SPORTS APPS
Use preloaded activity profiles for trail and track running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, rowing, skiing, golfing and more.
BACKCOUNTRY SKI
Stay informed when you’re in the snow. This preloaded profile can distinguish between skiing and climbing. It automatically shows metrics specific to either ascent or descent.
XC SKI DYNAMICS
When paired with the HRM-Pro™ chest strap (sold separately), the ski power metric helps measure the actual exercise load of cross-country workouts.
POWER MANAGER
View how various settings and sensors impact your watch’s battery life, so you can make battery-extending changes on the fly.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
Optical heart rate1 technology gauges activity intensity as well as heart rate variability to calculate your stress level. It also tracks underwater without a heart rate strap.
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITOR
Optimize your body’s energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you’re ready to be active or when you may need to rest.
ADVANCED SLEEP MONITORING
Get a full breakdown of your light, deep and REM sleep stages. View it all on a dedicated widget that includes your sleep score and insights.
HYDRATION TRACKING
Log daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated. When auto goal is enabled, you’ll even see estimated sweat loss after an activity and your goal will adjust accordingly.
PERFORMANCE METRICS
View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics, heat- and altitude-adjusted VO2 max, trail run V02 max, recovery advisor and more1.
RECOVERY TIME
After each workout, recovery time lets you know when you’ll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep.
DAILY WORKOUT SUGGESTIONS
For training guidance that takes you and your fitness level into account, get daily run and ride recommendations based on your current training load and training status.
BATTERY LIFE
Internal, rechargeable lithium battery provides up to 14 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, 36 hours in GPS mode and up to 48 days in battery saver mode.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible device.
GARMIN PAY
Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store.
SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURES
If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection features3 send your location to emergency contacts.
Health Monitoring
Wrist-based Heart Rate (constant, every second) | ✓ |
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Daily Resting Heart Rate | ✓ |
Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | yes (high and low) |
Respiration rate (24x7) | ✓ |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep) |
Fitness Age | yes (in app) |
Body Battery™ Energy Monitor | ✓ |
All-day Stress | ✓ |
Relaxation reminders | ✓ |
Relaxation breathing timer | ✓ |
Sleep | yes (advanced) |
Sleep score and insights | ✓ |
Hydration | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Women's Health | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
Sensors
GPS | ✓ |
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GLONASS | ✓ |
Galileo | ✓ |
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | ✓ |
Barometric altimeter | ✓ |
Compass | ✓ |
Gyroscope | ✓ |
Accelerometer | ✓ |
Thermometer | ✓ |
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor |
yes (with Acclimation)
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Daily Smart Features
Connectivity | Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+® |
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Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | ✓ |
Smart Notifications | ✓ |
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | ✓ |
Calendar | ✓ |
Weather | ✓ |
Battery saver (customizable low power watch) | ✓ |
Controls smartphone music | ✓ |
Find My Phone | ✓ |
Find My Watch | ✓ |
VIRB® Remote | ✓ |
Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | ✓ |
Garmin Pay™ | ✓ |
Safety & Tracking Features
LiveTrack | ✓ |
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Group LiveTrack | ✓ |
Live Event Sharing | ✓ |
Incident Detection during select activities | ✓ |
Assistance | ✓ |
Activity Tracking Features
Step counter | ✓ |
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Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | ✓ |
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | ✓ |
Calories burned | ✓ |
Floors climbed | ✓ |
Distance traveled | ✓ |
Intensity minutes | ✓ |
TrueUp™ | ✓ |
Move IQ™ | ✓ |
Garmin Connect™ Challenges app | yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
HR zones | ✓ |
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HR alerts | ✓ |
HR calories | ✓ |
% HR max | ✓ |
% HRR | ✓ |
Recovery time | ✓ |
Auto max HR | ✓ |
HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices) | ✓ |
Respiration rate (during exercise) | yes (with compatible accessory) |
GPS speed and distance | ✓ |
Customizable data pages | ✓ |
Customizable activity profiles | ✓ |
Auto Pause® | ✓ |
Interval training | ✓ |
Advanced workouts | ✓ |
Downloadable training plans | ✓ |
Power Modes - customizable in-activity battery settings | ✓ |
Auto Lap® | ✓ |
Manual lap | ✓ |
Configurable lap alerts | ✓ |
Heat and altitude acclimation | ✓ |
VO2 Max (Run) | ✓ |
Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.) | ✓ |
Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) | ✓ |
Training load focus | ✓ |
Training Effect | ✓ |
Training Effect (anaerobic) | ✓ |
Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) | ✓ |
Custom alerts | ✓ |
Audio prompts | ✓ |
Finish time | ✓ |
Virtual Partner | ✓ |
Race an Activity | ✓ |
Auto multisport activities | ✓ |
Manual multisport activities | ✓ |
Course guidance | ✓ |
Garmin Live Segments | ✓ |
Strava Live Segments | ✓ |
Touch and/or button lock | ✓ |
Hot keys | ✓ |
Auto scroll | ✓ |
Activity history on watch | ✓ |
Physio TrueUp | ✓ |