Vocera Collaboration Suite

App quits 9 out of 10 times when opening notifications

Notifications are a hit or miss

Customization is nonexistent

Relentless reminder to turn on Bluetooth

Cannot mute messages

Cannot find chats that are hidden

App should not ask more than once for location sharing

Unusable for calls due to static

Crashes every other time on sign-on

No way to set Home Screen to send a text

No way to default to all contacts and not just favorites

No way to set 'all patients' and not just 'my patients'

No function/aspect works smoothly

Finding a contact is hard

Message doesn't pop up until phone is opened

Call button defaults to Vocera instead of regular phone call

Cannot change PIN within the app

Requires location to be on always for calls

Randomly crashes

Takes up a fairly large amount of memory

Worst app of the 2000s (in 2025)

Call function never works

Misses urgent messages all the time

Adds so much stress to job

Very high background battery drain

Clunky at best, crashes regularly

Not all that user friendly

Works so poorly people thought I wasn’t picking up my phone

User unfriendly

Horrible App for iPhone Pro Max

Removes me from on-call status for no reason and without notice

Crash repeat crash, every other time app gets active

Multiple glitches with iOS make frequent use frustrating

Calls are almost always 'missed'

Screen responsiveness is delayed

Awful for busy ICU providers

App automatically drops calls

Doesn't deliver messages well over cell signals

Requires WiFi designated just for Vocera

Issues when on other WiFi (even at hospital)

Foreseeable poor outcomes due to connection issues

Too many ways for communication to fail

Uncontrolled variables impacting connection

Some calls only work device to device

Some calls only work on-network to off-network

Professionally accept high rate of communication failure as a norm

Horrible for Emergencies

Doesn't work over 70% of the time for STEMI calls

Logs you out if the app (and doesn’t give you a warning)

Miss EMERGENCY calls

Delayed messages

App Disconnects & Reconnects for Calls

Disconnects and then 10 seconds later reconnects

Not very helpful in emergency situations

V3.8 no longer activates speaker on incoming calls

Makes it impossible to hear when people call you

Since iOS 14, keeps disconnecting

Hard to be available if calls don't connect

Nukes battery

Drains battery, constant background activity

Bluetooth device battery drain

Randomly missing calls throughout the day

Even when off the private network with cellular turned off

Still drains the battery over 75% background usage

Makes no difference when background app refresh is off

Intolerable battery drain

Drains battery even when forced turn off app and on airplane mode

Sound configurations don’t work

Random 'phantom' banner notifications

Worst alarm sounds even when ALL notifications are set to OFF

Phone is on SILENT plus phone is on DO NOT DISTURB

Halved my battery life

Doesn’t have an API for integrating third party messaging

Isn’t formatted to fit iPhone X

Notifications routinely missed and delayed

Customer service is incompetent at best and rude on average

Battery usage by this app has gone through the roof

Responsible for 63% of battery usage in past 24hrs

Does not show its message on the iPhone lock screen

Needs an 'acknowledge' button with a distinct sound

Spaces must be entered when sending texts to a specific room

Scrolling down past other numbers to find the correct one

When using a template, cannot stay on that screen after clicking send

Eliminates camera use

Causing my contacts to freeze

Have to use Siri or go through text messages to make phone calls

Keeps sending all of my vocera calls straight to voicemail

Last update was terrible

Last version is usable, this version is garbage

Company is finding a replacement program to get rid of Vocera

App was never updated for the 4.7/5.5 inch screens

Doesn’t support the iPhone X screen

Has only worked once for me

Crashes the camera

Audio goes on/off

Breaks all audio on the phone

Pauses whatever you are listening too, without rhyme or reason

Depletes my battery quickly

Persistent with this app from iOS 9- iOS 11

Continues to crash my camera

Makes me need to exit the app

Forget to reopen it, so I miss a bunch of calls

Other folks with this app are having the same issue

Podcasts Don't Get Interrupted Anymore (positive bug fix)

Latest version horrible battery drain

Using >50% of battery per day with just a few messages

Update killing battery

Using 30% of battery in last 24 hours with 1 message received and none sent

Fills my recent call list

Pauses my audio after a few minutes

Have to remember to exit out of the app before I listen to audio

Causes podcasts to pause every few minutes

Deleting the app corrects the problem

Interupts all audio

Causes it to pause every few minutes

Extreamly annoying

Interferes with iphone sound

Podcasts and audiobooks stop after 1-2 minutes when this app is installed

Bug was reproduced and reported to Vocera

Six months later without a fix

Causes severe battery drain even when the app is closed

Turn off Bluetooth reminder

Ability to mute messages

Ability to find hidden chats

Set Home Screen defaults

Default to all contacts

Default to all patients

Change PIN within the app

Option to not require location always

Improve UI to match modern iOS

Uniform cross-communication between app, device, and desktop

Clear messages from Apple Watch

Acknowledge button with distinct sound

Stay on template screen after sending

Fix camera and audio crashes

Fix audio interference with other apps

Fix battery drain issues

Allow camera use

Improve contact integration

Fix call forwarding to voicemail

Update for modern screen sizes

Fix audio pausing for podcasts/audiobooks

Add API for third-party messaging integration

Improve notification delivery

Improve customer service

Fix spaces required for room texts

Improve number scrolling

Fix speaker activation on incoming calls

Improve reliability on cellular networks

Allow newlines/paragraphs in text messages

Allow disabling Bluetooth prompts

Improve touch function for sign-in/groups

Make emergent calls go through reliably

Fix random banner notifications

Improve alarm sound configurations

Allow users to be on other WiFi networks

Improve app responsiveness

Allow users to see messages on lock screen after identification

Fix app disconnecting/reconnecting during calls

Allow users to not be removed from on-call status

Improve voice recognition

Make app compatible with iOS upgrades