Garmin releases almost two dozen improvements to current flagship smartwatches in major new update
Garmin is piling on the bug fixes and improvements it will eventually bring to its current flagship smartwatches running stable software. In the last few hours, the company has released a new update in its 15.xx beta development cycle that adds another 19 changes from those it has already offered to beta testers.
This time around, Garmin has delivered a pair of new features to the Enduro 3, Fenix E, Fenix 8 and Tactix 8 (curr. $1,299 on Amazon), along with 17 bug fixes. On top of that, Beta Version 15.24 has arrived with new Sensor Hub firmware, which upgrades all smartwatches from v34.09 and v34.10. Although Garmin does not directly reveal what changes it has made in this regard, we suspect the jump to v34.10 refines Garmin's sensor pairing experience by displaying sensors in pairing mode first.
By our count, the list of changes from System Software 13.35 is nearing 150. Nonetheless, there is no suggestion that Garmin has finalised 15.xx development yet. Instead, the disablement of Aviation, Dive and ECG features implies that at least one beta build will be offered, if not more. The full list of changes between v15.23 and v15.24 are as follows:
- Added Insight Hint for Jet Lag.
- Added Wrist Detect Support for Passcode when OHR is Disabled.
- Fixed Audio Prompt not Reading Correct Pace Value.
- Fixed Audio Prompt Skipping Workout Steps.
- Fixed Body Battery Data Disappearing after Activity.
- Fixed Bouldering and Indoor Climb Activities to Show Correct Data Pages.
- Fixed Custom Text Message Replies Not Displaying.
- Fixed Distance-Only Target Data Showing Time Ahead/Behind.
- Fixed Initial Setup Repeating Some Steps after Wifi Sync.
- Fixed Map-Only Touch Setting.
- Fixed Map Track Color Setting not Applying to All Map Layers.
- Fixed Navigation Alerts Getting Blocked when Navigating to Waypoints.
- Fixed Pool Swim Pace Alerts not Muting.
- Fixed Power Related Audio Prompts Announced When Paired Power Meter is Not Connected.
- Fixed Sail Expedition First Time Tip.
- Fixed Tips App Icon Color.
- Fixed Watchface Data Accessibility when Device Locked.
- Fixed Watchface Shortcut Misbehaving in an Activity.
- Improved Sensor Pairing Search to Display Sensors in Pairing Mode First.
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