Garmin watches have never required a subscription to access any of their core features, and that hasn't changed. But as of 2025, Garmin now offers a $6.99/month subscription called Connect+ that provides “premium features,” including AI, on top of what you already get for free with the Garmin Connect app.
A Connect+ subscription costs $6.99/month or $69.99/year. Again, it only adds features on top of what you already get with the Garmin Connect app; after nearly a year, no preexisting features free have been paywalled.
Connect+ is not Garmin’s first subscription service. They have long offered a slate of services for various special purposes, including hiking and hunting maps, marine charts, search and rescue insurance, dog tracking, kids’ smartwatch tracking, and more. But this is definitely Garmin’s first foray into a premium subscription for health and fitness features, in the same vein as, say, Fitbit.
What Connect+ includes
Active Intelligence (an AI analysis of your activities; this requires opt-in). It seems pretty lackluster.
Live Activity, which lets you follow a workout from your phone and not just your watch
Social features, including double points on badges and the ability to earn badges from anywhere in the world (some badges are only available in certain locations). Immediately upon signing up for Connect+, I noticed a little yellow star on the corner of my profile pic on the app.
Garmin Trails, a feature that looks like it's supposed to rival AllTrails but doesn't seem to have enough data to do so (yet?)
The end-of-year Garmin Connect Rundown that collects all your stats for shareable viewing
Of all these features, Live Activity and the Performance Dashboard seem the most useful, so I'll go a bit deeper on those.
What you get with Live Activity
Screenshots of a live activity on the home screen, editing sets and reps, and what you see when you do a treadmill workout. Credit: Beth SkwareckiBut with Live Activity, you can now use the Garmin Connect app while you’re doing an activity on your watch. That’s especially useful for strength workouts, which previously required you to edit weights and reps through an awkward interface on the watch after each set.
I started the workout on my watch. Nothing happened on the phone—I might have expected a notification—but when I opened the Garmin Connect app on my phone, there was a tile on the home screen for a Live Activity. I tapped it, and there was the same workout I was doing on the watch. I could see my heart rate, the time elapsed, and which exercise I was supposed to be doing.
Importantly, if you’ve turned off rep counting or weight editing on your phone (because they’re so annoying in normal use), you’ll want to turn them back on for this. The watch counted my kettlebell swings, and at the end of each set prompted me to edit my reps and weight. This editing screen came up on both the watch and my phone, and of course it was easier to edit that information from the phone.
Pause or unpause the workout
Advance to the next set (strength), or start a new lap (in activities like running)
But only the watch can do the following:
Finish and save the workout
Live Activity definitely improves the usability of the watch for strength workouts. I don’t entirely see the point for running workouts, but maybe there’s a use case I haven’t thought of yet.
What’s in the Performance Dashboard
Four of the charts I can view in my Performance Dashboard Credit: Beth Skwarecki/GarminThe Performance Dashboard is a new item in the sidebar of the web dashboard. To set it up:
Select Performance Dashboard, which I see as the last blue item, just under Reports.
Some of the charts on the performance dashboard are also available from the free Reports tool, although Reports will only show you one chart at a time. The Performance Dashboard is definitely a better tool if you’re looking to really nerd out about your data.
There’s good news here for people who want AI in everything, and for those of us whose reaction is “oh god, not here too” (this meme sums up my personal stance). The AI (“active intelligence”) is the one feature of Connect+ that requires you to opt in, even after you have subscribed to the whole package.
Unfortunately, there’s not much to say at the moment. When I first tried it, my home screen “insight” (which you can turn off, by the way, even with AI enabled) at first just told me to check back later. My recent runs didn't have any AI commentary attached. Garmin says that “As customers use Garmin Connect+ more, the insights will become more tailored to them and their goals.”
The AI feature is labeled as a “beta,” with a thumbs up/thumbs down icon that lets me rate the insight I just read. I can say that it’s interesting, not interesting, or “report a concern” if it’s inaccurate, discouraging, or poorly written. (You can also give a custom response.) I’ll keep an eye on these notes and report back as the AI gets to know me better.
At least Garmin asks your permission to train its AI on your data
I asked Garmin if this means that the AI is only trained on people who opt-in. A spokesperson confirmed: “We only train with data from users who have consented.” The existing model was trained on users who previously granted permission for their data to be used for product improvements. Garmin has a brief AI transparency policy here.
You can revoke permission at any time in your Connect+ settings, which will also turn off your access to AI features.
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