The TwoNav Link App allows you to easily connect your TwoNav GPS with your smartphone. 

Thanks to this connection, you can send and receive information between both devices without the need for cables.

In this article, we explain step by step how to connect (pair) your GPS with the TwoNav Link App, what this connection is for, and what options you have available once it is set up.

Once paired, you will be able to perform the following actions:

• Receive notifications: 
  Receive notifications from your smartphone on the screen of your TwoNav GPS device, such as WhatsApp messages, SMS, and missed call alerts
• Transfer files:
  Send your routes and/or activities from the TwoNav Link App to your TwoNav GPS device using Bluetooth, without the need for cables
• Manage your GO Cloud files:
  Save your routes and/or activities in the GO Cloud, review your outings with simple charts and data, and download files to use when you don’t have an internet connection
• Synchronize activities:
  When you finish an activity on your device, it will be transferred via Bluetooth to the Link App, which will upload it to the TwoNav Cloud. Remember that you can also perform synchronization by connecting the device directly to a WiFi network, without needing the phone or Link
• Share activities on social networks:
  Share your adventures and achievements with other users on social networks
• Upload activities to third-party websites:
  Automatically send your activities to services like Strava, Komoot, Suunto, TrainingPeaks, Dropbox, or Google Drive.

TwoNav Link App

To perform all these actions, you must first connect your GPS device with your smartphone using the TwoNav Link App.
It is a free application that you can install on your Android or iPhone phone:

• Google Play (Android devices) 

  

• App Store (iOS devices)
  

If Google Play Store indicates that the TwoNav Link app is not available or not compatible with your smartphone or Android version, check this article: TwoNav Link App not available for your smartphone in Play Store

Pair GPS device with TwoNav Link App

To connect (pair) your TwoNav GPS device with the TwoNav Link App, make sure you have the GPS and your smartphone handy and follow these steps:

1.  On your TwoNav GPS device, go to ‘Main Menu > Settings > Smartphone’

2. Click on Pair Smartphone so that your GPS can be found by the TwoNav Link App

3. In the TwoNav Link App on your smartphone, select your GPS device when it appears in the list

4. A code will appear on the GPS screen. Enter it in the TwoNav Link App to confirm the connection

5. When the code is accepted, the GPS and smartphone will be connected (paired)

Settings

Once the GPS and smartphone are connected, from the Smartphone section of your GPS device (Main Menu > Settings) you can adjust some connection options, such as the following:

• Activate Connection:
  Turn on/off receiving notifications, file transfer, and activity synchronization between your smartphone and your GPS device
  NOTE: Disabling this option does not unlink your smartphone from your GPS device
• Device ID:
  Internal name of the linked smartphone
• Status:
  Status of the link between the GPS device and the smartphone
• Show Notifications:
  Enable/disable this option to receive all notifications from your smartphone on the GPS device screen
  NOTE: WhatsApp or SMS messages will not display images or emojis, only text
• Lost calls:
  Enable/disable if you want to specifically receive missed call notifications
• WhatsApp:
  Enable/disable if you want to specifically receive WhatsApp message notifications from your smartphone on your GPS device
• SMS:
  Enable/disable if you want to specifically receive SMS message notifications
• Others:
  Enable/disable if you want to receive other notifications
• Notifications:
  Read the notification history from your smartphone that you have received 
• Forget Smartphone:
  Unlink your smartphone from your GPS device. Once unlinked, if you want to use the linked smartphone with your GPS device again, you will need to perform the linking process again

Connection troubleshooting

If you encounter problems connecting your TwoNav GPS device with the TwoNav Link app, follow the steps in this article: Problems connecting GPS device with Link App via Bluetooth

Send tracks from Link App to GPS device

The TwoNav Link App allows sending tracks from an Android/iOS phone to a TwoNav GPS device. 

This article explains how to do it: Send tracks from Link App to GPS Device