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I didn't realize this. Just verified on my Forerunner 965, if I put my phone in Airplane Mode, turn off Wi-Fi, leave Bluetooth on, then Garmin Connect disabled

I didn't realize this. Just verified on my Forerunner 965, if I put my phone in Airplane Mode, turn off Wi-Fi, leave Bluetooth on, then Garmin Connect disabled the sync button and says "No Internet connection".

alt227 1y ago
In my experience, airplane mode also disables Bluetooth. You would just need to turn wifi off to test this.
- jjani 1y ago
  IME it very much doesn't. Bluetooth headphones/earphones in the airplane while on airplane mode are now part of near every flight.
mcintyre1994 1y ago
This is why when Garmin Connect has outages you can’t sync the watch to the phone, it’s a pretty bad architecture. It should sync to the phone without internet or any services and then use internet to sync from the phone to the cloud.
- DebtDeflation 1y ago
  It's utterly bizarre. I was impacted by that outage a year or so ago and they claimed that they were going provide offline syncing in the future but I still don't see it. It seems the flow is Watch ->(Bluetooth)-> Phone ->(LTE/WiFi) -> Garmin Cloud ->(LTE/WiFi) Phone. There's no reason for the Cloud step other than that Garmin wants your data but the sync won't work without it.