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RE: Garmin Explore Search Function Not Working

bowiezx9 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:47:26 GMT

yes ive had the same problem for a few weeks now, same same .. contacted support and would be notified but nothing yet..

Garmin Explore Search Function Not Working

3274431 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:16:31 GMT

As the title says, had this for a week or two now when searching for anything on https://explore.garmin.com/Map in order to pin a new location on a map im continually getting "Something Went Wrong" as per the screenshot, tried contacting support who just kept using canned replies and not understanding what im trying to say, anyone else having this issue? Tried multiple devices, networks etc.

RE: Garmin Explore Search Function Not Working

pearson33 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:47:12 GMT

I first experienced this problem back in August. I did speak to a Garmin support agent who said Garmin was aware of the problem and I would be notified via email when it had been fixed. It now Sept 11. Problem has not been fixed. They're really cramping those of us who have become accustomed to using web-based Explore to help locate new destinations for our Garmin GPS.

RE: Why is it so hard to sync activities between Garmin Connect and Garmin Explore?

Ozimodo — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:31:18 GMT

Hi, thanks. This post is more about software than hardware. Explore only syncs with a very small number of gps devices. If you want to see a map of all of your other garmin activities from their other devices then the official response from garmin is that you export from Connect and import into Explore. Im just pointing out that this doesn't work.

For anyone thats interested, Statshunters will display a map of all of your garmin activities that have synced with strava 👍

Why is it so hard to sync activities between Garmin Connect and Garmin Explore?

Ozimodo — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:32:21 GMT

Want to look at your Garmin activities in Explore? Good luck. I have wasted hours on this and am getting nowhere.

The only way to do this (if the activity is not already on one of the few products that syncs with Garmin Explore) is to export all activities from Connect and then import into Explore. You have to request this export and a few days later you will get a link for a file that has all of your Garmin info. Navigating through this file you find a number of folders that have .fit files. You need to convert these manually and then import them into Garmin Explore.

Things that go wrong:

1 - Why do we have to do this at all? What isn't this synced automatically from all devices between Connect and Explore? Strava does this with Garmin data, why cant Garmin?. Why does Connect and Explore use different file formats? Why why why..

2 - When you download your fit files most of them are 1Kb in size. No idea what these are but they are not activities.

3 - The only way to convert the fit files to gpx for Garmin Connect is to download a converter from a third party and write a batch file to convert all of the fit files (otherwise you have to do them manually one at a time)

4 - When you have done all of this the next step is to import a batch of converted gpx files into Explore. What you find out then is that contrary to the Garmin instructions, the Explore website only accepts one upload file at a time. So after wasting all this time you are basically stuck with no reasonable way forward (unless you import all files one at a time, i have thousands)

5 - There is no process to stop duplicates occurring in future imports.

6 - The export from Garmin contains no useful information such as Ride name etc.

I am so over Garmin, every year they seem to get worse while the rest of the industry is producing increasingly competitive solutions. Garmin nowadays reminds me of GoPro, relying on their brand instead of improving their products and support. A rubber ring on my Garmin chest heart monitor perished this year and was only a couple of years old. The only solution Garmin could offer was to buy a new heart rate monitor from them. Its getting ridiculous.

RE: Why is it so hard to sync activities between Garmin Connect and Garmin Explore?

JungleJim — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:04:09 GMT

You don't mention what device you're using, but with my GPSMAP H1 I sync my activities with both Explore and Connect. I've paired my device with both the Explore app and the Connect app, and after I finish my activity it is synced with Explore and it will end up in Connect (either via WiFi or via the phone connection). So no manual uploading or downloading needed.

So this might work for you as well.

Why is it so hard to sync activities between Garmin Connect and Garmin Explore?

Ozimodo — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:45:25 GMT

Want to look at your Garmin activities in Explore? Good luck. I have wasted hours on this and am getting nowhere.

Things that go wrong:

2 - When you download your fit files most of them are 1Kb in size. No idea what these are but they are not activities.

5 - There is no process to stop duplicates occurring in future imports.

6 - The export from Garmin contains no useful information such as Ride name etc.

why wont my garmin explore search work

bowiezx9 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:30:05 GMT

when i type in an address to my garmin explore search on my PC it keeps telling me "something wrong"

this has happened before many years ago and its back

RE: why wont my garmin explore search work

Garmin - SP — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:51:19 GMT

Can you share a screenshot or screen recording of this error message occurring? You can upload it via this secure link: Garmin Secure File Upload **

RE: Feature Parity between the Web version of maps and the iOS/Android versions

Garmin - SP — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:43:56 GMT

Thank you for the feedback. We are always looking for ways to improve our user experience. In order to get this to the appropriate team, please submit this at https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/

Feature Parity between the Web version of maps and the iOS/Android versions

willcasp — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:44:30 GMT

Seeing that Garmin has abandoned support for Basecamp, I am leaning more on Explore. One aggrevating problem with the web version of Explore is that it does not have feature parity with the mobile apps. For example, if I want to add color to tracks for better visibility on the map, Garmin support documentaion advises to go to the app version of the product and change the color there. This is dumb. I am using my desktop to plan a trip, and using the web version. I do not want to use my phone! Basecamp supported this. What is Garmin's plan to step up and properly support their web product?

Cannot see courses on explore.garmin.com/Map

foobar — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:27:24 GMT

New Garmin InReach Mini 2 user here [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8]

I've created 6 courses so far using the Garmin Explore mobile app (Android). When I go to explore.garmin.com/Map on my laptop (Chrome on macOS) and click on Library > Courses, I see the courses I made. When I click on one of the courses, the map is supposed to go to the location of the course and show the blue outline of the course. For some reason, that only works for 2 of the 6 courses. For the 2 courses that work properly, the map skips to the location of the course and I see the blue outline of the course. For the other 4 courses, the map skips over to the location of the course but there is no blue outline.

I tried to troubleshoot this a little by opening Developer Tools in Chrome where I can see under the Console tab that there is a JavaScript error anytime I click on one of the 4 courses that don't work properly. The error is

> No click point or valid element provided for openCoursePopup in map.js

For the 2 courses that work properly, I don't see this error message. Not sure if that in helps pinpoint the problem in any way, but sadly that's all I've got so far.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

P.S. - I tried to post this exact same question a few minutes ago, but it never appeared, so I'm trying one more time. Sorry if I end up double posting. Lots of technical issues happening here apparently.

Edit #1: Tried to clean up the explanation a little.

RE: Cannot see courses on explore.garmin.com/Map

HP Drifter — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:00:53 GMT

It seems this type of error is something in the Garmin system because I have had multiple instances where my activities are delayed showing up in Explore Web. Some for a few hours, some for a day or more, one time almost a week and one time everything else like the end points were visible but the colored lines that show the activity never did show up. That one was "sent to the upper level" techs at Garmin Support and they never did figure it out.

Mini2 connected to Samsung A26

RE: Cannot see courses on explore.garmin.com/Map

foobar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:56:35 GMT

OK, strangely enough, I'm now able to see 5 of 6 courses in explore.garmin.com/Map. I didn't do anything particularly noteworthy. It just started working. There's still 1 course that doesn't show up on the map, but at least I have 5 out of 6 showing up now. Not sure I would call this an "Answer", but it's progress.

RE: Cannot see courses on explore.garmin.com/Map

foobar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:35:52 GMT

I don't have a Social tab when I go to the Explore website, but I did try going to explore.garmin.com/Social. That redirected me to a page where I can choose to enable either "LiveTrack" or "MapShare". As of this very moment, I have not enabled either of these services. There shouldn't be any filtered data to clear. To confirm, I clicked on "Filter MapShare Data" button and it looks pretty clear to me. There are no collections boxes checked, and there's nothing in the "Date" field.

RE: Cannot see courses on explore.garmin.com/Map

Garmin - SP — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:43:28 GMT

Is this happening with MapShare? If you go to the Social tab of the Explore website is MapShare data filtered? If so, try clearing the date range filter to see if the tracks show up. **

RE: Speedy Century badge

Nick Basmanov — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:25:10 GMT

Got the badge, the problem is solved.

Speedy Century badge

Nick Basmanov — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:48:31 GMT

Could anyone explain why didn't i get a Speedy Century badge (for 100 miles in less than 5 hours)? This is my activity: https://connect.garmin.com/app/activity/23895374060

I've covered 100 miles in about 4 hours just from the start.

Seems `Garmin Coach Graduate` badge is broken

andd3dfx — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:42:47 GMT

I faced an issue with "Garmin Coach Graduate" badge:

According to conditions it should be given after each 10 trainings (on 10th, 20th, 30th, ...), but after when I passed 10 trainings I receiving new copy of this badge after each new training (on 10th, 11th, 12th, ...).

So it looks confusing.

RE: Seems `Garmin Coach Graduate` badge is broken

andd3dfx — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:56:27 GMT

Ok, seems I already don't get new badges after each new training after 10th training (for11th, 12th, 13th etc), so issue with getting too many new badges looks resolved.

But what about historical badges that I got before - do we plan to clean extra badges?

For example when I passed 25 trainings, - I should have only 2 badges, not 7.

RE: Seems `Garmin Coach Graduate` badge is broken

Garmin - SP — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:40:05 GMT

After reviewing this with our internal team, the Committed Athlete badge is only earned once per Garmin Coach training plan. Once the badge has been awarded for a specific Coach plan any additional workouts completed with the same plan will not contribute to earning the badge again. You will need to start a new eligible Coach plan to earn this badge again. **

RE: Seems `Garmin Coach Graduate` badge is broken

Garmin - SP — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:32:31 GMT

Thomas Sauer Please share this to the Garmin Connect app under the appropriate OS (Android or iOS) forum thread please since this particular thread is for Garmin Connect Web only.

RE: Garmin explore collections

Midhat.Becar — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:53:32 GMT

Thank you

Garmin explore collections

Midhat.Becar — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:40:22 GMT

I have a problem.

When I create a collection in the Garmin Explore web app and add some waypoints and tracks to it, I cannot see that collection at all in the Garmin Explore Android app.

When I create a collection in the Garmin Explore Android app, it does not appear in the web app either.

I have tried reloading, signing out and back in, and syncing, but there is no change.

How can I sync web and android app?

RE: Seems `Garmin Coach Graduate` badge is broken

Thomas Sauer — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:01:10 GMT

Hey Garmin Team.

we have new issue with garmin connect app version 5.27 : the counter for multi-badges is gone, only the small grey bar is visible but not the number of already completed vs total number (days/items etc).

Can you please test your SW updates before rollout, thank you!

Br, Thomas