Connect IQ Bug Reports - Connect IQ

This space is specifically for Connect IQ bug reports. Please review the Connect IQ Bug Reports FAQ before reporting a bug to be sure you have the information needed for Garmin to investigate the bug you wish to report.

Report Garmin Connect Web issues to https://forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mobile-apps-web/f/garmin-connect-web
Report Garmin Connect Mobile Android issues to https://forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mobile-apps-web/f/garmin-connect-mobile-andriod
Report Garmin Connect Mobile iOS issues to https://forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mobile-apps-web/f/garmin-connect-mobile-ios
Product-related issues can be reported to either https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/ or https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/

Drawing text with transparent background into palletized bitmaps no longer works in recent firmware updates

Manuel B.
- Acknowledged on Feb 20, 2025
- 2 Comments
What was once an issue in the simulator only, now seems to have found its way into the firmware of certain watches. https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports/no-more-transparency-for-font-background-on-bufferd-bitmap-since-sdk-4...
- May 29, 2023 9:44 AM
Garmin Connect Mobile on Android unable to handle MakeWebrequest Comm.HTTP_RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE_FIT on 127.0.01 (localhost)

schlupp73
- Acknowledged on Feb 20, 2025
- 17 Comments
When using Garmin Connect IQ Apps IQMapReceiver or GExporter for downloading Fit Course files from a mobile (GPX) to a Connect IQ device, it seems not to work as expected anymore. Issue mentioned is taken into account already: Connect version 4...
- Jul 23, 2022 8:38 AM
Fenix 6 with background app watchface doesn't update

Horsetooth
- Acknowledged on Feb 20, 2025
- 78 Comments
A user has reported my watchface doesn't work with his Fenix 6 but does with his Vivoactive 3. So, he's been helping me debug it a bit and it appears that after the background process (which does a webRequest) calls Background.exit(data), the app's onBackgroundData...
- Jul 21, 2020 3:08 PM
Bug Report: Garmin Connect API recently updated which activity types are synced to 3rd party sites

F3b Software (Brian)
- Acknowledged on Feb 20, 2025
- 35 Comments
Garmin non- health and wellness sports are no longer being reported to 3rd party apps including Strava. I contacted both Garmin and Strava below are their responses. This affects most apps that include activities that are the non-Primary sports ( flying...
- May 10, 2023 2:50 PM
Simulator not working on Ubuntu 19.04

DarkNRG
- Acknowledged on Feb 20, 2025
- 7 Comments
Hello, I tried to run the ConnectIQ on Ubuntu 19.04 but finally had to give up trying to fix all those missing libraries: ~/ConnectIQ/bin $ ./simulator ./simulator: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object...
- Sep 14, 2019 2:37 PM
Address recent tidal wave of SPAM / low-quality watch faces in the CIQ store

myaro
- Acknowledged on Dec 18, 2023
- 8 Comments
Recently, a handful of developers are publishing dozens of low-quality watch faces each week. As a customer , it is making it impossible to find new, quality watch faces and sift through this junk. Why even look if it's either stuff that was launched...
- Dec 18, 2023 2:21 AM
Bug report: ConnectIQ Api & web request via GCM iOS is not passing http response as plain text

ronnywinkler
- Ticket Created on Jan 24, 2023
- 18 Comments
Hello ConnectIQ team, I use makeWebRequest to proceed an auth process of an oAuth API, where I have to read an bearer token from the WebAPI. The API responds the token as a JSON value type string. It's not possible to read that value as JSON dictionary...
- Oct 2, 2022 10:01 AM
Please allow nativeNum FIT fields to override native fields in Garmin Connect

FlowState
- Acknowledged on Feb 20, 2025
- 2 Comments
Currently, nativeNum fields do not override native fields in Garmin Connect, which seems to defeat the purpose. This prevents apps from overriding distance, speed or power, for example. This feature has been requested for several years: [ https:...
- Jan 7, 2023 5:09 AM
meta-bug: array settings

flocsy🤠
- Acknowledged on Feb 20, 2025
- 4 Comments
I'm embarrassed to do this, though probably Garmin should be. We have so many bugs related to array settings not touched by Garmin for more than a year that this feature is practically dead. But the hope dies always last, so let's give it another chance...
- Jan 3, 2023 12:26 AM
Feature-request: add pre-processor with inline functions to Monkey C

flocsy🤠
- Acknowledged on Feb 20, 2025
- 19 Comments
Please consider adding some pre-processor to Monkey C, similar to C. For example we could have inline functions. It would make developers life much easier: the readability of the code would improve, in many cases the binary size could be decreased...
- Jul 20, 2021 9:02 AM