How to Send a Dive Session from the Garmin Dive App

Send a session from Garmin Dive to the Freediver app

Your watch records every trip to depth as its own session in the Garmin Dive app. From there you export it as a FIT file and hand it straight to the Freediver app, which adds the dives to a workout you planned or creates a new one. iOS and Android work exactly the same way.

Step by step

Step 1: Open the session in Garmin Dive

In the Garmin Dive app, open the session you want to bring across.

Garmin Dive home screen listing recent apnea sessions

Your sessions in Garmin Dive — open the one you want

Step 2: Export the FIT file

Open the session menu (the three dots in the top right) and choose Export Dive as FIT File. Garmin prepares the original file your watch recorded — the same one the Freediver app reads.

Garmin Dive session with the menu open on Export Dive as FIT File

The session menu, with Export Dive as FIT File

Step 3: Hand the file to the Freediver app

Your phone shows the apps the file can be passed to. Pick the Freediver app — the file goes there directly, with nothing to save anywhere and nothing to dig out of your downloads folder later.

System share sheet with the Freediver app in the list

The share sheet, with the Freediver app in the list

Step 4: Wait for the upload

The Freediver app opens its import screen and sends the file — you see its name, its size and a progress bar. A moment later comes the summary: how many dives were detected in the file and the dive session date.

Upload screen with the file name and a progress bar

The file on its way, with name and progress

Step 5: Link the session to a workout

The app lists the depth workouts from the day of the dive. You have two routes:

The workout already exists — select it in the list and confirm with Link dive session. The dives join the session you planned, so plan and execution sit together.
There was no workout that day — you see "No depth workouts on this date." Pick a primary discipline (CWT, CWTB, FIM, CNF, hang or other) and tap Create new workout.

The date can be changed with the dropdown at the top — handy when a dive fell just before midnight or you came back from another time zone.

Import screen with no workouts on that date and a discipline picker

No workout that day — pick a discipline and create one

Import screen showing that day's workout above the discipline picker

That day's workout, or a new one below the divider

Selected workout with the Link dive session button

Select the workout, then Link dive session

Confirmation that the dive session was linked

Done — the session sits on the workout

Or from your browser

The same FIT file can be uploaded from a computer. Open the import page, point it at the file you exported from Garmin Dive, and go through the same screen as on the phone: pick that day's workout or create a new one with a discipline. Files can be up to 8 MB — a single session fits with room to spare.

Import page in a browser with its drop zone

The same import page, in a browser

Good to know

One file is a whole session. Every dive from one trip into the water uploads together, with its profile and depths.
The discipline can be fixed later. Just edit the workout in the app.
Uploading the same file again breaks nothing. The Freediver app tells you the session is already in your log.
Got a whole history to move? Session by session would be a long road — a separate guide shows how to pull it all out of Garmin Connect at once.