Patient monitor
VITALS
Your body, on the monitor.
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Check your watch’s compatibility ↓Meet VITALS.
VITALS turns your watch into an ICU patient monitor. The time sits on top in big bold digits, with the date and battery level above it and the seconds beside the minutes. Below the time, an ECG-style band shows a green heart trace on a faint monitor grid. The trace is built from your real heart-rate history: the newest 60 readings are averaged into nine beats. Each beat is taller when your heart rate was higher and closer to its neighbours when it was faster. A thin sweep gap moves along the trace with the seconds.
Under the trace, four colour-coded channels sit in a boxed 2 × 2 grid: heart rate in green, SpO₂ in cyan, respiration in yellow and stress in magenta, with four small level bars next to the stress value. When your heart rate goes above the start of your zone 5 (from your Garmin heart-rate zones), the HR label turns red and blinks. Steps and a green goal bar sit at the bottom. A thin arc on each edge shows Body Battery on the left and step-goal progress on the right, each with its value. Missing data shows as --, never invented.
Pick the Monitor, Mono green or Night theme. The yellow channel can show respiration, calories, floors or temperature, and the magenta channel stress, Body Battery or active minutes. The left arc shows Body Battery or stress, the right arc step goal or battery, and either can be turned off. You can also switch off the heart trace and choose 12/24-hour time and a leading zero. On AMOLED watches the always-on mode shows only a dimmed time, date and heart rate. MIP watches keep the full face, without the seconds and the sweep.
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Features
- Big bold time on top, 12/24 h, optional leading zero, seconds beside the minutes (high-power mode)
- Date and battery percentage with a battery icon
- ECG-style heart trace from your real heart-rate history on a faint monitor grid, with a moving sweep gap
- Four colour-coded channels in a 2 × 2 grid: heart rate, SpO₂, respiration (or calories / floors / temperature), stress with level bars (or Body Battery / active minutes)
- Zone alarm: the HR label turns red and blinks above your zone-5 threshold
- Steps with a step-goal bar
- Rim arcs: Body Battery or stress on the left, step goal or battery on the right
- Three themes: Monitor, Mono green, Night (dimmed)
- Missing data shows as --
- Always-on mode (AMOLED): dimmed time, date and heart rate only
Settings
All settings are edited in the Garmin Connect IQ phone app; the face updates immediately.
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Theme | Monitor / Mono green / Night | Monitor |
| Time format | Same as watch / 12 hour / 24 hour | Same as watch |
| Leading zero on hours | on / off | off |
| Channel 3 (yellow) | Respiration / Calories / Floors / Temperature | Respiration |
| Channel 4 (magenta) | Stress / Body Battery / Active minutes | Stress |
| Left arc | Body Battery / Stress / Off | Body Battery |
| Right arc | Steps goal / Battery / Off | Steps goal |
| Heart-rate trace | on / off | on |
| License key | text | empty |
What's new
1.0.0 — Initial release.
Permissions
SensorHistory (heart-rate history for the trace, SpO₂, stress and Body Battery), UserProfile (heart-rate zones for the zone alarm), Communications and Background (licence key activation).
Compatible watches
These models support VITALS. Check your exact model and size before buying.
- Approach S70 42mm
- Approach S70 47mm
- Approach S72 43mm
- Approach S72 47mm
- D2 Mach 1
- D2 Mach 2
- D2 Mach 2 Pro
- Descent Mk3 43mm / Mk3i 43mm
- Descent Mk3i 51mm
- Enduro 3
- Enduro 4
- epix (Gen 2) / quatix 7 Sapphire
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 42mm
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 47mm / quatix 7 Pro
- epix Pro (Gen 2) 51mm / D2 Mach 1 Pro / tactix 7 – AMOLED Edition
- fēnix 7 / quatix 7
- fēnix 7 Pro
- fēnix 7 Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi)
- fēnix 7S
- fēnix 7S Pro
- fēnix 7X / tactix 7 / quatix 7X Solar / Enduro 2
- fēnix 7X Pro
- fēnix 7X Pro - Solar Edition (no Wi-Fi)
- fēnix 8 43mm
- fēnix 8 47mm / 51mm / tactix 8 47mm / 51mm / quatix 8 47mm / 51mm
- fēnix 8 Pro 47mm / 51mm / MicroLED / quatix 8 Pro 47mm / 51mm
- fēnix 8 Solar 47mm
- fēnix 8 Solar 51mm / tactix 8 Solar 51mm
- fēnix 9 43mm
- fēnix 9 47mm / 51mm
- fēnix 9 Pro 43mm
- fēnix 9 Pro 47mm
- fēnix 9 Pro 51mm
- fēnix 9 Pro Solar 47mm
- fēnix 9 Pro Solar 51mm
- fēnix E
- Forerunner 165
- Forerunner 165 Music
- Forerunner 170
- Forerunner 170 Music
- Forerunner 265
- Forerunner 265s
- Forerunner 570 42mm
- Forerunner 570 47mm
- Forerunner 70
- Forerunner 955 / Solar
- Forerunner 965
- Forerunner 970
- MARQ (Gen 2) Athlete / Adventurer / Captain / Golfer / Carbon Edition / Commander - Carbon Edition
- MARQ (Gen 2) Aviator
- MARQ (Gen 3) Athlete / Adventurer / Aviator / Commander / Golfer / Diver
- Venu 4 41mm
- Venu 4 45mm / D2 Air X15
- vívoactive 6
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