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No face match in FL 😒

Interesting content, but after wasting time trying to find the face match option, I (as many others did) discovered it is not available in my location (Florida?!). How do our faces in the south not work with international artwork? There is nothing within the app that details this, and it is very off putting to have to waste time searching online to find this out on our own. Even as an otherwise good app that could bring culture to the masses, many will delete it out of frustration and a feeling of being “duped”. Fail, google.
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No selfie function

Region locked selfie feature. Only Americans can do it apparently

Good... But

I downloaded this app in search of the portrait matching feature. Though, I was pleasantly surprised with all of the apps other features. I will continue to use this app because of those features, but since I am in Australia the portrait matching feature is not available to me! A five star app if you add this feature to other countries. I wonder if it will be available soon. If you can get back to me that would be great. Cheers
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This makes you art so hard

I’ve never arted so hard in my life. after getting this app I literally arted everywhere !! I couldn’t even contain the art that was coming out of me! i’ve arted my pants, I’ve arted at work, and I art everywhere now. One time I arted sooo hard that I had to pull over ! My girlfriend (well ex now) would get so jealous watching me art all over the place, so she left me. She called me
‘disgusting’ because I’d art so much around her. Arting in public has become one of my new found hobbies. So thanks google, I never new I could art so much in my life.
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Love it, but could be a little faster

It’s a beautiful app, love the idea and already very simple to use. You can learn about artists, art movements, the art itself, and much much more. You are able to save your favorite art pieces to collections and explore to find new ones. Overall I love it so much but the connection and wait time could be improved. Like when you click to go on another page it will take awhile or sometimes never even go. Something minor though, it’s a great app!
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A great app but...

This is a great app but many features are only available in some regions like the US and my other regions. It would be great if you could update the app to allow regions such as New Zealand to use the face-matching feature as it is a really interesting idea

Disappointed...

Disappointed to find the selfie tool missing or not available in Australia..
No mention of it in version history either..!

Very Slow

App loading speed was so slow even when i was in home wifi

I’m giving it the BotD bc they’re still working on it, but there are still flaws with it.

The stories are interesting, but navigating the app is rather difficult. Also, I noticed a lot of African American art, but it was hard to find African art. It’s there, it’s just not in one of the main collections. Also, I wish there was more to the fashion collection.

In regards to everyone’s displeasure with the face recognition portion of the app, I do agree that the “select locations” seem to have been chosen arbitrarily, but I feel that people would be a lot less upset if we were told which locations that part of the app actually functions.
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Another frustrated Midwest user

Wasted 15 minutes trying to figure out how to access the Portrait Match feature. None of the more popular articles about the app mention this feature is only available in select locations, nor does any headline in within the app.

Never had this experience with an app, ever!! Hopefully with enough negative reviews a one-star review will be pinned at the top / google will mention this in larger print to protect future customers.

I can not uninstall this app fast enough. Let me guess: NY and LA have this feature. Flyover country does not. Google deserves a PR nightmare for this one.
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