fēnix 6S

Part Number 010-02159-75

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Think Better, Not Bigger

The smaller-sized fēnix 6S series multisport watches let you add mapping, music, pace monitoring and more to your workouts — without adding bulk to your wrist.

Wrist-based heart rate¹ and Pulse Ox² sensors add insight to your fitness activities
Dynamic PacePro feature helps you run smarter over various types of terrain
Preloaded ski maps for more than 2,000 resorts around the world
Measure running and cycling performance in ways you didn’t know were possible
Navigate your world with multi-GNSS satellite reference and outdoor sensors
Sync your favorite streaming services, and listen to music without your phone

Quality By Design

The rugged yet sophisticated design features an always-on 1.2” display, stainless steel or DLC coated bezel and construction tested to U.S. military standards.

PacePro Technology

A first-of-its-kind PacePro feature helps keep you on pace with grade-adjusted guidance as you run a course.

Power Manager

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

Performance Metrics

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

Sports Apps

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

TOPO and Ski Maps

Use topographical maps to navigate your adventures and view run names and difficulty ratings for 2,000 worldwide ski resorts.

ClimbPro Feature

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

Golf Courses

Access full-color CourseView maps for more than 43,000 preloaded golf courses around the world, and get button targeting and the PlaysLike Distance feature.

Turn-by-turn Navigation

Follow a route or course with help from turn-by-turn directions, which let you know ahead of time when the next turn is coming.

Round-trip Routing

Enter a distance you want to travel, and get suggested routes that will bring you back to your starting point. Trendline popularity routing helps you find the best local paths.

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 detectionfeatures³ send your location to emergency contacts.

Music Apps

Store up to 2,000 songs, or access streaming apps from your compatible services, including Spotify®, Deezer, and listen through headphones with BLUETOOTH® technology.

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, 6 hours in GPS mode with music 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.

SPOTIFY and the Spotify logo are among the registered trademarks of Spotify AB. The Bluetooth word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by Garmin is under license.

Bluetooth Headphone Compatibility Garmin Ski Maps

Dedicated Website

General
Lens Material	Corning Gorilla Glass 3 or Sapphire Crystal
Bezel Material	stainless steel or Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) coated steel
Case material	fiber-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover
QuickFit watch band compatible	included (20 mm)
Strap material	silicone, suede or nylon
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: 61 g (case only: 44 g)
Battery life	Smartwatch: Up to 9 days GPS: Up to 25h GPS + Music: Up to 7h Ultratrac Mode: 30h Expedition GPS Mode: 16 days Battery Saver Watch Mode: 27 days
Water rating	10 ATM
Color display
Memory/History	32 GB

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 , ANT+ , Wi-Fi
Calendar
Weather
Battery Saver - customizable low power watch
Controls smartphone music
Plays and controls watch music
Music Storage	Up to 2,000 songs
Find My Phone
Find My Watch
VIRB Camera Remote
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone , Android
Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile
Garmin Pay

Safety and Tracking Features
Incident Detection during select activities
Assistance
LiveTrack
Group LiveTrack
Live Event Sharing

Tactical Features
Dual grid coordinates

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
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
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 43,000 courses worldwide
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
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
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
Trail run auto climb
Vertical speed
Total ascent/descent
Future elevation plot
Preloaded topographical maps
Downloadable cartography support
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)
Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map)
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, 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 HRM-Tri and HRM-Swim )

Connectivity
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone , Android

fēnix 6S Pro & Sapphire Versions

fēnix 6S
Charging/data cable
Documentation

fenix 6S Sapphire - Rose Gold-tone with Heathered Black Nylon Band Version

fēnix 6S
Charging/data cable
Black QuickFit 20 silicone band
Documentation

fenix 6S Sapphire - Light Gold-tone with Shale Gray Leather Band Version

fēnix 6S
Charging/data cable
Light sand QuickFit 20 silicone band
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

Tactical 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