Garmin ended 2024 by releasing beta updates for all of its recent Forerunner smartwatches. Today, the company released the same build to its stable development branch, which is expected to arrive on the Forerunner 165, Forerunner 255, Forerunner 265, Forerunner 955, and Forerunner 965 (currently $599.99 on Amazon) within days. come.
Garmin will deliver the new update packages as part of a “phased rollout”, which has reached 20% completion at the time of publication. In other words, only a few Forerunner smartwatches may have received a notification of downloading software version 21.22 at the moment. Garmin still offers the option to manually trigger the installation of a new update by navigating the following menus on the smartwatch itself:
Main menu > Settings > System > Software update > Check for updates
Officially, the new update just brings “general bug fixes” to the aforementioned Forerunner smartwatches. The Garmin beta changelog provides some clarification, however. For example, the company claims to have resolved eight different issues through bug fixes. Additionally, version 22.12 enhances the Garmin Run Coach and Garmin Cycling Coach programs by adding additional strength training exercises. For reference, the list of changes Garmin made in version 22.12 was as follows:
- Added connection type information for paired sensors.
- Improved the Garmin Run Coach and Garmin Cycling Coach plans by adding additional strength training workouts.
- Supports updates to the user’s workout readiness score throughout the day.
- Support for the latest Connect IQ apps, watch faces and data fields.
- Improved the icons that appear with notifications.
- Fixed touch setting not always being respected during activities.
- Fixed a crash that could occur with custom activity alert.
- Fixed an issue with sunrise/sunset alerts not sticking.
- Fixed an issue where alerts from one profile appear in another profile.
- Fixed an issue where navigation with hotkeys failed.
- Fixed CIQ gaze icons on some products.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a workout video to crash.
- Fixed a sleep mode schedule UI layout issue.
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