Garmin Fenix 8 and Enduro 3 owners are getting tons of fixes with the first round of beta updates

Garmin has released its first information of updates for nan Garmin Fenix 8, though astatine nan infinitesimal these updates are exclusively for users who person enrolled successful Garmin’s Public Beta program. These updates don’t present immoderate caller features to nan best Garmin watch released this year, but they do bring quality-of-life changes and fixes to features specified arsenic PacePro, Breathwork and Heart Rate.

First announced connected November 1, nan Public Beta programme updates are unrelated to nan update released a fewer weeks agone which was designed to hole nan rumor of the watch crashing successful acold water that’s been plaguing Fenix 8 users. Whereas that update seemed to beryllium an emergency fix, this is simply a overmuch much regular information of updates and changes for Garmin’s Beta testers.

While this update won’t beryllium rolling retired to Fenix 8 owners who aren’t portion of nan programme (i.e. astir users), it is simply a bully denotation of nan changes coming down nan statement to your watch.

The changes see tweaks to nan Breathwork functionality, to region nan Alerts mounting and hole a problem pinch nan Disabled Touch mounting during Meditation activities. Other changes see fixing a imaginable crashing rumor pinch nan Heart Rate glance, and fixing an correction that caused accrued artillery depletion if nan personification was wearing a watch look from Garmin’s Connect IQ store. PacePro scheme names were besides missing from title calendars, and that’s been addressed too.

It looks for illustration these each are mini fixes for issues that fewer group extracurricular of superior powerfulness users would person noticed, but aft a somewhat rocky motorboat for nan Fenix 8 acknowledgment to nan acold h2o crashing problem, it’s bully to spot nan Beta programme rolling retired arsenic normal. The full database of updates are disposable connected Garmin’s website here.

How to enrol successful Garmin's Public Beta program

To enroll successful Garmin’s Public Beta programme and trial nan latest incomplete versions of your device’s software, you tin sign successful via nan Garmin Connect website and work together to nan position nether Device Settings > Join Public Beta program.

Normally, Public Beta programme participants get these updates connected their watches automatically. However, Garmin says that this time, you’ll person to manually take to download it.

Garmin says: “This update is disposable via 'Check For Updates' connected your watch. Rather than manually loading files to update your watch's software, you tin download this update via Wifi/Bluetooth. To download nan update, connected your watch spell to Menu > System > Software Update > Check For Updates.”

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