Michigan Lottery Mobile Reviews

by A Good Customers Voice

The new updated app is terrible. You took away access to so much information and resources. You also took away numbers tools which weren’t that useful since you changed them a few months ago. You took away “ Your numbers up” tool a few months ago as well. It was very helpful. You could type in a specific four digit number and see every time it was ever drawn going back to 1986. Both mid day and evening. Then you changed it to choosing a span of dates that wouldn’t allow you to choose a specific number. That wasn’t helpful at all and it didn’t work right half the time. It was quite ridiculous actually. Super annoying. Time consuming. Every time you update your app it gets worse. It wasn’t broken no need to fix it. The way it was before you changed it a little over a year ago was just fine!!! And I don’t care if you can find more information on a different mi. lottery app or site. The version i had been using for years was perfect. Bring back your numbers up tool!!! You angered a lot of people by taking it away. If the lottery is truly luck, random, and honest then bring it back. Exactly the way it was! With the ability to look up a specific number and see every time it was drawn. Listen to your customers. Because that’s what WE are! Paying customers!!! Weird things have been going on with the lottery since the pandemic. Suspicious things. And we’re all talking about it! I might be one person but I’m not just speaking for myself. Trust me!!!

by InfantryGrunt11

Go check my account. Please let me know who plays more than me? I am waiting. Still waiting. Ok so I was playing yesterday no problem. I was winning. However today, I keep getting kicked off MichiganLottery . I allow MichiganLottery to know my location. However it’s asking for a local host needing access? I allowed that as well. However this local host alert and me getting booted off MichiganLottery have something to do with this issue.

Also please note it don’t matter how much you spend. Michigan is greedy and will never do anything special for all the big spenders out there. Rather it’s almost like they make it harder for repeat customers to win. They sure don’t take care of the big players like myself. App is a stupid joke. I’ll start gambling on football and delete MichiganLottery. Don’t spending thousands of dollars on an app ajd organization that only allows those in and around detroit to win the big money, despite west michigan spending way more money on lotto.

by Matthewschwartz

I loved MichiganLottery when I first started using it, but for the last 3 months I’ve been unable to make any ticket purchases with the balance existing in my account — and this applies to both the mobile app and the website itself. Location services are turned on and accurate. No error appears when clicking the ‘Buy’ button, just a brief loading indicator and then the page resets.

I’m unable to also withdrawal my deposited funds from my balance — only drawing-related winnings are withdrawlable, so my deposited funds are held hostage.

To top it off, I’ve repeated reached out to support and have received no response from the Support team itself, even after I reached out to the main MI Lottery account email (which — to their credit — has responded and attempted to relay messages to the support/engineering team.) I’ve also send screenshots of developer tools logs from the website when the error occurs — and relayed that through the main MI Lottery email. The person(s) running the main account reply, but absolute silence from the support engineers that can actually fix the account.

I can’t recommend MichiganLottery or the website offering for the Michigan Lottery. You may be the next case of deposited funds into your account sitting in limbo, unable to use on any games/draws nor withdrawal it out, with no response from support. Disappointing and frustrating.

by Armby1960

I am a Michigan native, but not a resident. I spend quite a bit of time in Michigan, and when I do, I buy lottery tickets from local retailers. Lots of them. However if I want to scan the tickets to see if I’ve won, I have to go to a retailer to scan them. I cannot use MichiganLottery to scan the tickets because you have to sign up to use that function. Since I am not a resident, I cannot sign up. I do not understand that requirement. Other state lottery apps allow one to scan their state’s tickets without membership. Is Michigan trying to steer people to MichiganLottery to cut out retailers?
Also, Powerball numbers are displayed in non-numeric order. Other games where the order of the numbers does not matter, like Mega Millions, Fantasy 5, and Lotto 47, are in numeric order. Why not Powerball? This lack of attention to detail makes me suspicious of other parts of MichiganLottery .

by ElMejorGR

I never write reviews but here I go.
Good game to gamble on. Made $100 off of a 10 cent bet on the football scratch off and $95 on the rotating wheel game on a $2 spin. The problem is that theh take forever to payout. I added all my info same day when I created my account (Middle of January) and I didn’t play until around Feb 10. I have been waiting for about 2 weeks for them to “verify” my account and still nothing, I even spoke to Customer service(theh said the same). It’s funny how theh take the money fast without verification but take forever to payout. Will
Not be playing until I get paid. Will edit when i get paid, lets hope its not too long.

by Kkulas923

MichiganLottery is the absolute worst state lottery app I’ve ever used. For weeks, it won’t allow me to log in and then purchase Powerball tickets. I have to log out, but the tickets outside of my account, then log back in after my tickets are in my cart and I’m ready to check out. At that point, I have to manually type my email and password because the facial recognition log in doesn’t pop up when logging in from this point. What year is it? You’d think Michigan could come up with something better but MichiganLottery is terrible. Typical, Pure Michigan….

by Dolittle7120

I have MichiganLottery on my iPhone and I get no graphics on the instant games. I want to play the games but when they open, all I see is black and white text and if I play, I just get a message saying I won or lost and it’s the same when I just play Demo also.
No colors or game graphics or sounds. It takes the fun away from the game. I have an iPhone 11 and it’s updated to 14.? something version.
I’ve deleted MichiganLottery and reinstalled but the same results. I wish this could get fixed.
My wife has MichiganLottery on her Samsung phone and works great.

by Bzbsksksbsb

Some times games will glitch when in the middle of a turn and I’ll lose progress. It makes me lose trust in playing these games as I may lose out on winning if it quits me out. Also the new update blows. There are maybe ten games to play when there use to be a ton. The winnings seem to be less as well. Not impressed with MichiganLottery anymore. Also please fix the 5,000 dollar give away. It is t showing the last three months and I had a lot of points to where I thought I could win November’s drawing. Feels like a scam at the moment.

by Dorceynaber

I am disappointed. I downloaded MichiganLottery mainly for the barcode reader. It has worked in the past, but hasn’t worked since before January 30th. Now, all I get is a message that says:

“Error. Invalid barcode. We do not recognize this barcode, please try again or try another ticket.”

I have tried multiple times with multiple different tickets to no avail. I have also deleted MichiganLottery and then reinstalled it.

by Izreal DaDon

Everything you need at the palm of your hand when it comes to lottery numbers. Far as the games you never win big. Just wish they had a better way to track which promotions you have entries for. I won 5 20$ scratch off tickets and still have no idea from what contest the prize was for. If it was 100$ free play prize then I feel cheated cause none of them were winners. I would have enjoyed picking my own 100$ in free play tickets .Also if they had a way to scan the second chance codes on Bingo Wild time and Cashword I would be in heaven.

by Plaw21

I play all the draw games possible and a lot of instant games as well. I would love to be able to play Club Keno and pick 3 and 4 on line. I don’t need to print a ticket as long as my account shows me my numbers. Make it happen, Mich. Lottery! We miss our restaurants but we miss Club Keno more!

by God1967

Wish you guys would let where you can buy like 1 mega ticket and powerball ticket at time on line. I can understand having $5 limit but should be able to buy individual tickets that total up to $5 limit. You would get more people buying tickets like that

by Frixysmom

Not sure what or why the “update” occurred but MichiganLottery no longer works. Very glitchy... app froze multiple times while playing. Not sure if I received my winnings. Froze during a bonus round in Color Pop... never completed the bonus. There was nothing wrong with the previous version... this “update” did not accomplish any improvements. Do the developers test these changes in real time? Do they ask players if updates are necessary?? Additionally, the percentage of winning even simple rounds was nonexistent in the last 48 hours.. reverted to the online website rather then throw money away on a poorly designed app. Michigan Lottery players deserve a better product. MichiganLottery is a poor representative of the Michigan Lottery brand.

by Wegot'em

I am still getting use to the new format. The old one seemed to have more timely midday and evening results for the Daily 3 & 4 drawings. The scanner is more complicated as I cannot have my password saved. The club keno drawing results are more difficult to access. Also my rating was suppose to be 2 or 3 stars and not 4.

by Prettymom171

I absolutely love my app I can do spend the wheel to win I can check my numbers it’s so much easier than having to run to the store to check my numbers. I have no complaints I just did an update and hopefully it’ll continue to run like a did from the beginning.

by Milkmane

I hate the fact the system you had where you can put the numbers in and it can tell you the last time the number came for example when I put in 8998 it can tell me which way it came and what dates I als like you can scan tickets to see if won

by AndyC319

When you were so used to trying to make it to the lottery store , we finally can do it from our phone. I wish the 3&4 digit were able to play from your mobile device. And I am a resident of Michigan, work in Ohio but can’t play with my personal same phone I do in Michigan but can’t play when at work. That needs tweeked .

by Cralkneleh

I like the fact that you can scan your tickets and it tells you if you won or not and how much. And that you can buy lotto tickets right from here. But I just have 1 question. Why did you guys take away the spot to be able to enter in all your tickets for 2nd chance entry’s. Or if you moved it, we’re did you move it too.

by TMW3247

The new app has gotten me several times after I place a bet, the page will just redirect to another page and keep my bet without showing me the results of the game. Also in a bonus game. Several times I hit a bonus game and the page redirected and beat me out of the money that I would have won from the bonus game. This is not just for fun, but real money betting ! I won’t be playing Michigan Lottery’s online games with any more of my money until MichiganLottery gets fixed!!

by Misoting

I understand about gambling out of state but having this option and not playing my numbers because I’m not in state,
I.m out on business or vacation and want to play my numbers but can’t with this stupid rule. Let’s see what we can do about this rule or I’ll just go back to my casinos

by PJCz

MichiganLottery needs to be updated. It was a good app before the latest upgrade. Now 60% of the time it won’t open your account.

by 13nana16

Your new app is horrible.

by Loral19

Update did not include all games, disappointing. Odds of winning on included games not very good.....

by RGiskard

Worthless garbage. I can buy tickets with it but they never win the big money!

by Opmike269

I’ve lost 100s everyday the winnings is so low u will never break even save your money. I play lv slots way better. It’s a ripe off don’t play MichiganLottery.

by Phillip9

Get rid of the pop up advertising

It is not scanning all of the tickets. It doesn’t say anything for some tickets.

by Den8765

You can’t even See all of the games. And when you try to play an online game you don’t even get to see the game!!!! It just shows a text page and tells you if you won or lost!!!! What fun is that?????

by Hdub Soldier

I set it up to use my face to log in and it logs me out I don’t remember my password been trying for three days to get a password reset and I get nothing

by Amanda26685

I loved the MI Lottery app because it gave access to all online games. I had to uninstall and reinstall MichiganLottery and now I can only play a handful of games that are pre-selected. So unless I go on my laptop, I can’t play them all anymore. Ridiculous move.

by LSontag

70% of the time when I’m playing a game it freezes and gives me an error that boots me back to the game lobby. I’ve given up trying to play via MichiganLottery and now just play from the lottery website from my phone’s browser. I only kept MichiganLottery installed to use the scanner to check my tickets. Now, 90% of the time when I try to scan my tickets it says the ticket scanner isn’t working and to please try again later. You would think that an app with over 350 reviews and a total rating of 2 stars would say something loud and clear to Michigan Lottery and their developers of MichiganLottery, but it’s apparent they don’t take their app seriously which is a shame since they’re losing out on a lot of money to be made... I’ve gotten frustrated and stopped playing when it freezes and crashes, so imagine how many others do too. It’s also questionable to the users, since they get randomly booted out of a game they’re playing and their next turn could have been a big win, but by the time (and if) they’re able to return to the game, someone else may have already won the big prize in those few seconds you take to get back into the game. It’s sketchy and extremely infuriating at times. I really don’t trust it and it makes me wonder if the crashing is intentional...

by Dobrzykowskidobog

I installed of MichiganLottery quite a while ago and was able to purchase tickets online. Lately when I try to purchase tickets online I get a message that says it cannot be determined where my location is so therefore since they don’t know if I’m in Michigan I cannot purchase tickets anymore. I went to location services to enable it on my iPhone 6s and the lottery app was not listed there so I couldn’t turn on location services for it.I contacted the Michigan lottery and they gave me a checklist of things to try but also mentioned that it’s possible that my network settings for some reason are not allowing me to do this any longer and they also said that they are doing something on their end to remedy this problem Which should be resolved by November 2018. I just deleted MichiganLottery , and now I’m going to try to install it again and see if that helps.

by Pkrn69

With new update, you can play the games but you can’t see the game boards.

by Thegoodchampagne

The newest update has left users choosing from around ten online games only. Is this going to be fixed soon? It’s very frustrating:

by Randy Kerazu

Trying to understand how people still play with the odds being 1 in 1164 to win 5 cents on a 1.25 bet this is such a scam better off playing in a casino or an online casino highly recommend not using or playing on the Michigan lottery website

by Waterfrontliving

Updated layout is much easier. Unfortunately, app filters for games only brings up 15 online games.