Garmin N. America App Reviews

I cant believe how this app for my iPhone has gone from great to a worthless piece of #+*! If you dont already have it dont waste your money! Garmin better get it together soon! It doesnt matter how you try to pick a destination it cant calculate the route or recognize the address.

I also started getting the "cant calculate route" message. I deleted the application, reinstalled and restarted my iPhone 6 with IOS 8.1.2. Things look fine now. I lost my favorites. Local search must do a better job too. I still use Waze as my main navigation tool.

Mine Just stopped showing local roads. Tried reinstalling with no success and lost all my favorites along the way. Also, iCloud backup of favorite is not actually working because ind first has to be running Yosimite on all other machines...and two of my critical software packages dont yet run on that OS. Lastly, Garmin provides no support or two-way communications for apps. I wish the companys consumer division was as conscientious as its air pilot subsidiary (Im a flyer, too).

Delete app, reinstall, reload maps and free stuff. Worked perfect 01/28/15

I use to live by this app. Since the latest update even addresses Ive used in the past cant be found. Garmin needs to fix this ASAP!!!

It is very good navigator. I need only one more function. It is From-To function. The Trip Planner is not convinient to use. I can select only destination on the spot of the map with Go icon. Sometimes, I want to know a rout from one special position (not current position) to other position.

Could use some updating on the GUI! Long over due.

Worked great until last update. Now REQUIRED maps do not finish its download. Get almost all the way then hangs. Left all nite and still did not finish. Tried multiple devices I have and multiple wifi spots (not just my own) including 3G. Same response across ALL devices. Skip this product as you can not use it without the maps. Support no good as it takes you to a pre canned "is it turned on. Make sure its plugged in page." Or visit the forums page for help type of crap. Can not reach any real help.

The app will not work under iOS 8 while driving

First let me note that I own the Navigon, Tomtom, coPilot and motionX GPS apps (yes, Ive spent a fortune) and I consider Garmin to be the best GPS app Ive found considering both usability and accuracy. It operates nearly the same as the Garmin GPS I have in my car and with the traffic add on usually gives me the best routing option. Is it perfect, no, but none of the others I have found are any better and some, in particular the free options such as Google maps, are much worse when it comes to accurate directions. YMMV.

I give this 2 stars only because this WAS my favorite navigation app. Now this is nearly a worthless. No maps load and navigation does not work. You might want to fix that!

Wanted a real gps function instead of relying on Apple or Google maps. This shows great in iphone6. One suggestion would be to allow user which POI to show in map view up. Also ability to create custom POI. **Update*** One other suggestion would be to have the ability to share maps amongs users. Not like Glympse but as in one person can create an itinerary on their Garmin/iPhone and send it to another Garmen iPhone user. My wife and I both have this app but she does most of the trip planning. There is no way to easily share that information and we do not share an iCloud account because of Apple Pay. Thank you.

Garmin gps app for iOS is seriously outdated and gives weird directions, it needs to be fixed. Its ironic that Garmin has lost their way!!!

Ive been using this app a few months after iphone5 was launched. There were a few bugs that was later fixed by Garmin. It was my main gps when I travel and now have iPhone 6 and it is still my main gps.

Recently installed latest version of app on the wifes brand new iPhone 6 Plus. Spent over an hour re-inputting the favorites and every time we try to get routing for any location, we get an error, Cannot Calculate Route. Why didnt we restore this from her previous iPhone? We did. Complete with favorites. And that didnt work, so I uninstalled it and all of the favorites that my wife has saved for the past two years. Favorites that she needs to do her job. This is ridicuous. Garmin makes great hardware but theyve never made great software. Do not spend money on this or any of their products, for any reason. Im done with this company and Ive been a loyal user for more than 20 years. This is the last straw.

Stopped showing local roads on iPhone. Tried reloading maps,didnt work. Tried reloading app, didnt work either. Works on iPad. Useless on iPhone.

I had the same issue others are reporting where you just have the base map after the upgrade, despite downloading 2 Gigs of detailed maps. I deleted the app and re-installed and then redownloaded the maps, and all is well again. If you use iCloud to sync your favorites they should still be there. Garmin needs to fix this, but until then there is a workaround.

Found a possible fix!! Finally figured out how to get this working after much frustration; I think someone else may have posted they got it working, but gave no detailed instructions. I have it working on a 1st gen iPad mini, iPhone 3gs, iPhone 5 and iPhone 6. I take no liability for this fix, the app not working, or any related issues. DO AT YOUR OWN RISK. 1. Start fresh. Delete the Garmin N.A. app from your phone/device. 2. Install the Garmin N.A. app from the App Store. 3. Open app 4. Follow on screen menus to the dialog that allows you to download map sets 5. There are two items you’ll need to download. First, there is a set of “core” files that must be downloaded. Second, there is the map data set you purchased, in this case the North America map set. Tap on the download button to download each of these. Find a place with fast internet or be patient. 6. Wait for the downloads to complete and do not close the app. If you are prompted by the first core files download to restart the app press “ok” and continue waiting for the North America maps to finish downloading. 7. (IMPORTANT STEP) AS SOON AS the North America map set is finished downloading it will prompt you to perform an app restart. DO NOT RESTART THE APP! At this point press “ok”. Then Hold the power button on your phone until the shutdown slider appears. 8. Wait for the phone to shutdown. 9. Hold the power button until the Apple logo appears on the screen. Wait for the phone to reboot. 10. Open the Garmin North America app and you’ll notice that the app can now access the map data unlike before and can calculate a route. Voila! Dear Garmin, I feel like I’ve definitely cut you some slack here by giving a 4. I hold Garmin in high regard in terms of navigation and would trust my life on it. Overall it’s a great app, a 4, but if it’s unreliable, it’s worth a -5. I purchased this app so that in a pinch, without cell service, I wouldn’t be stranded. If it doesn’t work when I expect it to work, I’m stranded. For the sake of the company, please consider a) making a prominent post to your website to explain a temporary fix or b) release an update that remediates the issue altogether. Garmin, you are one of the biggest names in navigation and if I ever own a plane I will buy Garmin for navigation. For integrity’s sake fix the app.

This used to be my go-to nav app. Now it’s just an expensive waste of space. Please update!

Ive owned several Garmin GPS units in years past. They worked great so I thought this app would as well. NOT! The outlandish cost of the app itself plus the super-expensive in-app purchases puts this busted apps price tag around $140.00!!! Thats insane for an app thats got way too many issues to list here. Oh, and if you pay for the crappy in app purchases the total download size of this app is 4.1GB!!! Thats about 1/3 of the available storage space of a 16GB iPhone. DONT BUY!!!