Vertical Segment

1.1

Theme

Choose Original, Silver, Arctic Cyan, Forest, Khaki, Coyote, Monochrome, Monochrome Inverse, Night Neon, Night Vision, Cyberpunk, Gameboy, Norton, Paper, Retro Cream, or Retro Mint.

MIP devices keep the same theme names and saved IDs but use high-contrast palettes adapted to native display colors.

1.2

Custom Colors

Enable background, text, and accent overrides independently and enter each color as six hexadecimal RRGGBB characters.

Custom colors are available in Connect IQ settings. MIP devices quantize them to supported native colors.

1.3

Mid-row Font

Choose Default for the designed Rajdhani font or System for the localized device XTiny font.

1.4

Alternative Progress Bar

On AMOLED devices, replace the plain 60-segment bezel mask with the numbered alternative mask.

The option affects the active face only. Both Instinct 3 AMOLED sizes use device-tuned progress masks.

2.1

Time Formats

Main Time Format offers 9:05 or 09:05. Data Time Format adds Military, which renders 24-hour time without a colon, for example 2105.

AM/PM in Data Fields applies only when the watch uses 12-hour time.

2.2

Date Format

Choose 5.7., 05.07., 5/7, 05/07, 7/5, 07/05, 5 JUL, JUL 5, WED 5, or 5 WED.

2.3

Colon & Seconds

Main Clock Colon offers Blinking, Always On, or Always Off. Seconds Field Format offers 36 or :36. Bezel Seconds controls the separate one-segment seconds marker.

When Seconds is selected for Bezel Progress, the separate marker is suppressed. Second 0 lights the first segment and second 59 lights all 60.

Side Seconds are always two digits without a colon.

2.4

Alternate Time Zones

Set two independent offsets from UTC−12:00 through UTC+14:00 in 30-minute increments, then assign either zone to a compatible field.

Alternate-zone fields display only local clock time, without a date or UTC suffix.

3.1

Six Data Positions

Configure Top Left, Top Right, Mid Left, Mid Center, Mid Right, and Bottom independently.

Mid positions accept all 64 fields and show inline icons plus complete units. Top excludes Month, Date, Day, Calendar, Moon Phase, Training Status, and Temp. min/max. Bottom excludes Calendar, Moon Phase, Training Status, and Temp. min/max.

Unavailable or unrepresentable values show -- instead of silently disappearing. Overflowing active mid-row text scrolls after a one-second pause.

Activity: Steps, Steps To Goal, Step Goal Progress, Calories, Active Calories, Active Cal. %, Distance, Floors ascended, Floors descended, Meters Climbed, Meters Descended, Active Day, Active Week, and Move Bar.

Health: Heart Rate, Resting HR, Body Battery, Stress, Pulse Ox, Respiration, and Sleep Score.

Date & Time: Month, Date, Day, Week Number, Year, Calendar, Time, Seconds, Alt Time Zone 1, Alt Time Zone 2, Sunrise / Sunset, Dawn / Dusk, Remaining Sun / Dark, and Moon Phase.

Training: Recovery Time, VO2 Max (Run), VO2 Max (Bike), Training Status, Week Run Dist, Week Bike Dist, Week Run Time, and Week Bike Time.

Weather: Weather, Feels Like, Temp. min/max, Precip Chance (Garmin), Humidity, Wind, UV (Garmin), Pressure, Ground Pressure (OWM), Barometric Trend (Garmin), Cloud Cover, Rain (1h) (OWM), Wind Gust (OWM), Visibility, and Dew Point (Garmin).

System: Battery, Battery Days, Notifications, Alarm Count, Altitude, and Solar Input.

3.2

Bezel Progress

Choose one of 28 metrics with a meaningful goal, percentage, or bounded state.

Bezel Progress offers Steps, Steps To Goal, Step Goal Progress, Calories, Active Calories, Active Cal. %, Distance, Floors ascended, Floors descended, Meters Climbed, Meters Descended, Active Day, Active Week, Move Bar, Body Battery, Stress, Pulse Ox, Sleep Score, Seconds, Week Run Dist, Week Bike Dist, Week Run Time, Week Bike Time, Precip Chance, Humidity, Cloud Cover, Battery, and Solar Input.

Unbounded values such as pressure, altitude, VO2 max, recovery time, and Battery Days are intentionally excluded.

3.3

Six-hour Barometric Trend

The always-visible top-center symbol summarizes pressure movement as an older three-hour segment followed by the most recent three-hour segment.

A segment points down after a drop greater than 2 hPa, stays level from −2 through +2 hPa, and points up after a rise greater than 2 hPa. It is a pressure tendency, not a forecast.

The recent segment needs about three hours of Garmin pressure history; the older segment needs about six hours. Missing history is shown subdued.

4.1

Four Side Positions

Left Upper, Left Lower, Right Upper, and Right Lower each offer Nothing, Seconds, AM/PM, Connection, Notifications, Alarms, or Moon Phase.

Connection prioritizes LTE, Wi-Fi, then Bluetooth. Connection Only When Disconnected hides a healthy connection but retains a disconnected warning.

Dim Side Information mixes background and text colors 50/50. Moon Phase remains legible and is not dimmed.

Full AMOLED AOD retains non-seconds side information; Minimal AOD and all low-power modes suppress Side Seconds.

5.1

Touch Launch

Enable Touch Launch and choose a target independently for each of the six data positions.

Auto opens the Garmin glance associated with the displayed metric when available.

Auto, Battery, Steps, Calories, Floors ascended, Intensity Minutes, Date, Weekday & Date, Weather, one-, two-, or three-day forecast, Calendar, Sunrise, Sunset, Altitude, Sea Level Pressure, Notifications, Heart Rate, weekly run/bike distance, Recovery Time, Stress, Body Battery, both VO2 Max values, Training Status, race predictors and race paces for 5K/10K/half marathon/marathon, Pulse Ox, Respiration, Solar Input, Temperature, Temp. min/max, Wheelchair Pushes, Last Golf Round Score, Sleep Score, or an external complication selected on the watch.

Touch controls are unavailable on Instinct 3 AMOLED.

5.2

Launch Complication on Watch

Each real data slot can open a picker containing 42 Garmin system complication types plus labeled third-party complications discovered on the watch.

Bezel Progress has no touch target. External complication identifiers are retained by Reset Defaults.

6.1

AMOLED AOD Layout

Full is the default and retains all six configured fields, the barometric-trend indicator, and non-seconds side information. Minimal shows only the digital time.

AOD never draws the static bezel, mid row, center divider, progress, or seconds marker. It is monochrome by default. A previously saved Colored AOD palette remains only for upgrade compatibility and is removed by Reset Defaults.

6.2

AOD Brightness

Choose Very Low (35%), Low (50%), Medium (65%), High (80%), or Very High (90%). Medium is the default.

6.3

Pixel Shift

On AMOLED, shift low-power content between the center and eight clipping-safe positions once per minute.

6.4

AOD Night Dimming

Choose Profile Sleep / Wake, Profile Sleep / Wake −2h, Sunrise / Sunset, or Never.

Sunrise / Sunset is the default. An active dimming window forces Very Low AOD brightness.

6.5

Low Battery Trigger

Choose Off, 5%, 10%, 15%, or 20%. The default is 5%.

At or below the trigger, AMOLED forces Very Low AOD brightness. On MIP, Battery Saver suppresses partial updates.

6.6

Always-On Seconds on MIP

Allow low-power partial updates for the seconds marker or Seconds selected as Bezel Progress.

This setting is MIP-only. AMOLED instead exposes the AOD controls above.

7.1

Weather Source

Choose Garmin Weather or OpenWeatherMap.

7.2

Status, Refresh & Clear

View OpenWeatherMap status, refresh displayed data, or clear the OWM cache and retry state.

8.1

Read-only on Watch

The watch displays every current target; edit values in Connect IQ.

Total Calories 1500; Active Calories 300; Distance 5.0 km; Active Day 20 min.

Floors Down 5; Meters Up 50 m; Meters Down 50 m.

Weekly Run 15.0 km; Weekly Bike 50.0 km; Weekly Run Time 120 min; Weekly Bike Time 180 min.

These goals drive compatible Bezel Progress metrics. Edit them in Connect IQ; the watch menu shows them read-only.

9.1

Refresh Data

Invalidate displayed values, request fresh data, and redraw the face.

9.2

User Guide

Open the Vertical Segment web guide from the watch menu.

9.3

Version

The installed app version is read-only.

9.4

Reset Defaults

Choose Confirm Reset to restore all visible settings in one batch.

Reset retains the OWM API key, cached weather, and saved external-complication identifiers.

10.1

Display Families

fēnix 9 Pro 51mm uses native 466 × 466 artwork. Instinct 3 AMOLED uses a separate graphics branch and device-tuned progress masks. MIP uses display-specific palettes and partial updates.

The retained Venu X1 448 × 486 layout is temporarily disabled in this release.

The fēnix 9 Pro Solar models use the MIP path at 260 × 260 and 280 × 280.

1.1

Theme

Choose Original, Silver, Arctic Cyan, Forest, Khaki, Coyote, Monochrome, Monochrome Inverse, Night Neon, Night Vision, Cyberpunk, Gameboy, Norton, Paper, Retro Cream, or Retro Mint.

MIP devices keep the same theme names and saved IDs but use high-contrast palettes adapted to native display colors.

1.2

Custom Colors

Enable background, text, and accent overrides independently and enter each color as six hexadecimal RRGGBB characters.

Custom colors are available in Connect IQ settings. MIP devices quantize them to supported native colors.

1.3

Mid-row Font

Choose Default for the designed Rajdhani font or System for the localized device XTiny font.

1.4

Alternative Progress Bar

On AMOLED devices, replace the plain 60-segment bezel mask with the numbered alternative mask.

The option affects the active face only. Both Instinct 3 AMOLED sizes use device-tuned progress masks.

2.1

Time Formats

Main Time Format offers 9:05 or 09:05. Data Time Format adds Military, which renders 24-hour time without a colon, for example 2105.

AM/PM in Data Fields applies only when the watch uses 12-hour time.

2.2

Date Format

Choose 5.7., 05.07., 5/7, 05/07, 7/5, 07/05, 5 JUL, JUL 5, WED 5, or 5 WED.

2.3

Colon & Seconds

Main Clock Colon offers Blinking, Always On, or Always Off. Seconds Field Format offers 36 or :36. Bezel Seconds controls the separate one-segment seconds marker.

When Seconds is selected for Bezel Progress, the separate marker is suppressed. Second 0 lights the first segment and second 59 lights all 60.

Side Seconds are always two digits without a colon.

2.4

Alternate Time Zones

Set two independent offsets from UTC−12:00 through UTC+14:00 in 30-minute increments, then assign either zone to a compatible field.

Alternate-zone fields display only local clock time, without a date or UTC suffix.

3.1

Six Data Positions

Configure Top Left, Top Right, Mid Left, Mid Center, Mid Right, and Bottom independently.

Mid positions accept all 64 fields and show inline icons plus complete units. Top excludes Month, Date, Day, Calendar, Moon Phase, Training Status, and Temp. min/max. Bottom excludes Calendar, Moon Phase, Training Status, and Temp. min/max.

Unavailable or unrepresentable values show -- instead of silently disappearing. Overflowing active mid-row text scrolls after a one-second pause.

Activity: Steps, Steps To Goal, Step Goal Progress, Calories, Active Calories, Active Cal. %, Distance, Floors ascended, Floors descended, Meters Climbed, Meters Descended, Active Day, Active Week, and Move Bar.

Health: Heart Rate, Resting HR, Body Battery, Stress, Pulse Ox, Respiration, and Sleep Score.

Date & Time: Month, Date, Day, Week Number, Year, Calendar, Time, Seconds, Alt Time Zone 1, Alt Time Zone 2, Sunrise / Sunset, Dawn / Dusk, Remaining Sun / Dark, and Moon Phase.

Training: Recovery Time, VO2 Max (Run), VO2 Max (Bike), Training Status, Week Run Dist, Week Bike Dist, Week Run Time, and Week Bike Time.

Weather: Weather, Feels Like, Temp. min/max, Precip Chance (Garmin), Humidity, Wind, UV (Garmin), Pressure, Ground Pressure (OWM), Barometric Trend (Garmin), Cloud Cover, Rain (1h) (OWM), Wind Gust (OWM), Visibility, and Dew Point (Garmin).

System: Battery, Battery Days, Notifications, Alarm Count, Altitude, and Solar Input.

3.2

Bezel Progress

Choose one of 28 metrics with a meaningful goal, percentage, or bounded state.

Bezel Progress offers Steps, Steps To Goal, Step Goal Progress, Calories, Active Calories, Active Cal. %, Distance, Floors ascended, Floors descended, Meters Climbed, Meters Descended, Active Day, Active Week, Move Bar, Body Battery, Stress, Pulse Ox, Sleep Score, Seconds, Week Run Dist, Week Bike Dist, Week Run Time, Week Bike Time, Precip Chance, Humidity, Cloud Cover, Battery, and Solar Input.

Unbounded values such as pressure, altitude, VO2 max, recovery time, and Battery Days are intentionally excluded.

3.3

Six-hour Barometric Trend

The always-visible top-center symbol summarizes pressure movement as an older three-hour segment followed by the most recent three-hour segment.

A segment points down after a drop greater than 2 hPa, stays level from −2 through +2 hPa, and points up after a rise greater than 2 hPa. It is a pressure tendency, not a forecast.

The recent segment needs about three hours of Garmin pressure history; the older segment needs about six hours. Missing history is shown subdued.

4.1

Four Side Positions

Left Upper, Left Lower, Right Upper, and Right Lower each offer Nothing, Seconds, AM/PM, Connection, Notifications, Alarms, or Moon Phase.

Connection prioritizes LTE, Wi-Fi, then Bluetooth. Connection Only When Disconnected hides a healthy connection but retains a disconnected warning.

Dim Side Information mixes background and text colors 50/50. Moon Phase remains legible and is not dimmed.

Full AMOLED AOD retains non-seconds side information; Minimal AOD and all low-power modes suppress Side Seconds.

5.1

Touch Launch

Enable Touch Launch and choose a target independently for each of the six data positions.

Auto opens the Garmin glance associated with the displayed metric when available.

Auto, Battery, Steps, Calories, Floors ascended, Intensity Minutes, Date, Weekday & Date, Weather, one-, two-, or three-day forecast, Calendar, Sunrise, Sunset, Altitude, Sea Level Pressure, Notifications, Heart Rate, weekly run/bike distance, Recovery Time, Stress, Body Battery, both VO2 Max values, Training Status, race predictors and race paces for 5K/10K/half marathon/marathon, Pulse Ox, Respiration, Solar Input, Temperature, Temp. min/max, Wheelchair Pushes, Last Golf Round Score, Sleep Score, or an external complication selected on the watch.

Touch controls are unavailable on Instinct 3 AMOLED.

5.2

Launch Complication on Watch

Each real data slot can open a picker containing 42 Garmin system complication types plus labeled third-party complications discovered on the watch.

Bezel Progress has no touch target. External complication identifiers are retained by Reset Defaults.

6.1

AMOLED AOD Layout

Full is the default and retains all six configured fields, the barometric-trend indicator, and non-seconds side information. Minimal shows only the digital time.

AOD never draws the static bezel, mid row, center divider, progress, or seconds marker. It is monochrome by default. A previously saved Colored AOD palette remains only for upgrade compatibility and is removed by Reset Defaults.

6.2

AOD Brightness

Choose Very Low (35%), Low (50%), Medium (65%), High (80%), or Very High (90%). Medium is the default.

6.3

Pixel Shift

On AMOLED, shift low-power content between the center and eight clipping-safe positions once per minute.

6.4

AOD Night Dimming

Choose Profile Sleep / Wake, Profile Sleep / Wake −2h, Sunrise / Sunset, or Never.

Sunrise / Sunset is the default. An active dimming window forces Very Low AOD brightness.

6.5

Low Battery Trigger

Choose Off, 5%, 10%, 15%, or 20%. The default is 5%.

At or below the trigger, AMOLED forces Very Low AOD brightness. On MIP, Battery Saver suppresses partial updates.

6.6

Always-On Seconds on MIP

Allow low-power partial updates for the seconds marker or Seconds selected as Bezel Progress.

This setting is MIP-only. AMOLED instead exposes the AOD controls above.

7.1

Weather Source

Choose Garmin Weather or OpenWeatherMap.

7.2

OWM API Key

Enter your personal OpenWeatherMap API key.

7.3

OWM Refresh

Choose a 15-, 30-, or 60-minute refresh interval.

8.1

Eleven Goal Values

Configure calorie, distance, active-time, floor, elevation, and weekly run/bike goals.

Total Calories 1500; Active Calories 300; Distance 5.0 km; Active Day 20 min.

Floors Down 5; Meters Up 50 m; Meters Down 50 m.

Weekly Run 15.0 km; Weekly Bike 50.0 km; Weekly Run Time 120 min; Weekly Bike Time 180 min.

These goals drive compatible Bezel Progress metrics. Edit them in Connect IQ; the watch menu shows them read-only.

9.1

App Version

The installed app version is read-only.

9.2

Reset Defaults on Watch

The watch menu restores all visible settings while retaining the OWM API key, cached weather, and external-complication identifiers.

10.1

Display Families

fēnix 9 Pro 51mm uses native 466 × 466 artwork. Instinct 3 AMOLED uses a separate graphics branch and device-tuned progress masks. MIP uses display-specific palettes and partial updates.

The retained Venu X1 448 × 486 layout is temporarily disabled in this release.

The fēnix 9 Pro Solar models use the MIP path at 260 × 260 and 280 × 280.