Garmin Drive™

Garmin

About this app

The Garmin Drive™ app is a simple and convenient app solution for the latest Garmin automotive navigators and dash cams. Visit garmin.com/driveapp for a list of compatible devices.

For compatible navigators, the Garmin Drive app provides real-time information for traffic, parking, advanced weather, and photoLive traffic cameras, in addition to the ability to send and receive calls, texts, and notifications from your Bluetooth-enabled mobile device.

For compatible dash cams, the Garmin Drive app provides quick access to camera controls, settings, and recorded footage. Up to four dash cams can be wirelessly connected with the Dash Cam Auto Sync feature to provide comprehensive coverage around a vehicle, offering various viewpoints recorded by the multiple cameras. The Garmin Drive app can create a “picture-in-picture” video from any two perspectives at the same time, making it easy to review video and also share videos with friends, insurance agencies, or legal authorities.

Garmin Speak™ with Amazon Alexa brings what you love about Amazon Alexa to your vehicle. Just ask Alexa to hear music, news, and more. Also, enjoy Garmin turn-by-turn navigation. Stream the audio (music and other responses) from your vehicle’s stereo when you connect Garmin Speak to your stereo using Bluetooth® or AUX.

Older Bluetooth-capable Garmin navigators are compatible with the Garmin Smartphone Link app, and older Wi-Fi-enabled Garmin dash cams can access video footage through the Garmin VIRB app.

Ratings and reviews

Decent product (mini 2 - great, mini 1 - not great), terrible app. There is usually a trick to getting the cameras to connect to the app. it doesn't ever seem to be the same trick, unfortunately. So, I end up spending hours each time I try to connect to view videos, retrieve videos, format the memory card (because the mini 1 fills up and won't overwrite), or adjust the view. I've been trying to connect for the past 20 minutes because it just says connecting to wifi, and never connects.

App works okay, but not great. It doesn't seem to be able to take addresses shared from another app (eg maps or a calendar) even though the same address share functionality works perfectly with other navigation apps. I reported it to tech support a month or so ago, and although they were aware of it, there still hasn't been a fix. Please fix this basic feature. Also, occasionally pairing gets broken between the phone and GPS. Can't simply re-pair. Had to reinstall app per tech support. Clunky.

Good product horrible app. been using a DC mini 2 for a while and the product is great but when I finally upgraded to an s25 ultra i tried the app for all the extras for it. App refuses to connect to the camera and i got a new camera to make sure it wasnt that but wont connect to it either. it also apparently sells data to 3rd party vendors, so don't bother with the app at all, though I do recommend the camera for it's size and quality.