NEW YORK, April 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Suunto is releasing multiple updates to maps and navigation for its watches and the Suunto app, starting in April 2026. Among other features, these updates include clearer mapping, improved on-watch guidance, and enhanced climb information, along with new offline tools. Suunto offers free offline maps and navigation to its users. With this update, offline maps will also be available in the Suunto app, enabling access to map data and routing on a phone without a network connection.
Navigation Updates on Suunto Watches
The latest watch updates improve navigation during activity, with enhancements to guidance, maps, climb information, and customisation. These include clearer turn guidance and route awareness, enhanced track back and off-route alerts, refined map labels and terrain representation, improved climb detection and elevation insights, and customisable navigation views.
These updates will be available immediately on Suunto Vertical 2, Suunto Race 2, and Suunto Race S, with selected features also rolling out to Suunto Race. Availability for Suunto Ocean will follow at a later date.
Offline Maps and Routing in the Suunto app
The Suunto app supports planning and navigating routes without connectivity.
Offline maps provide access to map data without a network connection once downloaded. Offline routing enables route creation and navigation offline.
Offline maps and offline routing are available to all Suunto app users at no additional cost.
Together, these updates improve continuity between planning and navigation, ensuring a more dependable experience across devices. These updates are part of Suunto's ongoing software development, with new features and improvements delivered regularly.
Built on 90 Years of Precision Navigation
"Navigation has been at the core of Suunto since 1936," says Janne Kallio, Head of Digital Ecosystem at Suunto.
"For nearly nine decades, Suunto products have guided explorers across oceans, mountains, and wilderness environments where reliability is critical. These updates build directly on that foundation — making navigation clearer, more dependable, and fully functional even without connectivity."
The updates begin rolling out from April 7, 2026 across supported Suunto watches and the Suunto app.
Presentation video for media use: YouTube – Q1 SW Updates
About Suunto
Suunto is a Finnish brand, established in 1936. It was founded by Finnish inventor Tuomas Vohlonen, who pioneered a new standard for navigational precision. That same year, his innovation – a field compass – was stronger, steadier, and more accurate than any other handheld navigational tool of its time. It was the first of many Suunto products built to withstand the harsh conditions of our native Finland.
In the near century since, Tuomas's spirit of innovation has continued to chart Suunto's course. From some of history's first dive computers and high-altitude wrist altimeters to today's GPS watches, Suunto remains a trusted companion for outdoor adventurers across the globe.
Supporting explorers, athletes, and weekend warriors alike remains our core mission – providing the tools to dive deeper, climb higher, and push the limits of human potential.
www.suunto.com
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Suunto releases updates to navigation: new features for watches and offline routing in the Suunto app
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TAGUIG CITY, Philippines, April 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Furthering its mission of driving digital financial inclusion, Ant International, International Finance Corp. (IFC), and GCash are developing a Sustainability Impact Scorecard that will make it easier for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to track their environmental and social impact, easily adopt sustainability practices in business operations, and align with global standards.
The Scorecard provides Filipino MSMEs with trusted, clear, and accessible pathways to measure sustainability performance, strengthen credibility, and unlock opportunities aligned with global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. By leveraging the GCash ecosystem and metrics tailored to the Philippine market, the Scorecard aims to empower local MSMEs with relevant, simple insights to help transform businesses.
In the Philippines, MSMEs account for 99.6% of businesses and employ over two-thirds of the workforce, yet limited access to financing remains a key challenge. The Scorecard, which serves as a benchmark for MSMEs, will help businesses demonstrate their sustainability practices and unlock access to sustainable financing to support growth.
Aside from tracking sustainability performance, the Scorecard also provides MSMEs with a way to build the credibility needed to engage with investors and lenders on sustainability performance.
"For MSMEs, this is a game-changer. It provides visibility into their environmental and social impact and credibility that can attract green capital and partnerships," said GCash Group Head for New Businesses Winsley Bangit.
"Crucially, MSMEs' growing social impact cannot be overlooked. Through our collaboration with GCash and IFC, we are making technologies such as AI more accessible to local MSMEs, empowering them to participate in the next wave of sustainable digital transformation. This scorecard serves as a vital tool for future innovation, reinforcing that true environmental sustainability integrates social and economic impact, and it must never be sidelined," said Carrie Suen, Vice President and Head of Global Affairs and Strategic Development at Ant International.
"MSMEs play a critical role across markets. By equipping them with the right tools, we can strengthen resilience, support adaptation, and enable sustainable growth at scale," Christina Ongoma, IFC East Asia and the Pacific Regional Advisory Manager for the Financial Institutions Group, added.
Shaping a world-class, competitive & sustainable future for Filipino MSMEs
The partnership builds on discussions at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, and Ant International's Programme Sirius, launched in 2024 to support MSMEs in taking the first step toward sustainability. With GCash as a pilot partner, the initiative aims to translate global sustainability commitments into practical, on-ground digital solutions for underserved communities in the Philippines.
The Scorecard pilot will roll out in phases, starting with ecosystem assessments, stakeholder engagement, and the development of the sustainability impact scorecard, followed by validation and field testing. Learnings from the pilot will inform potential scaling across the Asia-Pacific region.
TAGUIG CITY, Philippines, April 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Furthering its mission of driving digital financial inclusion, Ant International, International Finance Corp. (IFC), and GCash are developing a Sustainability Impact Scorecard that will make it easier for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to track their environmental and social impact, easily adopt sustainability practices in business operations, and align with global standards.
The Scorecard provides Filipino MSMEs with trusted, clear, and accessible pathways to measure sustainability performance, strengthen credibility, and unlock opportunities aligned with global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. By leveraging the GCash ecosystem and metrics tailored to the Philippine market, the Scorecard aims to empower local MSMEs with relevant, simple insights to help transform businesses.
In the Philippines, MSMEs account for 99.6% of businesses and employ over two-thirds of the workforce, yet limited access to financing remains a key challenge. The Scorecard, which serves as a benchmark for MSMEs, will help businesses demonstrate their sustainability practices and unlock access to sustainable financing to support growth.
Aside from tracking sustainability performance, the Scorecard also provides MSMEs with a way to build the credibility needed to engage with investors and lenders on sustainability performance.
"For MSMEs, this is a game-changer. It provides visibility into their environmental and social impact and credibility that can attract green capital and partnerships," said GCash Group Head for New Businesses Winsley Bangit.
"Crucially, MSMEs' growing social impact cannot be overlooked. Through our collaboration with GCash and IFC, we are making technologies such as AI more accessible to local MSMEs, empowering them to participate in the next wave of sustainable digital transformation. This scorecard serves as a vital tool for future innovation, reinforcing that true environmental sustainability integrates social and economic impact, and it must never be sidelined," said Carrie Suen, Vice President and Head of Global Affairs and Strategic Development at Ant International.
"MSMEs play a critical role across markets. By equipping them with the right tools, we can strengthen resilience, support adaptation, and enable sustainable growth at scale," Christina Ongoma, IFC East Asia and the Pacific Regional Advisory Manager for the Financial Institutions Group, added.
Shaping a world-class, competitive & sustainable future for Filipino MSMEs
The partnership builds on discussions at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, and Ant International's Programme Sirius, launched in 2024 to support MSMEs in taking the first step toward sustainability. With GCash as a pilot partner, the initiative aims to translate global sustainability commitments into practical, on-ground digital solutions for underserved communities in the Philippines.
The Scorecard pilot will roll out in phases, starting with ecosystem assessments, stakeholder engagement, and the development of the sustainability impact scorecard, followed by validation and field testing. Learnings from the pilot will inform potential scaling across the Asia-Pacific region.
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Ant International, IFC, GCash pioneer first-of-its-kind sustainability impact scorecard to expand MSME access to sustainable financing
