What users complain about in UKG Pro
555 people complained about UKG Pro in App Store reviews rated 1–3 stars (24 May 2025 – 05 Nov 2026), 119 of them in the last 30 days. Most reported: infinite loading circle and slow startup (28%); forced full login on every launch (23%); face id fails and forces password login (13%). Growing this month: pay statement download freezes or crashes app — 22 people in the last 30 days, 15 in the 30 before.
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What goes wrong in UKG Pro
Each review is sorted by what it says fails. Counts are people; the share is of all 555 people who complained.
Growing this month
- Pay statement download freezes or crashes app — 22 people in the last 30 days, 15 in the 30 before
Infinite loading circle and slow startup
28%157 people · 32 in the last 30 days · latest 5d ago
“App just gives me the circle of loading and will not sign me in. Been this way for weeks and no one can fix it”v5.8.12 more reviews
“This is a HORRIBLE app. too many technical issues and i’m stuck on the loading screen for over 10 minutes.”v5.8.1“Constantly freezes on a white screen when I open the app and when it’s “loading” it just sits with the loading circle forever. Literally as I need to know my roster at this moment too. Please fix this bug/problem as this is seriously frustrating”v5.8.0Forced full login on every launch
23%130 people · 12 in the last 30 days · latest 11d ago↓ Easing
“Can we fix the fact that we now have to do a full log in every time you log in now?”v5.8.12 more reviews
“It’s genuinely terrible. Doesn’t let me login or forgets my login 80% of the time. And when it does let me log in none of the features hardly ever work so it’s genuinely such a pain to use. If I didn’t have to use it for my job I wouldn’t.”v5.7.3“The app just recently updated and now it forces you to login “for security purposes” every single time. It’s quite frustrating, hoping my work switches from this terrible app. You also cannot connect or contact with anyone through it. Terrible scheduling app I have no idea why w…”v5.7.3Face ID fails and forces password login
13%71 people · 13 in the last 30 days · latest 8d ago
“What’s the point of Face ID when I have to put my password in every time? I have to clock my colleagues in and out as they frequently can’t get the app to load. Even when I mark a notification as done or delete it I still have the red notification bubble. The apps features work…”v5.6.22 more reviews
“The only reason I started using the app was because I could login with Face ID and now everytime I try to log in with Face ID it tells me for extra security I need to put my password in from time to time when it’s literally every single time. This is frustrating and time consumi…”v5.8.0“Ever since bath and body works started using this app instead of the old one, it’s been nothing but annoying. I’ve always had problems getting in over multiple phones now or the desktop. It needs facial recognition to open the app, then every single time it requires a username a…”v5.8.1Clock in and out punches fail
12%68 people · 13 in the last 30 days · latest 9d ago
“Unfortunately this app loves to have issues doing the most important thing: clocking in and clocking out. Please make these things function properly before adding Siri updates. It seems 30% of the time the app crashes my phone.”v5.8.32 more reviews
“I'm tired of using this app/website to punch in/out. There is no option to allow employees to even request a missed punch. There should also be a separate button for each punch type (in/out). I clocked out to go another work location and when I got there, I punched again, thinki…”v5.7.4“The app crushes all the time for no reason. One day it works fine, on another you cannot even get into the app to do basic functions such as clock in/out. It doesn’t give you an error code either — so you have no clue how to troubleshoot it. I wish we used another platform, tbh.…”v5.8.3Pay statement download freezes or crashes app
8%44 people · 22 in the last 30 days · latest 8d ago↑ Growing
“The App won’t let you download pay statements, it freezes often, editing the schedule in the app takes multiple tries. You have to go through to much to use this app. Whoever made this wasn’t thinking user friendly and the overall theme when using it comes off as, “Cheaply Built…”v5.8.32 more reviews
“cannot download the pay statement, the screen frozen once the download button clicks”v5.8.1“Right now I can Download my pay statement to print or send to someone else, the function doesn’t not work anymore we need a patch/fix 🙏”v5.8.1Schedule and calendar view is confusing
6%35 people · 2 in the last 30 days · latest 12d ago↓ Easing
“Target started using UKG for our scheduling app and I, along with many others, genuinely hate it. I'm hopeful we'll "get used to it" after a while but at this point that seems pretty far off. I don't find it user friendly, it's a mess compared to what we previously had. The way…”v5.8.12 more reviews
“A horrible app that i am required to use by my work place. the notifications make me feel like im reading binary; they are not user friendly. the navigation around the app is buggy and iterative. calendar and shift viewing is inconvenient at best. menus and navigation within the…”v4.4.2“Recently, my store decided to change apps. This app is HORRIBLE to use. It’s so confusing and I hate that it doesn’t show the amount of hours we get each week. I’m only able to see the current week on my time card. I wish we didn’t switch apps because the other one was so easy a…”v5.8.0Time-off and availability requests fail
5%27 people · 3 in the last 30 days · latest 10d ago
“This app has made managing my work schedule and time-off requests unnecessarily difficult. Since switching to UKG Pro, simple things like submitting sick time and vacation time have become confusing and frustrating. Requests can remain stuck on “Submitted,” and the app gives unc…”v5.8.02 more reviews
“This way to request availability sucks make it more simple”v5.8.0“I cannot access my time off request. Use all the help tips”v5.8.3
19% of complaints say only that the app is bad, without saying what fails; they count as complaints but under no issue. A review can report more than one issue, so the shares do not add up to 100%.
What each release brought
Complaints per App Store version, newest first, with the issue reported most against it. A new version has had fewer days to collect complaints, so compare what is reported more than how much.
- v5.8.3Most reported: Infinite loading circle and slow startup (32)116 complaints · 09 Oct 2026
- v5.8.2Most reported: Face ID fails and forces password login (2)7 complaints · 09 Oct 2026
- v5.8.1Most reported: Infinite loading circle and slow startup (29)88 complaints · 24 Sept 2026
- v5.8.0Most reported: Infinite loading circle and slow startup (28)101 complaints · 11 Sept 2026
- v5.7.4Most reported: Forced full login on every launch (28)103 complaints · 11 Aug 2026
- v5.7.3Most reported: Infinite loading circle and slow startup (14)40 complaints · 28 Jul 2026
- v5.7.2Most reported: Infinite loading circle and slow startup (11)33 complaints · 09 Jul 2026
- v5.7.1Most reported: Infinite loading circle and slow startup (4)13 complaints · 18 Jun 2026
- v5.6.4Most reported: Forced full login on every launch (3)6 complaints · 21 Apr 2026
- v5.1.0No issue reported more than once3 complaints · 15 Nov 2025
- v5.0.2Most reported: Forced full login on every launch (3)5 complaints · 02 Nov 2025
- v5.0.0Most reported: Forced full login on every launch (2)8 complaints · 17 Oct 2025
The reviews themselves
40 of 565 complaints: the ones that say what fails first, newest first. Every one links to the review on the store.
Always crashing and bad UI updates
The app crashes 3 times usually before it will work, has been like it for months. UI changes constantly and breaking links.
So slow since the last update
Tap…..wait 30-45 seconds, tap …. Wait some more
Terrible App
First it failed to recognize my Face ID, so I’d have to manually put in my email and password. Then it stopped recognizing my email and password, I get stuck at the authentication link and it just stays there. How annoying and completely useless.
Spending too much time on what should be simple!!
Drives me to actual tears of frustration!!!!!!! I HATE THIS APP!!!!! The LAGGIEST azz app!!!!! These corporations don’t give a jack about employees or they would demand better for us and this STUPID APP!!! Had faster connections with dial up back in the day than this SLOWWWWW AF APP!!! DO BETTER!!! It’s damn Bear 2027!!!!
Terrible app
I spent forever just trying to pull pdfs of my paystub. You need to work on this app
Paystub
It’s impossible to download a paystub on the app. It’s so frustrating
Hot Garbage
From an employee perspective, this app, and its desktop counterpart, is a convoluted mess. 99% of the time, a person is using this to clock in or out, and that process is needlessly slow and frustrating. Need to download a PDF of a recent paystub? The mobile app is useless for that. If it does, in fact download, it’s impossible to find anywhere on your phone, but good luck trying. Why our company adopted this hot useless mess of an app is beyond me.
Can’t save password
I was asked to get a new password the other day and now I have to manually put in my email and password when before all I had to do was put in my passcode
Please turn off the auto zoom
The app itself is ok definitely not great. It kicks you out randomly so make sure to save after every entry or you’ll lose everything you just entered. Other than that it works. Data can be slow to load. The most annoying feature is the auto zoom. If there are any developers reading this, please make that feature selectable so we can shut it off. Several of my coworkers feel the same way about the auto zoom and wish they could turn it off.
Limited
It seems to bury the most important things. I want to see my teams birthdays and anniversaries. I just want to request PTO but it's not a tile. What's with all of the schedule type functionality. Bryte doesn't do anything useful.
This app really sucks.
This app makes me want to throw my phone out the window with how bad it lags. It’s really frustrating when I want to go home after a long day at work, but I can’t leave right away when I keep trying to make this thing work.
Shocking
The most godawful thing I have to use for work. Slow, not user friendly, useless. It makes me want to hurl my phone through the window every time I have the misfortune of opening it. Please delete this app and make the world a better place
App doesn’t work
App doesn’t work slow and makes you login every time.
Horrible
This app is no good it doesn’t work at all… doesn’t show any pay whatsoever it’s only a blank page…. It really sucks… it’s the worst app I’ve ever used
I can’t see my schedule!
I have to use this for work, and for some reason I can never see the next week! It gets stuck on one day and it shows me the time I’m scheduled for one day and then that’s all it shows me. It won’t show me the time I’m working next and it’s very hard and confusing for work.
Worst app ever
Doesn’t open half of the time, the other half it doesn’t save punches.
Genuinely Despise this app
i can’t fathom how such an app could have so many updates that manage to not only not fix anything but manages to make the previously unstable app even more broken, good luck trying to login as it’s quite literally a coin toss wether or not you’ll be allowed to login in or wether you’ll be stuck on the loading screen of doom, but don’t worry it only affects how accurately you get paid by you work :)
Needs customization and some changes
The app is to plain dull and super boring looking would be nice if there was like color choices for backgrounds and so fourth or at least dark mode being you have it for android and not for iPhone it has a very super slow login and more then that the ui system looks like it’s a super wannabe rip off of some super old windows 95 software even when you click on anything it’s almost as slow performance as windows 95 please keep up with the modern times I’d least. What I’m kinda shocked is it gets the job done at a very slow rate and has everything that is needed lastly when you view the days shift of everyone who works that day and you can click on there photo image to enlarge and see who that person is it would be nice if it accepts today’s day en age photo quality in graphics in instead just seeing the pixels in the photo I thought I was playing Pac-Man for a sec ha
Garbage laggy app
This app its so laggy trying to clock in time but the app takes a whole 10 minutes to start
Appears to be vibe coded without any testing
Buttons that don’t work, menus within menus within menus, strange ui. Too many features and none of them done well. Whoever approved the current version should be fired and whoever hired that person should be fired. The person at every company who decided to switch to this app, needs to be fired. Nobody knows what they are doing. Old UKG worked, and everyone has gone insane “modernizing” without having a single clue what they are doing. We’re doomed.
It sucks
It doesn’t allow you to print out statements
app sucks
app fails to load while trying to download paystub pdf and very slow and glitchy
Bugging out
Anytime I try and log onto the app I get an error message when using Face ID that “we are having trouble signing you in. Please try again later” and it’s been like that for lil over a month now. It will pop up the loading icon and then crash the app so I have to restart it each time I try and check my schedule. I have to type in my login each time but if I hit the button too fast it’ll pop up twice and then do the same thing of “we are having trouble signing you in. Please try again later” and continuous loading. Please fix this problem.
Sucks
Gives you the option to use face id to login but then crashes. Then requires you to login manually every time you try to use the app. More annoying than helpful.
Absolutely terrible app
I never wrote a review before but I’m deciding to just for this app because of how absolutely atrocious this app is. You can’t download any paystubs at all, every time you try to download something the app just freezes or nothing happens. Not to mention the abysmal loading times and it’s just terrible in general. I wouldn’t be surprised if this app was vibe coded.
Confusing and haven’t been paid
Log in for work? Doesn’t matter - the hours won’t be logged as I’m still 13 hours short. Not as if THAT matters if even the hours that ARE logged don’t hit my direct deposit anyway. When you look for help as to WHY you’re sent to UKG COMMUNITY where you can’t access help because you’re not the “employer” just a lowly employee.
Impossible to use
The app crushes all the time for no reason. One day it works fine, on another you cannot even get into the app to do basic functions such as clock in/out. It doesn’t give you an error code either — so you have no clue how to troubleshoot it. I wish we used another platform, tbh. 🤷🏼♀️
unsatisfied
too slow, takes too much battery,
App freezes when printing pdfs
Terribly designed.
Trash
It would be nice if I didn’t have a BS error message every other time I go to log in… been 4 days now and nothing but spinning
Easier to just find a new job
This app is awful. It’s overly complicated for absolutely no reason and every single time I get a notification, the badge notification WILL NEVER GO AWAY. I got two notifications over a week ago about a new schedule being posted. I read the notifications in the app. I marked them as read. I confirmed in all 800 thousand menus within the app that I have seen all notifications. The badge numbers are still there. This happens every time I get a notification. And the app’s tech support consists of a message to contact tech support at your employer. The issue is not on the side of my employer. It’s on the side of this awful app. So my choices consist of having annoying, misleading, and factually incorrect badge notifications on my screen 100% of the time or turn off badge notifications and risk missing ACTUAL notifications. Delete your app. Delete your development team. Get a better development team. Try again. Or don’t. I really don’t care. The other reviews for this app are incredibly suspicious and all say the same (inaccurate) things.
one. Star
very bad & too slow up plese need to be fix up.cant upload my paycheak
Bad
You can’t work out what does what I cannot find my long service leave anywhere it’s unuseable. It’s the most horrible app I’ve come across.
Finicky app
This app sucks. Super sensitive, and at times doesn’t accurately punch the correct time stamp. The swiping also sucks, it takes multiple swipes to select something. This is built more for a desktop you could tell they were lazy and didn’t modify it for mobile phones. The button selection is tiny and accidental selection happens to often. They should implement a yes or no question before punches or make them bigger or create more space between them. My old company used Paylocity, that was a much better user experience than this app.
Frustrating and Unintuitive
It sometimes works (but crashes frequently), but it is one of the most unintuitive apps I have ever used. It is difficult and takes many steps to complete tasks that are quick and easy to accomplish on other platforms. It is not user-friendly, and I dread having to use this app for work every day.
Unreliable
Unfortunately this app loves to have issues doing the most important thing: clocking in and clocking out. Please make these things function properly before adding Siri updates. It seems 30% of the time the app crashes my phone.
Please fix face id !
Face ID doesn’t work always comes up with an error. Please fix this. It takes way too long to sign in.
Time off
I cannot access my time off request. Use all the help tips
Broken App
The latest update broke the app. Every few days after using Face ID, the app loading screen will indefinitely spin. Force closing the app doesn’t even help. You need to completely delete the app and reinstall it. It will work again for a few days before breaking again.
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Questions about UKG Pro
- What do users complain about in UKG Pro?
- The specific problems reported most, counted by people: Infinite loading circle and slow startup (157 people, 28%); Forced full login on every launch (130 people, 23%); Face ID fails and forces password login (71 people, 13%); Clock in and out punches fail (68 people, 12%); Pay statement download freezes or crashes app (44 people, 8%). 19% of complaints say only that the app is bad, without saying what fails.
- How many people complain about UKG Pro?
- 565 reviews rated 3 stars or below from 555 people on App Store, written between 24 May 2025 and 05 Nov 2026; 119 people in the last 30 days. The reviews themselves, each linked to the store, are listed on this page.
- What do people report about the latest UKG Pro update?
- Version 5.8.3 (first reviewed 09 Oct 2026) has 116 complaints on the App Store; the issue reported most against it is infinite loading circle and slow startup (32 people). Google Play reviews carry no version.
- Is this UKG Pro's store rating?
- No. Only reviews rated 3 stars or below are collected, so these numbers describe complaints and cannot be read as the app's App Store or Google Play score.
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