Please do not let your children on here — explain to them the dangers, block it, whatever you need: it was not worth all of the issues it caused in my personal life and my mental health. I am now several months clean from this app and just permanently deactivated my accounts. Please reconsider before downloading.

iOS 15 upgrade and “Live” ruined Kik. I recently upgraded to iOS 15 and now every time I click on a photo or video the app freezes completely. Because of this the viewing of photos and videos is not possible. The only way to get the app to work again is to “force close” it and reopen it. Then the problem repeats if a photo or video is tapped again. I’m not sure whose problem this is - Kik or Apple - but it is terribly frustrating. I’m not sure if the developers look at these comments but if you do, please try to fix this issue. Also, please give us the ability to toggle off this “Kik Live” feature that was added several months ago. Other than watching self absorbed people preening and posing it holds no use. I’m sure some enjoy it but for those of us who find it absurd just give us a switch to turn it off so it’s not cluttering up a third of our screen all the time. Thanks.

Fantastic but could use some work. Ive had my kik account for over 6 and a half years. I remember a time when everything worked and it was fantastic, and it still is but its not the same anymore. as far as issues currently in the app there are times when kik triggers a notification even though none of my unmuted chats had a message, and most of all there are times where kik simply doesn’t update chats, it will act as if there has been no update to a chat since say 7:33 pm the day before when that specific chat has a reliable history of being active, especially in the in the hours since and its not just that chat, it does the same thing for all my chats. Closing the app entirely and even shutting off my phone doesn’t fix it and theres been more numerous occasions where i had to actually delete the app and redownload it and doing so resets all the chat history. Ive had a lot of good times and the app still seems to be going strong despite same sizable hiccups in the past but these current issues have ended up pushing me away towards discord and frankly, the format and mechanics kik has for joining new chats is incredible streamlined and is one of the main reasons i stay. I really hope the dev team can manage to fix these issues, id hate to see such a fantastic app go down the drain

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So hit and miss. This app will often have days where it stays on ‘Connecting’ for hours and is unusable. Internet connection either via broadband wifi or cellular has been testing and fine so this is not the issue. Currently I cannot open an image or video. If I try the app crashes and needs to be restarted. Have deleted and reinstalled a number of times with no change. I have plenty of storage space and a stable connection. Ironically if I load the app on my iPad it works fine. But the app continues to crash on my iPhone 11 Pro. Super, super frustrating. I believe this has been ongoing since the addition of all the live steam stuff and the full screen ads which I so wish I could remove. Aside from this the app is ok.

Bots, Crashes, No useful updates. This app has been buggy for months! Efforts should be put into making the basic features run flawlessly. Messages don’t get delivered; it doesn’t recognise me as an Admin in groups so I can’t remove bots or troublemakers; you can’t even take a photo using the volume buttons - you have to use their awkwardly placed button. Stop putting effort into adding features we don’t need. Put your energy into perfecting the essential features. The latest update continually crashed and wouldn’t let me in!!! Most recently, I haven’t been able to receive new chat requests, most likely because they disabled the feature to try and stop all the bots bombarding the system.

Please fix. I’ve been using Kik for five years now and never has it been as buggy as it currently is. Everyone I know with Kik on an iPhone can’t send messages, can’t receive messages, and it keeps saying ‘Connecting’ and does this for at least a minute and even then, it still won’t load messages we were supposed to have received (I know I have them because I get the notifications for them same as usual). I love this app but if this keeps going on I’m going to have to find a new one because this isn’t practical. Happy New Year. I hope we can leave bugs back in 2017.

Kik. Hi, I'm having issues with my KIK Account. The problems im having is connection and my messages not being able to send through properly for people to see, my messages have been stuck on S. All that I see on my screen whenever i log back in or force quit the app is my friends and the groupchats that im in but I CANNOT GET MY MESSAGES TO SEND THROUGH where a popup would appear on my screen saying "Your message was not sent". Can you guys somehow fix this bug or glitch or whatever the case problem is. It's reallg stressing me out

Video toggle gone. I have used this app successfully for about 6 months now and use the video function most days to talk to my friend in another country. However, today, the video toggle had completely disappeared and I can no longer use it. I have tried force quitting and restarting the app, restarting my phone, changing from Wifi to data, even uninstalling and reinstalling the app and still no luck. My app and OS are both up to date and kik now offers no support if there are any issues like this. I will be moving back to other apps if this can't be fixed.

Profile picture disappearing. I’ve been using kik for years. Not once have I had this issue before. For the past three days, I’ve had to reset my profile picture about 100 times. And every time it just goes back to the default picture in place when you don’t have one set. I’ll get a random message every now and again just asking me where my profile picture has gone. And when I check, sure enough it’s no longer there. It’s really quite frustrating as it’s had me kicked from multiple group chats for “not having a profile picture” Please fix the bug Kik Interactive. I know I’m not the only one with this problem

No complaints. It's good to talk to people that I don't have on Facebook. And I like that if I delete the app that I still get any messages that were sent to me while the app was deleted. Not keen on the emojis the app has though. Usually just use the ones that I have already on my phone. But it's perfect for just chatting

App super laggy and slow. Since iOS 13 kik has become painfully slow, jittery and laggy. It clearly is unable to access sufficient system memory (not storage memory) to run properly. And it’s so bad that other apps stop running properly while kik is open. The only solution is the send/read a message and close the app off and then reopen at each reply. Clearly not a terribly stable or usable platform. Why is it that other messaging apps with large message caches run super smoothly but more than a few photos in message threads will brick kik completely? Hard system reboots don’t solve the problem so it’s clearly an issue with the kik app and how it uses system resources.

Inappropriate ads. I’ve used this app for a while now to communicate with family and it has worked well. Unfortunately recently the amount of ads and ads that pop up have increased. They have also been provocative, like dating ads with women dressed with inappropriate clothing. As a result my family and I will be going to a different app from now on.

Slow as all hell. Iv used kik many time you guys need to fix what ever the hell is wrong with your app it’s never been this slow it says connecting and it’s connected but non of my friends messages come up right away it’s so delayed I have no idea when they are replying back and if it was right then and there or hours before and or hours after you need to fix the lag bcuz I ain’t liking this app and thinking of changing to a new app. To the review below me what they said is what’s exactly happening to mine. Definitely not happy.

Kik in two words. Zero Privacy.. State your privacy policy on the App Store and I will rate 5 stars. From Kik’s wiki (2021), “Kik is known for its features preserving users' anonymity, such as allowing users to register without the need to provide a telephone number or valid email address. However, the application does not employ end-to-end encryption,[6] and the company also logs user IP addresses, which could be used to determine the user's ISP and approximate location.” Whatsapp is at least safer for the end user. Always stay behind a VPN using this unless you want to actively become a potential victim to stalking.

Live video has disappeared. The live video option suddenly disappeared. All phone settings are ok. Two updates of kik later and still no live option available. App assistance is non existent. No one ever responds. Kik quality as a communication option is steadily on the decline. Only one star because I had to.

Glitches. The app is pretty fun and I have been hooked but there’s been issues with quite a few things and not just with my account. When you upload a new profile pic, sometimes in other groups or with a person it still shows your old pic. When I zoom in on text that I’m I’ve been typing to fix a spelling mistake for example the magnifying glass zooms in to show a ghost picture. Meaning a picture that isn’t actually there and it’s the same picture that shows every time I zoom in on text that I have written, with anyone on kik. It’s very annoying. Sometimes a person will be typing a reply but the messages I’ve sent prior still display s or D but not r. Someone had trouble with their kik account and had their conversation deleted. Finally, the most frustrating one is when with certain people after a day, I cannot open their images or sometimes even my own. There’s lots of glitchy problems

Get rid of the bots & fix the bugs!. This app was fantastic a few short years ago but now it constantly crashes, causing me to have to log back in again — each time this happens I lose all my chat history which is a real pain. Also there are so many bots that constantly come into public groups which really makes for a frustrating experience. These issues have been ongoing for a while now and I wish Kik would resolve them so the app can be restored to its former glory.

Bots are out of hand. I love this app and have been on it for many years, it gives me everything I’d need in a messaging app personally and is super simple to use. There’s tons of great groups which offers the ability to speak with people who have similar interests. Now; the downside. A big, giant, fat downside. B o t s. They’ve started spamming EVERY group. They’ve been around for a while, but never this terrible. Literally hundreds of bots have been entering the groups I’m in like a whole army, and it’s getting both ridiculous and irritating. Rage bot does it’s best to remove them, but it doesn’t get them all, plus they create a giant space in the group whenever they join— especially if you have rules set to send when new people come in. It’s insane, and quite honestly it’s ruining the fun of the app. If you could perhaps find a way to fix it, somehow, that would be amazing. Also, chat logs shouldn’t delete when you log out, it’s quite upsetting for people to lose chat logs if they sign out or move to a new device. A d s. People would likely happily pay for the app or for add ons if they were given the option, such as paying to remove the annoying ads that pop up above messages and go ham on batteries. Either way, a great app at its base, only faults really for me are what I mentioned.

Sluggish. I’ve been using this app for years and never had any issues. Over the last few months I’ve noticed a few issues. Most importantly every message always says Just Now, even though it was sent hours ago. Secondly my video chat feature has disappeared completely, has not been back since the recent 2 updates. Everyone I chat to had the video chat feature, but I don’t. This app deserves 5 stars but a lot of issues need to be resolved first.

Love kik. What is happening again with Kik? Public group search capacity is missing and other glitchy issues since my phone did its recent Apple update. Is there some sort of passive/aggressive war going on between Apple and Kik?? I’ve been a user of kik for several several years in particular kik public groups which I have been a part of since I discovered them 3years ago. Lately though there are so many changes that make it frustrating for the regular, long-term user. LIVE The addition of Live seems irrelevant and annoying. It has forced my kik to lag frequently and it’s cut down the actual viewable screen for kik chats. I would prefer the Live function to be an option you could remove if you’re not interested in it. OPENING PICS Also since my latest Apple upgrade I can no longer open pics/memes/vids to zoom or save. Also if I do forget and tap on a pic the whole Apo freezes and I have to close the app and reopen which is incredibly frustrating PUBLIC ROOMS This feature also seems affected by some block as it constantly comes up as an error message if I try to create a new public room. I’m not sure why so many features of kik are no longer running smoothly. It’s a previously great social media platform that’s spiralling downwards. I wish the issues were resolved as I want to continue using it.

Great chatting app. I’ve been a user for years and I would love to give it 5 stars but lately it’s become very buggy. My “new chats” have disappeared off the app completely so I can’t add any new friends :( The live section is so spammy. I don’t even mind the ads but it’s just slowed the whole app down so much. Messages get stuck on “Sent” and the app gets stuck “connecting”. So sad as I use the app everyday!

Bugging out. I’ve been using kik for a long time and never had a problem with it, but now it either doesn’t connect even on full wifi or data it continuously says connecting, then if it does connect no new messages show up then I have to keep trying, now it connects but doesn’t load messages then messages only show up on my lock screen after someone else sends a message then the earlier message pops up then the other messages pop up at random times, I’ve just been told my other friends are having problems like this too, please fix it.

Ads?!. I’ve been using this app for years to talk to friends and have had my fair share of pros and cons. Regarding glitches I’ve always shrugged off the and had a laugh at. However, this sudden and massive ad wave has taken over the platform and I’m sick of it. For me in particular there’s fairly rude and sexual ads... all I’ve wanted from this platform is to chat calmly with my friends and now I have ads that you can’t escape from. It’s so frustrating and annoying to use this app now because of it, I find every day I’m trying to not use Kik just to get away from this ad-pocalypse. I can’t even talk to my friends without this ad staring me in the face over our conversation! I just hope you change this, because I and a lot of people can’t cope with this.

Notifications but no messages. I’ve use Kik for years, it’s always been basic but did the job. Nowadays, I not only get bombarded by bots with “nudes” but I’m getting notifications with no message showing in the app! I’ve tried everything (reinstall, log out/in again, restart phone, software updates are all up to date). I hope one of my friends isn’t actually messaging me and thinks I’m not responding! Annoying!!!

Call function. Please create a call/video function! Pros: I love the GIFs and sketch and ease of creating an account (no need of personal phone numbers). I love how simple it is. Suggestions: I wish Kik would keep older messages and not delete them. I feel sad knowing I’ve lost the older conversations forever. I also wish Kik has a search function, to search dates, words, or media in previous messages instead of just scrolling endlessly looking for information. Most of all, please create a call/video function! That would just make this app so perfect.

Bugs!!!. Okay so I have 100+ contacts that have just appeared in my contact list. I don’t know ANY of these people and every time I delete all of them they keep just reappearing there. I have tried to sign out, close the app, uninstall the app etc. and nothing has kept them from being added back to my contacts. Not only is this extremely frustrating but it’s a threat to my privacy and the only thing the Kik team can offer is the help centre and and an automatically generated response saying they can’t help with enquiries. This needs to be fixed ASAP.

KikProblems. I’ve been on kik for awhile now but in the past 6 months kik has been freezing on a daily basis. Logs it self out , won’t reload. The option of the video chat has gone, this does not allow my partner and I to video call with our kids any more and had to go to other apps for this

Kik does not work with the new iOS14 or higher. Hi I have been a member of KIK for over 8 years. Never ever had a complaint about it. However i have recently updated my phone and I went to go on KIK to find out that all my messages were wiped, all my friends, even my profile does not appear. I can not access the app now which is disappointing as I can not communicate with friends. Can you please look further into this. It would be a shame for all those users to lose their accounts and messages due to not having an updated version of the app.

App bug. My app is always showing “connecting”. I’ve reinstalled, powered phone off an on again, changed every setting I could think of. I receive message notifications but when I launch the app to see the message nothing happens and it keeps saying connecting up to top. I can change my name and emoji status normal and do everything else but can’t send and receive messages.

Frustrating. Can be great, can be appalling. The number of times I am mid conversation and the “connecting” banner comes up. And stays up. Normally I would delete the app and start again but of course that means losing all the conversations. This problem was supposedly fixed three months ago but it only seems to have got worse. Other than that, it’s an ok messaging app so long as you aren’t sentimental and want to keep your messages.

Notification message received. Used to enjoy this app for 6hrs but over past months App failed to show when new messages had come thru unless entered each person then it would appear. Eventually gave in and did update 2wks ago I now see notification previews of incoming message & how many messages waiting to be viewed but can not find them anywhere. Have logged out and lost all valued messages… HATE that about this app… and tried all the previous checks to no avail. The previews just vanish & numbers just keep adding up. Looks like I might have to farewell this once loved App. 😢

Frustrated!!. I own a number of groups on kik and for some reason 3 days ago I lost them as well as not being able to see members, group pic, or admin rights. The only thing I see is the words “just you” or when the groups have reappeared it’s just the hash tag showing. Is there an issue like this going around? I’ve heard a few ppl have experienced it and that it fixed itself (not for me!). It’s really a bother when I can’t admin my own groups or see them. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app but that only made it worse because it got rid of my groups again. It’s really bad. Can anyone help?

Chats disappear. This happens quite a lot, I will be talking to a friend and all of a sudden the messages will stop showing up but it will be saying they sent something. Each time this happens I will have to delta the convocation and then I will never know what the person sent still. This is very annoying! Also it would be good if it sound you when the person has read that chat.

Photos. I’ve been using Kik for years and I love the app, apart from the mass amounts of bots and the fact that Kik doesn’t work properly while I’m using wifi. I recently had to make a new account and I found it strange how I can only send one picture at a time instead of multiple, the max amount being 5 sent in one time. It was a very convenient feature to have and would love to have that back. But overall the app runs really well for me and I don’t have any other issues or problems with it.

What's happening?. I've used kik for a long time. I love the app but recently I haven't been wanting to use it. It's been having some many problems. I am using the app on a 5th gen iPod but this should affect the way the app works. Problems: 1. When I'm not using the app. It's doesn't refresh in background so when I open it, i have to let it sit for like 20 mins to refresh. When before the problems, I could open the app and use it straight away and the new message would already be there 2. The closes on me all the time. It is very frustrating when in the middle of typing a message or reading messages. 3. Can't find friends as easy

Good until the ads dismantle it. The app itself works great but the ads are to the point I can no longer be bothered and moved to another app. Ads bombard you and freeze on unless you open them . The close ads X does not work on any ad unless you hit it within a millisecond of the ad appearing , then it bombards you instantly with more ads that again you need to open or reboot your phone to get rid of them. Had lots of potential and started great. It becomes unusable quickly. Sad

Disappointed with Kik’s Ad Overload and Bot Spam. I have been using Kik for quite some time now, and unfortunately, I must express my disappointment with the platform. My primary concern revolves around the excessive number of ads that plague the user experience. It feels as if every few minutes, another ad pops up, interrupting conversations and causing frustration. The continuous bombardment of ads detracts from the overall enjoyment of the app. Additionally, the prevalence of bots on Kik has become a major issue. It seems that the platform has become a haven for automated spam accounts. These bots flood my chat list with unwanted messages, advertisements, and even attempts to engage in fraudulent activities. Dealing with the constant barrage of bot spam has become a tedious and irritating task. I hope kik offer a paid version of Kik without ads would be a welcome solution to address the ad overload issue. Overall, my experience with Kik has been marred by the overwhelming number of ads and the persistent problem of bot spam. I sincerely hope that the developers take user feedback into consideration and work towards creating a more pleasant and streamlined environment.

Disappointed. I’ve sent an email to your help address on your website however immediately received a generated reply saying you’re not replying to “general enquiries at the time” but basically here are some links that have no information on how to *actually* help. Again, pretty disappointed. I’ll ask my question here since there’s really no other way - my option to video chat has completed disappeared. I’ve been able to video chat for quite a while and now it’s gone. I would have attached a photo showing the issues (which I did in the email) but alas cannot in a “review” - if someone could assist me with my issues, that would be great. Regards, someone who is about to delete the app for good.

Bad Update. The app was all good and was nice to use, until they introduced live chat and more ads. The app 1. Takes very long to connect and update the messages when opened 2. Stopped refreshing in the background that it can notify on arrival of a new message, instead gives notification of newly arrived messages only when opened… means chatting to someone then one should check kik often (by opening) to continue chatting else you miss the message 3. The live chats placement is so horrible that it often ends up in the way of accessing chats and makes one go to live chats even if you never intend to be there 4. A BIG BUG WHICH I SEE IS IT NO MORE SHOWS THE NEW CHATS. When new chats arrive (and when kik is opened) Kik gives us notifications yet you have no way to access the new chat… making it almost impossible to use kik anymore at all. Overall unless the issues are fixed I think kik is not a place for chats with friends

Please update too many bugs. The app is in need of a serious update hasn’t been an update in some time and has not had an update since the most recent iOS came out and all these issues have started since then. Most apps update weekly but kik is lucky to have an update every 2 months. The app freezes when clicking on any pics or videos received in chat. Notifications weren’t coming thru so deleted and redownloaded the app and now there is no options to turn on notifications in the kik tab in phone settings at all. App also crashes on a regular basis.

Can’t log in or create new account. Hi. I had connection issue with my account today so I deleted the app and tried to log in again. I kept getting a message saying it is taking too long try again a bit later. I then tried to create a new account and keep getting an error message saying network is not available make sure your device has an active connection and try again. Can you please assist ASAP as I need to get into my account and make contact with my friends. My son and partner also tried to create accounts and received the same error message about no connection make sure your device has an active connection and try again. There is nothing wrong with our connection as we are able to access Snapchat, instagram, etc. your urgent assistance would be greatly appreciated. Can anyone please help.

Kik please fix the bugs. Team I have been part of this app for a long time now . But since the release of kik live I have spotted more problems then I can comment on . . I don’t know what type of . IT people you have working for you. But a large shake up needs to happen . And some good old fashioned dedication needs to happen so that people are not getting kick from chats and app crashing stops may friend of mine can not access my chat as it looks like thy have been blocked . Please address ASAP Team .

Horrible bug with one account. I log into my main account and messages begin to load but suddenly after 10 seconds the app completely bugs out and just pauses, I have to shut down the app and open it again to continue loading messages, but that only lasts for 10 seconds before I have to restart it again. It’s a constant cycle I frankly can’t be bothered with. Therefor I literally can’t use my account or reply to messages from very old friends. The issue only occurs through my main account which I’ve had for an extremely long amount of time, I’ve created another account specifically to test if the issue occurs and IT DOESN'T. So the problem is specifically with the account ( Evangeliah ) I have no interest in using kik anymore due to this issue, I don’t want to base my conversations from another account, I can’t even retrieve old usernames of friends from my main account because of the bug. So I’ve been forced to quit using the app. Please fix my account, I attempted to contact through email but there hasn’t been a response. I want to start using the app again.

App is getting slow. (Please read). I love KIK I’ve been using it for over 3 years and haven’t had a single problem... I’ve met so many great people through there... BUT as of recently (a span of 3-6 months) the app has been really slow on my phone and I haven’t been getting notifications. It’s getting really annoying and every time I try to type it takes a solid 1-3 seconds for each letter press to register. Please look into this issue Kik team.

Advertisements??. I've been using KiK since 2013. And that whole time it's been my go to app to talk with online friends. But, now with these ads popping up, it's highly distracting and takes away the need to keep the app. Are you guys gonna fix this? Maybe make an option to pay to remove the ads? Or something? I still enjoy this app, but I'll refrain from using it if there's annoying, unremovable ads.

Disappointed.. Recently I seemed to loose the location to see kik accounts that were trying to start a conversation. As a result, I can’t check new PMs. I tried to find a way to communicate with the developer and the cite just sends you around in loops. I’d read lots of possible issues with kik but nothing seemed to be related. The only kik advices that was close, required a reboot. Then I lost every conversation, picture, vid of 2+ years, eland the icons of those more than the most recent 15 communications. Nothing now always me to recall the rare abusive kik individual or the info that made me realise we were incompatible. To loose everything and not resolve the issue that developed recently and have no way to communicate this has left me deeply saddened and frustrated.

Optimal for iPhone X. One of my favourite and most used apps that I’m always going to when wanting to use an instant messaging app. I’ve been a loyal user for years now however that also means I’ve had multiple phone upgrades. Now using an iPhone X, I find it incredibly annoying to have empty bars of black at the top and bottom and would love if this were optimised for iPhone X users. As well as that, a longer chat history would leave me with nothing but full satisfaction for the app.

Multiple unsolicited nudes sent weekly. Was logged out randomly yesterday by kik and I’ve now lost all my chat history - very unhappy. When this app works, I love it, but over all of the spam messages trying to get me to sign up to your live link. The photos the “women” send are inappropriate and I’m the wrong target market. All the blonde bots with different names but the same nude photos. Kik I don’t want to see this so just stop. Have a friend that’s pretty disgusted her underage son and daughter get the same messages and nude pictures. She’s now banned her kids from kik - imagine how happy that household is right now……..

Help please. I have been using this app for many years but today it wasn’t loading and I logged out to try log back in but now it won’t let me log back in it keeps saying login failed this is taking longer then it should please try again in a bit I have been trying on and off for over 6 hours and still nothing. I have deleted the app and re installed its not an internet thing as I have use of all other apps.. please someone fix this asap

So glitchy. Since the update introducing the ads and taking away our video option, this app has been nothing but glitchy. It either won’t loads, loses messages and conversations, freezes or slows your keyboard to a stop or just comes up with an empty screen. I have gone from being Kik’s biggest fan to having to swear a lot while restarting my phone for the 20,000th time during one conversation. If you are going to inundate is with advertisements, and it makes the app so glitchy, you won’t have many users for long. There are plenty of other options that are easier and ad free.

Kik disappointing. What used to be a basic glitchy means of private communication has now transformed into a platform for content sellers and scammers with the occasional mildly entertaining live stream. This app is overrun with spam bots, which when you complain to Kik team you are met with an automated reply and link to create your own spam bot. Yet another instance of money hungry social media developers without a conscious. They try to moderate users live explicit content yet on the other hand, allow and virtually encourage the use of women’s “acquired” explicit images in Kik sanctioned spam bots. When I make the time to find a suitable alternate means of communication I’ll be kicking Kik to the curb.

Video chat toggle disappeared!. Great app in general but the non existent support is a no no! One of the key features is video chat which is activated via a toggle button, usually located in the top right of the screen. This has somehow disappeared on my app and nothing I have done restores it! I have followed all the advice in the KIK help but to no avail. When will KIK fix this bug? It’s a key feature and a big reason why people use KIK. Not good PR for yourselves guys!

All data lost!!. Hubby & I have been using this app for a few years with no problems however, today for some reason it firstly, wouldn’t accept our password from my phone but did accept it from my husband’s phone. We reset the password & once we finally got into our account all of our previous conversations were gone! We started a new conversation with a friend & then once the phone was inactive for a period of time it logged us out & upon logging in again, all of the new conversation had disappeared also! I tried to get help through the “support” section of the app but was taken to an “Error screen”. Can someone help with this quickly please as it is majorly frustrating & I’m currently in the process of trying to find a similar app to use instead.

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Why?!. Have been using this app forever, and now they’ve included ads in it. I don’t care at all for the ads. Also, if you change devices, you lose your message history. I emailed them about this months ago and received NO response. I need to update my phone, but if I open Kik on another device, I will lose the conversations I had with my friend who sadly passed away this summer...

Be aware. Since downloading this app, i constantly get messages that it is accessing content pasted from the clipboard. Which means it reads data from your device without you knowing about it, or can get sensitive information. *****USERS BEWARE ******

All good things must die. This used to be a tremendous app however it is riddled with bots and instead of tackling this problem they decided to now “improve” this app with ads. Good to see they care about there consumers... but they just lost one.

Broken. App just closes itself after opening, worked fine just days ago

Nice bugs. Chats will just disappear and "eat" peoples messages so i never get them then i have to sign out or delete the app. So annoying

Hackers can basically brick your account. I’ve been using this app for 4 years now, just today I was using it and one of my friends gc removes a pervert off of the chat, and some how he hacks his way into the chat, shows up as a kik account that we can’t remove and nothing on my kik app is loading, tried everything I can like signing out, reinstalling but all I see is *retrieving* on everything. And the chat support on their site has been down for so long so there is nothing I can do to save my account, I just lost so many contacts and so many groupchats.

Ruined by ads and bots. Kik was my go-to chatting app for years but lately I can’t be bothered. The ads are really obnoxious and I don’t know where all of the bots came from but in the past few months I receive several chat invitations from “women” each week. Telegram and Signal both provide the experience that Kik used to. Bye.

DANGEROUS FOR YOUR CHILDREN. Please. If you read this review by chance do not let anyone you know who is young or old download this app. This app is FILLED with predators who will, without doubt, sexually harass and traumatize your children. I have been, and countless others have been groomed on this program and the fact it is still up is distrusting. This programs creators and developers are horrible horrible people. Do not fall down this grooming app. AN AGE RESTRICTION ISNT ENOUGH. THIS APP IS NOTHING BUT HORRIBLE.

Spam due to stream features. I understand that this app has to make money somehow and that is why they’ve introduced the ads and stream features. The ads are fine, I can live with them but the streams have made me want to leave this app all together. Because of these streams, and ease of accidentally clicking into them I am now being bombarded with spam messages. I have been reporting these as they come in but it seems that Kik is not able to keep up with this volume. If this app were able to create a second tab just for streams that would help prevent any unnecessary clicking into the streams and further will prevent these spam bots from finding my username and sending inappropriate messages which I would be reporting back to kik anyways.

Why are there so much porn. Like you go n type in a group for games to look for people but it just pop up girls girl wanting money or they just want nudes. But when you want to go n type in a game it just a bunch of naked girls,catfishes,bots, like please fix the bot problem. Do a better update where there isn’t no sexual content on the page or do something so it’s better for us to talk to long term friends. And why did you have to take off the live cam? Since it’s 2021 you should do that for people that can’t see there family from where they are. But that’s all I have to say

All fake chats from spam bots. Any new chats I’ve received are from spam bots. All the same profile pictures, the same opening lines and scripted chat from any response. I’ve literally replied in one chat with “hello” to everything they said and they replied with scripted chat responses (all the same) to eventually end with “go to this site to verify you’re real” and promising sex after you sign up. Kik is just spam bots trying to lure you to other siteS with false promises of hook ups. I receive 5-10 new chats A DAY. DO NOT RECOMMEND!

Still a One Star. There was a new update that gave hope to my Disappearing New Chats, however a few days later we are back where we started. I can see the notification counter just keeps climbing and no new chats to be seen. So frustrating and disappointing.

Service sucks. Cut out to of

Bring it back. Can you please bring back video chat and add an option to play games and watch movies with your friends that would be awesome and for the love of god PLEASE PLEASE get rid of the spam bots!

Bad. Now full of ads that don't work and get in the way. The ads also cause my phone to get hot and eat up so much data. Terrible.

Don’t download this app.. If you’re looking for an app full of almost nothing but predatory people who literally push others to want to off themselves look no further. Trolling isn’t ‘entertainment’ when it’s hurting others and you’re doing it time and time again to the same person. I’ve left you alone, so leave me alone. 95% of the people on here don’t actually want real friends, they just want clout. Treat people with kindness. No wonder the suicide rate is so high.

Abandoned app filled with child pornography. This app, directed at teenagers, is frequently used by people trading pornography of exploited children (just Google kik and child porn). Their help page is defunct, their social media is defunct, and emails go unanswered, even those from people seeking to enforce court orders requiring the removal of illegal explicit images. It should be shut down.

App Issues -IOS. No notifications (checked Notification Centre.. app isn’t even listed) Too many fake profiles/phishing bots Messages aren’t sending properly - sent messages only have ‘S’ next to them - no mods on my account or the other users’ accounts WAYYY too many ads. Seriously need to rethink them because they’re annoying and will interfere in conversations. 99% of them can’t be skipped. Dev team needs to reevaluate their approach if they want users to stay with the app.

A. Brought a lot of nostalgia when I used to have it. But to be honest, I'm disappointed as how it's turned out, the lices, disappearance of finding public groups... not what it used to be

Child porno. Why Apple do you allow this kind of apps?

Sad. Sad that this app has gone to more porn and bots looking for money

Sex/Pedo App delete it Apple. 0 Sex/Pedo app you need to take this off the APP Store

This app sucks. I have used this app for years and since the new owners it has immensely gone down hill. My complaints are like everyone else’s. My greatest is the spam bots I report them daily. And it’s all vulgar messages. The ads are a little much and really annoying. The ads don’t have to be so big. The live feature could be on a different page. Improve this app or just shut it down for good.

side apps not working. when are you going to fix your side apps?? there's already been 2 updates and they still dont work. maybe try listening to your users once in a while

Keeps asking to track me. I tell it not to track usually every day but it keeps asking and won’t take no for an answer Apple are you listening? Can you make Kik to stop hassling it’s users.

Meh. It’s ok. Lots of delay and network/connection issues

WAS an amazing time waster and a good and strong cross platform app. Then they disabled sideapps on iOS. Probably will have to find a workaround. Or stop using. Fun times! :) Who cares about chicks going on webcam, there are other apps for that

Disgusting. Nothing works! constant “connecting” and I can’t send any messages, it’s not connecting! all messages marked with “S” and that’s all. This app is a brick. Also ads are so irritating, if you want to put ads put them only on the main page, not in each chat!

Ew. So many perverts. Don’t download this crap

Best app to cheat on. Caught my girlfriend... sorry I mean ex girlfriend now, cheating on here 2 times. Found her profile and her profile picture... ugh kill me now. Anyways if your looking for an app to cheat on your spouse with, this is definitely too 5, just ask my ex!

Random notification. App send shows you have 2 or 3 messages all the time when there are none. Please fix this

Grooming and sex app. This app is not made for kids. I joined and always get messages from porn bots, the live section when you open the app is filled with sexual content, and pedophiles have been using it to groom children into sending nudes and CP. this app needs a clean up.

Can't close ad (???). Just updated (03-09-2022,) app opened fast, full-screen ad appears & i can't close it or do anything. Now what do i do???

Meh. This used to be a great app but now it’s full of ads. Takes away from the chatting experience.

Going downhill. This app has steadily gone downhill since being taken over by American corporate interests. When Kik was a Canadian service, it was useful, ad-free, and felt secure. Now it’s full of ads, a ridiculous live feature, and never-ending spam messages — that is when it works at all.

Spam bots are ruining this app. I have been getting 10-15 chat requests a day for weeks now. All Spam bots with sexual messages. Block them all but they keep showing up. No way to chat with Kik on app to complain, Will be looking for another app

One problem-. I love kik and I use it a lot but I hate the fact that you can only send videos that are 2 minutes or less Please make it so we can send videos over 2 minutes I hate having a time limit-- If you do so id appreciate it very much and I'll make sure to change my review Thank you!

No more group chats. The only reason I used this application was to communicate through text with strangers and find new friends that way, now that the “find groups” using the hashtags are gone or glitched I have no reason to use the app.

stop all the spam messages. receiving a lot of messages from unknown accounts offering sex and illicit pictures

Love it but... I love this app but there’s one bug after another. I currently can’t receive new chats. Nowhere to be seen. Last week I couldn’t get notifications on my phone. And before that it stopped connecting and crashed so bad I had to re install it. But then it wouldn’t let me login for two days. And when I did everything was gone.

👎🏻. The video options need to come back, should be able to delete unread conversations, after blocking, the conversations should disappear. Kik needs an upgrade

Chat?. You can’t even chat on this, just got it and it keeps saying I’ve reached my limit for the day. Haven’t sent one message. Full of bots wanting you to “join them cause they are bored/horny” sending links asking for your email and credit card.

grooming yet “13+”. being a victim of this app as a child, please, PLEASE. DELETE this app. THIS SHOULD NOT BE PROMOTED FOR ANYONE let alone CHILDREN. ASK YOUR ADULTS BEFORE PERMISSION. please, REMOVE THIS APP ENTIRELY.

Good but annoying. I’ve used this app since I was a teenager and I’ve loved it. However things aren’t the same anymore with the over abundance of messages from spam bots. I would have given this app a higher rating if there weren’t so many spam bots. Something need be done about it. I am sure I am not the only one who is sick of the spam bots.

Unhappy. My Kik app won’t let me see my new messages

Terrible app in every way. 1. Messages delete if app is deleted. No way to save conversation or cloud save 2. Spam bots galore, seems reporting them does nothing as some accounts are over 300 days old. 3. Pics and vids barely work, and if they do open, they tend to crash the app 4. Sometimes you’ll get new chat notifications, some times you won’t. No consistency with the app.

New developers are horrible. Kik used to be a great messenger system ever since it was sold to a new developer it’s gone way down hill. Connection problems constantly where messages won’t send or deliver. They are trying to make it more a social media site. If you don’t let it load fully and (about 30 seconds) and you hit in the incoming message that is where they have their live streaming going on. That opens you to a random live streamer and then shortly after your getting a message to someone’s adult site. The adds are a pain but you get used to them. It also used to have a voice calling option they got rid of. It’s become an increasingly frustrating app. They don’t post anything on social media to find out the app is down or updates. They don’t care about the user just the money it might generate for them. Could be a great app if they’d only listen to the users and it would attract more users = more money.

pLeAsE. I love the app but the one thing I HATE is that if I delete the app I lose my messages. Like I do notttt see the point in that. Please fix this!!!

It Sucks. Kik used to actually be decent but now it’s full of bots and ads. I’m also having issues creating public groups despite my account being more than 100 days old. I also hate how there’s so many sex bots on the app. This isn’t a dating/hook up site or anything. Kik has only just gotten worse. Something seriously needs to be done about this, the developers or whoever are just making this app so much worse. I miss having Kik where I could talk with friends and not have to worry about stupid bots, where I could create public groups and grow a community out of it. But now I can’t because of the stupid error message that shows up no matter how long I wait to create a public group. Something NEEDS to be done. Now.

Pedophile central. This app has been in the past and continues to be filled with grown adults who prey on and groom children. That is all this app is. Please, be careful and think twice before downloading this app.

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The ads. I’ve had Kik for as long as I remember. Out of all the apps I had to talk to people with, I’ve always used Kik. I’ve been very satisfied with the app and have always had high praise for the app because it was the only app I had that didn’t have ads, now that the app has had ads, my opinion has changed. I’ve always respected this app even when the numerous times they’ve said they were going to close or discontinue it. Ads litter all these awesome apps and I don’t like the fact that this app is probably going to have a premium that you need to pay for or something which is stupid. I still use the app and hope that the people who work on the app read how stupid ads are and change it soon

Check up. Love the app. Been using it for years but I need to be a critic of awareness! Why can’t we open new messages when we get them. Don’t know if it’s a glitch or not but it’s been like this the past few updates and unnoticed. Pls mend this. It’s rare when the new message bar shows up to look. So I just get flags that I’ve received a message with no way to look. I’d love to video chat too if there could be a major update as you already video; so why can’t we video with friends. And I hate the ads. I know ads are ads and it’s polite but very unnecessary. Loved the app when it was clean. Turn back to old ways. But with a note… I’ve met some neat people and have had unique conversations. Just know what your looking for as the app does have its raunchy side. But people be people. So enjoy

The Best. I have had kik for many years, I’ve used it for several. I met many of my friends on kik as well as kept in touched with high school friends on it and family. It has many good features that make it my top used app, I highly recommended this app if you are looking for something that lets you use a pfp, and change your name. You can even join public groups and explore interests in similar subjects with new people. It is much like any contact list to text friends and it can even video call and you have the ability to change the background. A beautiful app if you love to change up a few designs on your message layout . 5 Stars, highly recommend above all other apps

Was great, now TERRIBLE. First off, the developers have done NOTHING to improve this app, for a very long time. It has all but been abandoned. The bugs are countless. I started using Kik about 3 years ago, and it was everything that you could want in a messaging app. Over the last 6 months, it has diminished. Sometimes I get connection issues, and can’t even type a message. I thought that if I deleted the app, and reinstall, it might fix itself. Not only did it not fix anything, it made things worse…. I no longer had access to any stickers, which I loved to use. I recently upgraded my phone to iOS 15, and the app is now a nightmare! I can’t even touch on an image (to enlarge it) without the app crashing, EVERY SINGLE TIME! Can I complain to someone? No…I have not had a single complaint addressed by the developers. What used to be a great messaging app has now had live camera feeds added, and a whole variety of skanks and weirdos that you can stream! On top of that, you often get random messages from the opposite sex, asking if you want to see their pics. We know these people aren’t real. This app has gotten very sleazy. In short, if you want a great messaging app, there are other ones out there. Avoid this one!!! I am personally moving over to Telegram. It is everything that Kik should have been, and more. It’s sad what this app has become, and they are losing a longtime user.

I’m never using kik again.. I used kik a lot when I was younger and I got it again recently to see how it had changed. I used it and some people on those chat rooms are nice. But not all. And to be honest I would just block and report the person but I have read so many stories on how someone uses kik and send inappropriate images and then once you try to leave them for good they blackmail them? This happened to my friend and nothing has happened but I wish there was a way to report someone and never let them be able to access the chat again after blocking them and kik would take things a little more seriously about it. I just feel like there should be a setting to explain why you’re blocking the person because what if they may harm the other? Sure they shouldn’t be doing that but people make mistakes and I wish it would be taken a little more seriously. This app just needs to be deleted as a whole.

Works most of the time. Lately kik has only been showing that I have a new message by having a badge on the app, instead of having a banner across the top like I have it in settings. It’s possible that i just missed some of them, but there are many that just don’t happen. It also keeps showing an unseen message notification that will take me back roughly the same amount of messages each time, even though I have already seen the messages. The new ads are annoying, but they stay at the top and don’t have sound, so they could be much worse. I miss the video chat option and hope it will be back. Beyond that, the app works well. I have never had any issues with the app straight up not sending messages or loading old messages, as long as I have wifi or data.

Glitch/malfunction - messages don’t send. I’ve never written a bad review or have had a complaint but this issue is extremely annoying. For the past month my messages are selectively sent. I can send maybe like 4 messages and the 5th one will deliver. For the first 2 weeks I’ve had this problem I’ve had to spam the same message 3 times because I noticed my message will deliver the 3rd time it send but now it just won’t deliver. I’ve tried everything. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the app, I’ve logged in a out, I’ve restarted my phone... nothing. This is the only way my boyfriend and I talk and because we love your app. We love the features and the gifs and the memes we can send to each other. I’ve had Kik for maybe 5 years now and I’ve never encountered this issue but it’s just gotten so annoying. I sent an email to your company but have gotten a auto reply saying you guys don’t reply to “general questions”.

I had Kik for barely a day.... ...And that, coupled with my rating, should be a testament to how truly terrible this app can be. If you download this app, you’ll initially be pleased with its functionality. It seems to know what it wants to be, and it has the mechanisms to achieve its goals. These mechanisms will, however, quickly become riddled with rust. If you’re using the app to find groups to meet, that’s going to be basically impossible. If the search function manages to, you know, search for groups, there’s a high chance that you’ll get stuck in a message loop that precludes the possibility of receiving new messages. Most of the time, though, you won’t even be able to search for groups. You’ll just get a timed out error. There’s no fix for this on their own FAQ, and the only websites I’ve seen addressing this have trashed Kik’s silence on the issue. I’ve tried turning my internet off and on again. I’ve tried deleting and re-downloading Kik. I’ve tried turning my phone off again. I’ve tried hard resetting my phone. I’ve tried all of these things at the same time. Nope. No fix. Developers, please put some oil on the cogs that make your app go. I’d really appreciate it. Sincerely, An extrovert dying inside this quarantine

I used to use the app a lot... I’ve been on the app a long time. I’ve been on PRE video chat and ect. I never had so many problems until the more recent updates. Such as when they removed video chat and pretty much replaced it with ads. If you want more people on the app, remove the ads. They’re getting annoying. Make the video chat come back, maybe even a voice chat setting. There are also a few other things I would suggest. Like making the app strictly for 18+. There are a lot of minors being taken advantage of in these 15-35 group chats, ect. It’s disgusting and quite frankly the app pushed me away to Discord and other apps that do the same thing but better. The app needs to either give up the little string they have holding on or try to revamp the app. I’m done with the lagging out and the app force closing itself out. Chats crash your phone and don’t ask about seeing updated profile pics or names. You’re asking too much. Smh.

Suggestion. I was bored one day and started joining random groups. Then Realized that a lot of groups are just dead and/or full of bots. I then pm the owners (to see if I can be admin and help remove some bots) and it says they have been inactive for quite sometime... I was thinking maybe you should have a thing that removes groups, that have inactive owners, so then someone else more active can make a group with said name. Or even removes inactive members after so many months of not talking including owners and admins. I just think this would help a lot more for groups and make people wanna be on your app more. Because people just join groups that have no active members because the owners are gone then, it just has a lot of other inactive members and gets filled with bots talking to themselves saying the same thing over and over

Average with some letdowns. I’m just gonna get right down to it. I’d give this maybe 4 stars if it weren’t for a few things. First of all, I can’t believe there’s still no native iPad support. Using a dinky iPhone sized app, even with being zoomed in, on something like an iPad Pro is just stupid. Secondly, being able to sign into more than one device at a time would also be great, along with being able to send working gifs from your camera roll. I haven’t run into the kind of freezing issues a lot of other people seem to be having, but sometimes my keyboard gets a bit funky, typing random Qs as I’m trying to hit the ← to go back to the chat list. Other than that, the app’s not bad. It’s not perfect, but it’s not awful either, and there’s a reason it’s one of the more popular messaging apps out there.

Annoying kik problem. I've been using the kik app for a few years now, and I've never really had a problem with it until recently. At the moment, when I get a notification and open the app, it takes a very long time to connect. At the top it just continuously says “connecting” and nothing will load unless I leave the app open and on my screen and maybe after about 5 minutes or more it will finally load but now when I get notifications, the messages won’t load when I open kik and it finishes connecting. The app is going to complete crap. I’ve uninstalled it multiple times now and lost all my messages for nothing because it is still not working correctly. Please fix this issue ASAP. I love using kik as an alternative but this issue is really bothering me. I don’t like texting on other media devices. I’m so used to using kik. Please fix this issue fast.

Sad to see this go.. Honestly I don’t know why people are having problems with the app, bugs were minor and to register wasn’t that big a deal. I read people complaining about the latter and honestly they aren’t thinking at all, pictures don’t need to be real and other data isn’t all that important. What is important is that this app is strictly for messaging and should stay that way. It’s for people who don’t want to give out numbers, taking with friends and staying connected to others who may not be in the same country you are. All in all I liked this app, the only complaint I have is that the company isn’t bothering to let their users know that they are shutting it down. They just plan to do it and not even give people time to prepare.

One of the worst texting apps you can get. Kik is a very, very sad story: once a very decent, user friendly ad-free texting app has turned in to a buggy, ad-filled obnoxious exercise in frustration filled with bots trying to get you to visit cam girl sites and the most unreliable delivery of texts in any app I have ever used- I swear you’d be better off tying a message to a grocery store helium filled balloon and letting it drift on into the sky. WhatsApp, Skype, Viber, Telegram, iMessage and whatever offering from google are ALL better than this garbage. I keep it around because I have two hard-headed friends who like it for some unknown reason, but as for me I barely open it- mostly because I don’t even get notifications from it most days unless I open the app itself- which sort of defeats the purpose of a notification. TLDR: use any other texting app. They should have let it die when it was going bankrupt.

So Useful. I find that this has the possibilities to make friends for life especially with people who like the same stuff as you it is also a quick typing app that has a really on point auto correct and for a misspelled typer like me it is very useful!!! I would recommend the app for people who need friends or a way to contact there friends it is also free and sometimes the "Kik Team" auto responses can be pretty funny, say certain things and it'll give you a certain response I would rate this 9/10 Or 5 Stars. this is my opinion so don't start hating me think what you want but this is my opinion on this app Thank you Kik Team For all of this app (I am not any manager of this app I just use it)

Great app but some glitches. I love this app. It allows me to stay connected with my friends from all over and to meet new ones. I been using this app for a very long time, maybe 6 or 7 years. There one thing Im having problems with. When I try I message someone it goes straight to the camera and won’t let me text or do anything else. It will go straight to the camera and only the camera. I tried to log out and log back in, delete and reinstall. That didn’t work I messed with settings on my phone, no luck either. I made a new account to see if that would work and it did the same thing. Has anyone else had this problem or is it just my phone? I’m not sure what to do to fix it.

Black borders on iPhone X- fixed!. UPDATE: No more black borders, thanks! ------------------------------------- Downloading it was a bit of an issue at first. It would lag, freeze, and crash multiple times when at the screen where you can choose to sync contacts. After bypassing that and getting in, it worked perfectly. There are no problems whatsoever except for the fact that there are thick black borders on the top and bottom of the app. It makes it look outdated and weird. I'm sure this is a very small fix and I have emailed about it but haven't gotten a response. I really enjoy using kik though and hey, it's free, so it's hard to complain. I would absolutely love to see an update asap to make the app fill the screen for the X. If that happens I will gladly update review to 5 stars.

What’s going on?. I’ve been using kik for a good two or three years and now it’s just gone down hill. Sometimes when I’m typing, the app will suddenly freeze and then unfreeze after nearly a minute or it’ll just freeze and I have to leave the app to come back. But when happens, so does another problem; at times when I come back, it won’t even take me to my messages so I’ll have to leave and come back a few more times before I’m finally taken to my messages. The ads I understand, they’re to keep the app free, but constantly seeing ones for other dating apps? I dunno if those are the types of ads chosen to appear on this app, but I hate seeing them. I’ll even get random chats from strangers on here; scams or not, they’re all woman asking me if I’m interested in this or that. When I first got kik, I got it to rp/write fandoms and talk to people, not hook up. None of that even existed at the time, and I preferred it that way. This app needs its bugs fixed. I hate constantly seeing ‘Connecting’ atop my messages as well. I’ll come and go out of the app, turn my wifi on and off, use cellular data… I even deleted the app and re-downloaded it, but the problem still doesn’t seem to have gone away. All it did was delete all my messages with people. Please fix the app or try to do something :(

Awesome app - but.... I love it! I use kik everyday to text friends - usually don’t have any issues. But... recently, starting yesterday (Dec. 30th), there have been bugs. It wouldn’t send my messages until 30 min-an hour later, or even until a couple hours later. Some of those messages haven’t even sent yet. Today has been somewhat better, but my messages still take 5-10 minutes to send. Notifications are okay now but yesterday, even after following some troubleshoot guides, they would take 10-20 minutes to then show up; even if I was on kik and had already replied (or tried to reply) to their message. But... other than that, before all of that happened, I love kik. It’s one of my favorite apps that I have on all of my devices to message. I’ve been using it for many years and am quite pleased with how it’s improved.

It’s an Ok App, but some re occurring Issues. So this app is pretty good communication wise with using creative things such as stickers, emojis, etc. but it’s just wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too laggy and crashes a lot... especially when I’m trying to send pictures of videos and it always lags when the videos/ pictures are being sent. Another thing to mention is sometimes the app doesn’t even load and freezes spontaneously... an example of the app not loading/ freezing/ crashing is when I try to open the app, then it freezes in the contacts screen and crashes, sometimes I’ll have to wait a long time to be able to use it properly again. No matter how many times I reinstall the app or update it, these issues, as well as others related to these keep occurring... Please fix as this is the main app I use to contact everyone I know, thanks.

Revise the banning system. First of all, this app is very very helpful for meeting and keeping contact with friends, which is why I’m giving it a two star instead of a one star. Second of all, your banning system is comepletly messed up. Every other day I get a 12 hour ban on my account and it won’t tell me why. My profile picture’s are always clean, and my banners are always clean as well. Nothing on my profile is inappropriate. However, while I’m in the middle of a conversation, I am shoved with a 12 hour ban for a reason I’m not told why. I’m just about done with this app, and after the last ban I received, I’m at my breaking point. My advice would be if the ban is for a profile picture, they should have the picture removed and forced to add a new one, for any reason it is removed. Second, use actual humans to loon at the profile pictures and usernames. Third of all, tell people why they have gotten a ban.

Kik is not worth it. I have been using my Kik account for 1,177 days. I love the app. Easy to use and easy to navigate. I am giving Kik a one Star rating, because recently Kik has been acting up. It first started when I have someone as a favorite on the streaming section and noticed that he wasn’t on my favorites list. I added him back. Unfortunately, I am unable to join his streams anymore. I thought at first that Kik was being glitchy and I just needed to wait until Kik gets fixed. I just got on Kik today and noticed that my profile picture wasn’t showing. I clicked on my profile and saw that both my profile picture and background picture were taken down. I have no idea why. My background picture was a 1969 Chevy Chevelle SS, and my profile picture was a picture of Killua from Hunter X Hunter. There was nothing wrong with my pictures that I had up. I was upset that I wasn’t able to join my friend’s stream, but taking down my profile picture and my background picture for no reason is messed up. I am deleting my account and Kik. As far as I know, I won’t be using Kik anymore. Kik, that hurts when you mess with my account for no reason. I have been a loyal user since 1,177 days ago. P.S - I am using the days instead of when I actually join, because I don’t really remember

Fix the app already. I’ve been using kik for years and overall I’ve had a great experience using it. But there are a few things that are going to make me stop using this app completely. 1. The crashes are logging me out and deleting me conversations when I log back in. I can’t just log in and my messages will be there. They delete and then I’m left wondering what the hell did I miss 2. Why isn’t there a feature to SAVE your messages before the system crashes? I can’t predict when your app will fall short on me but the least Kik could do is help me so I can remember what I was talking about. 3. Spam bots. I report them literally everyday yet they keep coming. Is kik the one sending them to me because I hate having to deal with random people talking to me about birds and the bees. Kik is fine but I will eventually find a new app to talk to my friends if Kik can’t fix its issues.

Frustrated 😡😡😡😡. I have had Kik for a while now and have experienced a reoccurring issue in the program, especially after updates. Usually it goes away within a day or so, but this time it has lingered. I will open the app after receiving a notification for the app, but when I open it, it says connecting for minutes and usually never ends up connecting, so I can never see my new messages. Additionally, when I try to send a message, it only has the small “s” by it, meaning it was never delivered. I’ve talked to multiple people and they have been having the same issue, so I know it isn’t a problem with my phone or system. I have switched between WiFi and cellular data and even turned off my phone, but nothing has helped. Many other customers are extremely upset and frustrated and are close to deleting your app, including me. I hope this issue will be fixed quickly for the convenience of all customers.

Please help a loyal kik user out.. Okay, so I have been using this app for over 2 years now, I'm using it on an iPad mini, original iPad mini, and it has been doing good for me and I pretty much rely on it for a lot of stuff. But, recently there has been an update which made a lot of issues pop over into kik. First of all, I can no longer select a profile picture. Not can I see others profile pictures, and that really bums me out, second, when I get a notification of a message and get on kik, the message is not there as if they hadn't texted, but on their side they can see it, and thirdly, when someone sends a pic of something, it shows the pic only at the time if I'm already on kik, but if I get out and get back in it only shows a white box. Please fix this because I use kik for so much and those issues are just throwing me out of loop. Thanks.

Barely gave it two stars…... I’m a relatively new Kik user on an IPad Pro. The app crashes constantly and I have to delete the app and reinstall in order to get back in. I wouldn’t be using it but I have several friends that use it. When I try to log back in after not using it for a day or so, it continually says my login credentials are incorrect. I delete the app, reinstall, and log in with the same credentials, and it works. Then there is Zoosk! The ad pops up and I’m unable to close it. There is no way to close the app either, just freezes up. Again, have to delete the app, reinstall, and log back in. Having previously worked for a software company, this crap is the result of trying to roll out app upgrades without doing enough, if any, end user testing. Typically this means the company is in trouble and trying to stay in the market after not updating their platform for many years. This is a piece of junk, sorry.

An Untimely Nightmare. Update: 2/6/19 It’s worse... So much worse. Whatever was great about KIK is now very much over. I had someone take over my groups, make copies of profiles, and run spam throughout all of them. Why? No clue. At this point it doesn’t even matter anymore because KIK is dead. Original Review: Ever since Craiglist & Backpage were forced to close their personals, KIK has been taken over by BOTS... And they are becoming harder & harder to identify. I used to host many burgeoning city wide groups and now it’s either a ghost town or people being chased away by the insane amount of BOTS creating unnecessary problems. KIK hit its stride and once was ideal for networking, now it’s quickly losing its appeal. Another negative worth noting... It’s almost impossible to actually turn off notifications. Even if you turn them off directly from settings, you still have to go through each group, etc to turn off the settings one by one. Sound tiring yet? It is.

THE APP IS BROKEN. I’ve had this app for maybe four years and I have to say that only minor changes have been made. There are still a lot of bugs, for some reason it keeps logging me out which makes me lose all of my previous messages. Also it’s difficult to set up a public group chat. There’s too many bots on here and it makes the app run really slow. Sometimes it shuts down as I’m texting someone. EDIT: I have lowered my review to one star because it has always been logging me out even when I changed my password. Recently it totally crashed on me ! I tried to log in and it said “connecting; receiving messages” and I had to restart it twice. The second time it worked but it won’t load any new messages and won’t let me send any. It’s so dumb, the app is so broken. What the point of paying t keep it on the App Store 2020 when it’s just worse than before! Plus it’s waayyy too easy to get hacked on there. Even if everything is anonymous

Kik changed my life for the better.. I have had Kik for over 5 and a half years now. It’s been one of the best apps over ever used. I’ve made friends that have gone on to be like family for me. I even met my fiancé on Kik. With the recent talk of Kik shutting down, my depression took a nosedive I can’t believe an app that gave me a safe space all these years will just be gone. It’s format is easy to use and the public chats make it really fun to make new friends with common interests. If it wasn’t for Kik, I wouldn’t have the amazing friends I have today. I wouldn’t be getting married. I wouldn’t have bothered trying to get better all on my own. Kik going away means I lose a happy safe space, but it has given me many good years and I’m greatful for that.

Scam app, filled with bots. Don’t bother with this app. It’s filled with bots and people from over seas trying to get you to buy sex videos and pictures. It’s nonsense really. Girls trying to get you to buy their content as stated above. So many fake photos will be sent to you. They try to direct you to porn dating sites also. They also try to get you to download other apps like Snap chat or Google chat, Telegram or whatever. It’s like the rabbit chasing the carrot on a stick or the grey hound chasing the mechanical rabbit. That’s what I liken it too. They will send you on a wild goose chase into nothingness. They will keep asking you for money in the chats. Do not give anyone your money on this app or any other app. They are also trying to gain information from you to hack your phone. Don’t fall for it. I hope this helps. I was on it for two days and I had enough with the nonsense. Don’t do it. You’ve been warned.

Bugs. Ive been using this app for 5 years now and i've loved it all the time i've had it, But lately theres been some bugs! One of them being the fact that my kik doesnt update as fast as it use to! It would get stuck in the past and stay there. Another thing is while its stuck in the past i can still text people but the messages would take forever to send then when it updates a little more the messages i sent would disappear. Another bug is the fact that it says S on the preview on kik but when i open it the delivery says D. its really annoying because i would never know when people have read my message. I hope you guys can fix this in the future!!

Bugs and no support when writing about it. Hello and good morning. I’m having problems with my account. I didn’t log out nor change devices and have been on several times and day but when I went to open kik last night it showed me not logged in. I logged in and now it shows none of my friends or groups. Everything was erased including the color choice of my chats as well as my picture. The only thing it shows is that I’ve had this account for over 700 days. I’ve done what your web suggested which is to first restart it. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled as it suggests. I didn’t think either of those would work , and they didn’t, but those are the options your site gave me. Next I sent an email only to be told by your automated message that I should write here. Can you help me get my account back up properly please? If not I’ll just have to be done with kik and loose a lot of friends from around the world:/

So slow. Not usable.. Many many people have requested to communicate with me via Kik. I resisted getting the app, because I had privacy concerns. Finally, I decided to get the app and try it out. I have the newset ipad pro, running the latest ios. I installed the Kik app and tried using it right away. There is some problem. It always says that it is "connecting". I am not able to chat with the people that send me their kik usernames, because kik cannot find them. I am not able to chat with folks who are already in my contacts, because the messages are not going through in a timely fashion; rather, the problem is the same. The app seems to always be "connecting" and not connected. Why fight and struggle and waste time to use an app that does not work, when there are so many other options that do work? Still, the app seems popular and many people seem to be using it, or claim to be using it. I don't get it. I would lioe to use it, but it is just not working for me. Frustrating.

Glitch or Hack. Every time I try to log in to my account it shows it’s just loading and everyone in the group chat I’m in is or was experiencing the same problem as me at first I had noticed no one was talking in the group and thought maybe everyone is busy but then I wouldn’t get any messages from anyone and then the messages wouldn’t load and I logged out and when I logged back in it said it was connecting and retrieving messages and all that but it wouldn’t stop loading and I realized it had happened to me what everyone was experiencing I don’t know if it’s a technical issue with kik or someone is doing it also I made a brand new account and rejoined the group and it started doing the same thing within a couple hours no more than 4 hours later that I had joined and when someone spoke up about it on the group that persons account started glitching as well I don’t know if anyone is able to help or not but this isn’t funny at all.

Bug issues and the IOS version is complete trash. I’ve used this app since 2016 and i used to love it. But after the app was about to be taken down, it’s become the most frustrating app I’ve ever owned. Especially on iPhone. All the bots are insane, it’s like the app is only for those. And the amount of bugs and glitches is insane. I also can’t stand seeing the “live now” videos above all of my chats is literally the worst. Why can’t it stay on the “Live” side and AWAY from my groups ?? This app freezes up, glitches out all the time (not showing peoples messages, not allowing people to make groups, glitching when people join the groups, not showing emojis, etc) And now it asks me to verify I’m a human every time I open the app?? It’s ridiculous!! The developers seriously need to fix these issues and do better. Otherwise, what’s the point of even keeping this app around? Completely a waste of time and needless frustration. Do better.

Broken since update. I absolutely love this app and will change my rating back to a 5 but there has been a huge problem since my phone updated Kik yesterday and I have a friend who is having extremely similar issues. The chat doesn’t update at all. For example in my group chat all of my friends have been sending messages to the chat for the past 20 minutes and I haven’t gotten seen any messages for the past hour. I will get a few notifications here and there for it but the chat doesn’t update. And then the issue my friend and I both have is that even with great internet connections the messages will say they were sent but will not deliver for 10+ minutes. We know that everyone in the chat has a good internet connection so it should deliver. This is insanely aggravating to all of us especially with us planning a get together for New Years and now I have no way to get in contact of a majority of them. I’ve been using Kik for almost 2 years now and never have I been so disappointed in this app.

Buggy disgusting mess filled with anti consumer crap. I recently had to make a new account because my profile picture had a nipple in it, and my account got ganked. I made a new account and spent two days completing spam bot questions because the system thought I was a robot. The app still white screens, crashes, and lags when I join groups, but instead of fixing this the devs have decided to instead implement an annoying feature where you can set group chat themes that everyone has to see. Seriously it’s gimmicky and annoying. I have experienced the same crash bug for almost three years now, except for one month (August) when it was perfectly stable and everything worked fine, but then it updated and all the crappy things came back. Seriously please spend more time Making the app better, and stop banning people who use modded versions so they don’t have to deal with your crap.

PLEASE FIX THE APP. I’ve had this app for over three years, and now it’s acting up. The notifications would pop up, but when I go into the app none of the messages would show. And the only way I’m able to communicate is through the notifications; but I don’t want to un mute every chat and every contact JUST so I can talk to everyone. It’s not just me because most of the people in my group chats are experiencing the same problem. The only way it would get fixed is if I get a new account, I’ve had to make three new accounts because it keeps doing this. It’s annoying and I don’t want to keep making new accounts. I love this app, and I’ll re download it when this problem gets fixed. Thank you.

Mostly good and lots of bad.. I have been using Kik for almost 2 months now and everything was working fine until the last 2 updates, now everything has gone down hill, every time I send a message to someone it will sometimes send right away but usually it will say that it sent but will take anywhere from a few hours to a week to finally be delivered. Also since the last 2 updates, I haven’t been able to create a kik-it post unless it only says hi because anything else I put in my kik-it post comes back saying network error could not create post, and even then if someone responds to my kik-it post that only says hi, it won’t let me respond to them or even friend them on there. So as of right now I am only giving KiK a 1 out of 5 stars rating, but if someone responds and fixes this issue of mine I will greatly appreciate it and greatly consider giving KiK the 5 out of 5 stars. But until this issue is resolved I will only give KiK a 1 out of 5 star rating.

This is what I get for using your service?!. I have been a kik user for over 3 years. And I must say those three years of talking with people, connecting, and the many other things I did with people were fun! I believed that Kik was a great app that allowed a whole collection of people to have nice and interesting conversations between one another. But of July 23rd, 2020 my account was terminated for unspecified reasons. Under my 3 years of utilizing kik to be with my friends, I was unfairly judged. I did not know what I did wrong; I did not do anything that warranted a perminate ban. I have tried to appeal my case with Kik’s email, but they gave the the dumbest bot response each time. I was a very active kik user and, once again, I followed each of the big nopes of the Kik guidelines. I did not post anything confidential, I did not post anything harmful, and I refused to advertise or sell anything. The one thing I may have done was have a friend of mine utilize a app in which that can Unbrick my account! Which is another reason why I write this, I was bricked about say July 15th and I could not post a single thing or respond to anything in app. An app that, not only doesn’t even acknowledge this issue, but now punishes people who want their accounts. Ive given countless years of dedication and respect Kik, but this is how you treat your long time users? Shame, that is why Im giving you a 2 star rating.

It’s severly underdeveloped since it’s revival. Let’s be honest, this app had a lot going for it and then things went sour. A group of people tried to save it for the rest of us and as grateful as we are it just doesn’t seem like a lot is being done to “help” the app stay afloat. Bots manifest and invade every chat or group and the admin system for groups is a bit “overwhelming” for some. I can understand that each private or public group has it’s own collective society you are joining upon entry but people mentally abuse one another with this idealism of power over respect or patience and are rather abrasive. I would give it more than I did IF the developers did more to make a difference. Until then, it’s just a laggy messenger app with a lot less going for it than it originally did (that’s again not to say I am mot grateful to have it still, I just wish to see change for the better.)

Irritating. I’ve been using Kik since it came out, because I have an online friend that I talk to on it. I’ve seen Kik go through so many changes and updates, and used it through when it was almost shut down. I’m rating it 2 stars and calling it irritating because it just doesn’t work anymore, it doesn’t load anything. The lives are annoying, they have a separate tab for them and advertise them at the top of the screen, like why if you have a separate tab already? I accidentally click lives all the time and it’s so annoying, and it makes my app lag. Just now, I was trying to talk to my friend, wouldn’t load my chat. Loaded lives, I clicked on one to test it, wouldn’t load my chat. Wouldn’t let me send messages. Incredibly annoying, I like the lives as a feature, but not when it takes over the whole app and works better than the initial intended purpose for Kik to begin with.

App works pretty well but nowhere to report problems. I’ve been using this app for quite some time and outside of a few glitches that went away pretty quickly, I’ve been happy with it. Until I started having problems with messages only showing sent, not delivered, some messages delivered and obviously read but don’t show as read. Multiple instances of messages taking extended periods of time to send and be delivered. This went on for over 2 days. My biggest problem with all of this is that even with an email address, there’s nowhere to report technical problems. So how do these developers know when there’s a problem if users can’t report it? I am extremely frustrated that no one can be contacted when there are issues. I know it is not my Wi-Fi or cellular provider because problems occur weather I am on my Wi-Fi or on cellular data... and recipients are experiencing the same issues as I am.

Hero to zero. I use to love this app. Its been the only app that has ever stayed on my phone no matter what, but it’s been slow, it always goes to saying *connecting* when I’ve had full signal and WiFi, and it glitches and says someone is typing when they aren’t. I could be on another app’s screen and join back to kik and then it shows the person is still typing over 10 minutes after they’ve stopped and haven’t touched their phone since, I’ve tested this theory with my friends phone. The filters on the video chat don’t like to change smoothly as well, this app just doesn’t keep up as well to the wear and tear of groups and such. The past couple days all of my messages have been left on sent and haven’t been delivered. I relied on this app to get important messages across to other users and they have since not been able to read my messages causing them to switch to other apps.

Terrible app, bad support. I used this app for about 6 months without any problems. About 2 weeks ago, after receiving multiple notifications of chat requests, no chats were displayed in the app. The only way to contact customer support is by email. I sent a message explaining the problem and received a “canned” reply more than 24 hours later telling me to do all of the things I had done from a Google search about the problem, none of which worked. I replied to the customer support message saying their suggestions had not worked. More than 24 hours later an actual rep told me how to fix the problem. I followed the instructions and was able to resolve the problem. After several days of working okay, the exact same problem happened again. The same solution does not work. I have deleted the app and will not use it again.

I Love Kik. Hello! I’ve always loved kik and using the app. It’s been a great way for me to talk to friends and even make some. And I would like to help any way I can to improve it. If I could apply to be a part of the team, that would be even cooler! That is NOT why I am reviewing though. I’m wanting to ask when more themes for kik will be available to IOS users. I also had a suggestion about groups. You could set it to where anyone that is inactive on kik for over so many days is removed from a group. There are a lot of groups just sitting out there because the owners of the group are no longer on kik. It makes it hard to know which groups are active and not active. Thank you! And again, if I could ever be of assistance to be a part of the kik team, I would greatly appreciate it. It would be something I would love to do. Have a great day! Emily

What are these updates even doing??. Seriously. It’s 2023 yet this app is still buggy, glitchy, and slower than molasses in winter. I have never encountered such a disastrous app in my over a decade long experience with the internet. This is ridiculous. It takes over a week for messages from a few days back to load. I have to literally set my phone down and have the screen on while it loads and loads the messages. It takes days to catch up if I haven’t used the app in a while. There is zero moderation. This app claims it has community guidelines yet there is animal cruelty, racism, sexism, and terroristic media all through the group chats and the livestreams. I had a guy show me a video of someone setting a kitten on fire. Another person years back showed me a video of a black woman being hanged by a group of white men. That video continues to circulate. Another guy on stream threatening to track me down and kill me after I suggested he brush his tongue. When I was around 12, I was groomed by a man on the app. I wasn’t even aware it had happened to me until years later when I understood. This app insane. Do better! You have kids on here! You pump out what you claim are updates yet nothing changes besides you guys making attempts to pretty up your logos and some interface stuff that no one cares about.

Problems on iPhone XR iOS 12.4.1. I love kik but ever since I did the last update it force closes as soon as I open the app. I assume it is due to me being in so many public groups with friends. Please look into this. And I’d be amazed if you could allow public groups to have more than just 50 members in a single group. The telegram app allows up to 200,000 members to be in the same group. A similar feature would be nice added to kik since I use it the most to socialize with friends (which I have way more than 50 of.) I use kik everyday as well as lots of my kik friends & we all agree that this feature would improve so many things! It would get rid of the force closing due to being in hundreds of groups and CRAZY slow loading chats when you open the app for the first time in a day.

Some problems that need to be addressed.. Hello, I’ve been using kik for many, many years, to keep in contact with a lot of close friends. Love your app and everything. I’ve recently been having a few issues though, specifically with your ads. I don’t mind or care for ads, but I do care for ads that are animated and cycle through every 2-3 seconds and cause my phone to freeze and heat up significantly to the point where it freezes for upwards of 30 seconds. If there could be a way to make your ads run at specific intervals, not have animated gif ads or even an option to pay like 5-10$ to remove ads altogether. I would greatly appreciate it cause at this point I can barely even talk to one friend at a time, let alone multiple.

An real fan of kik review. Hey so I’ve had this app for years, the app has been getting bad over time due to three things, First it’s the process of how long it takes to get in and out of chats from the loading, i now get stuck waiting for a page or chat to load which wasn’t before, now it happens so much you think twice before even getting on sometimes, next is the bots that’s here now, I’m sure as you can see from other reviews it’s become ridiculous how many bots are there now, this situation should definitely get looked at, also the adds are another issue, not only do they pop up a lot now all of a sudden it also takes a while to load up to close the ad, this was a great app before now it’s just slow with lots of bots, ads and frozen screens, also sometimes it won’t show that i have an updated message