Users with Fenix 7 > 17.28 + inReach Mini 2: Do you have "Mapshare" in the contacts on your Fenix?

I have the 47 mm Fenix 7. Not the Pro. I have software version 23.18. I tried what you asked. I connected my inReach Mini 2. When I get to the screen on the watch that shows "New Message" and select it, I get a screen showing Select Contacts, Type Message, and Pick Quick Text. When I elect Select Contacts the watch reboots. I've tried this several times and got the same result each time. I have a backpacking trip set for next week. I've been going back and forth about getting an Apple Ultra 3. It's gotten to the point where I just can't trust my Fenix. I'm getting tired of the bugs with this device. Heading to the Apple Store this afternoon. I'm glad I came across your post because I didn't know I had this issue. Thanks and good luck with yours.

That's really a pain and exactly the reason, why I'm still on 17.28

I'm constantly watching all reports for every new firmware and I was hoping for a new stable release as some others here do, but so far also 23.18 seems to be full of issues.

Sadly you found another one now but thanks for trying it out! Perhaps someone else with a firmware between 17.28 and 23.18 can try this without a reboot.

Also someone from Garmin could simply raise this question to the corresponding engineering team instead of the community finding this out.

Hi Garmin-Laurie perhaps this is something you could forward to the engineering team taking care of the remote control features in a Fenix 7 for controlling an inReach Mini 2 device.
Since the explained functionality (sending a custom message to multiple contacts and specificall include "Mapshare" as contact so that the message appears in Mapshare as well") works fine if you do this directly on the inReach Mini 2 and it also works if you do this in the Garmin Messenger app so I guess the missing Mapshare entry in the contacts is an issue specifically in the remote implementation on the Fenix 7.

I would be interested to know if this is supported in a higher firmware than 17.28 or if it would also be possible for me to manually add a contact to my contacts list which achieves the same.

Only FYI, some fixes regard InReach in the latest 23.22beta

• Fix an issue where the device could not cancel an InReach (IR) SOS message.
• Fix an issue where InReach (IR) SOS messages would sometimes be divided amongst several threads.

Got in touch with Garmin about it. They asked for a video which I provided. Then they asked that I upload info from the watch to them. Did that today and will wait and see what I hear. Will post back here with results.

Hi and thanks,

that shows that there's something happening on the inReach side for the Fenix 7 but it doesn't refer to Mapshare not being available in the contacts.

I'll get in touch with Garmin Laurie directly and ask her, if she can take this to the engineers of if I have to open a support ticket.

Best regards,
Thomas

23.28b - forums.garmin.com/.../beta-version-23-28---now-available-ota-over-the-air---phased-rollout

• Fixed an issue where InReach (IR) messages would sometimes not be delivered when sending to multiple contacts.

Thanks for the info, but this is not about the issue I reported.

I'm surprised by all the InReach fixes pushed to F7, when Beta Bug Reports are not dealing with this feature. So i expect a positivie side effect for this thread ... :-(