Garmin was down — what happened during Garmin Connect outage

Garmin Connect experienced a major outage on Wednesday morning
Garmin smartwatches took a tumble on Wednesday morning. According to Down Detector, a mass of users reported issues with the Garmin Connect online service that holds all of Garmin's online smartwatch features together.
Garmin was down — what happened during the Garmin Connect outage
Error reports on Downdetector spiked at about 7:14am ET and have been declining since, suggesting that most users are now able to use the app, despite the fact the Garmin website still says its down, and the notifications about the outage are still showing in Garmin Connect.
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