Garmin Vivoactive 6
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UNDERSTAND YOUR BODY BETTER
Featuring a bright, colorful display, up to 11 days of battery life, and purpose-built health and fitness features, the vívoactive 6 smartwatch gives you the tools and insights to help you know your body better.
BRIGHT AMOLED DISPLAY
UP TO 11 DAYS OF BATTERY LIFE
BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORING, SLEEP SCORE, STRESS TRACKING AND MORE
ADVANCED FITNESS FEATURES
WORKS WITH THE GARMIN CONNECT™ APP ON iPHONE® AND ANDROID™ SMARTPHONES
SMART NOTIFICATIONS, GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS AND MUSIC STORAGE
WHAT YOU'LL LOVE
BODY BATTERY ENERGY MONITORING
See your energy levels throughout the day, so you’ll know when your body is charged up and ready for activity or drained and needing to recharge with restful sleep. And get even more details and personal insights on how sleep, naps, daily activities and high stress specifically impact your energy.
SLEEP COACH
Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need and how you can improve. Even keep track of different sleep stages and naps — and see several key metrics over your sleep period, such as HRV status to better understand your health.
BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS
Track the ways you move with more than 80 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps — including walking, running, cycling, pool swimming, activities for wheelchair users and more.
WORKOUT OPTIONS
From daily suggested walking workouts to step-by-step workouts for strength, HIIT, yoga, Pilates, mobility and more, it’s never been easier to move. Simply find the workouts in the Garmin Connect app, and download them onto your smartwatch.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Continuously monitor your health with wrist-based heart rate1, HRV status, Pulse Ox2 and women’s health tracking — including menstrual cycle and pregnancy, meditation and more — to learn more about your body.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS AND TEXTING
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone or Android smartphone. With an Android phone, respond to texts with the on-watch keyboard, and view photos sent to you directly from your watch’s screen.
GO BOLDLY
HEALTH
NAP DETECTION
Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and the ideal time and duration they should be.
SMART WAKE ALARM
The smart wake alarm gently vibrates to wake you at the optimal time.
HRV STATUS
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health through heart rate variability while you sleep3.
MORNING REPORT
Receive an overview of your sleep recovery, daily calendar, HRV status and more as soon as you wake up. You can even customize your report to show what you want to see.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
Instinct 3 tracks your heart rate, so you can stay in the know all day and night3.
STRESS TRACKING
Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.
WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING
Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy to get exercise and nutrition education.
HEALTH SNAPSHOT
Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.
PULSE OX SENSOR
Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep1.
MEDITATION
Help reduce stress, anxiety and more with guided meditation practices.
MINDFUL BREATHING
Start a breathwork activity to track your stress and respiration.
HYDRATION
Log your daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated.
RESPIRATION
See how you’re breathing throughout the day and night.
FITNESS
STRENGTH TRAINING
Elevate your body’s performance with a built-in activity profile, targeted strength training plans, workouts and more. Plus, track reps, sets and even rest time.
MOBILITY
Increase your flexibility and strength with new downloadable mobility workouts and an activity profile.
WHEELCHAIR MODE
Track your daily pushes1, plus get weight shift alerts, sports apps and workouts for wheelchair users, and more.
ANIMATED WORKOUTS
Improve your form with downloadable animated workouts from Garmin Connect for HIIT, cardio, strength, mobility, yoga and Pilates. Plus, get push and handcycle workouts for wheelchair users.
GARMIN COACH
Prepare for your next race, train for a milestone, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin Coach adaptive or prebuilt running — or with strength training plans. Select plans even adapt daily based on your performance, recovery and health metrics.
RUNNING DYNAMICS
This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.
PACEPRO™ PACING STRATEGIES
Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
WORKOUT BENEFIT AND RECOVERY TIME
View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run or ride.
FITNESS AGE
Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age.
WORKOUT CREATION
Create step-by-step workouts from more than 1,600 exercises in the Garmin Connect app, and send them directly to your watch.
PERCEIVED EXERTION
Record your rate of perceived exertion after each workout.
INTENSITY MINUTES
Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes.
ACTIVITY TRACKING
Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned and more from your wrist.
VO2 MAX
See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more (not available in wheelchair mode).
AUDIO PROMPTS FOR ACTIVITIES
Get guided audio prompts for run and walk activities.
INTERVAL CREATION
Build your own interval workout for running and cycling activities.
MOVE ALERTS
Get reminders to move your body, including a variety of movement options.
CONNECT
GARMIN CONNECT APP
See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.
GARMIN PAY™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS
Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.
MUSIC STORAGE
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts and more for phone-free listening (subscription required).
SAFETY AND TRACKING
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your compatible Apple or Android smartphone.
CONNECT IQ™ STORE
Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.
MULTIPLE FONT SIZES
Choose between multiple font sizes so you can view your data with ease.
What You'll Love |
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| Sleep score and insights | |
| Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 11 days (5 days display always-on) |
| Pulse Ox blood oxygen | yes (spot-check, and optionally all-day and in sleep) |
| Garmin Pay™ | |
| Music storage | |
| Display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
| Touchscreen | |
| Water rating | Swim, 5 ATM |
| Wheelchair mode | |
General |
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| Strap material | silicone |
| Lens Material | Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 |
| Bezel Material | anodized aluminum |
| Case material | fiber-reinforced polymer |
| Quick Release bands | yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Physical size | 42.2 x 42.2 x 10.9 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 125-190 mm |
| Weight | 23 g (36 g with included band) |
| Display Size | 1.2 (30.4 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 390 x 390 pixels |
| Color Display | |
| Large Font Display | |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days (5 days display always-on) Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 21 days GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 21 hours All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours All-Systems GNSS mode with music: Up to 8 hours |
| Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
| Memory/History | 8 GB |
Clock Features |
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| Time/date | |
| GPS Time Sync | |
| Automatic Daylight Saving Time | |
| Alarm Clock | |
| Smart Wake Alarm | |
| Timer | |
| Stopwatch | |
| Sunrise/Sunset Times | |
Health & Wellness Monitoring |
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| Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | |
| Resting heart rate | |
| Abnormal heart rate alerts | yes (high and low) |
| Respiration rate | |
| Fitness Age | |
| Body Battery™ energy monitor | |
| All-day stress | |
| Relaxation reminders | |
| Relaxation breathing timer | |
| Meditation | |
| Breathwork | |
| Sleep | yes (advanced) |
| Sleep coach | |
| Nap detection | |
| Hydration | |
| Women's health | |
| Health snapshot | |
Sensors |
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| GPS | |
| GLONASS | |
| Galileo | |
| QZSS | |
| BeiDou | |
| Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor | |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor | |
| Compass | |
| Gyroscope | |
| Accelerometer | |
| Thermometer | yes (tempe™ sensor required) |
| Ambient light sensor | |
Daily Smart Features |
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| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® |
| Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | |
| On-device Connect IQ™ Store | |
| Smart Notifications | |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | |
| View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only) | |
| Morning report | |
| Calendar | |
| Weather forecasts | |
| Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile | |
| Battery saver (customizable low power watch) | |
| Controls smartphone music | |
| Plays and controls watch music | |
| Find My Phone | |
| Find My Watch | |
| Find My Phone during GPS activity | |
| Compatible with Garmin Messenger app | |
| Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
| Red shift mode | |
Workout and Training Plans |
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| Daily Suggested Workout - Walking | |
| Garmin Running Coach | |
| Garmin Running Coach Experts | |
| Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans | |
| Garmin Coach - Strength | |
| Cardio workouts | |
| Strength workouts | |
| HIIT workouts | |
| Yoga workouts | |
| Pilates workouts | |
| Workouts for wheelchair users | |
| On-screen workout animations | |
| On-screen workout muscle maps | |
Activity Profiles |
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| Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor Rowing, Jump Roping |
| Wellness | Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking, Mobility |
| Indoor running | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running |
| Outdoor running | Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Obstacle Running |
| Outdoor recreation | Hiking, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Mountaineering, Disc Golf, Archery |
| Cycling | Biking, Road Biking, Gravel Biking, Bike Touring, eBiking, Handcycling, Indoor Handcycling Indoor Biking, Cyclocross |
| Swim | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
| On the Water | Stand Up Paddleboarding, Kayaking, Rowing, Snorkeling |
| Motor sports | Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motocrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling |
| Racket sports | Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball |
| Snow & winter | Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing |
| Team sports | Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball |
| In the ring | Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts |
| Other activity profiles | Inline Skating |
Safety and Tracking Features |
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| Incident Detection during select activities | |
| Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | |
| Assistance | |
| LiveTrack | |
Activity Tracking Features |
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| Step counter | |
| Push tracker | |
| Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity) | |
| Move Alert movement options | |
| Weight shift alert | |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | |
| Calories burned | |
| Distance traveled | |
| Intensity minutes | |
| TrueUp™ | |
| Move IQ™ | |
| Garmin Connect™ Challenges app | |
| Automatic rep counting | |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features |
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| Customizable data pages | |
| Downloadable training plans | |
| HR zones | |
| HR alerts | |
| HR calories | |
| % HR max | |
| Recovery time | |
| HRV status | |
| HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices) | yes (using ANT+ or BLE) |
| Respiration rate (during exercise) | yoga, breathwork and meditation only |
| GPS speed and distance | |
| Customizable activity profiles | |
| Auto Pause® | |
| Interval training | |
| Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection) | |
| Advanced workouts | |
| HRM running pace and distance | |
| Auto Lap® | |
| Manual lap | |
| VO2 Max (Run) | |
| Training effect | |
| Training effect (anaerobic | |
| Workout benefit | |
| Improved recovery time | yes (limited) |
| Voice alerts | |
| Touch and/or button lock | |
| Auto scroll | |
| Activity history on watch | |
| Physio TrueUp | |
Runnng Features |
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| GPS-based distance, time and pace | |
| Running dynamics | |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | |
| PacePro™ Pacing Strategies | |
| Run workouts | |
| Race predictor | |
| Foot pod capable | |
| Run/Walk/Stand detection | |
Golfing Features |
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| Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | |
| Yardage to layups/doglegs | |
| Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | automatic |
| Digital scorecard | |
| Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | |
| Garmin AutoShot™ | |
| Green View with manual pin position | |
| Hazards and course targets | |
| PinPointer | |
| Round timer/odometer | |
| CT10 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) | |
| Pairs with Garmin Golf app | |
| Tournament legal | |
Outdoor Recreation |
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| Back to start | |
| Area calculation | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Fish forecast | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Sun and moon information | yes (via Connect IQ™) |
Cycling Features |
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| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | |
| Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar) | |
| Compatible with Varia™ lights | |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | yes (using ANT+ or BLE) |
Swimming Features |
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| Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | |
| Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | |
| Auto rest (pool swim only) | |
| Time and distance alerts | |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | |