Tony Bonanno 6
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
It took 5 months and 6 replacement devices for success. Almost. The device itself is great except for audio controls, dang thing cannot have audio from my phone because it causes an issue with my Cardo headset or my car Bluetooth audio. The app is garbage for routing because it only displays detail in random areas unless on satellite view, and then it does not have all the road names. As I have said every time to Garmin customer service: they are awesome, their app team is garbage. Edited
Bobby Bennett 4
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Their featured roads are good, but it is missing layers for motorcycle friendly roads (something like Butler Maps). They are slow to update maps, but most of the areas I ride are rural so that's understandable. Syncing between app and device doesn't work for A LOT of people. It will cause your device to restart itself every four minutes. To resolve, you cannot enable storage which means this app can't be used for 90% of its intended purpose. Use the storage (cloud/Explore) at your own risk. Edited
John N. Healy 9
Monday, November 11, 2024
When do you plan to fix what was broken with last update? App was helpful but no longer connects to device and started pushing "need to connect" notifications to the app in the middle of the night.....? Yes, I read all the "help" items on the device/Garmin website. Until the last update connecting was solid/automatic. Please fix. Thanks. Edited
Almir Osmanović 2
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Will update when fixed. Pixel 8 Pro - The app connects to XT2 via bluetooth successfully. The XT2 is still stuck in the "Searching for Garmin Tread App" screen. I have to hit cancel to get to the home screen on which the "T" shows up, but the device is not getting Traffic or Weather information from the phone. I must have reset the device and bluetooth connection at least a dozen times. Works with no issues on a iPhone 12. Edited
Justin S 31
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Explore and this are similar, then I have earthmate for my InReach. Worst of all this isn't anything like Ultimate Campgrounds. They just bought the database and tossed the functionality. The beauty of UC was its filters. Unless I just haven't dug deep enough into Tread it appears that ability to filter campgrounds is gone. Garmin is missing the boat on this. Another example of a big company buying a successful small product and destroying it. Edited
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