Garmin Messenger™

Bad. Stuck and I can not get it to work

This app does absolutely nothing… I thought I would be able to respond to iMessages on my EPIX watch… nope… I see no reason to even keep this app.

This app would be great if there were an Apple Watch widget. I am the black sheep in the family without an Apple Watch. The ability to be able to communicate via wearables would be marvelous.

During activation of a 67i device while the app was asking me to enter basic info (name, address, phone numbers) the app either would not display portions of the interface after scrolling or would be unresponsive when editing fields or trying to hit the next button. Proceeded to have issues until letting the app transfer an update to the garmin device. After that, no issues.

Very confusing instructions and app/watch responses yield less than modest capacity to text to contacts. Not designed for practical texting.

Pain in the butt to activate

My family has acquired Garmin satelite mapping services in order to let us know when and where they are. Some in the family have received messages while others have not(we are at the 60:40 mark) while the set-up is reasonably costly, the service is miserably failing. Any in the family have the same setup in their respective phones, in order to clarify any misperceptions. Garmin Customer service is failing, absent! Don’t waste your money, there must be an alternative to an otherwise good idea.

This item is complete trash

There’s a bug in the app - I can’t activate my subscription in the app. It keeps not loading the full screen and I’ve had to uninstall and reinstall multiple times. Still can’t get this to work. May have to return the whole device and use a different satellite communicator.

I like the idea but when you have competitors like apple out there offering a complete different experience with messaging, then this app feels like 5 years behind. Even the way the keyboard is displayed in your watch when replaying to a message… it felt like using an old nokia phone. I also don’t like that I can only reply to messages received through the app and not whatsapp or other messaging apps. It limits the user to one messaging platform which is VERY limited in functionality at this time, for example: keyboard display, just messaging and no emojis or ways to react, I was also unable to customize my automatic reply options