Forerunner 265S - 42mm Music Smartwatch

BUILT-IN GPSTrack where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance, pace and intervals.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATEGet heart rate data1 along with alerts if your heart rate stays high while you’re at rest. Even gauge how hard your heart is working during activities.GARMIN COACHThese adaptive training plans feature guidance from expert coaches and free training plans that adapt to you and your goals. Workouts sync right to your watch from the Garmin Connect™ app2.

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTSFor personalised training guidance, get daily run recommendations of varying intensities based on your training history, fitness level and recovery time.

PACEPRO™ TECHNOLOGYTo help you plan your race day strategy, this feature offers GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance in the Garmin Connect™ app. So you can tailor your efforts to what’s ahead.

FINISH TIMEWant some guidance to help you meet your goal? Select a distance for your run, and you’ll be able to see a data screen that shows your estimated finish time.

TRACK RUNWhen you’re ready to hit the track for some speedwork, use the built-in track run activity to record accurate lap distances and see your distances in metres.

CADENCE ALERTSWant to improve your running form? Use the cadence alerts to know when you’ve gone outside your target cadence range.

RECOVERY ADVISORGiving your body time to recover between training sessions is crucial. After each workout, the built-in recovery time feature will let you know how long to rest before another big effort.

RACE PREDICTORThis specialised tool takes into account your fitness level and training history to help you work toward your race goal and see the impact of training on your predicted finish time.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPSSwitch up your workout routine with activity profiles for track or virtual running, pool swimming, Pilates, HIIT and even breathwork.

FITNESS TRACKINGWhile you’re out and about, Forerunner 55 tracks steps, intensity minutes and more1.

STRESS TRACKINGFind out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day. Relax reminders will even prompt you to do a short breathing activity.

BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITORINGTrack your body’s energy levels so you can find the best times for activity and rest.

INTENSITY MINUTESSee when during the day you earned intensity minutes from moderate and vigorous physical activity.

FITNESS AGEThis feature uses chronological age, resting heart rate and other factors to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. Age is just a number, after all.

RESPIRATION TRACKINGSee how you’re breathing throughout the day, during sleep and during breathwork activities.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKINGUse the Garmin Connect app2 to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more.

SMART NOTIFICATIONSReceive emails, texts and alerts right on your smartwatch when paired with your compatible smartphone.

SAFETY AND TRACKING FEATURESWhen your watch and phone are paired, your live location can be sent to your contacts manually or — during select outdoor activities — automatically with built-in incident detection3.

CONNECT IQ™ STOREDownload custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps from the Connect IQ Store2.

MUSIC CONTROLSEasily control the music playing on your paired smartphone, so you can skip songs without missing a beat.

SYNCS WITH GARMIN CONNECTUpload your activities to the Garmin Connect app to interact with a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete — and even share their triumphs via social media.

What You'll Love

• Sleep Score and Insights: Yes ✓
• Battery life (smartwatch mode): Up to 15 days
• Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep) ✓
• Garmin Pay™: Yes ✓
• Multi-band GPS: Yes ✓
• Music storage: Yes ✓
• Training Readiness: Yes ✓
• Training Status: Improved
• Watch display type: AMOLED; optional always-on mode
• Touchscreen: Yes ✓
• Water rating: 5 ATM

General

• Strap material: Silicone ;;BR;;
• Lens material: Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
• Bezel material: Fibre-reinforced polymer ;;BR;;
• Quick release bands: Yes (18 mm, Industry standard) ✓
• Physical size: 41.7 x 41.7 x 12.9 (mm); Fits wrists with a circumference of 115-178 mm
• Weight: 39 g
• Display Size: 28.1 mm (1.1") diameter ;;BR;;
• Display Resolution: 360 x 360 pixels
• Colour display: Yes ✓
• Large font option: Yes ✓
• Battery type: Lithium ion
• Battery life: Smartwatch mode: Up to 15 days; GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 24 hours; SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode: Up to 18 hours; All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band: Up to 15 hours; GPS-Only GNSS mode with music: Up to 7.5 hours; SatIQ (AutoSelect) GNSS mode with music: Up to 7 hours; All-Systems GNSS mode + Multi-Band with music: Up to 6 hours; See details ;;BR;;
• Charging method: Garmin proprietary plug charger
• Memory/history: 8 GB

Clock features

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

Health & Wellness Monitoring

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

Sensors

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

Daily smart features

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

Workout and Training Plans

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

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: Yes ✓
• Incident detection alert on phone for wearables: Yes ✓
• Assistance: Yes ✓
• Live Event Sharing: Android™ Only

Activity tracking features

• Step counter: Yes ✓
• Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): Yes ✓
• Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): Yes ✓
• Calories Burned: Yes ✓
• Floors climbed: Yes ✓
• Distance travelled: Yes ✓
• Intensity minutes: Yes ✓
• TrueUp™: Yes ✓
• Move IQ™: Yes ✓
• Garmin Connect™ Challenges app: Yes (optional Connect IQ app) ✓
• Automatic rep counting: Yes ✓

Training, planning and analysis features

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

Running features

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

Outdoor recreation

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

Cycling features

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

Swimming features

• Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes ✓
• Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes ✓
• Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): Yes ✓
• Drill logging (pool swim only): Yes ✓
• Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): Yes ✓
• "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only): Yes ✓
• Auto rest (pool swim only): Yes ✓
• Time and distance alerts: Yes ✓
• Pacing alerts (pool swim only): Yes ✓
• Countdown start: Yes ✓
• Pool swim workouts: Yes ✓
• Critical swim speed: Yes ✓
• Underwater wrist-based heart rate: Yes ✓
• 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

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