New Garmin Fenix 7 and Fenix 7 Pro update released with almost two dozen changes
Over two months have passed since Garmin last released a new stable update for the Fenix 7 series and its peers like the Tactix 7 (curr. $879.99 - renewed on Amazon). In the intervening period, Garmin has introduced various beta updates though, culminating in Beta Version 18.14. Additionally, it also released the Fenix E and Fenix 8, as well as the Enduro 3.
As for the Fenix 7 series, it seems that Garmin will continue to furnish it with new features and bug fixes for a while yet. Although it has not confirmed as much yet, the Fenix 6 series still remains eligible for fresh beta and stable updates, albeit with less frequency than its successor. At any rate, Garmin claims that System Software 18.14 brings nineteen improvements to the Fenix 7 series and related smartwatches, but only when comparing the new update against its predecessor, System Software 17.28.
Please note that the vast majority of these changes are bug fixes to address outstanding issues. Specifically, Garmin describes making sixteen bug fixes this time around, with Garmin Share serving as the only true new feature bundled within System Software 18.14. Please see Garmin's forum posts linked below and its changelog for further details.
- Added Garmin Share app.
- Fixed issue causing activity calories and the number of activities to reset to 0 after completing Health Snapshot.
- Fixed issue causing Garmin premade workout animations to be missing.
- Fixed issue causing missing pan/zoom on map during navigation for find my phone.
- Fixed issue causing Outdoor Maps+ downloads to get stuck at 0%.
- Fixed issue that could cause Connect to fail to display which course was used for activity.
- Fixed issue when navigating the watch would the distance to the destination in feet/meters instead of Mi/KM.
- Fixed issue where the golf glance could display a 0 value when using stableford scoring.
- Fixed issue with a missing keyboard switch icon in some languages.
- Fixed issue with strength workouts rounding the weight to the nearest whole number.
- Fixed potential issue with connection of external Bluetooth sensors.
- Fixed potential issue with GPS track during snowshoe activities.
- Fixed potential issue with the cursor on the golf map.
- Fixed potential screen distortion on the watch face.
- Fixed potential shutdown after receiving a flag measurement from a Z30.
- Fixed potential Wi-Fi lock up when requesting software.
- Improved race time predictions.
- Updated translations.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
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