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

I usually don't leave 1 star reviews but this last update is horrible. I needed to access clips from my Garmin Dash Cam Mini 2 and after almost 1h I was never able to connect. It used to be painfully slow, but usually would work. This time, it would never connect via WiFi. I tried everything I could think (I'm a software engineer) and literally nothing worked. These dashcams are expensive, the software should work. This is unacceptable.

just a few months ago I could pull videos and see my live feed in secs. now all I get is "connecting to wifi" tried to pull a video and nothing. got to the point where the app was saying that my phone can't connect to the wifi. restarted both my phone and dash cam still same problem nothing but loading thr video plays in the background but I can't interact with. needs to be majorly fixed soon.

this Garmin Zumo XT is infuriating. I'm a smart guy and reasonably tech savvy, but I feel like you need a software degree to figure this thing out. I enter a destination and it says "cannot calculate route", and nothing I do changes it. Garmin has about 68 different apps to download and you have to connect the unit to your laptop with a USB cable to update anything - which is absolutely useless when I'm out on the road with only my cellphone. I think I'm about done with this POS.

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.