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Instant Pot Smart Wifi, before I buy. (self.Blind)
submitted by BurningFlannery
Hey all. I just wanted to ask about the Instant Pot Smart Wifi. Before I pull the trigger on it, I want to make sure the app is accessible. I’ve heard the bluetooth model was great, but have gotten conflicting reports about this model. I’ve heard of both connectivity issues and possibly difficulties using the app with voiceover on iOS. Does anyone have any experiences they’d like to share? Thanks in advance.
Amonwilde 2 points 2y ago
I would disrecommend this. I couldn't get my pot to connect and the physical buttons are a pain from a VI perspective. It's also just a fiddly thing in general.

My honest recommendation is just to buy a giant pot and do dump cooking that way. But if you buy and have some success come and let us know, I'd be curious. Wish I could teleport my useless one over to you to play around with, I've literally just pulled out the inside to use as a large pot. Made sweet potato chili in it just the other night, ha.
BurningFlannery [OP] 1 points 2y ago
So it looks like the general attitude is that as long as these wifi connectivity issues don’t crop up for me, the app is just a little annoying rather than non-functional? If that’s the case I think I’ll go ahead and get it. I’m pretty techy and have some vision so I should be able to work around the worst of it. Thanks guys. Very helpful.
Bachelor-pad-72 1 points 2y ago
I on the contrary would recommend it
Sure the app is far from perfect but you can set the time/mode without too much of a problem
I have never had to ask for anyone’s help after the initial set up
I love the sauté feature and I probably use the pressure cooker feature the most.
Like everything I guess, it would depend on what exactly you want out of it. If you are someone who might want to try the yoghurt feature or do a lot of super fancy stuff with it then maybe there is reason to rethink it. If you want to go through all the recipes with in the app then maybe don’t get it since the app isn’t great for that.
But if you want to make things where are you feel comfortable getting recipes from elsewhere, usually these just are increments of time to pressure cook, then why not. I Google recipes or look for them on YouTube and usually these recipes just tell you the ingredients and the time to pressure cook and if you need to do a quick release or let it stew even after it stops cooking. It has made cooking so simple for me. Cooking a stew from frozen in 40 minutes, sign me up.
Blind guy here feel free to ask ask any more questions about it, glad to help
80percentaccurate 1 points 2y ago
It’s rough. They have one app that doesn’t work that sounds like it should, then the other one that you need to use to control the pot is called Controller or something really basic that makes you think you’re downloading the wrong thing. That app requires you to make a different account before you can even get your pot to connect. Once you finally get it to connect, you find yourself doing explore by touch a lot because Voiceover consistently gets stuck on the screen layered underneath. It’s usable, and the nice thing is you don’t have to remember what you set your pot to the last time you used it, but it’s super glitchy.
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