Garmin Connect Mobile iOS - Recent Threads

August intense cardio badge, not counting

8422987 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:42:55 GMT

I’ve spent a ton of time in zone three doing cardio not getting credit for this

I do about 30 miles a week, running alone, not including walking biking,

August 13 Garmin connect iOS update broken

7613452 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:53:04 GMT

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.

Can I edit the total number of km of a new gear somehow?

leandrogamadf — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:30:53 GMT

I can only add a new gear. But I have many shoes with various Kilometers old... I'd like to add them but bring the real number of kilometers instead of Zero.

Garmin connect loading infinity after last update on IOS

3029001 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:46:51 GMT

After auto update app - it not open - just infinity runing icon

alredy try to reboot iphone and reinstall app

Bug: Cannot send location from Apple Maps to Epix Pro.

CRB — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:54:18 GMT

When pressing the 'Do Workout' button nothing happens. Press anywhere else on the banner and it sends it.

Seems to be the wrong way round.

Another user has reported the same with the Edge.

Personally I don't see the need for a button. Pressing the banner works. If a button is needed the wording needs changing to something universal like 'Send'. Sending a location to your device isn't always for a workout, ie navigating to a coffee shop, or going cross country on a snowmobile to name a couple.

Bug report: cannot send location to Edge 540

1540298 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:40:19 GMT

I found a problem with Garmin Connect iOS app 5.27.2.

I'm trying to send map location from my iPhone to Edge 540 as usual:
Find something in Apple maps, using share button send it to Garmin Connect, after a while my device appears, but when trying to send the location to it, nothing happens. I'm tapping the button "start workout", but no reaction - no usual spinner popup, no error, simply nothing happens.

It used to work on last Sunday (09 Aug). Then probably my phone auto-updated the app when it was charged and today it did not work anymore.

Bug report: trace name changes while importing gpx

9506648 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:01:21 GMT

when importing a gpx file on Garmin connect iOS , the trace name gets automatically changed while saving, even when previously renamed manually. Editing the imported trace allows to correctly rename the trace.

Location Services nag message does not stop

6756224 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:46:18 GMT

Since acquiring a Cirqa, the latest version of Connect Mobile on iPhone relentlessly nags with this message if location services access is denied:
"Garmin Connect Mobile needs access to your location. Allows you to find and connect to your device via Bluetooth, send your phone location to your device during activities, share location of safety features and more."

The Cirqa connects just fine via Bluetooth with the location setting disabled, despite the dire warning in the dialog.

There is no apparent way to turn this notice off. The Circa is doing everything I want it to do, and Garmin has given the choice to disable location services to the user. The app should stop hounding the user for this decision.

The best way to understand this issue is simulate it on the desktop of the manager that approved this "feature". When modify the link that opens a browser to present this exact image first, require them to close the dialog, only then can they continue to use their browser.

[BUG] - Strength Workout Weight Changes

8643112 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:25:53 GMT

I created a workout and added a lat pulldown exercise with a goal of 50 lbs for 10+ reps. After saving and reopening the workout to edit it, it now shows 54.998721 lbs as the manual goal weight set.

I think this is related to how the Strava uploads occasionally show a weird floating point number instead of what I put into my watch.

Add a dead hang exercise (continued)

5913473 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:48:27 GMT

Since the original Add a dead-hang exercise thread that references Why there is no “dead hang exercise” in workout section has been closed, I am creating this thread to facilitate discussion as of August 2026.

I have since added an entry for adding to the Share Ideas site, as suggested by @seilogramp, to suggest adding a dead hang exercise.

The "Bar holds" exercise only targets forearms muscle group in the diagram shown in Garmin Connect

There is a "Dead-hang Bicep Curl" exercise, but this is hardly close to the actual Dead Hang.

A suspension pull up refers to TRX-assisted pull ups, which is its own thing, and not a dead hang.

In case anyone is confused what a Dead Hang is, it's like a pull up but you don't pull up. You just hang. For 30-60 seconds at a time. With many proven health benefits, you may look it up.

Dear Garmin,

Hope to see Dead Hangs added in a near future update (and hopefully before I've logged too many dead hang activities into a "wrong" exercise)

Workouts in Garmin Coach plans (strength) now completely disappear after rescheduling

1881320 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:54:10 GMT

I have a Garmin Coach plan for strength workouts. This cycle there’s new behavior where if I reschedule the workout via the app calendar, the workout I rescheduled disappears completely. It does not show up at all in the plan page, not in either the upcoming or the past workouts sections.

Additional bug: pressing repeat plan on a completed plan in the Garmin connect app does nothing. The only way to repeat a plan is through connect.garmin.com.

Garmin 225 won't won't connect to iphone

GARETHTAPLIN — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:48:16 GMT

Yesterday I tried to upload my run to the Garmin Connect app as normal, but it wouldn't connect and I could see that my Garmin running watch (Garmin 225) wasn't connected.

This has happened before and a quick fix is to choose to forget the device and then add it again. However, I now can't add the device and having followed as many suggestions that I can find, it will still not connect.

The message I get is:

"Cannot Add Accessory - Unable to connect to item. Please try again. If the problem persists, you may need to contact the manufacturer."

As a temporary fix to load my runs I have tried to upload them via a desktop computer via the charging cable and USB, but then I get the following error message:

"The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned and Windows does not recognise it."

So I can't currently upload my runs from my Garmin watch to Garmin Connect via the normal watch to phone or watch to computer via USB.

As said, I've tried all of the various fixes I can find, but none of them work.

Please can you help.

Thanks

Garmin Connect app not opening settings for Vivomove trend

2541315 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:37:20 GMT

I am getting a mix of results whenever I try to change a setting on my vivomove trend that I acquired 2 days ago. Every time I open the app and access my watch’s settings, it usually just lets me tap the tab but doesn’t open it unless it’s for hand alignment, the wallet, or the alarm options. Anything else rarely opens, and if it does, it doesn’t open a second time. As you can see in the first photo, I am unable to see the option to turn Bluetooth on or off for the app, and I’m pretty sure that option should be there from the research I’ve done. The video shows the main issue, but I’ve been getting a mix of results whenever I try to open a setting. Any help is appreciated , thanks for your time.

forums.garmin.com/.../ScreenRecording_5F00_08_2D00_09_2D00_2026-13_2D00_58_2D00_56_5F00_1.mp4

Adding new excercise

7113834 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:58:08 GMT

Hi This is a question to the Garmin community and also hoping that Garmin will actually pay attention to our needs.

There have been times that I have been frustrated that I cannot log exercise that I have done in to Garmin watch or make a workout because the specific exercises are missing in Garmin Connect app. Recently I started kettlebell training and I cannot find most kettlebell workouts in Garmin.

Is there a way that I can add these exercises? Has Garmin created a simple feature to add custom exercises?

Start forgotten activity manually in the middle or rely on the autodetection?

1839917 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:27:33 GMT

I have CIRCA and I have activity autodetection enabled. I'm wondering if I should manually start an activity when I'm in the middle of it and forgot to start recording it? I want my activity to be fully tracked. If I record it manually, would the software merge the recorded part with autodetected preceding part automatically? I tried doing this yesterday and it didn't work so I'm thinking I better not do any manual recording if it’s too late.

[BUG] - Glance widget data different from details page

8643112 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:33:41 GMT

Recently I’m seeing that the glance widgets and the detail pages for them aren’t matching. For example, yesterday my load focus widget shows 0 high aerobic, but when I clicked on the glance widgets, it would show the high aerobic workout I did from 2 days ago. It took 2 days for the widget to finally update and show the stuff below. Similarly, training readiness almost never matches what is shown when I actually click on the glance widget. Even if I try to pull down to refresh the detailed page, it doesn’t update even 5ish hours later (see second image).

August power cycling

8422987 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:11:22 GMT

I’m failing to understand why today’s cycling did not count towards the August power cycling badge. I spent a bunch of time in zone three I cycled for almost 2 hours.

Apple Fitness looses workout efforts every time I open Garmin Connect.

jukkarajala — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:07:47 GMT

Everytime I open Garmin Connect on the phone the Apple Fitness looses manually set efforts from Garmin synced workouts. This does not happen with Withings, Strava, Zwift nor Suunto apps, so this is a Garmin Connect bug. Is there a workaround for this? I kinda want to buy a Cirqa, but if the Connect overwrites the efforts every time I open the app it is not sustainable and I’d rather go with Polar Loop or even Whoop.

Readiness Card in Garmin Connect only updated in the morning

6017146 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:39:24 GMT

The readiness tile ist updated after activitys from Edge for example. But the card itself is only updating in the morning. This ist fine for devices Like forerunner where you can See the Details updated in the watch but for screenless devices Like cirqa this sucks.

Feature: Add Weekly Summary Widgets to Garmin Connect (iOS)

6782727 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:59:03 GMT

Feature: Add Weekly Summary Widgets to Garmin Connect (iOS)

I'd love to see more Home Screen widgets added to the Garmin Connect iOS app.

One feature that would be especially useful is a "Steps This Week" widget that shows:

Total steps for the week
A simple 7-day graph
Average daily steps
Weekly goal progress

Other useful widgets could include:

Weekly distance
Active minutes
Calories burned
Activities completed this week

These widgets would make it much easier to quickly check progress without opening the Garmin Connect app, while also helping users stay motivated throughout the week.

Garmin collects so much great data, and having more glanceable Home Screen widgets would make the iOS experience even better.

Thanks for considering this feature!

Stop coach from pushing out workout days

8422987 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:47:27 GMT

I kinda have a unique situation although as I say this, I’m probably not unique at all..

I’m trying to use the Garmin coach and I got my first workout in yesterday and I thought the coach with watch experience was fantastic. The issue is it keeps pushing out my workouts and assigning me rest days. I train every day so it’s not necessarily wrong in that it wants me to take a rest day, but I don’t want to do any rest days right now.. My job requires me to be stationary so I have to get the time In when I can. As such I run and do a strength activity pretty much every day.

Given my use case am I better off not using garmin coach and use using the exercises from their catalog? I like the concept of the coach, and it tailored exercises for me for days throughout the month, it’s just constantly moving them around on me because my over training is confusing it. Is there a way to disable the coach from adjusting the days that are planned due to my sneaking in a run or a extra lift, etc? Ideally, I want to stick to the Garmin coaching plan and I will do extra runs or lifting on top of.

Garmin Connect iOS - Friends' Activity tab is empty, but activities are visible on Web and News Feed

3812112 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:39:32 GMT

I have encountered what appears to be a bug in Garmin Connect for iOS.

App version: 5.27.1.2

Issue

For some of my friends, I cannot see any activities under their Profile → Activity tab in the iPhone app.

Instead, I only see the message:

"This user only shares some information publicly."

However:

I can see their activities on Garmin Connect Web.
I can see their activities in the iOS News Feed.
Their privacy settings are correctly configured:
- Profile = My Followers and Groups
- Activities = My Followers and Groups
Reinstalling the app did not help.
Unfollowing and following again did not help.
Other users experience the same issue with the same profiles in the iPhone app.
The activities are visible on the web, so this does not appear to be a privacy issue.

Could you please investigate whether this is a known issue with Garmin Connect for iOS?

1 mile running badge bug?

8422987 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:29:31 GMT

Maybe a dumb question, but I received the 5k and 10k badge. Is this one of those silly badges that I have to literally run 1 mile exactly and stop to get?

My sleep had not tracked in a few days and after turning power off and on it now shows stats of some kind that I can’t get rid of. Help

Cathy.Vassar — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:15:37 GMT

No, I have synced every day and other things were fine. Today sleep still did not show and when powered down and back on I have these strange stats that I can’t get rid of.

Garmin overnight stress and stress level per sleep score different

6076759 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:23:01 GMT

Average sleep stress per Garmin is 35 but it’s clear from my stress graph I should be averaging somewhere around 15-20 - is there a known fix for this? As it is impacting my sleep score significantly