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Customizing Your Automotive Devices and Vehicles in the Garmin Drive App
The Garmin Drive™ app allows you to customize your Garmin GPS navigators or Garmin Dash Cams in the vehicles you use them in.
Vehicles Feature
- The home screen will be organized by vehicle names. It is named Vehicle 1 by default. Tap Vehicle 1 if you would like to input your own custom vehicle name.
- For a your own organizational purposes, devices may be rearranged within a vehicle, and vehicles can be rearranged in order of appearance on the home screen.
- The vehicle name can be collapsed for a condensed view or expanded to display the Garmin devices assigned to it.
- Once a vehicle name is expanded, actions applicable to paired Garmin devices, such as Locate Vehicle, Save Video, Live View, Review Video, and Audio Recording, will display.
- Extra features applicable for your device such as Vault or Amazon Alexa setup are deferred until you are ready. See your device owner's manual for setup and usage: Manual for Your Product
Additional Details
- Multiple Garmin GPS navigators can be assigned to a vehicle, but only one navigation device can be actively connected at a time. For example, the Garmin DriveSmart 66 and Garmin Speak are both GPS navigators and can be paired but not connected in the Garmin Drive app at the same time.
- A maximum of four vehicles can be created.
- Vehicle names can be up to 30 characters in length.
- There can be more than one vehicle with the same name.
- Each vehicle may have up to four dash cameras assigned to it.
- Exceptions: Garmin GPS navigators with built-in dash cameras and the Garmin Speak Plus with built-in dash camera will not count toward the four-camera maximum.
- Garmin dash cameras in a multiple camera network within the same vehicle will respond to most commands at the same time.
- Exceptions: Garmin GPS navigators with built-in dash cameras will not participate in a multiple camera network.
Editing the Vehicle or Renaming a Garmin Dash Cam
See the steps Rename the Garmin Dash Cam or Edit the Vehicle in the Garmin Drive App