Forerunner 265 Music Smartwatch

• MORNING REPORT: Receive an overview of your sleep1 and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customise your report to show you what you want to see.
• RACE WIDGET: Get ready for your next race — whether it’s a 10K or marathon — with training tips, personalised daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on course details, weather and performance.
• DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS: Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery and take into account the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ calendar.
• TRAINING READINESS: From the moment you wake up, get a readiness score based on your sleep quality, recovery, training load and more, so you can determine whether it’s a good day to go hard — or take it easy.
• TRAINING STATUS: Using indicators such as HRV status, your recent exercise history and performance, get an easy insight into your overall effort — and whether you’re training productively, peaking or strained.
• HRV STATUS: Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability, while you sleep, based on technology developed by our Firstbeat Analytics™ team.

What You'll Love

• Sleep Score and Insights: ✓
• Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 13 days
• Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep) ✓
• Garmin Pay™: ✓
• Multi-band GPS: ✓
• Music storage: ✓
• Training Readiness: ✓
• Training Status: Improved
• Watch display type: AMOLED; optional always-on mode
• Touchscreen: ✓
• Water rating: 5 ATM

General

• Strap material: Silicone
  
• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
• Bezel material: Fibre-reinforced polymer
  
• Quick release bands: Yes (22 mm, Industry standard) ✓
• Physical size: 46.1 x 46.1 x 12.9 (mm)
  Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-205 mm
• Weight: 47 g
• Display Size: 32.5 mm (1.3") diameter
  
• Display Resolution: 416 x 416 pixels
• Colour display: ✓
• Large font option: ✓
• Battery type: Lithium ion
• Battery life: Smartwatch mode: Up to 13 days
  GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 20 hours
  SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 16 hours
  All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 14 hours
  GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours
  SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 6 hours
  All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 6 hours
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• Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
• Memory/history: 8 GB

Clock features

• Time/date: ✓
• GPS time sync: ✓
• Automatic daylight saving time: ✓
• Alarm clock: ✓
• Timer: ✓
• Stopwatch: ✓
• Sunrise/sunset times: ✓

Health & Wellness Monitoring

• Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second): ✓
• Resting heart rate: ✓
• Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low) ✓
• Respiration Rate: ✓
• Fitness Age: ✓
• Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: ✓
• All-day Stress: ✓
• Relaxation reminders: ✓
• Relaxation Breathing Timer: ✓
• Meditation: ✓
• Breathwork: ✓
• Sleep: Yes (Advanced) ✓
• Sleep coach: ✓
• Breathing variations: ✓
• Nap detection: ✓
• Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
• Women's Health: Yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) ✓
• Health Snapshot: ✓
• JET LAG ADVISER: ✓

Sensors

• GPS: ✓
• GLONASS: ✓
• Galileo: ✓
• QZSS: ✓
• BeiDou: ✓
• SatIQ™ Technology: ✓
• Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: ✓
• Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: ✓
• Barometric altimeter: ✓
• Compass: ✓
• Gyroscope: ✓
• Accelerometer: ✓
• Thermometer: ✓
• Ambient light sensor: ✓

Daily smart features

• Connectivity: Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
• Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps): ✓
• On-device Connect IQ™ Store: ✓
• Smart Notifications: ✓
• Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): ✓
• View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only): ✓
• Morning report: ✓
• Calendar: ✓
• Weather forecasts: ✓
• Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile: ✓
• Battery Saver - customisable low power watch: ✓
• Controls smartphone music: ✓
• Plays and controls watch music: ✓
• Find my phone: ✓
• Find my watch: ✓
• Find My Phone during GPS activity: ✓
• Compatible with Garmin Messenger app: ✓
• VIRB ® camera remote: ✓
• Smart trainer control: ✓
• Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: ✓
• Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™
  
• Stocks: Yes (optional Connect IQ app) ✓
• Red shift mode: ✓
• Garmin Share: ✓
• Passcode: ✓

Workout and Training Plans

• Daily Suggested Workout - Running (Pace and Heart Rate Based): ✓
• Daily Suggested Workout - Cycling (Pace and Heart Rate Based): ✓
• Garmin Running Coach: ✓
• Garmin Running Coach Experts: ✓
• Garmin Cycling Coach: ✓
• Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans: ✓
• Garmin Coach - Strength: ✓
• Cardio workouts: ✓
• Strength workouts: ✓
• HIIT workouts: ✓
• Yoga workouts: ✓
• Pilates workouts: ✓
• On-screen workout animations: ✓
• On-Screen Workout Muscle Map: ✓

Activity profiles

• Gym: Strength, HIIT, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor rowing
• Multisport: Triathlon
• WELLNESS: Walking, Pilates, Yoga
• INDOOR RUNNING: Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Virtual running
• Outdoor running: Running, Outdoor Track Running Trail Running, Ultra Running
• Outdoor recreation: Hiking
• Cycling: Biking, Mountain Biking, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking
• Swim: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming
• On the water: Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing
• Racket sports: Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball
• Snow & Winter: Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing
• Sport profiles: Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball
• In the ring: Boxing, Mixed martial arts
• Other activity profiles: Inline Skating

Safety and tracking features

• Incident Detection during select activities: ✓
• Incident detection alert on phone for wearables: ✓
• Assistance: ✓
• Live Event Sharing: Android™ Only

Activity tracking features

• Step counter: ✓
• Move alerts (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): ✓
• Calories Burned: ✓
• Floors climbed: ✓
• Distance travelled: ✓
• Intensity minutes: ✓
• TrueUp™: ✓
• Move IQ™: ✓
• Garmin Connect™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ app) ✓
• Automatic rep counting: ✓

Training, planning and analysis features

• Customisable screen(s): ✓
• Downloadable training plans: ✓
• Course guidance: ✓
• HR Zones: ✓
• HR Alerts: ✓
• HR Calories: ✓
• % HR Max: ✓
• % HRR: ✓
• Recovery Time: ✓
• Auto Max HR: ✓
• Race glance/widget: ✓
• HRV Status: ✓
• HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices): ✓
• Respiration Rate (During Exercise): Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
• GPS speed and distance: ✓
• Customisable activity profiles: ✓
• Auto Pause® automatic timer halt: ✓
• Interval training: ✓
• Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection): ✓
• Advanced workouts: ✓
• HRM running pace and distance: ✓
• Auto Lap® interval tracking feature: ✓
• Manual lap: ✓
• Rest timer: ✓
• Configurable lap alerts: ✓
• VO2 Max (Run): ✓
• VO2 Max (Trail Run): ✓
• Load ratio: ✓
• Training Load: ✓
• Training load focus: ✓
• Training Effect: ✓
• Training Effect (Anaerobic): ✓
• Primary benefit (Training Effect labels): ✓
• Improved Recovery Time: ✓
• Customisable alerts: ✓
• Voice alerts: ✓
• Multisport auto transition: ✓
• Finish time: ✓
• Virtual partner: ✓
• Race an activity: ✓
• Multi-sport: ✓
• Touch and/or button lock: ✓
• Shortcuts: ✓
• Auto scroll: ✓
• Activity history on watch: ✓
• Physio TrueUp: ✓
• Unified Training Status: ✓

Running features

• GPS-based distance, time and pace: ✓
• Running dynamics: ✓
• Vertical oscillation and ratio: ✓
• Ground contact time and balance: Yes (with compatible accessory) ✓
• Stride length (real time): ✓
• Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): ✓
• Running power: ✓
• Grade-adjusted pace: ✓
• Performance condition: ✓
• Lactate threshold: ✓
• PacePro™ Pacing Strategies: ✓
• Run workouts: ✓
• Trail run auto climb: ✓
• Race predictor: ✓
• Course- and weather-specific race predictor: ✓
• Foot pod capable: ✓
• Run/Walk/Stand detection: ✓

Outdoor recreation

• Point-to-point navigation: ✓
• Bread crumbtrail in real time: ✓
• Back to start: ✓
• TracBack®: ✓
• UltraTrac mode: ✓
• Up Ahead: ✓
• Elevation profile: ✓
• Distance to destination: ✓
• Barometric trend indicator with storm alert: ✓
• Vertical speed: ✓
• Total ascent/descent: ✓
• Rest Timer (Ultra Run only): ✓
• Auto Rest: ✓
• Future elevation plot: ✓
• Area calculation: Yes (via Connect IQ™) ✓
• Fish forecast: Yes (via Connect IQ™) ✓
• Projected waypoint: ✓
• Sun and moon information: ✓

Cycling features

• Courses: ✓
• Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): ✓
• Race an activity: ✓
• Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): ✓
• Power curve and % FTP workouts: ✓
• Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters): ✓
• Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): ✓
• Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): ✓
• Compatible with Varia™ lights: ✓
• Compatible with Varia headlight camera: ✓
• Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor): ✓
• Power meter compatible: ✓

Swimming features

• Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): ✓
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, 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) (pool swim only): ✓
• "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only): ✓
• Auto rest (pool swim only): ✓
• Time and distance alerts: ✓
• 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): Yes (with HRM-Swim, HRM-Pro or HRM-Pro Plus) ✓

Kid activity tracking features

• Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe™ Challenges app) ✓

Security and Legal Information

• Security updates until at least (YYYY-MM-DD): 2025-03-02

• Forerunner® 265 Running Watch
• USB-C charging/data cable
• Documentation