Tether - The wireless leash to your Mac. Reviews

Very buggy, rendered Mac mini unusable

ackshaeys

Worked fine for the first hour. However, I started noticing issues soon after. My Mac mini locked up in the middle of typing in an editor. Had to disable and uninstall the app to continue working. Brilliant idea but the implementation is incomplete and unreliable. Fix the issues and I will update my rating.

Random locks

sedcseg

Nice concept. Maybe it just needs to have it’s sensitivity to disconnect adjusted. MacBook Pro retina 15” sitting next to iPhone 6 Plus in Apple leather case. While I have been typing this, it has auto locked and unlocked 3 times,….. make that 4. So it’s too sensitive to a lost connection and obviously the apple hardware and it’s bluetooth are not quite tight either. Keep at it though. Maybe allow us to adjust sensitivity, like not connected for x seconds or minutes.

Good idea, but doesn't work

Yabadabu

Using iPhone 6+ iOS 8.2 and Yosemite 10.10.2 on a 2014 MBP, I managed to pair the app and laptop, but nothing else worked. When I walk away, the app shows that it's searching for a Mac to connect with instead of telling me that the laptop is locked as it promised it would. As far as I can tell, Tether app never managed to actually lock my laptop. Now I get a confusing message that say "Turn back to your Mac. Tether needs permission to unlock your Mac." Huh? I just gave it permission. I'm looking at my unlocked Mac and there's no request for permissions. I type in my password again. Tether app is still stuck on the "Turn back to your Mac" screen (whatever that means). Another UX issue: the Mac app says it's complete after pairing, but doesn't indicate whether I can close the window or need to leave it open. So confusing and broken. Fix the bugs and get some help with the UX, guys.

Great Idea, lousy execution

piker62

My iMac and my iPhone simply keep forgetting each other. Have tried to make it work for two weeks now, and I’m uninstalling.

Only works intermittently

CramerRy

I *wish* I could give this app 5 stars! When it works it is awesome!! But more often than not, it simply does not work. I can enter the room and sit in front of my mac, launch the app to verify, and see that it is telling me I need to install the app on my mac. Yet it's installed. And after *manually* logging in I can verify its still running. Too bad it doesn't work all the time. I'd love to rate this 5 stars!!!

A little inconsistent.

Noggin 3467899

The app relies on the phone and macs ability to detect each others bluetooth, this means if the iPhone happens to disconnect randomly from the mac it will start your screen saver. Which brings me to the next issue that isn't mentioned on the website, if you want this to lock you mac (not just a screen saver) you'll have to go into security setting on your mac and change the "require password xxx after sleep or screen saver begins" to immediately. This isn't a big deal since I don't use a screen saver.

Great idea but need Windows OS support

Henrik_scheel

Does anyone know an alternative with support for windows OS.

DIDNT WORK

D Learious

like others said its a good idea but flat out didn't work. I have late 2013 iMac and iPhone 6+. Could not get them to talk to each other no matter what I did. Oh well. Good luck to you though

Doesn't work

justinmccormick

Worked for all of 36 minutes, until it began locking my computer while I was typing (and phone say 3 inches away).

Too bad…software has issues.

DLinAz

I installed this app on my Macbook Pro and iPhone 6. Everything connected and I thought I was good to go. Took my iPhone into the other room to see if it would work as advertised. It never locked up. Also, my Macbook started toggling between normal and screensaver about every 5 seconds. Weird. I have multiple Mac’s at home, but only one had the Tether app installed. Kept seeing other devices and wanting to pair. I am guessing that if I had a one Mac household, it might be closer to working. Really kind of sad…I was hoping this app would work as advertised. Will probably try again in the future if they are able to fix some of the issues mentioned in the comments.

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