We look and review the new Garmin inReach 2 and the Garmin Instinct 2 GPS watch, plus Andy’s Top Tips.

In this month’s podcast

1. We look at the new Garmin inReach Mini2
   
2. We then look at the new Garmin Instinct 2 series of GPS Watches
   
3. Andy’s top tips
   

1. The first thing on this month’s Podcast is a look at the Garmin inReach mini 2

What is a Garmin inReach mini?

Contract needed for it to work – like a mobile phone contract

We have had the Garmin inReach mini (1) for a number of years,
now we have the inReach mini 2

The key differences –

Battery Life 

Trackbacks 

Navigational experience on the Garmin inReach mini 2

Digital Compass 

Multi-GNSS 

Garmin Explore App 

Compatible with other Garmin devices

To find out more about the new Garmin inReach mini 2 go to our website – gpstraining.co.uk > GPS Store > Two-Way Satellite Communication

2. The next thing on this month’s podcast is another new product from Garmin – the Garmin Instinct 2 watch

What is a Garmin Instinct GPS Watch?

Four models

Battery Life

Garmin Pay

Connect IQ Store

Built-in Sports Apps

VO2 Max

Recovery Time

MTB Dynamics

Sleep monitoring

Respiration tracking

Fitness Age

Intensity minutes

Women’s health tracking

The Instinct 2 & 2s ranges are still packed with all the great original features of the 1^st Generation Instinct watches.

Multi-GNSS support

Follow a Course

ABC Sensors

Trackback Routing

Mark a Waypoint

Safety and tracking Features

Smart notifications

Wrist-based heart rate

Stress Tracking

To find out more about the range of Garmin Instinct Watches please go to our website – GPSTraining.co.uk > GPS Store and then GPS Watches

3. The next thing on this month’s GPS Training Podcast is Andy’s top tips

• Fenix Watches not displaying in Finder on Macs –
  

  Garmins watches that now use MTP  (Media Transfer Protocol) this tends to be the watches that can have music stored on them such as the Fenix 6 range are not being detected in Finder by Macs, this is due to Apple being compatible with MTP transfer protocol, whether apple will change this in the future we don’t know but from MAC forums a free to use programme that lets you see the Fenix watch on your Mac to manually copy and paste files to can be downloaded from  – www.android.com/filetransfer

  
  

• InReach mini 2 – Battery safe Tips
  

Brightness lower to save battery – Pwr button once – scroll down to Brightness Ok, up down arrows lower or increase 25% normally fine
Settings – System – Display – also has brightness + Timeout 15, 30 secs, 1 min etc

• Settings – Tracking – Activity Recording Standard better battery, high detail better for more accurate track back but more battery
  
• Settings – tracking – Send interval – Off – 10, 20, 30 mins, 1hr , 2hr, 4hr
  
• Settings – System – GPS , GPS Better battery , Multi GNSS more accurate , quicker fix but more battery
  

To find more top tips please do sign up for the GPS Training online resource, this is packed full of video top tips. Go to our website – gpstraining.co.uk and click on the – Online resource – on the top menu bar

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• Many thanks to Andy for joining me on this month’s podcast.