Consider this a public service announcement. For some of you this will matter a lot. Others not at all. And others will still note that this has been around since the Edge 1040 launched last summer. What has become clear in recent weeks, however, is that many people want this feature, and don't realize that it is now actually present in the Garmin Edge 540 and Edge 840 series devices (as well as the Garmin Edge Explore 2 , from last summer).

Basically, with previous Garmin Edge devices, if you wanted to send a new course to your Edge device (from your phone) during an activity, you couldn't actually do that. To complete this activity, you had to end the activity. I don't know why this restriction existed. In fact, it's not actually a limitation I ever encountered until people started talking about it last summer. That's just not how I would plan routes or cycle. I planned a course before I started pedaling, and stuck to that course. Worst case scenario, I'd go straight back to the beginning, or to a secondary point if time got tight. But I'd never had a reason to have a new route from Komoot/Strava/Garmin sent to my Edge device mid-ride.

Anyway, a group of people wanted that position.

So now it's here. Well, I mean, it was here last summer on the Edge 1040 and Edge Explore 2, but now it's also here on the Edge 540 and Edge 840. And it works exactly as you'd expect, as instantly as you'd expect (this has also worked the same way on Garmin wearable devices for years, although I sometimes find the definition of 'instant' a bit less direct there). Here, let me show you…

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