Google Maps Comes To Garmin Smartwatches

If you’ve ever wished that your Garmin smartwatch could do a amended occupation of helping you find nan edifice you’re precocious for meal at, you’re successful luck. From today, Garmin has announced that nan Google Maps app is disposable to download (for free, arsenic you’d expect) from its Connect IQ Store.

When open, Maps provides turn-by-turn directions arsenic notifications connected nan watch display, allowing you to time off your telephone successful your pocket. Once you’ve entered a location successful your Android (iOS doesn’t look to beryllium supported, contempt nan Connect IQ app’s beingness connected Apple’s App Store) phone’s Google Maps app, nan watch will sync pinch it and mildly vibrate for each caller direction. If you’d alternatively not support looking astatine your wrist each fewer minutes, you tin pat into nan app and memorise nan adjacent 3 turns.

Google Maps already useful pinch nan Apple Watch and Wear OS devices, pinch nan second besides supporting offline maps that fto you time off nan telephone astatine location — truthful Garmin is very overmuch playing catch-up here. But if you trust connected nan company’s products for fittingness purposes, it’s a beautiful useful addition. Garmin says you’ll still beryllium capable to grounds walks, runs aliases motorcycle rides arsenic you would normally, and nary fittingness search features are interrupted by Google Maps moving successful nan background.

Garmin says prime Venu, Forerunner, Vivoactive and Fenix products are supported. You tin position nan afloat database here.

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