Connect IQ Store Discussion - Recent Threads

RE: No improvements, no responses

8206990 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:25:45 GMT

Garmin doesn't seem interested in improving their Connect IQ.

No improvements, no responses

1341842 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:15:18 GMT

Perhaps many developers are wondering why their developed apps have a good reputation and high download numbers, yet rarely appear on the rankings.

In fact, it's not the developers' fault; some developers have monopolized the rankings using special techniques.

Selling Watch Faces when you're not in an 'approved' country ?

PerrysNZ — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:50:51 GMT

I live in New Zealand. I've been playing around and spent quite a bit of time and effort developing a couple of watch faces I think would be quite well received (Well I hope so anyway). I'd like to sell them for a small amount anyway but New Zealand is NOT on the 'approved' countries list. What can I do ?

RE: Selling Watch Faces when you're not in an 'approved' country ?

PerrysNZ — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:09:57 GMT

Ok. Thanks will look into this a bit more appreciations for your replies !

RE: Selling Watch Faces when you're not in an 'approved' country ?

flocsy🤠 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:06:37 GMT

It depends on which 3rd party you use. I saw some apps that use PayPal, and some that use https://kiezelpay.com/ which has integration with Monkey C

RE: Add Israel to Supported Merchant Countries

flocsy🤠 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:46:42 GMT

You set up the 3rd party payment in your app, then upload it to the store (no need for merchant account), and click the Yes in the Monetization section.

Add Israel to Supported Merchant Countries

7934514 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:37:07 GMT

Hi,

I'm a Connect IQ developer based in Israel, building watch faces I'd like to sell through the CIQ Store.
Unfortunately, Israel isn't currently a supported country for the Merchant Service.

Are there any plans to add Israel to the list? Would love to hear from the Garmin team or other developers in the same situation.

Thanks!

RE: Selling Watch Faces when you're not in an 'approved' country ?

PerrysNZ — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:42:00 GMT

Yes. Thanks. I know this but it's details of how which I need

RE: Selling Watch Faces when you're not in an 'approved' country ?

flocsy🤠 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:40:33 GMT

You can use a 3rd party payment system

RE: Add Israel to Supported Merchant Countries

PerrysNZ — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:25:26 GMT

I have the same problem (but I live in a different country), How do we setup a third party payment method and make it 'visible' while the watch face is on the Garmin site ?

RE: Letting Merchant Account registration lapse - what happens?

flocsy🤠 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:47:16 GMT

Good questions, and Garmin should answer them, but even if they don't, you can do a few things:

1. You will probably decide to release the same apps as either a free app (easy), or an app with 3rd party payment (some work), and lead the existing paying users to the new apps

2. If it'll be paid, then you will probably have a way to give free access to the users who already paid via Garmin. I don't know how will you do this. I mean it'll be a lot of manual work for you I guess, and probably users will have a hard time proving to you that they paid via Garmin.

Letting Merchant Account registration lapse - what happens?

zmullett — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:08:38 GMT

I've received a notification that my Merchant Account annual payment is coming up. To be honest I've been pretty disappointed in the deal; a relatively high yearly fee with minimal support or improvement in the store ecosystem (one could argue that it has even degraded). So I'm thinking about not renewing.

I'd like to understand what happens with the apps sold via the Merchant Account;

Will the users continue to have access to their apps?
Will those apps disappear from the app store?
If they will disappear, how could a user who paid restore them if desired?

Please bring back the Connect IQ internet store

beva — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:17:06 GMT

Oke, besides purging changes whilst things still are in error, let's not talk about that cause it's driving me crazy.

Let's talk about how it is supposed to work.

With regard to the announcement I thought most of the things would be the same, you'd only not be able to install from the html store.

However it's completely gone, so from an end user point of view I can't use the internet to search for apps and browse them any longer. WHY? I'm crying, I really can't work with the little phone screen to search and evaluate for things :'( .

RE: Please bring back the Connect IQ internet store

flocsy🤠 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:30:53 GMT

Sorry, I meant, that hopefully it's next

RE: Please bring back the Connect IQ internet store

beva — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:39:39 GMT

Where do you find that?

RE: Please bring back the Connect IQ internet store

flocsy🤠 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:29:11 GMT

And the detailed download number!

Error requesting sales report

beva — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:05:42 GMT

When I try to generate a new sales report I get 'There was a problem with your request. Please try again.' Trying again makes no difference.

RE: Please bring back the Connect IQ internet store

peterdedecker — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:08:31 GMT

That's great. Hopefully the user Connect IQ interface will follow.

RE: Please bring back the Connect IQ internet store

beva — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:14:44 GMT

Today I noticed the Download button has been restored to the developer Connect IQ store interface.

RE: developer left out lesser known model of Fenix6s in compatible devices, can I sideload somehow?

jim_m_58 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:51:53 GMT

If you want something similar to mTemp, try my Temps app.

Temps | Connect IQ Store

developer left out lesser known model of Fenix6s in compatible devices, can I sideload somehow?

RinseRepeat — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:47:52 GMT

Not quite sure where to ask this question but developers would know, Garmin feel free to move the question otherwise

the alphaHRV developer is not responding to queries so I am trying to find a way to get that app onto my Fenix6s standard which is lesser known than the pro model and somehow got left off the list even though it's the same hardware

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/1a69b10a-1d31-4afe-a32f-6a579ae20d9f

So Garmin doesn't offer my watch to install

Can I download the prg somehow and sideload it onto my Fenix6s via usb?

You can see all the Fenix5 and Fenix6 models are listed, it's just an oversight

RE: developer left out lesser known model of Fenix6s in compatible devices, can I sideload somehow?

RinseRepeat — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:36:47 GMT

slightly different question but you have so much knowledge it's too tempting not to ask you here since it's vaguely related

there was a great widget I used on the Fenix6 that I've now lost on the Fenix7 which showed the weather internals from Garmin compared to a local Tempe and kept the tempe persistent

Will the developer be able to easily update it for the Fenix7 and make it into a Glance instead?

it was mTempe and I've not found anything quite like it yet

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/dd3e0666-b9d6-4b3a-9e98-672a256bc890

I'm really annoyed the Fenix7 took away Widget support, a Widget is just an opened Glance

Garmin could make an option for all/select Glances to become Widgets by forcing them open as if they were selected and just scroll through opened Glances

btw I can now of course run this alphaHRV on the Fenix7 as it has the max 256mb of memory

but not sure all the trade-offs was worth it, Fenix6 may have been peek Garmin

RE: Who changed the last update time of my app?

jim_m_58 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:26:58 GMT

You can tell if an app was auto migrated, If there is a "gear" next to the internal version number, the last update was due to auto migration.

Note: if your app was auto migrated, you need to add the new device(s) to your app before you do your own update, or the new device will be lost. Auto migration only happens 1 time when Garmin adds a new device, not each time the app is updated.

Who changed the last update time of my app?

8964857 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:31:00 GMT

I have developed a watch face app (https://apps-developer.garmin.com/zh-CN/apps/cd2b47e9-46a1-4032-b6ff-1b130db10576).

Its last update was on April 7, 2026, with version number 2.4.4.

Now the app page shows "Latest Release April 14, 2026", but I have not uploaded any new versions of this app in the admin console since April 7, 2026.

Strangely, although the last update date has changed to April 14, the latest version number displayed is still 2.4.4 and has not changed.

In the China-region(https://apps.garmin.cn/zh-CN/apps/cd2b47e9-46a1-4032-b6ff-1b130db10576), many users previously reviewed version 2.4.4.

Even though the page still shows the current version as 2.4.4, those earlier reviews no longer appear in the "Current Version" review section.

The same issue has occurred with another app of mine.

我开发了一款表盘应用（https://apps-developer.garmin.com/zh-CN/apps/cd2b47e9-46a1-4032-b6ff-1b130db10576），

最后更新日期是2026年4月7日，版本号是2.4.4。

现在这个应用的页面上显示“最新版本2026年4月14日”，但是自从2026年4月7日以后我就没有在后台上传过这个应用的任何新的版本。

更加奇怪的是，最后更新日期虽然变成了4月14日，但是现在显示的最新版本号却还是2.4.4，没有发生变化。

在中国地区的应用商店里（https://apps.garmin.cn/zh-CN/apps/cd2b47e9-46a1-4032-b6ff-1b130db10576），之前有有不少用户对2.4.4版进行了评论。

虽然现在页面上显示当前的版本号仍然是2.4.4，但是之前的这些评论现在已经不显示在“当前版本”的评论区里面了。

我另外一个应用也出现了同样的问题。

RE: Who changed the last update time of my app?

flocsy🤠 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:05:33 GMT

dmach2pro was released,. You probably have app migration enabled.