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Month-long Garmin Venu bug represents a worrying trend across fitness watches

It's hard to catch every bug from a software update if you're testing a feature across dozens of different products.

While these longstanding issues don't look great for Garmin, I'll note that buggy software updates with inadvertent consequences seem to be a worrying trend with fitness watches and trackers recently. A month later, tech sites caught wind of the issue; Fitbit said the update wasn't to blame without explaining why Charge 5 trackers broke after factory resets or could no longer track sleep. So when a real, widespread bug shows up, like the Venu Sq 2's app block or the Forerunners' HR inaccuracies, the support team will respond with canned advice until enough people yell about it for them to escalate the issue.

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