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Garmin Connect adds follower system and new privacy controls

This isn't a news hook, it's a product explainer with no new development to frame.

The Short Version

Garmin Connect's Android app is adding a follower system and new privacy controls to its social features in 2026.

Garmin Connect is adding a follower system and new privacy controls to its Android app, turning a workout-logging tool into something closer to a social network. Strava built an entire company on exactly this idea, so Garmin is arriving late to a party that already has a host. Whether users actually want their running cadence to have followers is a question Garmin is now forcing them to answer.
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