Kingsmac, thanks for your reply. There is a perverse comfort in knowing that I am not the only one banging his head against a brick wall. Do you have any ideas about how we might effectively apply the spurs to Abbott?
This afternoon I’ve updated to iOS 16.6 with Shuggah disabled, and I’m afraid Libre still does not work except to scan! I have now had to reactivate Shuggah which is working perfectly. I have turned off Bluetooth for Libre and will just scan and use Libre at least once every 8 hours. This is easy to remember, because I still enter my insulin doses, carb intake and exercise in Libre, always doing a scan at this time. Now that I know how to adjust the alarms in Shuggah (where you can actually add extra alarms if you wish) I will choose to make Shuggah my main app and use Libre just where I have to for the sake of data going to LibreView which does give amazing detail. The bonus of having regular readings display on my watch is too helpful to ignore. Did you delete Shuggah before doing the iOS update? I will be interested in whether your alarms go off when you are driving because I think over the last few weeks, when Libre was working correctly, the alarms did not go off on my phone when I was driving, but they did send a notification to my watch and show the reading! This is still not as good as getting regular readings on my watch like I do from Shuggah. I am also still finding Shuggah gives more accurate readings than Libre which continues to be around 0.8/1.5 above finger pricks which can suggest your BG control is not as good as it actually is. Before the crash, Libre suggested by HbA1c was 6.0 when a blood test for the same 90 days showed it to be 5.3.Curiouser and curiouser, my iPhone updated its operating system to version 16.6 late this afternoon and now LibreLink works as it should provided Shuggah is deleted. I suspect that that puts an end to my complaints. I would prefer to have Shuggah working as well so that I receive the readings on my smartwatch. The next event on the horizon will be the sensor change next week, I can only hope that there is no step backwards in effective working thereafter.
Thanks for coming back to me so quickly; I suspected as much. At the weekend I will be driving over 500 miles, so I think I will persevere with using Shuggah and Libre, as I described earlier, for now. It is also a little offputting that reinstalling the apps means losing the data within them, although at least not in LibreView. I will be interested to know if you find the Libre app alarms do not sound when driving, and whether you do get a message and reading about the alarm on your watch.When I realised that the iOS update had been completed I still wasn't able to use LibreLink properly. I then fully deleted LibreLink and Shuggah and then reinstalled LibreLink which worked perfectly. I then reinstalled Shuggah and it all went wrong again. Complete deletions of both apps and reinstalling LibreLink alone has left me with a fully operative LibreLink app. It therefore looks as though both apps have to go and then LibreLink reinstalled. As you have said, this does mean that you cannot regularly read your BG from your watch. I hope that this helps.
If you go onto the the Abbott web site it walks you through the work around, I had a blank screen a few weeks ago, I followed the work around and it cleared all the problems and since then I have had no problems. I am now on iOS 17 as I am enrolled in the Apple Beta programme.Curiouser and curiouser, my iPhone updated its operating system to version 16.6 late this afternoon and now LibreLink works as it should provided Shuggah is deleted. I suspect that that puts an end to my complaints. I would prefer to have Shuggah working as well so that I receive the readings on my smartwatch. The next event on the horizon will be the sensor change next week, I can only hope that there is no step backwards in effective working thereafter.
I have had one low glucose alarm just before dinner this evening and it did come up on my watch. I have had no alarms while driving and don't expect any as I am very careful about my blood glucose level before I drive.Thanks for coming back to me so quickly; I suspected as much. At the weekend I will be driving over 500 miles, so I think I will persevere with using Shuggah and Libre, as I described earlier, for now. It is also a little offputting that reinstalling the apps means losing the data within them, although at least not in LibreView. I will be interested to know if you find the Libre app alarms do not sound when driving, and whether you do get a message and reading about the alarm on your watch.
I am afraid I am one of those users of Libre 2 who is not happy with the system.I’m sorry to hear all your troubles with the Libre app. For me, it runs perfectly and I’m on my second sensor now using my iPhone 12, updated to the latest 16.06.
Even the fingers prick are amazingly accurate.
I deleted Shuggah as I found it too “busy” and my Libre sensor runs pretty well. An occasional scan now and again when I leave my iPhone out of range but I am very satisfied with the update.
I suspect there may be many people happy with the latest update and perhaps don’t post as much.
Good luck with your quest and let us know how you get on.
That is good to know, I’m pleased that at least the alarms are showing on your watch. Like you, I am very careful about driving. When my Libre alarms were working, it was the high alarm I ‘played’ with, setting it quite low as a test, 7.7. A while back this alarm was sounding on my phone while driving, but I’m sure more recently I was getting a notification on my watch but no sound from the phone. I viewed this is an improvement because the alarm would go off every five minutes when it was sounding on the phone and that was obviously irritating, although it did make sure I pulled over to reset it. I was doing this more out of curiosity. What level do you aim for before driving and what level do you aim not to drop below while driving?I have had one low glucose alarm just before dinner this evening and it did come up on my watch. I have had no alarms while driving and don't expect any as I am very careful about my blood glucose level before I drive.
I have also had recent problems, particulary with loss of alarm.the great thing with the updated App is that it is continuously updating your glucose without having to scan the sensor each time.
I can definitely recommend creating a LibreView account. If you put LibreView into Google, you can then select it to go to the site. At the bottom of the member login box there is a link to allow you to sign up. Once you have an account, data from your sensor will automatically load up. It shows a massive amount of information with lots of graphs and tables which are really helpful, especially for medical professionals who you allow access it and, of course, you will not lose the data in LibreView even if you lose it from the Libre app.I am sorry to see that people are still experiencing problems with the new FreeStyle LibreLink app. I did have the initial white screen and have lost all the history that was held on my iPhone, as I have not been sharing it on the LibreView. App is now working and Abbott replaced the sensor that I had to replace. I hope the problems others are experiencing soon disappear as the great thing with the updated App is that it is continuously updating your glucose without having to scan the sensor each time.