How do the free trial and the purchase work?
Connect IQ starts the trial automatically the first time you use the field — no card, no
account, nothing to cancel. If you keep it, the one-time purchase unlocks it permanently on
your Garmin account, across every compatible Edge you own.
Will the numbers match Strava and TrainingPeaks?
For peak power, yes. The field uses the same sliding-window definition those platforms use,
computed on the device instead of after the ride. Small differences can appear only if your
platform smooths or re-samples the file on upload — that's the platform, not the field.
Where do FTP and weight come from? Can I override them?
Straight from your Garmin user profile, so zones and W/kg are right from the first pedal
stroke — that's what the AUTO tag next to FTP means. You can override either value in the
field's settings if you'd rather train to your own number.
Which intervals can I display?
All 31 are tracked. How many are shown at once depends on the layout you give the field:
a full-page screen shows the full table, a half or small field shows a shorter selection.
The records are always tracked in the background, whatever is on screen.
Where are my records stored?
On the device, written as they happen. They survive restarts, profile switches and mid-ride
interruptions. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing depends on a phone being nearby.
Does it drain the battery?
The whole computation is integer arithmetic on a fixed-size buffer, once a second, with no
network use — the kind of workload an Edge is built to run for hours.
Does it send my data anywhere?
No. There is no account, no login, no companion app and no server. The field reads your
power meter and your Garmin profile, and writes your records to your own device. That's the
whole data flow.
