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Notification Permission

Former Member
Former Member over 5 years ago

At  least once a day, Connect tries to access something (usually related to smart notifications) for which Connect is blocked.

I grant access to Location, only when App is running.

Inside Connect, I have all smart notifications disabled (I do not want text messages, emails or anything pushed to my Garmin Vivosmart HR+).

With all notifications to the Garmin device disabled; how do I stop Garmin Connect for asking permissions which it does not need?

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Well, it does need the access to the location service - besides others for example for querying the weather data provider, so I'd suggest keeping the permission enabled. 

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    Weather is disabled on Vivo. Location access is enabled.

    And because HR+ has GPS, and I do not track activities in Connect; Connect should not really even need GPS permission.

    If Garmin cannot respect the permissions and always generate spurious messages; then that is evidence of sloppy programming or design.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member
    And because HR+ has GPS, and I do not track activities in Connect; Connect should not really even need GPS permission.

    GPS on the watch is mostly useless, since it is active only during an activity, and it does not work indoors, where most people spend most of their time.

    Location access is enabled.

    You wrote you enable it only when it is running. I suppose you meant when it is in the foreground. Or do you force the app to stop after you close it? If you force it to stop, it won't complain about anything, since it will not be operating at all.

    Another solution that allows you to avoid the enabling of permissions you do not want to grant for some reason to the app, is unistalling the app completely, and using the web interface only. You can sync over the USB cable and Garmin Express on a computer.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I have the same issue and it is so annoying. I don't have time to be checking my wrist every two seconds when it vibrates from useless notifications. I have permissions on deny on all devices but get bombarded with notifications asking for call/message permissions!

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to 5832167

    Contact support. I forget how to do it, but on Android they provided directions to only get the message a single time. After that, the program can request all it wants but you never are bugged again.