Understand your body better with the Vivoactive 6 Smartwatch, a health and wellness device purpose-built with essential health and fitness features. Featuring a bright AMOLED display and up to 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode¹, you can get a more complete picture of your health. Body Battery™ energy monitoring helps you understand when you're charged up or need to rest, with even more personalized insights based on sleep, naps, stress levels, workouts, and more. Improve the quality of your sleep with a sleep score, personalized sleep coaching for how much sleep you need, and tips on how to improve it, plus nap detection and key metrics such as HRV status to better understand your health². During the day, keep your activities fresh with more than 80 built-in sports apps plus fitness features such as suggested daily walking workouts to help you reach your goals. Additional health monitoring features include wrist-based heart rate, morning report, fitness age, stress tracking, menstrual cycle and pregnancy tracking, and meditation³. For any fitness journey, the vivoactive 6 includes advanced training features such as workout benefits, which helps you understand how each workout affects your body and recovery time. Preloaded animated workouts for cardio, yoga, strength, HIIT, and Pilates help teach you correct form, and you can create your own workouts in the Garmin Connect™ smartphone app or try Garmin Coach free adaptive training plans. The vivoactive 6 makes it easy to receive texts, emails, and other smart notifications right from your wrist4. Plus, enjoy connectivity features such as music storage, Garmin Pay™ contactless payments (with a supported country and payment network), and a smart wake alarm that gently vibrates to wake you at the right optimal time. Wheelchair mode tracks pushes rather than steps and includes push and handcycle activities with preloaded workouts and specific challenges.
¹Battery life and charge cycles vary with use, settings, and other factors; actual results will vary. ²This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Breathing Variations are not available in all countries. ³This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition.The menstrual cycle tracking feature should not be used in support of conception, contraception or birth control. 4When paired with your compatible smartphone.
So far I'm loving it and I'm still learning it. I had a fitbit for years but when it died I decided to try Garmin. I still have a lot to learn but so far I've been impressed. It was a learning curve and I'm still learning all the features this watch has but I am loving it!! I'm sure I'll love it even more as I learn all the features of this watch.
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Great… but no for me 🙁
1 out of 5 rating
Paratrooper5 . 1 day ago
No audible sound for “ Find my device “ ☹️ only vibration 🙁
So far I'm loving it and I'm still learning it. I had a fitbit for years but when it died I decided to try Garmin. I still have a lot to learn but so far I've been impressed. It was a learning curve and I'm still learning all the features this watch has but I am loving it!! I'm sure I'll love it even more as I learn all the features of this watch.
I ususally purchase the lower priced models or restored models. This model is a few years older, but I love it already. I do not like the feeling of things on my wrist when I sleep so I've never measure my sleep. This watch feels great and I've been able to get my sleep scores. The only feature I don't love, or maybe understand yet, is the watch face options. I don't love that I can't my hr showing and the seconds of the time showing. Overall, grateful that I purchased this watch and love Garmin.
FITBIT Who? So many years wasted on that toy Google took over, Never looking back. This Garmin vivoactive 6 blows away the Fitbit Versa 4 on every level period.
I bought this about a month ago and there are some changes that are good and some that are not from my previous vivio active 4 model. I mostly like the battery life, this one only needs to be changed about 1-2 times a week. The way to start a walk has more button pushing and also to set an alarm is more challenging. It is nice photos can be placed as a background. There are more activities to chose from than my old vivio and this watch is much lighter. So far those are the items I have used.
I bought this product a few weeks ago and, in terms of its physical appearance (size, color, and material), it is exactly what I expected and I really love it. However, the battery life is shorter than I anticipated, and for that reason I feel it loses some of its overall value.
My Vivoactive 4 had a great feature under golf. It had a live screen telling the distance since the last impact. So I always knew how long I drove the ball. This was also handy to help locate an errant ball since i could go the direction of the ball and use the distance to reduce the search radius. It also helped give feedback on the impact of a swing change. I can't speak for the Vivoactive 5 but that feature was lost on the Vivoactive 6. There is a way to check the distance, but it is too cumbersome to actively use it on the golf course. All of the other changes that I've used have been nice and some real improvements.
I bought this watch to replace a Vivoactive 4S. I thought this watch would have all the features of the 4S and more. I wasn't pleased with the larger size but there is no Vivoactive 6S. In lieu of the smaller size I thought Garmin would at least have included a second bands to fit smaller wrists. They did not. My daughter's much less expensive smart watch came with a long and a short band.
The main feature I miss from the 4S is the altimeter. My 4S had one, the 6 does not. I'm recovering from an injury right now but my hope is the GPS will be able to judge the terrain sufficiently to give accurate elevation measurements.
Aside from that I like the watch. The screen is brighter than the 4S. The clock features are great. I like the auto reset feature on the timer. The sleep metrics, while I'm not sure how accurate, are fun to look at. The nap feature is interesting though not entirely accurate. I like the evening and morning reports and enjoy looking at the other statistics that either weren't available or required going into the Garmin app to find.
I love the longer battery life. I use the timers right now but due to the bad weather and my injury I'm not using the GPS much. I've been getting between 8 and 9 days on a charge. My old one lasted about 2-3 days in the weeks before it finally failed. Still better than other brands of smartwatches other family members use.
