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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.Show lessMusta0000
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 :(Show lessmariner2015
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.Show lessSLoggia
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.Show lesscreatenickname-SLK
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🙃Show lessLola24ABC
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?Show lessbecca bowles
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…Show lessKatana0k
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.Show lessWilberdojo
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.Show lessCiara Quack 💗
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.Show lessPewdiecry<312222002
