Garmin smartwatches took a tumble on Wednesday morning. According to Down Detector, a mass of users reported issues with the Garmin Connect online service that holds all of Garmin's online smartwatch features together.

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The online platform, known as Connect, is relied on heavily by its products. As such, while the company’s hardware is still able to function on its own, it is unable to transfer data on or off and users cannot look at their information in the company’s app.

Garmin Outage has left countless users worldwide struggling to access their favorite fitness tracking services. Since early January 8, 2025, Garmin Connect, along with several other Garmin platforms,

Global Garmin Connect outage disrupts fitness tracking services worldwide, affecting millions of users' ability to sync and share workout data.

The cause remains unknown Fitness app Garmin Connect got knocked down but got up again, after an unexplained outage that left fitness extroverts flummoxed.… There's no need to panic - Garmin's watches appear to be still recording data but the Connect platform used to correlate fitness data,