Two suggestions
1. Monitoring stations alert when a tagged shark enters within 500m range, but doesn’t show when they leave the area… what’s the point of that… is it to maintain ongoing fear of swimming? The detection station at Sussex Inlet shows the same sharks repeatedly entering the area but never shows them leaving. This is keeping people out of the water in fear.
2. When i open the App while listening to a podcast on either iPhone or iPad, unlike other noiseless apps Shark Smart causes the podcast to pause. Why does the Shark Smart App capture my sound system when the App is silent?
Two more stars if you can address these issues.
2. When i open the App while listening to a podcast on either iPhone or iPad, unlike other noiseless apps Shark Smart causes the podcast to pause. Why does the Shark Smart App capture my sound system when the App is silent?
Two more stars if you can address these issues.
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Hate
I hate this app
Please make it work
Almost perfect but sadly it’s the last 1% is what counts. Despite multiple times setting it to my local beach I get notifications from beaches 100s km away and not my beach. All most us want is an alert to our watch in real time to get out of the water?
The core value proposition of a safety app—providing immediate, hyper-local alerts directly to a wrist device for the exact beach a user is standing on—is completely failing.
Currently, the app fails to deliver on its primary utility due to critical functional bottlenecks:
Broken Geofencing & Notification Logic: Custom radius filters ("Around Me") fail to isolate immediate locations, frequently pushing irrelevant regional noise or missing local pings entirely.
Apple Watch Integration Failure: Background syncing and push notifications to watchOS are sluggish, unreliable, or fail to trigger in real time when stepping onto a specific beach.
Cluttered UX: Users are forced to sift through historical logs, data padding, and distant alerts rather than receiving an instantaneous, silent wrist vibration for their immediate coordinates.
To the Designers:
Fix the geofencing logic so it strictly respects tight radius parameters, strip out the background latency on watchOS, and ensure a true, instant push-to-wrist protocol for active local alerts. Right now, as a real-time safety tool on the water's edge, it is non-functional.
The core value proposition of a safety app—providing immediate, hyper-local alerts directly to a wrist device for the exact beach a user is standing on—is completely failing.
Currently, the app fails to deliver on its primary utility due to critical functional bottlenecks:
Broken Geofencing & Notification Logic: Custom radius filters ("Around Me") fail to isolate immediate locations, frequently pushing irrelevant regional noise or missing local pings entirely.
Apple Watch Integration Failure: Background syncing and push notifications to watchOS are sluggish, unreliable, or fail to trigger in real time when stepping onto a specific beach.
Cluttered UX: Users are forced to sift through historical logs, data padding, and distant alerts rather than receiving an instantaneous, silent wrist vibration for their immediate coordinates.
To the Designers:
Fix the geofencing logic so it strictly respects tight radius parameters, strip out the background latency on watchOS, and ensure a true, instant push-to-wrist protocol for active local alerts. Right now, as a real-time safety tool on the water's edge, it is non-functional.
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Response from developer
Thanks for your feedback. This issue has been addressed in the latest version (v4.0.2). Please update the app and ensure your 'Favourite Beaches' are selected. If you're still receiving alerts for other beaches, please use the 'App Support' form in **Settings** so we can investigate your specific setup and assist you.
Frustratingly useless
Alerts continually come through as NSW north coast, when I have repeatedly input & saved
my area which is NSW far south coast. It’s frustrating. I am ready to delete as it’s useless for my area.
my area which is NSW far south coast. It’s frustrating. I am ready to delete as it’s useless for my area.
What’s happened?
I used to be able to access sharks along the East Coast of the US . Now all I hear about is Australia and there’s no way I can see to fix this
Response from developer
Thanks for your feedback. SharkSmart focuses only on **NSW, Australia**, as it is the official NSW Government shark information app. The app does not provide shark alerts for the US East Coast or other regions. We appreciate your feedback and hope this clarifies the app's coverage.
