Active Captain Sync ipad to iphone

Logged in to same account on both ipad and iphone and when I set routes or waypoints on the ipad (easier to do research there), I’m not seeing them on the iphone. Any ideas?

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2527698 3 months ago in reply to 6943007 +1

Garmin said this is a feature there’s no plan to be able to sync between an iPad and iPhone or any mobile device so what I have to do is sync my iPad to my Garmin then sync my iPhone to my Garmin and that…

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0 6943007 3 months ago

I have the same issue. Any thoughts from anyone?

0 2527698 3 months ago in reply to 6943007

Garmin said this is a feature there’s no plan to be able to sync between an iPad and iPhone or any mobile device so what I have to do is sync my iPad to my Garmin then sync my iPhone to my Garmin and that’s how I get it done

0 6943007 3 months ago in reply to 2527698

I reached the same conclusion. It is unfortunate, since it means that a route planned on an iPad (which is so much easier than doing it on an iPhone) requires taking the iPad to the boat. What a pain. It's funny they call that a "feature." Oh well.

0 batsonjay 2 months ago

Seems like just insanity on Garmin’s behalf. Navionics has cloud sync; they ought to be able to re-use the code. Garmin may make solid hardware, and be fairly solid on the water, but overall their software (across their entire product line - not just boating) is lamentable.

0 2527698 2 months ago in reply to batsonjay

I don’t get it either, seriously, why they don’t merge these products and be done with it.

0 batsonjay 2 months ago in reply to 2527698

Given Garmin’s comparatively lamentable track record around software innovation, I’m actually fairly happy it has not merged these. Navionics is by far the better piece of software, and I nearly always make my routes there first and export them to ActiveCaptain. The slightly ugly part of that is that Navionics exports waypoints with ugly auto-generated names, and mmakes way too many of them. I have to clean up the route once it’s in Active Captain, especially if I want to preserve a waypoint for future. But I lI’ve with that trouble because Navionics is so much better. If Garmin actually tried to merge these products right now, I can’t imagine the Frankenstein that would emerge.