Connect your Garmin account to HiiKER and the activities you record on your Garmin appear in HiiKER automatically. You can also send any HiiKER hike to your Garmin device as a course.
In this article: Connect Garmin · What syncs · Send a hike to your Garmin · Disconnect · Troubleshooting
Connect Garmin in the app
- Go to the Home tab and tap the settings icon.
- Select Connect with other apps.
- Turn on the Garmin Connect switch.
- Sign in to your Garmin account.
- Garmin asks what HiiKER may access: your activities, so they can appear in HiiKER, and courses, so HiiKER can send routes to your Garmin. Leave both on and confirm.
On the website: sign in and go to hiiker.app/user/integrations (Integrations in the menu on your profile pages), then click Connect next to Garmin.
What syncs
- From Garmin to HiiKER: activities you record on your Garmin with GPS, such as hikes, walks, runs and rides, appear in My Recordings, marked Garmin. They count towards your stats and peak bagging.
- From HiiKER to Garmin: HiiKER doesn’t send your planned hikes to Garmin automatically. Send each hike you want on your device, as shown below.
Send a hike to your Garmin
- Open the hike in the HiiKER app and tap More.
- Tap Send to GPS (iPhone) or Send to GPS Device (Android).
- If the hike has more than one route, choose the ones to send.
- HiiKER sends it to Garmin Connect as a course. It reaches your device the next time the device syncs with Garmin Connect.
Garmin needs to be connected first. To send hikes from the website, see Sending routes to your Garmin from the HiiKER website.
Disconnect Garmin
- In the app: go to Home > settings icon > Connect with other apps and turn off Garmin Connect.
- On the website: go to hiiker.app/user/integrations and click Disconnect next to Garmin.
- In Garmin Connect: remove HiiKER from the connected apps in your Garmin Connect account settings.
Recordings that have already synced stay in your HiiKER account. Deleting the HiiKER app doesn’t disconnect Garmin, so disconnect it as above if you stop using HiiKER.
Troubleshooting
- Can’t connect? Check your internet connection and your Garmin login details, then try again.
- Activities not appearing? Check Garmin Connect is still switched on, the activity has synced from your device to Garmin Connect, and it was recorded with GPS.
- If both Garmin and Strava are connected, your Garmin activities can appear on Strava twice. See Why are my activities being posted to Strava twice?.
- Still stuck? Contact HiiKER support.
Related: Sending routes to your Garmin from the HiiKER website · Connecting Strava and Garmin to your HiiKER account · Why are my activities being posted to Strava twice?
