The Companion app for iOS needs some love. Some misfeatures I have noted and sent to Zwift tech support and they suggest I post them here:
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I’d like to be able to start and stop rides from it, but mostly stop a ride without having to go to the laptop and do it.
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I’d like the watts or w/kg to be the same on both screens, the full Zwift screen and the companion. Right now only the Companion switches. The Zwift app is just watts. For w/kg is more useful, and fluctuates less.
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The Ride On counter doesn’t seem to work…I think I gave out 30 just today but I have yet to get the Award for giving them out. If that isn’t counted, what else is being missed? I finally saw it work a week or so ago but c’mon.
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I would like to see distance to the summit on rides so I can decide it I want to push on or call it a day. On Ventour summit there are plenty of places to put signs with this into (some fan viewing areas, a couple of chateaux). So why not add them?
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The U-turn feature doesn’t work. About which…
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I would still like to see more random drop-ins in the Surprise me mode…or be able to choose a KOM or the desert flats environment (I am partial to it) rather than being spawned into the same spot. If I drop into Watopia I end up downtown, with no options other than to follow the options from there. If I drop into France in “surprise me” mode I am approaching the Ventour summit climb with no turn off other than a U-turn (which worked once because I was in the full Zwift app). None of these are surprising at all after the first time.
I have managed to workaround the connectivity/pairing issues with the watchOS app but it took a few weeks, almost 3 months to sort out reliably. But these other issues aren’t addressed by a precise schedule of when devices are active and apps opened.
