App Store: What Users Actually Complain About
Overview
The app primarily suffers from system sleep and power management issues, with recent updates breaking core functionality. Performance problems and display/connectivity issues further impact user experience, while UI visibility problems represent less critical but still annoying issues.
Top complaints
1. System Sleep and Power Management Issues
cluster 1/5App fails to respect system sleep settings, causing unexpected sleep behavior and battery drain.
“On the M1 Air, the system goes to sleep regardless of how I've set up the power savings or Amphetamine”
“it will automatically turn it back on randomly, killing your battery. Even with the lid closed or open”
“when triggered automatic sessions, the function allow system sleep when display is closed doesn't work properly”
2. App Functionality After Updates
cluster 2/5Recent app updates have broken core functionality, preventing users from setting up or maintaining sessions.
“Recently I'm getting the problem mentioned by others — when I hit the Amphetamine 'pill' icon... I'm unable to set my re”
3. Performance Issues
cluster 3/5App consumes excessive system resources, including CPU and memory, impacting overall system performance.
“it uses more than chrome (and I have more than 30 tabs open). It goes from 0.2% CPU to 30% in mere seconds”
“took up half a gig of memory. With XCode, Teams, & Chrome... this was completely unmanageable”
4. Display and Connectivity Problems
cluster 4/5Issues with external displays and Bluetooth connectivity cause disruptions and poor user experience.
“when connecting and disconnecting external displays results in a black screen for a while, which never happens with comp”
“My Macbook Pro's Bluetooth mouse stutter after sleeping, when both my bluetooth keyboard and mouse are connected”
5. UI Visibility and Lighting Issues
cluster 5/5App interface has visibility problems and affects hardware settings like keyboard backlight.
“the keyboard backlight will stay on, potentially ruining your screen”
“my remaining session time now shows behind the icon and the time is no longer clearly visible”
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