Meet Garmin's newest fitness smartwatch – vívoactive 6
03.04.2025
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Get to know your body better with popular fitness, wellness and smart features – all on a bright, colourful display
Garmin has launched its newest health and fitness watch – vívoactive 6 – featuring a bright AMOLED display and up to 11 days of battery life. This smartwatch supports you day and night without frequent charging.
All the popular health and fitness features, such as Body Battery energy monitoring, sleep coach and preloaded sports apps, are now even easier to use.
Garmin Vice President Susan Lyman says:
“Whatever your fitness goals, vívoactive 6 is designed to help you understand your body better than ever before. The watch is with you every step of the way – from waking up in the morning to winding down in the evening.”
Start your day right
The vívoactive 6 smart wake alarm tracks your sleep cycles and wakes you with a gentle vibration during a lighter sleep stage. After waking, you get a morning report showing the data collected overnight: sleep quality, recovery level, your body's energy reserves, your daily schedule and other useful information.
You can also see your heart rate variability (HRV) status – it shows how ready you are for the new day. If you like, you can personalise the morning report – choose which information and messages you want to see.
Health and wellness features
vívoactive 6 helps you stay active all day long. Here are some of the key features:
- Body Battery – Track your energy level throughout the day. See when it's the best time to be active and when it's time to rest. The watch shows how sleep, naps, activity and stress affect your energy level.
- Sleep coach – Get a sleep analysis and personalised recommendations. Track sleep stages, naps and metrics such as blood oxygen saturation (Pulse Ox) and HRV status.
- HRV status – Track your heart rate variability overnight and get insight into how your body copes with everyday stress.
- Stress tracking – See when you are calm, balanced or stressed. This helps you better understand how your day affects your body.
- Meditation and mindful breathing – Guided exercises help reduce stress and anxiety and bring more calm to your day.
- Pulse Ox: track your blood oxygen saturation while awake or during sleep.
- Women's health: track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy and get exercise and nutrition guidance.
Own your workouts
To help you stay active all day, vívoactive 6 includes more than 80 preloaded sports apps, including walking, running, cycling and pool swimming, plus new daily suggested walking workouts. Users can also download a wide range of step-by-step workouts for strength, HIIT, yoga, Pilates, mobility and more via Garmin Connect. They also get access to Garmin Coach running and strength training plans – several of which adapt daily based on performance, recovery and health metrics to help users prepare for their next race, train for a milestone or improve overall fitness. In addition to tracking daily steps and calories burned, vívoactive 6 can track moderate and vigorous intensity minutes, VO2 max and much more. For wheelchair users, wheelchair mode tracks daily pushes 1 and provides weight shift alerts, handcycle workouts and more 3 .
When running, track key running dynamics such as cadence, stride length and ground contact time, and use the running power feature to see how much power you're applying to better manage your effort and fine-tune your training. To prepare for race day, PacePro™ offers runners grade-adjusted pace guidance based on course elevation and personal pacing preferences. After a workout, training benefit and recovery time tools can help users understand how their training benefits their body and see how much time they need to recover before taking on the next training challenge.
Stay connected
Whatever the day brings, stay connected with vívoactive 6. Receive text messages, emails and alerts when paired with a compatible iPhone® or Android™ smartphone. Those with an Android phone can also reply to texts using the watch keyboard. Safety and tracking features help provide peace of mind by sending a message with the user's live location (when available) to selected emergency contacts if they feel unsafe or if an incident is detected4 . When you're out and about, breeze through select checkout lines or public transport systems with Garmin Pay ™ contactless payments5, and download songs and playlists from Spotify® , Amazon Music and Deezer for phone-free listening (subscription required). What's more, view health and fitness information in the Garmin Connect ™ app and download apps, watch faces and more from the Connect IQ ™ Store directly from the watch, or find more options in the smartphone app.
vívoactive 6 gives you a complete overview of your health and wellbeing – helping you make smarter decisions every day.
1 Activity tracking accuracy.
2 This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy . Pulse Ox is not available in all countries.
3 Not all features are available when the watch is in wheelchair mode.
4 When paired with a compatible smartphone; see Garmin.com/ble . For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety
5 See current supported country, payment network and issuing bank information
