Latest Explore update 4.16 breaks the gps track look

Hi all,

My only use case for Garmin Explore (because it's routing feature is far worse than others) is to use it as a history of where I have been. I really loved the way it showed the GPS tracks of all my activities on a single map. This allowed me to get a feel for how far different places are from each other, or the difficulty of one hike vs another.

However, in the latest update Explore 4.16 Garmin apparently changed this to only show GPS tracks for the last seven days instead of all time, and now my map is clogged by giant icons.

Has anyone else had this happen? is there a way to return my app to displaying the useful gps tracks all together? Or even a toggle to choose which tracks are displayed in full. These giant icons scale weirdly, block each other, and don't allow me to really view my map.

  • Absolutely gutted with the latest update to Garmin Explore. One of the best features was being able to see all my previous GPS activities displayed together on one map, with the ability to tap individual routes and view the activity details.

    I’ve spent months building up over 200 running activities, using the map to see which roads I’ve explored and which ones I’ve yet to run. It was a fantastic feature and one of the main reasons I used the app.

    Now, with activities older than seven days no longer automatically displaying their full routes, that functionality has effectively been taken away. Having to manually select over 200 individual activities just to restore something that previously worked perfectly is ridiculous.

    I start most of my runs at my home address and now all I have is a clump of icons all over the map!

    Please Garmin, listen to your users and bring back the option to display ALL activities on the map simultaneously. At the very least, give us a simple toggle to enable it.

    Such a disappointing and completely unnecessary change to an otherwise excellent app. Please bring this feature back!

  • Came here with the same issue. First post highlights the issue perfectly, and the Garmin response to go to every item in your history and individually set it visible is nonsensical.

    Please add a single setting toggle to allow all your history to be shown as in the previous versions. It was the best feature of Garmin Explore. 

  • I use Garmin Explore to do CityStrides-style "walk every street in your city" activity. I use the app during walks to actively track where I've already walked in real time. This update 100% broke that ability. My request is to create a user preference to completely toggle between the old and new modes. As discussed in this thread, there are many common use cases for wanting to see *all* past tracks on the map.

  • I now have more visual clutter, not less. I can't even see the map in places because it's now covered in blocky icons.

    Individually selecting hundreds of tracks is not a useful solution.

  • Dear Garmin, for once you listened to us and we appreciate that. Loves!

    (4.17 allows you to choose lines vs points so they actually did the best thing they could)

  • Full marks to Garmin for listening to feedback and quickly making this even better than it was before with the options and filters. Great app. 

  • I feel it’s not often customer feedback is listened to by companies these days… which makes this update resolving the track history removal on the maps that much more appreciated!

    Thanks Garmin

  • Thank you Garmin for listening to users and restoring the functionality from pervious versions! Much appreciated.