Software Status - DEAD

It will still get updates, but not as frequent as before. Even the older Fenix 5 plus still gets updates, why should they abandon the Fenix 6?

I do not not, tell me! It has been over 3 months without any update ... and still so much to do! 

The Fenix 5x plus, gets an update about every 6 months. I think we can assume a similar interval for the Fenix 6. 

Already a post about this question past week

https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreation/f/fenix-6-series/345660/can-we-expect-further-fw-updates-for-the-fenix-6-series

It would seem like Garmin only has a few core developers and they are moved from watch to watch as new releases allow.

Eventually they will shift back to Fenix6, hopefully, for at least one more major release before it becomes only bug fixes.

Once the Fenix 8 is released, we are doomed.

i can say is no hope for this, so many improvement that only need sw adjustment like jetleg advisor, morning report and etc also not port to Fenix 6

Garmin is making sure that they fix the main bugs, implement the Jet Lag advidor, morning report, nap detection, race calendar/widget before releasing a new beta firmware for the Fenix 6. That's why is taking so long.

Or maybe we accept the reality that Garmin has already forgotten this "obsolete" watch and it is focusing on the newer models.

There  comes the time for every watch where Garmin (and this applies to phone companies as well) switches from introducing new features (which they've never promised to add, anyway) to just providing bug fixes in the firmware updates. Fenix 5+ hasn't received anything except bug fixes for a couple of years now, so I wouldn't be surprised if that has happened now for Fenix 6 as well.

True, that’s why I’m not expecting any new features on the next firmware except bug fixes (and hopefully no new bugs )

Nonetheless I still enjoy my Fenix 6X and I’m not in a hurry to replace it.

Garmin definitely does not make sure that bugs are fixed.

On the contrary, they introduced a lot of bugs in sport functionality with firmware versions 19, 20 and 21, e.g.

• Altimeter calibration measurements and derived metrics are broken.
• RD Pod measurements and derived metrics broken.
• They fumbled around with GPS for basically every SW version since I bought the watch because of the low-grade GPS chipset that they built into the watch. At the moment, the watch is consistently off 10 - 20 metres even on tracks under clear sky. At other times, straight tracks were o.k., but the watch produced off-track spikes in lots of corners (either running or biking). I don't expect that they will ever get this right.
• While swimming, lane count is more or less random amount low and swim style detection "errs on the side of" crawl, so regardless, of what style im swimming, crawl is recorded.

On the non-sport side, they broke

• the use of watch faces from the CIQ store by introducing severe UI lag with those watch faces (even ones provided by Garmin themselves).
• Sleep tracking has always been so far off that I don't bother to use it anymore.

I obviously don't know whether Garmin is not able to fix those errors, or whether they just don't care anymore. Either way, they bricked my watch, which will not motivate me to buy any other Garmin device in the future, to put it carefully