fēnix 6S

Part Number 010-02159-5F

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Make Huge Strides With a Smaller Watch

Styled for a trim, comfortable fit on smaller wrists, our 1.2” fēnix 6S is the multisport GPS watch for athletes and adventurers who want to do more, not wear more.

Wrist-based heart rate¹ and Pulse Ox² sensors add insight to your fitness activities
Measure running and cycling performance in ways you didn’t know were possible
Navigate your world with multi-GNSS satellite reference and outdoor sensors
Power manager feature shows how adjusting settings can stretch battery life
Pair with your compatible smartphone for on-wrist messaging, alerts and notifications
Use your watch as a virtual wallet with Garmin Pay contactless payments

Quality By Design

fēnix 6S features an always-on 1.2” display, stainless steel bezel and construction tested to U.S. military standards for thermal, shock and water resistance.

Performance Metrics

View advanced training metricsthat include running dynamics¹, heat- and altitude-adjusted VO2 max, recovery advisor and more¹.

Power Manager

View how various settings and sensors impact your watch’s battery life, so you can make battery-extending changes on the fly.

Sports Apps

Use preloaded activity profiles for trail running, swimming, running, biking, hiking, yoga, skiing, golfing and more.

ClimbPro Feature

Use ClimbPro ascent planner on downloaded courses to see real-time information on your current and upcoming climbs, including gradient, distance and elevation gain.

Multi-GNSS Support

Access multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone.

ABC Sensors

Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and three-axis electronic compass.

Safety and Tracking Features

If you feel unsafe or if your watch senses that an incident occurred, assistance and incident detection³ features send your location to emergency contacts.

Garmin Pay Service

Breeze through checkout lines with Garmin Pay contactless payment solution through participating providers.

Smart Notifications

Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with a compatible device.

Wrist-based Heart Rate

Enhanced optical heart rate¹ technology gauges the intensity of your fitness activities as well as heart rate variability to calculate your stress level score. It also tracks under water without a heart rate strap.

Pulse Ox Sensor

For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox² sensor uses light beams at your wrist to gauge how well your body is absorbing oxygen.

Body Battery Energy Monitor

Optimize your body’s energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you’re ready to be active or when you may need to rest.

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.

Connect IQ Store

Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store.

Expedition Mode

Trek far and wide between recharges. Expedition mode, an ultralow-powered GPS reference, lasts for weeks.

Battery

Internal, rechargeable lithium battery provides up to 9 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, 25 hours in GPS mode and up to 34 days in battery saver mode.

¹Activity tracking and fitness metric accuracy
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. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
³When paired with a compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking features requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com.sg/safety

Manual Download Bluetooth Headphone Compatibility Garmin Ski Maps

Dedicated Website

General
Lens Material	Corning Gorilla Glass 3
Bezel Material	stainless steel
Case material	fiber-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover
QuickFit watch band compatible	included (20 mm)
Strap material	silicone
Physical size	42 x 42 x 13.8 mm Fits wrists with the following circumference: Silicone band: 108-182 mm Suede band: 108-175 mm Fabric band: 108-189 mm Metal band: 108-180 mm
Display size	1.2” (30.4 mm) diameter
Display resolution	240 x 240 pixels
Display type	sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)
Weight	Steel: 58 g (case only: 41 g)
Battery life	Smartwatch: Up to 9 days GPS: Up to 25h Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 50 hours Expedition GPS Mode: Up to 20 days Battery Saver Watch Mode: 34 days
Water rating	10 ATM
Color display
Memory/History	64 MB

Clock Features
Time/date
GPS Time Sync
Automatic daylight saving time
Alarm clock
Timer
Stopwatch
Sunrise/sunset times

Sensors
GPS
GLONASS
Galileo
Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor
Barometric altimeter
Compass
Gyroscope
Accelerometer
Thermometer
Pulse Ox	(with Acclimation)

Daily Smart Features
Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)
Smart notifications
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only)
Connectivity	Bluetooth Smart, ANT+
Calendar
Weather
Battery Saver - customizable low power watch
Controls smartphone music
Find My Phone
Find My Watch
VIRB Camera Remote
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone , Android
Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile

Safety and 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 and 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
Segments (Live, Garmin)
Strava features (Beacon, live segments)
Round-trip course creator (running/cycling)
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
HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels)	(with compatible accessory)
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices)

Running Features
Available run profiles	Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running
GPS-based distance, time and pace
Running dynamics	(with compatible accessory)
Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length)	(with compatible accessory)
Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry)	(with compatible accessory)
Stride length (real time)	(with compatible accessory)
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)
Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue)	(with compatible accessory)
PacePro Pacing Strategies
Run workouts
Race predictor
Foot pod capable

Golfing Features
Preloaded with 41,000 courses worldwide	(downloadable from phone)
Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)
Yardage to layups/doglegs
Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course)	Automatic
Digital scorecard
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)
Garmin AutoShot
Auto CourseView updates
Green View with manual pin position
Hazards and course targets
TruSwing compatible
Round timer/odometer
Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)

Outdoor Recreation Features
Available outdoor recreation profiles	Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Jumpmaster, 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	(with preloaded course)
Trail run auto climb
Vertical speed
Total ascent/descent
Future elevation plot	(with preloaded course)
Compatible with BaseCamp
GPS coordinates
Projected waypoint
Sight 'N Go
Area calculation	(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 power sensor)
Race an activity
Time/distance alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goal)
FTP (Functional Threshold Power)	(with compatible accessory)
Compatible with Vector (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 (with sensor)	(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, calories)
Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count/rate, calories)
Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (Pool Swim Only)
Swim efficiency (SWOLF)
Basic rest timer (up from 0)
Drill logging (Pool Swim Only)
Pool swim workouts
Pacing Alerts (pool swim only)
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 HRM-Tri and HRM-Swim )

Connectivity
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone , Android

fēnix 6S
Charging/data cable
Documentation

*fēnix 6S with leather/nylon band version include an extra silicone QuickFit 20 watch band.

fēnix 6S

fēnix 6S

General

Clock Features

Sensors

Daily Smart Features

Safety and Tracking Features

Activity Tracking Features

Gym & Fitness Equipment

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

Heart Rate Features

Running Features

Golfing Features

Outdoor Recreation Features

Cycling Features

Swimming Features

Connectivity