Circles need some work
Our ward uses circles for communication and it is very annoying with several bugs. Take some people from your tools team and have them work on this app.
Please fix some things, Lots of potential & very helpful for the ward!😇👍
Very helpful and all on board trying to implement in our ward because of major benefits (easy to connect with applicable councils& organizations and to get connected, oriented & informed right away in ward. Plus the added perk that anyone that this can help with retention when moving to other wards if implemented there. Nice to have lots of church related communication all in same place) However, please improve to have ability to react to messages (to like/love/laugh/etc.) ~ an easy short-hand for engaging in the conversation without blowing up the messaging thread & helps as the sender to know if people saw announcements/invites/etc. for planning purposes. But especially pleeease fix the notifications lag/update issue. For some reason, even if I’ve clicked on and viewed a message, there’s a perpetual number indicator of 1-4 messages being in circles to be viewed. It’s very confusing and counterproductive cause it means I may ignore and miss an actual update because the notifications for messages coming in are continually outdated. Thank you for your time and consideration. Really hopeful to see future improvements 🤗
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Simple to use, glitchy
I love that it is simple and easy to use. I dislike the issues it has. Sometimes, I will see and get notifications on my phone, but when open the app, I can see or find the comment that was made by someone.
I have had to remove the app and redownload a few times. Again, I love the design and the set up, dislike that it’s got problems.
I have had to remove the app and redownload a few times. Again, I love the design and the set up, dislike that it’s got problems.
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Circles needs work
I love that we have this app, but the circles messaging feature is missing so many things. It gets super noisy and I know a lot of people just mute it entirely so they don’t get inundated with notifications. We really need a way to message on this app with more fine grained control over who sees the message. This app is so instrumental for communication within wards in North America, so please please improve it!
Really I feel like this app has so much potential, but currently it is not useful because:
- courteous technology users are hesitant to post anything because it creates noise for everyone else on the app
- less technically savvy people don’t know messaging app manners and post all sorts of random stuff, creating noise for everyone else
- people who are fed up with the noise turn off notifications altogether
- leadership can’t get important communications out because everyone muted the app 😕
Some things I would love to see:
- a way for wards to create their own smaller channels according to their interest groups and needs, with control over membership and who can post. We need an announcement channel that only presidencies can post on. It would also be great if we could create custom channels for things like activities, book clubs, etc. that people who are interested can join without causing noise to those who don’t want it. These need to have fine grained notification control so people can decide which channels they want to get notified about.
- For heaven’s sake: PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME A NOTIFICATION FOR A THREAD I’M NOT PARTICIPATING IN! It defeats the whole point of threads. Only users who are watching a thread should get notifications for it.
- Reactions! Please please please add reactions so that people can acknowledge that they saw a post without sending a message and cluttering up the whole channel!
Really I feel like this app has so much potential, but currently it is not useful because:
- courteous technology users are hesitant to post anything because it creates noise for everyone else on the app
- less technically savvy people don’t know messaging app manners and post all sorts of random stuff, creating noise for everyone else
- people who are fed up with the noise turn off notifications altogether
- leadership can’t get important communications out because everyone muted the app 😕
Some things I would love to see:
- a way for wards to create their own smaller channels according to their interest groups and needs, with control over membership and who can post. We need an announcement channel that only presidencies can post on. It would also be great if we could create custom channels for things like activities, book clubs, etc. that people who are interested can join without causing noise to those who don’t want it. These need to have fine grained notification control so people can decide which channels they want to get notified about.
- For heaven’s sake: PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME A NOTIFICATION FOR A THREAD I’M NOT PARTICIPATING IN! It defeats the whole point of threads. Only users who are watching a thread should get notifications for it.
- Reactions! Please please please add reactions so that people can acknowledge that they saw a post without sending a message and cluttering up the whole channel!
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Please fix the bugs in circles!! It is so needed for ward communication.
I get notifications about updates in circles but the app doesn’t refresh in time to see the actual chat or event in the app, despite me closing, refreshing, updating, etc. Sometimes an activity or chat will only show up days or weeks after it was posted. Sadly, it’s just not reliable for ward communication needs.
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Please fun Friday
Please add back fun Friday
Needs a new feature
This app is really great and super helpful, but there’s a feature I’ve been wanting for quite some time now. Is there a way to add reactions to messages? I don’t always want to reply to a message so being able to react to it would be fantastic
Frustrating at best
Between not updating automatically and not having a place to manually update information this app is garbage. It works and then it doesn’t and I keep having to uninstall/reinstall the app. For a church with so many resources they should put more of them into making this thing better
Circles Messages
Message notifications don’t show up in some areas and won’t clear after being viewed in others. Even after deleting and reinstalling, there is no improvement. Circles is unreliable and frustrating.
App is good but faulty
The app design is good however there is an issue with notifications. You don’t receive notifications for the app and once you read the recent messages it never clears that there are “new messages” so it always looks like there are unread messages and in turn never notifies you when there are new messages. It’s extremely annoying.
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WhatsApp works pretty well for ward communication
May members around the world find the functionality they need in WhatsApp. Do we need to be paying to develop a separate Circles app?
Age range
Please make this 12+ not 13+. My daughter needs this app on her phone since she joined young women’s but even though I’ve changed parental controls, Apple won’t show this app on her phone because she’s 12. It doesn’t make sense to make the app for 13+ when 12 year olds need to use it.
Circles
Viewing my child’s deacon quorum circle it doesn’t give me the option to comment all the time, so I have to reply to what someone else said to get information.
It would also be nice to have an “emoji” or “thumbs up” or “heart reaction” to what other people say.
It would also be nice to have an “emoji” or “thumbs up” or “heart reaction” to what other people say.
Who did this
I click on notifications and it doesn’t take me to the message and I have to find it. Sometimes the message doesn’t show up till the next day. Having tools work so that when you need to communicate with a group through text seems like a much better idea than this half baked dumpster fire.
Allow People to Delete Personal Information!
There is no way to delete your personal contact information. Even if you remove your information from the LDS Tools app. Where is the data pulled from?!
Needs the ability to delete old messages.
App needs the ability to delete old messages. Also, as presidency’s change. It would be nice to be able to remove old presidency & teachers from certain circles
Getting there
Good content and direction. My major complaint is that the Circles notifications don’t turn off. I keep turning them off and I keep getting message alerts. I’m going to have to turn off notifications for the whole app.
Getting there
But silencing notifications for a group doesn’t work. They still come up. So I’ve had to silence the app as a whole (especially as people start using it for conversations which sends it to everyone every time).
Circles: Great idea, functionality poor :(
I get notifications about updates in circles but the app doesn’t refresh in time to see the actual chat or event in the app, despite me closing, refreshing, updating, etc. Sometimes an activity or chat will only show up days or weeks after it was posted. Sadly, it’s just not reliable for ward communication needs.
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Really great!
It’s like wholesome social media!Because almost everyone has social media everyone can pick up on the style and feel for the app quickly. An improvement I would like to see is to be able to “like” a comment in the circles section. You could use only positive emojis, (👍❤️😊etc.) but a way to interact beyond replying would be great. Other than that I love it, super useful!
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