Garmin VIRB User Reviews

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Awful

This app is as awful as the camera it tries to work with (dashcam 55). Unreliable. Loses connection with the camera even when the camera is plugged in.

Doesn’t Connect

Followed instructions in app. Phone connected with WiFi, no connection after scan timed out.

Unusuable app

Old, broken, useless. WiFi feature doesn’t connect to the network. Cannot view dashcam videos on iphone. You have to plug the MicroSD card into a computer to retrieve your videos. Apple should remove this app from the appstore

Bro this is dog water

You can’t even use it if you don’t have a phone on iPads and tablets it doesn’t work

App stopped connecting

Connection via WiFi works, but nothing is connecting using the app when try to share the video. The keep saying hold you phone near the camera.

Waste of time

Could connect to wifi on dashcam 45 but the app then didn’t detect it.

Looks like I’m stuck getting the SD card out for now

Hmmm what do you know about that.

Ya’ll just got to be smarter than what ya’ll work’n with.

Stay away from GARMIN

This is a spy software demanding access and control your tablet and network.
Old versions were fine: a tool to access the camera but not this.

Does not connect to my 65W

Frustrating having to use this stupid app, does not connect at all.

Used to be great now it’s abandoned

This used to be a great and really convenient app that I was able to pull up any footage that I needed while driving. Unfortunately, the developers have given up on the app and now you cannot connect any of your dash cams onto the app I had to buy a microSD card to USB adapter in order to retrieve my footage.
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iOS 17

Doesn’t seem to work on iOS 17. I connect to my dash cam and the app still says i need to connect. Never had the problem before upgrading.

Garbage app, useless

The app won’t connect my IPhone 14 to the dash cam. The phone detects the wi fi signal of the dash cam but will not connect. The error message said no internet connection detected. The only way to view videos is to connect the dash cam to a PC.

Does not work

This app does not work. It is unable to view video files stored on the camera. That is the whole purpose of the app.

Only way to view and retrieve videos is by connecting the Garmin 55 to a computer by USB or viewing directly on the camera.

Garmin VIRB is rubbish

Frustrating app. Waste of time. In the end have remove the camera & connect to a Windows pc to download. Save your money. Buy something that is easy & reliable

This app renders the camera itself useless

This app is absolute garbage, you’ve had years to fix it and you haven’t. I will be throwing my expensive Garmin 55 in the trash and buying something else.

Way Better than before.

I never used this app when I first got the camera it was so bad. Now you can do the 3D perspective edits sane as the desktop version quite easily. Glad I tried it again after several years.

App is trash

Just getting a device to connect is almost impossible, GOPRO is the way

Useless

Couldn’t even connect the camera to my phone with the built in WiFi. Useless app ever!

Decent hardware ruined by abandoned software

I purchased Garmin “65w” dashcams for both my family cars. The cameras are fine - they are pretty small and work well enough. However, it’s really frustrating that this app has been completely abandoned by Garnin. Two years without an update, crashes constantly, and it no longer even works enough to serve the most basic functions: you can’t access the library of stored videos on the camera or update its firmware on current-gen iOS devices.

Do better than this, Garmin.
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Won’t connect dash cam 45

I used to be able to connect my Garmin dash cam 45 via this app so I can view it on my phone, now the app won’t even connect to the dash cam even though I connect my phone to the dash cam’s Wi-Fi, the dash cam is a good product but without connection to the phone you can’t view or save footage from dash cam
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