User Manual
Smart Features 11
The device monitors your activity intensity and tracks
your time spent participating in moderate to vigorous
intensity activities (heart rate data is required to
quantify vigorous intensity). You can work toward
achieving your weekly intensity minutes goal by
participating in at least 10 consecutive minutes of
moderate to vigorous intensity activities. The device
adds the amount of moderate activity minutes with
the amount of vigorous activity minutes. Your total
vigorous intensity minutes are doubled when added.
Earning Intensity Minutes
Your Forerunner device calculates intensity minutes
by comparing your heart rate data to your average
resting heart rate. If heart rate is turned off, the device
calculates moderate intensity minutes by analyzing
your steps per minute.
y Start a timed activity for the most accurate
calculation of intensity minutes.
y Exercise for at least 10 consecutive minutes at a
moderate or vigorous intensity level.
y Wear your device all day and night for the most
accurate resting heart rate.
Garmin Move IQ Events
The Move IQ feature automatically detects activity
patterns, such as walking, running, biking, swimming,
and elliptical training, for at least 10 minutes. You
can view the event type and duration on your Garmin
Connect timeline, but they do not appear in your
activities list, snapshots, or newsfeed. For more detail
and accuracy, you can record a timed activity on your
device.
Activity Tracking Settings
From the watch face, hold UP, and select Settings >
Activity Tracking.
Status: Turns off the activity tracking features.
Move Alert: Displays a message and the move bar on
the digital watch face and steps screen. The device
also beeps or vibrates if audible tones are turned
on (System Settings, page32).
Goal Alerts: Allows you to turn on and off goal alerts,
or turn them off only during activities. Goal alerts
appear for your daily steps goal, daily floors
climbed goal, and weekly intensity minutes goal.
Move IQ: Allows your device to automatically start
and save a timed walking or running activity when
the Move IQ feature detects familiar movement
patterns.
Sleep Pulse Ox: Allows your device to record up to four
hours of pulse oximeter readings while you sleep.
Turning Off Activity Tracking
When you turn off activity tracking, your steps, floors
climbed, intensity minutes, sleep tracking, and Move IQ
events are not recorded.
1 From the watch face, hold UP.
2 Select Settings > Activity Tracking > Status > Off.
Smart Features
Bluetooth Connected Features
The Forerunner device has several Bluetooth
connected features for your compatible smartphone
using the Garmin Connect app.
Activity uploads: Automatically sends your activity
to the Garmin Connect app as soon as you finish
recording the activity.
Audio prompts: Allows the Garmin Connect app to play
status announcements, such as mile splits and
other data, on your smartphone during a run or
other activity.
Bluetooth sensors: Allows you to connect Bluetooth
compatible sensors, such as a heart rate monitor.
Connect IQ: Allows you to extend your device features
with new watch faces, widgets, apps, and data
fields.
Find my phone: Locates your lost smartphone that is
paired with your Forerunner device and currently
within range.
Find my watch: Locates your lost Forerunner device
that is paired with your smartphone and currently
within range.
LiveTrack: Allows friends and family to follow your
races and training activities in real time. You
can invite followers using email or social media,
allowing them to view your live data on a Garmin
Connect tracking page.
Phone notifications: Displays phone notifications and
messages on your Forerunner device.
Social media interactions: Allows you to post an
update to your favorite social media website when
you upload an activity to the Garmin Connect app.
Software updates: Allows you to update your device
software.
Weather updates: Sends real-time weather conditions
and notifications to your device.
Workout and course downloads: Allows you to browse
for workouts and courses in the Garmin Connect
app and wirelessly send them to your device.
Updating the Software Using Garmin Connect App
Before you can update your device software using
the Garmin Connect app, you must have a Garmin
Connect account, and you must pair the device with a
compatible smartphone (Pairing Your Smartphone with
Your Device, page1).
Sync your device with the Garmin Connect app
(Manually Syncing Data with Garmin Connect, page12).
When new software is available, the Garmin Connect