August 13 Garmin connect iOS update broken

As of the latest update today in iOS store August 13, after the update, Fenix 8 watch is taking more than 1 minute to synchronize with the app and just showing running man icon.

iOS version:  26.6

Troubleshooting attempted:

tried rebooting phone 

reinstall Garmin connect app 

tried unpair the watch and re-pair 

none of these work.  


This only started happening with today’s August 13 update, something in the update has broken the previous fast sync behavior.