Garmin fenix 6S Sapphire Edition Overview

The fenix 6S Multisport GPS Smartwatch from Garmin is designed To be smaller than the fenix 6 and ideal for those that desire a less bulky form factor. It monitors your health, tracks your workouts and exercises, and enhances your daily life with practical day-to-day features. It features an always-on 1.2″ color display, up To 9 days of battery life, and a rugged stainless-steel construction with thermal, shock, and water-resistance. When it comes To your health, the fenix 6S features wrist-based heart rate and Pulse Ox sensors, and those statistics work in conjunction with the many fitness features of the fenix 6S, giving you better insight into your overall fitness.

When you’re ready To work out, the fenix 6S offers you preloaded activity profiles for many types of sports and activities, such as running, trail running, swimming, and more. The fenix Sapphire edition also offers features To coach you, help you prepare, and more. for example, PacePro gives you grade-adjusted guidance as you run, Round-Trip Routing sets up round-trip routes based on desired distance, and turn-by-turn navigation keeps you on track.

When you’re not actively working out, the fenix 6S provides many activity tracking functions, such as recording steps, floors climbed, distance traveled, activity intensity, stress levels, and more. Pair the fenix 6S with a compatible smartphone, and receive emails, texts, and alerts right on your wrist. The fenix 6S Sapphire edition can even store and play music. When out for lunch, you can pay with the fenix 6S by utilizing the Garmin Pay contactless payment system. These are just some of the features the fenix 6S has To offer. Continue on To find out all the ways it can help you live your best life.

PacePro Technology

As you run, PacePro helps To keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.

TOPO and Ski Maps

Access topographical maps To navigate your fitness adventures and view run names and difficulty ratings for 2000 worldwide ski resorts.

Golf Courses

View full-color CourseView maps for more than 41,000 preloaded golf courses from around the world, in addition To button targeting and PlaysLike Distance feature.

Turn-by-Turn Navigation

More easily follow a route or course with turn-by-turn navigation, which lets you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming up

Round-Trip Routing

with only a desired distance, this handy feature provides suggested routes that will bring you back To your starting point.

Music Apps

Store up To 2000 songs or access streaming apps from compatible services, such as Spotify, Deezer, and Amazon Music. Listen wirelessly To your audio via (optional) Bluetooth headphones.

Performance Metrics

View advanced training metrics that include running dynamics, heat- and altitude-adjusted VO2 max, recovery advisor, and more.

ABC Sensors

Use ABC sensors To navigate a hike or run. Use the altimeter for elevation data, the barometer To keep track of weather, and the 3-axis compass To keep you on course.

Safety & Tracking

If you feel unsafe or the fenix 6S detects an incident may have occurred, it can send your location To your emergency contacts.

Wrist-Based Heart Rate

An enhanced optical heart rate monitor gauges the intensity of your fitness activities, as well as heart rate variability To figure out your stress level score. It can even track your heart rate underwater without needing a strap.

Pulse Ox Sensor

It uses light beams To gauge how well your body is absorbing oxygen, which helps with altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring.

Body Battery Energy Monitor

Uses heart rate variability, stress, sleep, and other data To gauge when your body is ready To be active or when you might need a rest.

Expedition Mode

This mode lets you trek farther by going into an ultralow-powered GPS reference that lasts for weeks.

General Features

Sapphire crystal lens protection

Stainless steel Fiber-reinforced polymer case with metal rear cover

Sunlight-visible MIP display

Water resistant up To 330′ (or 10 ATM)

32MB of onboard memory/history

Dual grid coordinates

Clock Features

Time/date

GPS Time Sync

Automatic daylight saving time

Alarm clock

Timer

Stopwatch

Sunrise/sunset times

Daily Smart Features

Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)

Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only)

Connectivity with Bluetooth Smart and ANT+

Calendar

Weather

Battery Saver (customizable low power watch)

Controls smartphone music

Plays and controls watch music

Music storage of up To 2000 songs

Find My Phone

Find My Watch

VIRB Camera Remote

Compatible with iOS and Android smartphones

Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile

Garmin Pay

Safety & Tracking Features

Incident Detection during Select activities

Assistance

LiveTrack

Group LiveTrack

Live Event Sharing

Activity Tracking Features

Step counter

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)

Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep)

Calories burned

Floors climbed

Distance traveled

Intensity minutes

TrueUp

Move IQ

Fitness Age (in app)

Body Battery Energy Monitor

All-day Stress Tracking

Gym & Fitness Equipment

Available gym activity profiles (Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing and Yoga)

Cardio workouts

Strength workouts

Automatic rep counting

Training, Planning & Analysis Features

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

V02 max

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 (aerobic)

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

Round-trip course creator (running/cycling)

Trendline Popularity Routing (available as a wearable map theme)

Touch and/or button lock

Hot keys

Auto scroll

Activity history on watch

Physio TrueUp

Heart Rate Features

HR zones

HR alerts

HR calories

% HR max

% HRR

Recovery time

Auto max HR

HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ To paired devices)

Menstrual Tracking

Track period cycle details, log physical and emotional symptoms, and note regular, irregular, or menopause transition cycle types To better understand your body.

Running Features

Available run profiles

Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running

GPS-based distance, time and pace

Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)

Performance condition (after running 6-20 minutes, compares your real-time condition To your average fitness level)

PacePro Pacing Strategies

Run workouts

Race predictor

Foot pod capable

Golfing Features

Preloaded with 41,000 courses worldwide

Yardage To F/M/B (distance To front, middle and back of green)

Yardage To layups/doglegs

Measures shot distance (automatically calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)

Digital scorecard

Custom targets

Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)

Garmin AutoShot

Full vector map

Auto CourseView updates

Green View with manual pin position

Hazards and course targets

PinPointer

PlaysLike distance

Handicap scoring

TruSwing compatible

Round timer/odometer

Outdoor Recreation Features

Available outdoor recreation profiles (Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Jumpmaster, and Tactical)

Point-to-point navigation

Bread crumb trail in real time

Back To start

TracBack

UltraTrac mode

Around Me mode

Elevation profile

Distance To destination

Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert

ClimbPro Ascent Planner

Trail run auto climb

Vertical speed

Total ascent/descent

Future elevation plot

Preloaded topographical maps

Preloaded ski resort maps

Downloadable cartography support

Compatible with BaseCamp

GPS coordinates

Projected waypoint

Sight ‘N Go

Area calculationyes (via Connect IQ)

Hunt/fish calendar (via Connect IQ)

Sun and moon information (via Connect IQ)

XERO Locations

Expedition GPS Activity

Cycling Features

Available cycling profiles (Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking, Triathlon)

Courses

Bike lap and lap maximum power (with optional power sensor)

Race an activity

Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)

Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map)

Compatible with Vector (with optional power meter)

Power meter compatible (displays power data from compatible third-party ANT+-enabled power meters)

Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display)

Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar)

Compatible with Varia lights

Speed and cadence sensor support (via ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart sensors)

Swimming Features

Available swim profiles(Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running)

Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)

Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)

Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (Pool Swim Only)

Drill logging (Pool Swim Only)

Basic rest timer (up from 0)

Pacing Alerts (pool swim only)

Countdown start

Pool swim workouts

Critical swim speed

Underwater wrist-based heart rate

Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) (with optional HRM-Tri and HRM-Swim)