Ditch apps on your phone and pick banking that gives good, robust online banking. I was cut off by Starling for something similar and had to choose between a factory reset of my phone and my bank. I explained that my phone had free software on it, some of which I'd written, and it made no difference.
Apps are a tool of control and surveillance and it is time we stopped tying ourselves to them. Dumb phones or degoogled operating systems (like e/OS/) are probably the answer here.
I had rooted the phone and it gave me 90 days to reset with no extension at the end. I moved to the co-op bank, which is sufficiently old school that proper web based online banking is very important to them. Their products are a bit less advanced but I don't miss starling.
Ah. I've never come across this in the US - every bank I've seen also has a website. The only thing the apps do that the website won't is mobile check deposit typically.
They did indeed. I had to call customer services to get the account closed. The app being the only way to interact with the account, I was left without funds for days.
Apps are a tool of control and surveillance and it is time we stopped tying ourselves to them. Dumb phones or degoogled operating systems (like e/OS/) are probably the answer here.