Garmin Connect‪™‬ 4+

Nice app, it does its job! Just a few remarks which prevents me to give 5 stars: 1) Battery drain - with newer updates the problem gets worse - some battery focused update would be handy; 2) Life track integration suggestions - when my connected friends starts their activities, I can be notified and track their activities only via email - not via the app; 3) Missing option to backup/restore my watches settings to my Garmin account - my friend’s watches (FR 45S, ver. 5.2) have reset itself to default settings while charging (imperial units, different time zone and format, etc.); 4) I love the web-based dashboard with various statistics, in particular goals and challenges tracking - just missing this flexibility in the app.

I am eating the app in conjunction with the watch experience. The app is quite complex, lots of settings, but lacking overall polish. Key things are missing, such as being able to repeat trainings I missed just yesterday. The coach should readjust, but it doesn't. Because of work I missed multiple important sprint trainings and ended up doing just easy runs. There are no notifications to push you to do the exercises, which I cannot understand in an app like that. I set the step goal to zero and still get notifications about progress towards my goal. The pace counter during a run is just wrong. This has been documented before. I get a "too fast" warning when I am too slow. The UI on the watch during the run is clumsy, often mixing remaining time and distance without showing the unit in the same place. Overall I bought a Garmin over Apple watch because I expected it to be better for running. I do not have an Apple watch, but would likely buy it now if I had to make the choice again.

Overall I like the app and didn’t have any major issues with it except since the last Fenix 5+ update (where the Incident Detection was added) the LiveTrack stopped working. It doesn’t respond when I tap the Start LiveTrack button, after several attempts it says it’s started, I even get the notification on the watch and then after few seconds the connection drops and the link isn’t working.