One of my biggest pet peeves with my Dexcom G5 app is it gives this blazing awful alarm when the sensor is “about to expire”… hours from when it goes off, and usually while I’m sleeping. As of yesterday, they have an app update that makes the Dex app actually respect the “do not disturb” setting (other than urgent low and loss of signal). You can set your preferences for alert type based on time of day, day of the week. It looks good so far!
That is good news, with all of these companies creating alarms that are helpful at times, it is great that some are starting to see the benefit of giving the patient control and respecting sleep, which is probably the most helpful things someone can do for their body.
You can also have two different alarm profiles. The default alarm profile, and one other (which you can name and define a Start and Stop time and set of days).
So I have the default alarms pretty tight and noisy during the day, and then created “Night” profile from 11pm to 8am (or whatever times / days) that alarms on the Urgent Low but has more liberal settings for the Low and High.
True. I just leave my settings the same all day on my phone, and use the actual G5 receiver under my pillow at night. It works well for me that way - and no need to worry about the settings! I just hated when it yelled at me that my sensor was going to expire. In 3 hours. Ugh!
Wish I could take credit for the news… two weeks ago I’d actually posted on Dexcom’s page, asking if they could address this very issue, and lo and behold they wrote me back yesterday saying there was an app update! They are on top of their social media game!
@EricH has noted that with the recent update his new G5 that now runs from his iPhone is constantly dropping its connection with the sensor. Even if they’re almost touching.
No connection drops for me so far with my iPhone. But I definitely noticed the font size in the app is now smaller.
I played around with the larger font size Accessibility setting…unfortunately that didn’t help in the Dexcom app (although it worked for many other apps).
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