Garmin Connect FINALLY Gets Updated! - What's NEW / What's MISSING?

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[justo]

I honestly prefer the current layout. Vertical scrolling with the smaller, more compact glances is a more efficient use of space than the bigger views of the beta. And then with the horizontal scrolling glances, you can only ever see one at a time whereas with a vertical layout, it's possible to see multiple data fields at once. Just feels like change for changes sake.

[nrs]

You mentioned seeing everything at a glance a few times. My current view is unexpanded - so I see everything in one glance. What you showed makes it look like I’m going to have to swipe and scroll so much more just to achieve the same result as before. What a shocker Garmin. Thanks for the comprehensive review mate

[nestwolfsteiner]

liked the "yesterday" and seven day summary - hope this makes it back into the final version

[Gerdschi]

Great review. So sad that Garmin missed to update their calender. Still useless if you want to get an overview of your activities of the last months, how much running you did, how much hiking etc.

[BobInVT]

I certainly hope the 'Yesterday' card works it's way back in. Most mornings I like to check on that to see my final stats from the day before.

[iberiksoderblom]

Still waiting for Garmin to remove the Golf menu entry, or make it possible to replace it with something else, like Ultra og Triathlon or Sailing..., anything else.
What makes Golf so special from other activities, that it needs its own specific menu entry?

[fitgearhunter]

Great video! I was totally unaware of that. I totally totally totally agree with the need for them to shift to "batch select" for multiple things, basically everywhere where you could add something you should be able to add multiple things at the same time. And awesome idea about health summary at the top. I really appreciate seeing that snapshot in other apps great video!

[LightBWK]

As of the amount of useful data displayed, I like the current version the best. Don't have to dive in to see details. They are already displayed.

[SamsaraRevolves]

What's great about Garmin is that you don't have to sign up for a specific plan. You can register for an event and have it do daily suggestions based off of your goal time that are more impressive than their stock half marathon limited training plans. It's also neat that these sessions dynamically update based on how strong you feel after each session, and possibly other vital stats.

I'd really love it if Garmin allowed you to look at the daily suggestions in the app and get greater insight as to the purpose of the sessions.

[ryanwiesman]

Bummer that the Training Plan card is limited to only the Garmin plans. It would be much better if it provided a list of scheduled workouts from the calendar for the week. That way it would also show the workouts imported from 3rd party like Final Surge or Training Peaks! Garmin already allows syncing with those platforms so why not complete the integration?

[hardmtnbiker]

I agree about your suggestion for an “out of range” alert as a highlight when you open the app.

[SingaporeDonoghues]

IF it's new version with tiny visual changes VS old with 7 Day Avgs, I'm sticking with old

[unfitultra]

Aww c'mon bro! You instantly had me running to the App Store to check for an update, disappointed by the first minute of the video haha!

[_J.F_]

Seems like this might be an update just for Garmin to be able to say they have updated their platform and not because they have actually added anything useful. In fact it seems as if the platform will be less user friendly, less flexible, and containing less relevant data.

[brandonposey]

What are your thoughts about garmin requiring an internet connection to sync data from the watch to the phone? I feel like this is a unnecessary hassle. There are times when people are away from data but it would be nice to see the data on the phone. Also the time the servers went down meant you couldn't see anything in the app.

[Kharzod]

In my opinion is the polar app the golden standard. Nice summary, useful details.

[AnotherBradGuy]

Just hope they change Garmin Connect's units to be more like the watches. I use feet for elevation, km for distance, pounds for weight and right now i have to convert everything because Canadian isnt an option on the app.

[ffilatow]

I used to like to have multiple dashboards on the webpage. My favorite part of Garmin has always been setting goals and checking in the dashboard, now you cannot add Goals nor Gear. I hope the final version will fix that.

[Chrisd]

Thanks to this "update" I've switched back to my old apple watch. I forgot how nice it is to be able to go through emails.
I used to be a big Garmin fan but no being able to use the old UI just sucks too much.

[mbirth]

Does it sync SpO2 reading to Apple HealthKit now? That's one of the most wanted features.