 Welcome to Sportsman Tech Talk. My name is Jim Isaac. Today we are going to go over how to update your Garmin to the latest software. The first step is going to Garmin's website Garmin.com. So once you get to the website you're going to scroll down to the bottom of the page here and there's a customer service tab down here. You're just going to go to the support center. Under the support center where it says additional resources there's going to be a tab that says software and map updates. Once you get to this section you're just going to enter in your unit information. So like right now we're using a 1243XSV. So we have it here entered in this little blank. Alright so this will bring you to your device update screen so you can see the instructions for whichever device you're using to do the update today. This walks you through steps. It has how to do it through Active Captain, Garmin Express. Today we're using a Mac so we're just going to go down to the Mac section and then on this section right in the middle there's a section that says GPS map series. We're just going to click on that icon and then it'll give you your terms basically agree to your terms. Alright so this step is going to bring you to the download section. You're just going to click the download button, wait for it to download and then from there we'll show you how to put it on a SD card. Alright so while that's downloading we're going to look at the type of SD card we need to use. This is just a SanDisk card 32 gigabyte class 10 card which will be right up here. The card can be no larger than 32 gigabytes with a minimum size of 8 gigabytes but it needs to be this class 10 as well and it needs to be formatted in a fat 32 format. When you get new cards from the store they should come formatted in the fat 32 format that you'll need. Alright so let's open this up and get this thing in the computer and once you finally have it out just pop a little SD card in there and we're ready to download the information. Now that we've had it downloaded and we're going to put it on our card we're going to go to your downloads and we're just going to extract the file to put on the card. Alright so you're going to just go here and copy your file, go down to your card, paste the information in here and once this gets done copying over you're ready to put it in the unit update your GPS. Alright so now that you have your SD card we're just going to put it in the card reading port on the unit this one's on the back. Once you have that it's going to prompt you whether you want to install it now so you're just going to go ahead and hit install now. Okay so once this comes up you're just going to hit update software, update takes a minute you're going to hit yes and it's updating your unit. Once your unit's updated you'll notice the whole new layout on the Garmin screen we're going to go over those new features in one of our next videos. If you have any questions please leave them in the comments below.