Overview

Whatever you do, own it with Instinct 2 series. These rugged GPS smartwatches are tough enough to keep up with you and unique enough to fit your style. Plus, the Instinct 2 Solar feature solar charging that gives you unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode1 so you can take on life’s unlimited possibilities. Do more of what you love with preloaded activity profiles for running, biking, swimming, strength training and more. Live the ultimate connected life with smart notifications2 and Connect IQ™ compatibility. Understand your body better with all-day health monitoring3 for energy levels, stress, sleep, Pulse Ox4 and much more.

Key Features

Get more battery out of life
Features longer battery life for extended adventures. With the Solar models, enjoy unlimited battery life with weeks of battery life with the Instinct 2 models in smartwatch mode1.

Garmin Pay™ contactless payments
On Solar models breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payments through participating providers6.

Connect IQ™ store
Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app on your compatible smartphone.

Built-in sports apps
Do whatever you love with preloaded activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming, strength training, multisport, indoor climbing, virtual running, golf, yoga, Pilates and more.

VO2 max
Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. It even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude.

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.

MTB dynamics
Track the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics plus specialised Grit™ and Flow™ measurements that rate trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend, giving you a score to beat next time.

Sleep score, 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.

Respiration tracking
See how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork and yoga activities.

Fitness age
This feature uses chronological age, your weekly vigorous activity, resting heart rate and BMI to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. Get tips to lower your fitness age.

Intensity minutes
Track how many minutes of vigorous activity you’re getting, when you earn them and during what activity. You can even view them as a data field during timed activities.

Women’s health tracking
Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more.

Engineered for endurance
This rugged watch is water-rated to 100 metres and is thermal and shock resistant. Plus, with a fibre-reinforced tough polymer case and chemically strengthened, scratch-resistant glass, this device is built to endure.

Multi-GNSS support
Whether you’re hiking, mountain biking, trail running or skiing, you’ll have access to multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone.

ABC sensors
Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis electronic compass.

Tracback® routing
Take the guesswork out of your return journey by using this feature to navigate the same route back to your starting point.

Smart notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone.

Safety and tracking features
When your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or — during select outdoor activities — automatically with built-in incident detection5.

Wrist-based heart rate
Get estimated heart rate3 data along with alerts if your heart rate stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities.

Stress tracking
Heart rate variability is used to calculate your stress level score, so you can see if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

Body Battery™ energy monitoring
Optimise 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.

Pulse Ox
For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox sensor4 uses light beams at your wrist to estimate how well your body is absorbing oxygen.

Night vision compatibility
Switch between daytime view and night-time view with a screen designed to be read by night vision goggles.

Stealth mode
Go dark by enabling stealth mode to stop storing and sharing your GPS position and disable wireless connectivity and communication.

Dual-format GPS
Dual-format GPS coordinates with latitude and longitude references offer unparalleled situational awareness.

Projected waypoints
Set and save remote geo positions to be used later for navigation.

Jumpmaster mode
Calculate high-altitude release points according to military guidelines while navigating to your objective once you’ve jumped.

Tactical activity
See time, pace, time of day, elevation and your location in both coordinate types.

Kill switch
If security becomes an issue, the kill switch wipes the device of all user memory.

1 Solar charging, assuming all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions
2 See Garmin.com/ble
3 See Garmin.com/ataccuracy
4 This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
5 When paired with a compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking features requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety
6 View current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information at Garmin.com/GarminPay/banks
7 See Garmin.com/waterrating for more details