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

Garmin Dash Cam Mini 2. I was never able to get it to connect after trying 3 PHONES over the last two years. NO OTHER WAY TO CHANGE SETTINGS. No USB, no desktop app, nothing except janky Bluetooth in their heavy dated app. Tried everything. I try every few months to see if it will ever work. Also it gets super hot. If they allowed a lower resolution or framerate for heat and storage practicality, and added a desktop app to plug it in to change settings reliably, it would be an easy 5 stars.

This was a great app to shoot an address from my phone to my navigation device, until the recent update. Now it says wait while it connects and never connects. I don't have time to play the waiting game. I have places to go. I sat 5 minutes and it didn't connect, yet it was connected to my phone via Bluetooth the entire time. Now it's faster to enter addresses in the old-fashioned way, manually. It simply will not connect to my phone via Bluetooth. Disappointing.

I can't view any of my files because app constantly says "Connecting to wifi" when I select Videos & Photos. When I try to View Live Feed, it says Connecting to Feed but never connects. When I go into settings, it shows the camera is connected to WiFi. Extremely frustrating. I followed all steps in the Help section to no avail. My phone is new and up-to-date. Looks like I will have to return this camera. Being Garmin, you'd think they could afford to hire software engineers who can fix this.

What’s new

The Garmin Drive app is continually working to improve your experience and help simplify your drive. This version includes bug fixes to improve device functionality, as well as features to support new Garmin devices.