Turning Incident Detection On And Off; Cancelling An Automated Message; Sending A Status Update After An Incident; Turning On Livetrack - Garmin EDGE 840 Owner's Manual

Turning Incident Detection On and Off

1 Select > Safety & Tracking > Incident Detection.
2 Select the activity profile to enable incident detection.
NOTE: Incident detection is enabled by default for the road, gravel, commute, tour, and ebike activity profiles
only. Depending on the terrain and your riding style, false positives can occur.

Cancelling an Automated Message

When an incident is detected by your device, you can cancel the automated emergency message on your device
or your paired smartphone before it is sent to your emergency contacts.
Select Cancel > before the end of the thirty-second countdown.

Sending a Status Update After an Incident

Before you can send a status update to your emergency contacts, your device must detect an incident and send
an automated emergency message to your emergency contacts.
You can send a status update to your emergency contacts informing them you are not in need of assistance.
1 Swipe down from the top of the screen, and swipe left or right to view the controls widget.
2 Select Incident Detected > I'm Okay.
A message is sent to all emergency contacts.

Turning On LiveTrack

Before you can start your first LiveTrack session, you must set up contacts in the Garmin Connect app.
1 Select > Safety & Tracking > LiveTrack.
2 Select an option:
• Select Auto Start to start a LiveTrack session each time you start this type of activity.
• Select LiveTrack Name to update the name of your LiveTrack session. The current date is the default
name.
• Select Recipients to view recipients.
• Select Course Sharing if you want your recipients to see your course.
3 Select Start LiveTrack.
Recipients can view your live data on a Garmin Connect tracking page.
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