Specialized - Mission Control Hack 3.22.0 + Redeem Codes

Here’s what I’d like to see:
A setting that allows me to tune how much assist I want when starting from a complete stop tied to each assist level. E-bikes are heavy and while I may not need much assist while actively peddling, some extra power while starting would be helpful sometimes.
Apple Watch & Health Integration. Recording a cycling workout on my Apple Watch produces results more in line with riding a regular bicycle. Recording an e-bike ride on Strava gives me heart rate and other metrics, but no information from the bike. Recording a ride on the app and importing to Strava means no heart rate. Having an Apple Watch companion app that allows me to record metrics both from my watch and the bike would make this much easier for the user.
The app should be able to “wake up” the bike for tuning. Also, under the specific scenario, the lights wouldn’t need to come on.

Before I relay the issues I’m having with the app, let inform, in case you don’t know already, that Specialized’s customer service is pathetic. You call customer support, but are never able to speak to anyone. You’ll on hold for years until you hang up. Now to the app. This app is junk, and Specialized is not putting much effort to fix the problems. A few of the issues I’m having: - When charging, the screen either show the SOC at 0% or 1%, no matter what the actual SOC actually is; - I set the charging limit to 80%, but it charges to 100%. Sometimes setting the limit works, sometimes it doesn’t; - I set my personal preferences, say for screen layout, cadence, but then, eventually, it changes back to factory default; - sometimes the screen comes on when charging, sometimes it doesn’t. Go figure. One would think a giant company like Specialized would care about the quality of their products and customer satisfaction, but that’s not the case. Either don’t know what they’re doing or they don’t care. Or both.

Mission Control has a logical, easy to use interface, has an excellent mapping system, and allows customization of the ebike’s power settings. However, there are a some significant problems that absolutely ruin the app: 1) The app requires Location be set to “Always” each ride. If you forget to turn Location off after riding, it will contribute to drain the phone’s battery. The developers need to make the app work when Location is set to “While Using.”. 2) The app requires Display and Brightness - Auto Lock to be set to “Never” so that the map remains active while riding. Again, if you forget to return Display and Brightness to its prior setting, it will continue to drain the battery. 3) The app reads the battery capacity (viz., %)at the start of the ride, but doesn’t change during the ride, rendering that feature useless. 4) Since applying Apple’s latest security patch, Mission Control no longer saves My Rides in history.

Come on Specialized, hire some competent iOS programmers!

As others have noted the app requires that your location services are set to "always". This is ridiculous and absolutely should not be necessary to function. I also use the Strava app and it works perfectly fine in "while using" mode. I suspect the developers that created Mission Control are either not capable of threading that needle, or (more likely) want it set to "always" so they can sell your data. It drains the battery and unnecessarily tracks you when you're not actively using the app. I had to create a macro to get to the settings to easily turn this on and off.

The app would also benefit from a little bit of fine-tuning regarding the menu structure and where functionality is within the software. getting to some settings seems very non-intuitive.

I think this app has a ton of potential, but it needs improvement. For example, if the bike is going to learn and improve the motor assist over time, users should be able to answer some short survey questions about how they like to ride (more assist on hills, less on flat, for example. Or more assist after X minutes of riding when you start to get tired. Or a big assist when starting from stop.) and then the bike can adjust its performance according to that profile. I also don’t always want my headlight and tail light on. For example, when I am charging the bike inside and I want to have it on so I can mess around with settings, it’s really annoying to have the blaring head light in my family’s face.

My Specialized Turbo Vado is a great bike that’s a pleasure to ride, but this app leaves so much to be desired, it’s a disappointment from a company as innovative as Specialized.

Aesthetically it’s fine; it’s on-brand and looks like you’d expect. That’s nice. But it’s lagging in the features and content you’d expect from a premium brand like Specialized, and their competition is getting ahead.

For me, the most glaring omissions: The map still doesn’t offer turn-by-turn navigation, and your recorded rides still can’t be exported to Apple Health or Apple Fitness.

I get the impression Specialized can’t figure out what they want this app to be. It insists on having always-on location data and staying in the foreground during a ride. I get the reasons behind that, but it’s lacking too many features to be a true “ride companion” app.

More detailed maps with layers for trails, bike lanes, and turn-by-turn is a starting point. I’d like to see integrated audio playback controls (similar to how Waze did it) so I don’t have to switch apps so often. And I really don’t understand why there’s still no ability to sync Health and Fitness data. Strava does it. Peloton does it. Get with it, Specialized. Your bikes are great, but your software is lagging way behind.

The app was fine, not great. Then the upgrade made things worse. As others have said, most of the issues are around the post-ride reporting. I was hoping the upgrade would make things better, such as importing a map file and using it during the ride in the map screen (like Garmin or RideWithGPS). Alas, there were no advances and some things that were backwards.

The worst thing is the inability to update the firmware even though the app has connectivity. The app just says take the bike to the specialized dealer. HOWEVER specialized decided to cut out the dealer network so the bike shop where I bought the bike is now a Trek dealership. Specialized needs to either make the firmware upgrade user-achievable or actually have dealers. It’s idiotic to be in this “in between” place.

I just went out on my Vado (2021) using this app on 100% boost… 20mph was some effort. More effort: excusing this app from its connection. Turbo mode active, no app: 25mph with slight effort.

Not sure what’s happening here, but fairly sure it’s related to why I wouldn’t buy the current (2022+) model with the color display… I will not use this app further, and I discourage the makers from nannying the riders. My Vado even came with a 40T chainring; if I wanted a Peloton I would have purchased that instead. Who wouldn’t rather have a go-anywhere tool?

Modifying that bike now, glad I have the previous gen model. I’ve been told the new ones have more nannying in place (and less reliable parts, due to miniaturization).

One thing I hate is when apps want to track me all the time. I have to turn on always allow tracking in order for the software to track my rides. It won’t if you try to set on ‘track only while using the app’. I’m tired of stuff like this draining my battery tracking all my moves. I only want to track my rides. Not where I live and shop. Selling my data? Sheesh. Other than that gripé I’m happy with what it does track. And seeing ride results.

Been using this app to track my rides for three seasons now and it worked as it should until this summer. Now it doesn’t track and save your rides and all the data associated with it. I’ve contacted Specialized multiple times and they are aware but have no answer or a fix in site. What’s more disappointing is the fact that every app on my phone has had updates the past few weeks except Mission Control. Specialized needs to let it’s customers know what’s going on instead of being mute and silent. Either make a new app, fix the current one or advice us to look somewhere else for an app and/or different bike company.