{"id":327362,"date":"2025-12-04T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327362\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:58:13","slug":"garmin-paywalled-its-spotify-wrapped-style-end-of-year-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327362\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin Paywalled Its Spotify Wrapped-Style End-Of-Year Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/spotify-wrapped-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Spotify Wrapped<\/a> has inspired an awful lot of imitators, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/wikipedia-year-in-review-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wikipedia<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/youtube-recap-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>. The flood of such year-end analysis is becoming a bit much, although I can cut them a break since when else would you release an annual retrospective other than in the last month of the year?<\/p>\n<p>Where Garmin has beaten the other imitators to market, though, is in charging its customers the privilege of viewing their own imitation, titled Garmin Connect Rundown.<\/p>\n<p>A rough year for Garmin users<\/p>\n<p>Garmin Connect Rundown is cleverly named. I\u2019ll give it that. Let me give you the rundown on why 2025 was a costly and frustrating year for Garmin users who rely on their Garmin smartwatches for workout data on their workouts and outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<p>The Rundown, Garmin puts it, is a \u201cpersonalized annual report (that) includes health, performance, and activity stats, including total steps, average sleep score, totals of each activity type, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garmin already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/garmin-ticked-off-smartwatch-users-with-its-new-subscription-fee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ticked off<\/a> a lot of its heaviest users in March 2025 when they announced the introduction of a $7-per-month (or $70-per-year)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmin.com\/en-US\/p\/1565777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Garmin Connect+<\/a>\u00a0subscription that\u2019d offer personalized, AI-driven insights into their health and activity.<\/p>\n<p>The free, non-plus Garmin Connect tier remained available. Still, Garmin fans saw it as an ominous sign that Garmin would develop its best features only for paying subscribers. Those fears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/garmin-to-hide-more-features-behind-paywall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">proved correct<\/a> when, two months later, Garmin announced even more features would be placed behind the paywall of Connect+.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the general statistics and analysis of Garmin Connect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmin.com\/en-US\/blog\/general\/2025-garmin-connect-data-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">users as a whole here<\/a>. Still, you\u2019re going to have to log in to your Garmin Connect+ account to see your personalized Rundown results, which reflect how you, individually, used your Garmin smartwatch this year.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and pay Garmin $7 per month for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmin.com\/en-US\/p\/1565777\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">Connect+ subscription<\/a> to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spotify Wrapped has inspired an awful lot of imitators, from Wikipedia to YouTube. 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