Thetechie Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 Check it out! Navigator is on the list for the app now! Matt and SpeedNoodles 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose City Cruiser Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 Details not available yet for my April 12 sailing. Hoping it will support onboard chat messaging! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReyRod Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 WOOOOT WOOOOT, Please let there be chat to chat functionality. Please!!! this will help with our anxiety of cruising with a teenager who wants to spread their wings a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweety Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 We are on Navigator, June 24, 2019 with 21 family members. This will be a great feature to have so everyone can stay in touch. We have 6 cabins booked. Bbjunkie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 The challenge with the chat features on the ships were it has been enabled in a BETA form (Allure and Harmony so far), is that it doesn't support notifications. This means you have to have the app open and looking for a chat message to appear. If you close the app or lock your phone you will have no idea someone tried to chat with you, until you open the app and go looking for the chat. This is why they had to open up their firewall and allow push notifications for RoyalIQ (the old app for Harmony and Quantum class). By doing so it allowed all iMessages to work, even from land based iPhones at home. Basically iMessage worked for free. RCI doesn't want to do that for the new app since it stops people from buying the Voom packages. Personally I don't see Royal being successful trying to convince Apple to re-write iMessages to work differently, or to have Apple change the way push notification work. Not any time soon. Until then, if you want to know someone sent you a message you are best to purchase the basic Surf level of Voom in a multi-device plan. Yes this costs money but as a parent who has cruised with teens it's worth every penny. Sweety, melski94 and Rose City Cruiser 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose City Cruiser Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 I understand this is a RCL forum but has anyone experienced DCL/NCL's in-app chat feature? Were you able to use iMessage w/o purchasing internet plan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 3 hours ago, Rose City Cruiser said: I understand this is a RCL forum but has anyone experienced DCL/NCL's in-app chat feature? Were you able to use iMessage w/o purchasing internet plan? As of December 2017, the DCL in app chat feature was just ok. Messages would not always pop up in real time. Sometimes, I would message my parents or my sisters and they would not receive it until much later. Sometimes they got it right away. Kind of defeats the purpose of the chat feature. We eventually gave up on that as our way of communication. We were not able to use iMessage as we did not have internet on that cruise. I definitely think that RC trumps DCL in the internet department. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bbjunkie Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 12 hours ago, Sweety said: We are on Navigator, June 24, 2019 with 21 family members. This will be a great feature to have so everyone can stay in touch. We have 6 cabins booked. We are on that sailing as well with a large group! My daughter is dancing on the ship. We can’t wait (especially since the last few weeks have been so brutal weather-wise. We are in Michigan.) Sweety 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweety Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 21 minutes ago, Bbjunkie said: We are on that sailing as well with a large group! My daughter is dancing on the ship. We can’t wait (especially since the last few weeks have been so brutal weather-wise. We are in Michigan.) We are in Chicago. Congratulations on your daughter dancing on the ship. My cousin is a singer with Celebrity. What is your daughter's name? We will look for her. Bbjunkie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 Looks like Navigator's time in the app was short lived. It's back on the no-app list. Presumably that was a mistake as they get ready to add Navigator to the app. It will probably re-appear just before her maiden voyage post-dry dock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thetechie Posted February 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 10 hours ago, twangster said: Looks like Navigator's time in the app was short lived. It's back on the no-app list. Presumably that was a mistake as they get ready to add Navigator to the app. It will probably re-appear just before her maiden voyage post-dry dock: That's OK, just gives me hope that they are in-fact adding it after the refurb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jticarruthers Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 3:59 PM, Lovetocruise2002 said: I definitely think that RC trumps DCL in the internet department. This may be the scariest statement i have ever heard uttered .... If i read it correctly RC is not the worst internet department in the history of creation ?!?!??!? I thought we had the threat to the future of the web contained in RC's basement but it may have escaped !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovetocruise2002 Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 5 hours ago, jticarruthers said: This may be the scariest statement i have ever heard uttered .... If i read it correctly RC is not the worst internet department in the history of creation ?!?!??!? I thought we had the threat to the future of the web contained in RC's basement but it may have escaped !! When I posted that statement, I was referring to their on board internet. But now, thinking of DCL's website and how they manage reservations, I'm going to have to give the edge to RC as well in that department, scary as it might be. I have not visited DCL's website since our cruise in December 2017, so maybe they have improved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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