MIT Atlas

Half of the things you are supposed to be able to do aren’t there. Terrible support

Their CS is not bad for sure

I enjoyed this app for 20 months while completing my EMBA. It was especially useful for getting and transferring my digital ID and commencement.

Waiting 30min in front of the door is stupid. Today it took even more than that, so I was productive enough to send this review.

When you receive your covid results the app gives the same notification for a positive test and a negative test. This means you actually need to go into the app to check which you likely wouldn’t do as it is the same as the negative test.

This has been going on for months, and the developer promised a fix in October.

The constant forced updates for well over a year now are completely intolerable. Many times I go to the building I work in (at Lincoln Lab) and I cannot attest until I update. And when either my cell service or the server isn’t doing well, I have to go over to the main lab and use their ipads to attest. I just love it when I am forced to work late to make up for the lost time from this app. I know they claim this will be fixed, but it has been this way for so long I really doubt it will ever change. You would think MIT could build a decent app.

I have blocked app store in my phone, but unlike other apps that auto update, I have to manually update the Atlas app every few days so I can attest and get my covid pass. So I need to change settings every time to unblock my app store etc. just so I can update Atlas...why doesn't it automatically update like other apps, and is it possible to have less frequent cumulative updates? and/or be able to attest even if not updated to the latest version... thanks the app otherwise is great!

I’m currently standing stranded outside of my lab for the 47th time this year because I, once again, had an (biweekly) update force on my app on the way to work and it took forever to load. If MIT can afford the cost of sending the research of every student and faculty member to a grinding halt every single time they add vanity features to the umbrella ATLAS app, then they should have the money to move COVIDPass to a separate app that won’t need to update every three days. Considering there are many, many reviews of this app here that all say basically the same thing, I don’t think they intend to any time soon either.

the only notification i get is a 2 hour notification to redo my covid attestation. as someone that tries to redo the attestation at the same time everyday, it becomes difficult when the 2 hour notification is the only one i get. definitely would like to see a 30 min warning and/or notification that my covid pass has expired so i remember to do it on time