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Disable virtual partner

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over 1 year ago

I would like to banish the virtual partner from my device. I have already removed its data screen, but it still shows up on the navigation map when a route is set, and plays a sad jingle when he "wins". Well, congratulations on being immune to obstructions, traffic, red lights, headwind and climbs I guess... I've seen some instructiuons on other edges how to get rid of it entirely, but this doesn't seem to work on the 530. Any ideas?

It's such a useless and broken feature, and makes one wonder if there was any testing at all before the device or the feature was released.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    You can't turn it off I'm afraid. A possible work around is that if you use a route planning service that allows you to change the average speed of the route set the speed to a really slow value so the virtual partner will never catch you up when navigating said route.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Found a work around - I plan all my Routes in Komoot.  in Garmin connect app select courses, find course you are going to follow. 3 dots R/H corner, opens menu. You need to duplicate the route. Back to course list and select Copy of….. select same 3 dots and edit, scroll down to bottom and put average speed to1 km/hr ( just my choice), I then rename course and save. I have Never seen that irritating VP grey arrow again.

    I then delete the original course which is usually got average speed default set at 25km/hr 

    it’s a bit of a faff but worth it ,