John Hancock Retirement Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience15.3% of reviews
Neutral6.3% of reviews
Negative experience78.4% of reviews

~ Based on 352 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about John Hancock Retirement

Is John Hancock Retirement Safe?

John Hancock Retirement appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for John Hancock Retirement is 93/100.

This assessment is based on 38,510 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

92.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 38,012 App Store ratings for John Hancock Retirement.

Is John Hancock Retirement Legit?

John Hancock Retirement appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for John Hancock Retirement is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Horrible

I cannot be more clear when I say this is the worst app I have ever had the displeasure of working with. Something as simple as trying to recover a password quite literally turns into a 2-3 day ordeal. You have around a 50/50 chance of even being able to login to your account. Shameful and embarrassing
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Terrible App

Terrible App and Customer Service

Fake reviews

This app is so bad, the reviews here are clearly fake. Balance data always lags 5 days behind. Why are you showing me data as of a past date? That’s useless to me!

Not growing

My 401k hasn’t changed much not growing seems like got stuck in the last few months ☹️

Rate of return

How do we know rate of return since the start of the plan? There should be an added option as since inception aling with other options to select from.

System is one of the worst ever

I have been trying to take a withdrawal and the online system refuses to let me enter the code to verify my identity. This has been going on for moths. I am 68 Tia and simply want to move some of these funds to a rollover IRA to expand my investment choices

Terrible App

Forced to utilize this through my work. Otherwise I would immediately find something else. App is utterly useless beyond seeing my current total. There’s not even a way to look at my contributions individually. And details about different ways to allocate funds is too rudimentary and confusing. I just have to pray my money is safe and assume they are really behind the times with technology.
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No Widget

Needs to add a live widget where it shows the amount we have for our annuity then this app will be five stars.

App is antiquated and doesn’t work well

Don’t even bother with this app, just contact your plan administrator instead.

TGC

Excellent resource

Too little info

It feels like this app is 10 years ago. It is very difficult to find information, especially related to the performance of various funds compared to the market or do any research.

Realtime Account Values

Why can’t we get real-time values of our investments and total account? This app is substandard and uncompetitive. As soon as I can leave, I will leave.

Personal info

Tried changing my personal info and the app just stalled. Kept getting the spinning wheel

Lack of Help

I have had to call multiple times just for help on my account randomly disappearing from my dashboard. Still has not been fixed.

Bad UX design and service

I can’t believe this is actually the worst app I have used besides tricare app.

It’s consistently crushing on me, can’t login with face recognition. The session expiration notice will pop out literally when I am in the middle of doing something.

They cannot handle 401K withdrawals for customers, not like other financial companies. I have to do it myself, and when I try to do it, their system crushed again and won’t send me security code.

I the process it says 7-10 days to complete the check delivery, but in the confirmation email it says14 days, sgd it needs approval? What do you need to approve when I take my own money out? Hold my money for another week to make more interest?


I suggest you hire some good product management teams and SWEs. This firm is bad. And that’s why I am transfer my money out
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Not Useful

Tried to change my address after my move, but the app doesn’t support such an action. Sadly, neither does the website. Great job JH!

App is trash

Constantly freezes. Returns errors. Doesn't open.

Correction

Your dates are wrong for payroll and you have duplicate dates on the app

Impossible

Impossible to get help. Trying to access my 401k account to withdraw money…for TWO weeks. No luck. Will never do business with John Hancock again once I withdraw my money!

The worst

This app is constant pin wheels logging me out back in! Terrible