Description
vívoactive® 6
Bright. Smart. Colourful.
PLAY MORE. CHARGE LESS.
Enjoy up to 11 days of battery life
KNOW YOUR BODY BETTER
Health and wellness features help you reach your goals
GET FIT WITH IT
80+ sports apps, Garmin Coach, downloadable workouts and more
ALL YOUR STATS IN ONE PLACE
View all of your health and fitness stats in detail on the Garmin Connect™ app
UNDERSTAND YOUR BODY BETTER
Featuring a bright, colourful 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
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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 energy1.
SLEEP COACH
Get a sleep score and personalised 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 health1.
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 fitness 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.
BUILT FOR YOUR LIFE
HEALTH
HEALTH STATUS
Look for changes in your health data that could indicate added stress to your body, so you can know when you’re trending away from your usual range. This feature is currently available in beta³.
NAP DETECTION
Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and the ideal time and duration they should be.
BREATHING VARIATIONS
For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep4. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.
LIFESTYLE LOGGING
Log behaviours — such as caffeine and alcohol intake — and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect™ app.
SMART WAKE ALARM
The smart wake alarm gently vibrates to wake you at the right time.
HRV STATUS
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health through heart rate variability while you sleep.
MORNING REPORT
Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar, HRV status and more as soon as you wake up. You can even customise your reports theme, data shown and more.
EVENING REPORT
Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’s workout, weather and events.
WRIST-BASED HEART RATE
The vívoactive 6 fitness smartwatch constantly samples your heart rate, so you can stay in the know all day and night1.
WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING
Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and 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 healthcare provider.
PULSE OX SENSOR
Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep2.
MEDITATION
Help reduce stress, anxiety and more with guided meditation practices.
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 more5.
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 fitness 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
Better understand how each workout affects your body and how much time you need to recover so you can take on any fitness challenge.
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.
RUCKING ACTIVITY
A dedicated rucking activity profile allows you to enter pack weight.
PERCEIVED EXERTION
Record your rate of perceived exertion after each workout.
ACTIVITY TRACKING
Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned and more from your wrist1.
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 YouTube® Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).
SAFETY AND TRACKING
If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location6. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.
MULTIPLE FONT SIZES
Choose between multiple font sizes so you can view your data with ease.
Specs
Power & Battery
- Rechargeable built-in lithium-ion battery
- Battery life:
• Smartwatch mode: up to 11 days (≈ 5 days with always-on display)
• GPS-only GNSS mode: up to 21 hours
• All-systems GNSS mode: up to 17 hours (up to 8 hours with music) - Water rating: 5 ATM (suitable for swimming)
- Operating temperature: –20°C to 60°C (–4°F to 140°F)
- Charging temperature: 0°C to 45°C (32°F to 113°F)
Display & Build
- 1.2" (30.4 mm) AMOLED touchscreen display
- Resolution: 390 × 390 pixels
- Lens: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
- Case material: Fibre-reinforced polymer
- Bezel: Anodised aluminium
- Band: 20 mm quick-release silicone
- Dimensions: 42.2 × 42.2 × 10.9 mm
- Fits wrists: 125–190 mm circumference
- Weight: 23 g (36 g with band)
Memory & Connectivity
- Internal storage: 8 GB
- Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
- GNSS support: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, BeiDou
Health, Wellness & Sensors
- Wrist-based heart rate
- Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation
- Body Battery™ energy monitoring
- Sleep tracking with score & insights; nap detection
- Stress tracking & guided breathing exercises
- Respiration, hydration, women’s health tracking
- Health Snapshot (captures key vitals in 2 minutes)
Sports & Activity Features
- 80+ built-in sports apps
- GPS activity tracking (running, cycling, walking, swimming, etc.)
- Indoor training apps (strength, HIIT, yoga, Pilates, etc.)
- Wheelchair mode (tracks pushes instead of steps)
- Workout creation using the Garmin app
Smart Features
- Smart notifications when paired with a phone
- Music storage & playback control
- Garmin Pay™ contactless payments
- Connect IQ™ app & watch face support
- Compass, gyroscope, accelerometer, ambient light sensor
- Timers, stopwatch, alarms, sunrise/sunset times