Proper backup option NEEDED IMMEDIATELY

PRK91 4 months ago

Venu 3 is a smartwatch and why can't Garmin implement a proper backup option?

Most of our watches were recently reset and we lost all the installed apps, watch faces, and data fields and not to mention we need to customize the data field for the activity we want. This is time consuming.

So my question is why can't Garmin have a backup file for every device and when we enter our email and password associated with the watch previously, it can offer us to restore all the apps and watch faces accordingly. Wouldn't that be much simpler and easier, let it happen in the background. These are things that make it a proper smartwatch.

Former Member Garmin-Zac Former Member Kindly pass this to the development team. I have already submitted this as a feature request when I got my watch in 2023, but so far no update.

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PRK91 4 months ago in reply to 6966306 +1

Totally true and Garmin calls this as a smartwatch, probably their best smartwatch ever (The Fenix 8 might have taken that title now). I submitted the feature request form and not as a post, so that cannot…

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0 Alex🤴 4 months ago

That's a very good question. I would like to know that too.

0 PRK91 4 months ago in reply to Alex🤴

Yepp. I think as a smartwatch this is one of a basic feature to have and Garmin should implement it.

0 pato 4 months ago

There actually even is a (non-working) backup function inside Garmin Express if you select the watch and then the Tools. It doesn't do anything at the moment though.

0 PRK91 4 months ago in reply to pato

Yeah they should do something about it. Let's see what happens. I would suggest everyone to send feedback and see.

0 El Burgo 4 months ago

+1. A basic requirement IMO.

0 6966306 4 months ago

+1 it was so frustrating after the current crash (blue triangle of death) and therefore necessary hard reset to now have to restore all the settings manually. Funny side note: Considering that I thought that a backup-feature is/should be entirely standard in 2025 I didn't even consider that the settings would be lost...

PRK91 can you please post the link to your feature request? Maybe we can put (better) pressure there.

0 PRK91 4 months ago in reply to 6966306

Totally true and Garmin calls this as a smartwatch, probably their best smartwatch ever (The Fenix 8 might have taken that title now). I submitted the feature request form and not as a post, so that cannot be traced now.

On a entirely different note, if interested, kindly spread word regarding these 2 feature request posts.

1) https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/venu-3-series/venu-3-series---public-beta-bug-report/i/venu-3-series---11-xx-bug-reports/more-features-to-the-450-watch-please

2) https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/venu-3-series/venu-3-series---public-beta-bug-report/i/venu-3-series---12-xx-bug-reports/12-08---are-these-the-most-important-features

Garmin has the responsibility to do justice to this 450$ watch, it is neither smart nor sport.