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I'm getting a voice prompt for navigation turns on my iPhone, and I don't know how to turn if off!

Singinghound
10 months ago

Grateful for any help you can offer. 

I am using an Epix 2 pro 51mm (v17.23). 

In my settings, all audio prompts are set to off. When I am running a course, I get voice notifications on my iPhone for upcoming turns. I only want the vibrate/turn symbol on my watch, and not a voice speaking to me.

Thanks!

  • 0 17 days ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

    When I turn off all audio prompts, I get the message "Finish line in XXX meters" when navigating a course. I have turn off the "turn-by-turn" alarms in "Settings -> Navigation -> Alarms" and all audio prompts under "Settings -> Audio Prompts" (we chatted about that directly).

  • 0 11 days ago

    +1 My phone is on SILENT in my pack and I can hear it speaking "Turn left in seventy-five-point-five-six-two-four feet". 

    A year later and Garmin has no response? This is insane.  I contacted Garmin support and was told "this is how it is, and some people like it". Really great answer. 

    There needs to be a simple extra toggle to disable the spoken navigation prompts and keep the beep//vibrate. 

    This is not rocket science and is shameful that this was even introduced in the first place

  • 0 7 days ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

    This is still an issue. It seems a simple test to 'do a course' with headphones and walk a route with lots of turns.

    Then just do it by going to Navigation Settings. Alerts. Turn Prompts. 

    Scenario 1. If you wear headphones connected to your phone, and your watch is also connected to your phone, both by bluetooth: (This has not been tested with direct watch to headphone bluetooth, and the phone I used is an iPhone 12)

    Turn prompts on. Your watch vibrates, beeps etc, and you get a voice prompt over your headphones, that interrupts whatever you're listening to. Particularly problematic if you're doing lots of turns. You never hear your music.

    Turn prompts off. You get no notification.

    Scenario 2. If not wearing headphones.

    Turn prompts on. Your watch vibrates, beeps etc. (Obviously, no headphones for making voice prompts)

    Turn prompts off. You get no notification.

    What is for there to be two toggle options. Watchface Turn Prompts - On/Off, and Voice Turn Prompts - On/Off.

    Obviously the latter wouldn't affect scenario 2, as no headphones connected, But in Scenario 1, this option provides relief to everyone who doesn't want turn prompts, and doesn't want to continually turn off bluetooth between watch and phone to try and workaround the issue.

  • 0 7 days ago in reply to Charles

    In scenario 2 though, with turn prompts on and no headphones, I DO get voice prompts out of my phone speaker.   That's the part I hate.

  • 0 7 days ago in reply to Charles

    It seems so obvious to us users - not so much to the Garmin engineers who seem to think this is a ‘feature’.  Please please please Garmin, can we please have notification prompts as a separate option to audio voice prompts.

    And whilst you are at it, can you please fix the bug where if you are interested in having voice navigation prompts, that it doesn’t give distances to 3 decimal places.  Thank you,