Key Takeaways
1. Garmin launched the Connect+ subscription service in March 2025, priced at $6.99 monthly or $69.99 annually, offering exclusive features for subscribers.
2. Subscribers gain enhanced LiveTrack features, including text alerts for followers and a personalized LiveTrack homepage.
3. The LiveTrack homepage customization is now accessible to all users with a connectivity subscription, including inReach subscribers.
4. Other premium features of Garmin Connect+ include coaching tips, unique badge challenges, and 3D maps.
5. Garmin is exploring the possibility of expanding more features from Connect+ to users with different subscriptions, like inReach or Outdoor Maps+.
Garmin might be expanding one of its subscriber-only features to a wider audience of smartwatch users. In March 2025, the brand launched the Connect+ subscription service, which offered a variety of new functions exclusively to those who subscribed for $6.99 a month (or $69.99 annually).
Features Available for Subscribers
The added features included upgrades to “LiveTrack”; the basic LiveTrack lets friends and family follow your location while you’re being active. For subscribers, there were additional perks like text alerts for followers and the option to set up a personalized LiveTrack homepage.
Updates on LiveTrack
A recent update from Garmin Rumors suggests that the LiveTrack feature is getting a makeover. The blog also reports that the ability to customize a LiveTrack homepage is now accessible to anyone with a connectivity subscription. This opens up the feature to inReach subscribers, who won’t need to pay for the Garmin Connect+ plan to use it. This could be particularly useful for users of the newly launched Garmin Fenix 8 Pro smartwatch (currently priced at $1,299.99 on Amazon). However, it seems that sending LiveTrack info via text remains exclusive to Garmin Connect+ subscribers.
More Premium Features
In case you forgot, other premium features included in Garmin Connect+ are specialized coaching tips for Garmin Coach training plans, unique badge challenges, and 3D maps. It’s still uncertain if or when additional features from Garmin Connect+ will be available to smartwatch users who have different subscriptions, such as inReach or Outdoor Maps+.
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