Limitations (bugs?) in the Android app upgrade

AnnPT77
AnnPT77 Posts: 38,350 Community Helper
in MyFitnessPal Tech Support Questions

I found the "copy previous meal" function under My Meals when adding food to my diary, but it only seems to allow adding yesterday's meal from the same meal slot. This is insufficient. It should be possible to add any previous meal from any meal slot.

I can't find a way to add a meal to my diary, then save that meal to My Meals. It looks like I have to use the Create function in Recipes, Meals and Foods, and search each food all over again to create the saveable meal. This is cumbersome and insufficient. It should be possible to put a meal in my diary, then save that meal. I don't care whether that happens starting from the meal in the diary, or within the Create function in Recipes, Meals and Foods.

The pages are taking a woefully long time to load. The main page takes a long time to load the meal slots - several seconds after the page first appears. Transitioning between pages often takes several seconds, much longer than the previous version. Sometimes adding items to a meal even causes my device to show a "MyFitnessPal not responding" message; if I click "wait", the app eventually responds. Other functions are similar, long wait to delete a meal item, among others. This is annoying.

The functions that used to be under the 3 dots also seem to have disappeared, such as the Edit function that put check-boxes next to all the meal items so I could easily delete a whole multi-item meal from my diary. Now I need to long-press each item individually, and I'm getting many "MyFitnessPal not responding" messages during that process.

There may be more issues, but the above are what I've noted so far.

I don't really mind that it looks and behaves differently in the diary functions in general. I think I'll get used to it, and some of it may even feel more direct/efficient once I do. But the apparent departure of some convenience features and flexibility . . . that's not good.

Answers

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,350 Community Helper

    In the Android app, I haven't been able to find a page that tells me the calories remaining for today. It's not on the Today page, it's not on the Nutrition page Calorie tab.

    In a calorie counting app, I have to do arithmetic in my head to know how many calories I have left that I can eat today? 🙄

  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,965 Member

    @AnnPT77 On the iPhone, you tap the number of calories used at the top and it moves from used to remaining. The macros also rotate the same way. Is that not the case on Android? That seems pretty pants!

  • StuartNelson37
    StuartNelson37 Posts: 3 Member

    On the android app the food items that compose about half of my calories and macros, we're talking common, green-checkmark items here, now show ZERO calories and ZERO macros in my diary. Just paid $100 for premium plus 6 days ago and now all the work I did logging my food is worthless.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,350 Community Helper
    edited October 17
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48801049#Comment_48801049

    Yes, it does. But that did work!

    I had tried tapping that block of the page, and also tried long-pressing it, but didn't try tapping exactly on the calorie number.

    Thank you, @claireychn074!

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,350 Community Helper

    When I use the "copy previous meal" function, it shows me the meal that will be copied, so I can click the check mark to log it. It looks like the image below on that verification page. If I add it, it logs the right portions/calories, but the way it displays is clearly a bug. Trust me, this meal doesn't have 40,617 calories, those macros, or any of those portion sizes.

    Screenshot_20251017_195827_MyFitnessPal.jpg
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 10,459 Member
    edited October 20

    this is a PITA but it’s a workaround if you haven’t already figured it out.

    If a previous dinner is lunch today, copy that dinner to dinner today.

    Now go in and copy dinner today to lunch today.

    Finally, go in and delete the duplicate dinner for today.

    Also, check and make sure random lines haven’t been added to other meals, or that dinner wasn’t duplicated yet again in one of your own made up meal categories.

    I have a category called “chai” for when I have extra coffee or chai. Meals I’ve tried to copy that didn’t are ending up in chai sometimes.

    🤦🏻‍♀️


    my “copy meals” function has gone haywire even though it appears nothingelse has changed.

  • jwcm4
    jwcm4 Posts: 9 Member

    Just switch to Cronometer. I did a couple weeks ago and am so glad I did. None of these bugs and pretty much all the same features AND barcode scanner without needing to pay.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,350 Community Helper
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48806896#Comment_48806896

    Nope. Not yet, anyway.

    There are things that I think are problems with this release, so I'm posting about them in a section of the Community that the MFP staff usually actually read.

    Mostly, I'm striving to report the problems as clearly and specifically as I can, with a minimum of the kind of nonspecific rants profitlessly posted in other sections that just say people hate it. I don't know if venting psychologically helps the people who make those posts, but I don't see the point of them at all. I just want to report problems without opening a support ticket. That seems potentially productive.

    I appreciate replies on this thread like @claireychn074's, that suggest solutions or workarounds: That's productive, too.

    I'm not going to rage quit immediately. To me, that doesn't seem productive, yet.

    Even though I'm good at learning new software because of a long career in software development, for me switching to another app just introduces a whole new learning curve. On top of that, that other app might turn out to be less good than this one once I go through all that, plus I'd lose a whole bunch of history. I'm going to give this one a chance for a while. I can still do the basics I routinely need.

    I have the barcode scanner here. I never use it; I don't like it. It's not convenient for me. Most of my foods don't have barcodes; I usually log without the package in my hand even when they do have barcodes; and too many of the bar-coded items in the database are incorrect or out of date.

    Rage-quitting then posting all over the Community about it, telling other people to rage quit, too . . . I don't see the point. If I want to leave, I might post a grateful goodbye to some folks here I've enjoyed interacting with. Anything more seems pointless to me.

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