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How does Garmin Connect retrieve data when Bluetooth connection is disabled?

Hello,

I've looked everywhere on the web for an answer to this, but to no avail. I turn off bluetooth connection on my Garmin Forerunner 245 Music to save battery life. Both my iPhone and the Garmin Connect app says the device is not connected. My understanding is that this would prevent the syncing from happening, but somehow the Garmin Connect app is able to retrieve all my runs still. How is it doing this?

0 WizardlyHat over 2 years ago

Any chance you have wifi setup on the watch?

0 6214119 over 2 years ago in reply to WizardlyHat

Apologies for missing this! Yes, wifi is enabled on my watch. This probably explains why. I was wondering what good is the bluetooth used for besides connecting to music? It seems like after syncing the activity to the Garmin Connect App, it's also able to retrieve the weather data from Apple Maps.