Ivanti Secure Access Client

Pulse Secure seems to be a great program for connecting to a secured VPN network. I have used it for over a year now and it will occasionally lose connection, or the VPN will drop out; but that’s due to having to use my cell phone as a hotspot. When good Internet connections are available Pulse Secure doesn’t drop and it does the job it was intended to do.

It is a program required by my company. It works as designed but not very configurable. But my outlook, Skype for business are working fine. But one big catch, it uses a lot of battery power. On my iPhone, it drains battery power so quick that the rate of recharging could not even keep up with the battery draining rate. I was literally watching the percentage of battery levels slowly went down while my iPhone 7 was being charged....

There appears to be a compatibility issue with the iOS 13 upgrade because logging in now shows an all white screen, rather than the adaptive auth prompts. This doesn’t happen when logging in through the iOS Safari browser, so it has to be the app.

Connection with my organization is often dropped ( which may not be Pulse’s fault). Sometimes I open Pulse and have to click “Connect.” There doesn’t seem to be a Pulse feature that allows automatic periodic (say, every minute or two) attempts at reconnection. However, I will still give Pulse a few stars, because it is otherwise good. .

My company used to use another app and I enjoy this interface much more. However, ever since this has been installed, sharing photos and contacted via text/MMS/sms has disappeared. The email and other button is still there, but not text message. This is a feature that is too essential. This needs to be fixed.