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Tandem’s Mobile App Still Causing Battery Depletion Post-Update

 
• By Hannah Daniel

Despite a March recall and a following update, Tandem’s t:slim X2 application is still causing the battery-depleting defect.

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Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (link company) issued an update to a March 2024 recall of its t:slim X2 insulin pump mobile app, notifying customers that the app update is still causing the harmful battery depletion defect.

The Class I recall was issued on 18 March for the t:slim X2’s connected mobile app, t:connect, which runs...

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