4 Years of Misery!
This is one of the worst smart home centered app I have ever used, paired with the absolute worst tech product I have ever owned (Nanoleaf Light Panels). The app is incapable of being consistent, and the product is incapable of doing what it was described. The app is unable to find devices, loses connection with the devices, and seems more focused on selling other horrible products, more than it is focused on making the product you purchased easy to use. I’m confused as to why or how this was an approved application. I encourage anyone reading this to stay away from anything Nanoleaf branded.
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Always breaks and app is not useful at all
Great things to buy for like a week they broke for me over 4 times in one year had them sitting there for over a year not working untill I fully reset them pulled them off ect the app is usless when trying to help you figure out the problem it’s so much of a hassle the constant breaking or not working at this point make it cheaper for the quality of it
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Garbage
Less than garbage! Sucks!! DO NOT PURCHASE!
Failure to control
Whether it’s the lights themselves or Apple iOS 26 I will not purchase any more until these lights start working.
Doesn't work
Terrible app - nothing they tell you to do matches to the device. 4d is not recognised in the app - useless
Awful UX
This app is so baffling. It feels like it was designed to make the process as tedious and confusing as possible.
Poor Connection
App is not connecting to the device that well. It will error out when restarting the app. Also looses connection when trying to change colors. When on a color setting it will change to soft white. On a low brightness setting but on the app shows its full brightness. Not synced at all. Please fix!
Completely unresponsive after last update
No amount of unplugging my Nanoleaf shapes will work. The controller is unresponsive. I cannot reset. I cannot hard. Reset these lights are useless after the last update.
All controllers break eventually…
And they won’t help you!
Quite useful missing a few options.
Have two floor lamp now. I had to move one lost the connection. Had delete and setup again. Should be able to restore a connection. Does this mean if lose power have to redo? I have one on a 800W UPS. Bummer the other near my 1600W AV UPS. However it only an hour though just play at 0.5% max volume. Is my miniLED 8K TV power hog. Also Wish I could save an AI generated color. Am watching Lollapalooza 2026 so used word Lollapalooza is cool color pattern
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Works poorly
Recently purchased the A19 Wi-Fi smart bulb, and it works for the most part, but unfortunately I can’t invite my partner to have control on their phone as well, unless I purchase an Apple TV or HomePod? Looking online suggests nanoleaf should have a users setting in their app, but it does not, having to rely on additional Apple products is a huge scam
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Dumb lights
They work but it’s not smart lights , intuitive or helpful. Constantly having to re add lights that are installed in hard to reach places to get ambient lighting back
Resync product every 3 months
Tried to run these products as a cheaper alternative or other smart lights. Tried panels, bulbs, and a lamp 100% made by Nanoleaf. Constantly having to delete and re-add my devices. Don’t enter this eco system. Not worth the trouble.
App non-functional
The app is not functional, I wouldn’t recommend these lights to anyone. Every time I unplug them and plug them back in they start malfunctioning and showing random colours on the panels. Very difficult to use, I’d rather use those cheap bulb strip lights as they’re much easier.
Old version was better
Ever since the latest update, the app has become much slower. I preferred the old version! it was simple, straightforward and worked well. Now it takes forever to load and I can't even turn my lights on or off without it constantly buffering. The update made the app worse, not better. I'm starting to dislike using it.
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orientation lock portrait? c’mon now
it’s 2026 and you can’t figure out how to do landscape. disgraceful.
Használhatatlan Thread
Egyetlen áramszünet elegendő volt ahhoz, hogy a teljes Nanoleaf Essentials rendszerem gyakorlatilag használhatatlanná váljon. A Thread hálózat többi eszköze működik, csak a Nanoleaf termékek estek le a hálózatról. Az alkalmazás offline-nak mutatja őket, a HomeKit nem tudja vezérelni őket, az Eve szerint pedig elérhetetlenek. Egy okosotthon-eszköznek pontosan az ilyen hétköznapi eseményeket kellene kezelnie. Ehelyett hosszadalmas újraindításokkal, áramtalanításokkal és hibakereséssel kell foglalkozni. A termék funkciókban ígéretes, de a megbízhatósága számomra elfogadhatatlan. Nem tudom jó szívvel ajánlani.
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To many bugs
I have no clue how this app have 4.4 stars
Multiple difficulties in set up
Multiple attempts to update w/o success then finally get one to succeed. Unable to get string of lights to respond. Showing all white ! No themes load. Very frustrated/ these worked for Christmas but now seem useless.
Overpriced garbage
Absolute garbage. The app is terrible, took me days to get working (a few hours at a time). Then when I did get it working the app just isn’t easy to use. I do not recommend
