I want to say that previous versions of Garmin connect did have the data locally, such that you could see your runs or activities without being connected to the

I want to say that previous versions of Garmin connect did have the data locally, such that you could see your runs or activities without being connected to the Garmin services. The present version of Garmin connect does nothing if you are not connected to Garmin servers. E.g. you can't see your activities, your data or anything else. When this change occurred, I remember that it annoyed me greatly. Why not have some local data cached on your phone? Other apps seem to manage that no problem. If you'd have no internet access, you could at least still use the app to see your activities and sync them later. This seems so obvious to me that I have trouble understanding why they chose the current route. Of course, it's still not a total disaster. Garmin devices still work and track, you can still view the data on them, and they usually plug in as a USB drive anywhere so you can upload the data manually. Still, for smartwatch users, this could have been a really minor inconvenience rather than what it is now.