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All Weather Widget Issues - Post Here

Garmin - Chris
over 4 years ago

If you do not see your weather updating on your Fenix 6 series watch, please try the following steps:

1) Ensure your watch software is fully up to date and your Connect Mobile APP has been updated.

2) Open the Connect Mobile APP and sync your watch

3) Power your smartphone off and on

4) Power your watch off and on

If still an issue:

5) Step outside and acquire GPS with any outdoor activity

6) Hard Reset - with your watch on, hold down your power button until it shuts off (you will not lose any settings with this reset)

- Also, on all iPhones, due to how iOS works with the GCM APP, you must leave the Garmin Connect Mobile APP open on your phone to remain updated. This does not require you leave your phone unlocked or the APP running in the foreground. When you first sync each day, leave the GCM APP in the background in suspend with all of the other items you have on your smartphone. Do not force close it out.

Your smartphone settings are also an impact:

  1. Open the Garmin Connect app
  2. Select   (upper left corner)
  3. Select Settings
  4. Select App Permissions
  5. Ensure Location is ON.  If not, select Manage (right side in blue)
  6. Select Permissions
  7. Enable Location
  8. Tap the back arrow at the top left to back out and save these settings
  9. Power off and then power back on the Garmin device (where applicable), and sync it through the Garmin Connect app

NOTE: For optimal performance of the Garmin Connect app, ensure that all permission settings are set to on and location set to always for the Connect APP.

Apple

  1. Open the Settings menu on the phone
  2. Select Privacy
  3. Select Location Services
  4. Toggle on if needed
  5. Select Connect from the list of apps on the Location Services screen
  6. Ensure ALLOW LOCATION ACCESS is set to Always
  7. Power off and then power back on the Garmin device (where applicable), and sync it through the Garmin Connect app

Here is our Support Center article for the Weather Widget - The Weather Widget is Not Displaying

For me personally and those I have reached out to, on our Fenix 6 watches, if we do not see the weather updated, we sync through the GCM APP and typically within 30-90 seconds, it will update and show the temperature properly again.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Is it normal that the weather widget on the 4 screen shows the chart only halfway? So do the weather prediction on the 2nd screen, once it shows 6h forward once even 12h. It must be an error. Anyone have that? 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Wind 236???

    In Sweden we measure wind in meters/second...


  • 0 over 3 years ago
    Why can't garmin add information about what city the weather is displayed for? hard to add "Paris 9.00" "Warsaw 9:00"
  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to bpl1972

    - I just sent you a Private Message to collect more information

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to bpl1972

    I get the same value on my Fenix 6X-PS, not everyday, today I see a normal 14 Km/h from South (S), yesterday just a number like you 236!!!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Allenby99

    The 236 km/h is location based. At work I see 236, at home the value is more correct like 12 SE...

    Im sending information to Garmin to solve this.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to bpl1972

    I am at home like yesterday, same location, but the value is changed. Keep in mind that I never got the 236 km/h windspeed before, only after having update the widget recently and after having saw this silly data here in this thread by you.. Hope Garmin will fix it

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Allenby99

    Thank you for your comment. The core reason I made this new thread and put it on top was to better directly communicate on the Weather Widget and pass along issues to our engineers.

    Regarding the 236KM/H issue, we are investigating it and working on it. It is an odd one. I have never seen that happen over the years. Reports have been throughout Europe and Australia thus far. No obvious pattern.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

    Same 236 wind speed in Montreal, Canada!

    (I was able to fix the updating issue with the "Always" location setting on my iphone)

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I have a Google Pixel 4XL (Android 10) and I've been having problems with the Weather Widget.

    However, I have been able to fix it in the last few day by changing the Permissions for Location for Garmin Connect from "Only when using the App" to "Always".  It seems that if the App gets denied location even once, it then gives up and refuses to update the weather unless you force stop it.  Force stopping it and re-opening it would always update the weather for me too.

    However, with the change I made so that it can always get location, it doesn't seem to get hungup anymore.

    Of course it turns out the Garmin Guide specifically mentions this, but duh, did I read that? I did not.