Garmin Venu 2 Overview

with a stainless steel bezel, round face, and silicone band, the Garmin Venu 2 GPS Smartwatch is a stylish option for managing your daily activities. Throughout the day, the Venu 2 can deliver smart notifications from your phone and stream music to optional Bluetooth headphones, and you can even use it to tap and pay at registers that support Garmin Pay. When it’s time to work out, the Venu 2 is made to shine with a host of fitness, health, and wellness features.

The Venu 2S can track and save data for 25 preloaded sports apps. There are also animated on-screen workouts that you can follow when you want a change of pace. If you prefer the pool, the Venu 2S can function at depths up to 164′. Integrated heart rate and Pulse Ox sensors work together for regular health monitoring and help to provide a Health Snapshot that you can track over time.

Even during the night, the Venu 2S will track sleep quality and stages, giving you an overall score. All of this and more is viewed and controlled via a brilliant, contrast-rich 1.1″ AMOLED screen that’s protected by tough Corning Gorilla Glass 3. for a natural watch feel, you can turn on always-on mode for the ability to glance at the time, notifications, or exercise stats.

Health Snapshot

In just 2 minutes, you can generate a report through the Garmin Connect app with your heart rate, HRV (Heart Rate Variability), Pulse Ox, respiration, and stress.

Body Battery Energy Monitoring

View your body’s energy levels throughout the day so you will know the best times to workout or to rest.

Stress Tracking

The Venu 2S will tell you know whether you’re having a calm, balanced, or stressful day. When stressed, you will receive reminders to relax, along with prompts to conduct a short breathing exercise.

Women’s Health Tracking

Through the Garmin Connect app on your phone, you can track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, receive exercise and nutrition education, and more. A watch-based Women’s Health Tracking app will show you your logs right on the Venu 2S’s screen.

Hydration Tracking

It’s essential that you drink enough fluids every day, and this feature gives you the ability to log your daily intake. You can set a hydration goal that will automatically adjust based on how much you sweat during workouts.

Respiration Tracking

See how well you’re breathing throughout the day, while sleeping, and when doing specific breathwork and yoga activities.

Mindful Breathing

If you’re felling stressed out, you can start a breathwork activity to relax and calm you. During the activity, the Venu 2S will track your stress and respiration so you can see how well you’re breathing.

Sleep Monitoring

As you rest, the Venu 2S tracks your different sleep stages, records your heart rate, stress, Pulse Ox, and respiration. This is combined into a single Sleep Score that you can use to monitor your sleep quality over time. The Venu 2S will also provide insights on how you can improve your sleep.

Wrist-Based Heart Rate

The integrated heart rate monitor is used during workouts, sleep, and other features – even swimming. The Venu 2S will alert you if it gets too high or too low.

Fitness Age

A variety of variables are used to provide you with your Fitness Age, which lets you know whether your body is younger or older than your actual age. Variables such as, chronological age, weekly vigorous activity, resting heart rate, and BMI.

Animated On-Screen Workouts

Cardio, strength, yoga, Pilates, and HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training) workouts are preloaded into the Venu 2S with easy-to-follow animations to help you perform each of them correctly.

25 Sports Apps

Whether indoors or outside using GPS, the Venu 2S can track 25 different sports, including walking, running, cycling, pool swimming, golf, and more.

Advanced Strength Training

This profile puts scaling and strength PRs on your wrist for display, as well as graphics that show which muscle groups you’ve worked on.

HIIT Workouts

This profile gives you different timers to use for various HIIT workouts, such as AMRAP, EMOM, or Tabata. You can also create a custom timer if needed. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals, and more.

Create Workouts

If you need extra workouts, Garmin has you covered with more than 1400 exercises on the Garmin Connect app. Select the ones you like on your smartphone and then download them to the Venu 2S.

Garmin Coach

A free personal running coach on the Venu 2S will help you train for your next 5K, 10K, or half marathon.

Intensity Minutes

This feature lets you know how many intensity minutes you’ve earned, when during the day you’ve earned them, and during which activity. They are also viewable as a data field during timed activities.

Smart Notifications

When paired with a compatible smartphone, you can receive email, text, and other alerts on your wrist. If your phone is an Android phone, you can also respond to texts from the Venu 2S.

Music Playback

The Venu 2S comes with enough internal storage for approximately 650 digital songs. You can stream that music from your watch to a pair of optional Bluetooth headphones. You can also access playlists from streaming accounts, such as Spotify, Deezer, or Amazon Music.

Safety & Tracking Features

When paired with your smartphone, you can send your live location to your contacts manually, or during Select outdoor activities, automatically with built-in incident detection.

Connect IQ Store

Access the Garmin Connect IQ Store to download custom watch faces, add data fields, and apps to the Venu 2S.

Sync with Garmin Connect

All of the fitness and health information tracked by the Venu 2S can be easily viewed in one place when you sync with the Garmin Connect app. The app also gives you access to the entire Garmin Connect community, where you can share data and compete.

Battery Life with Rapid Recharging

On a full charge, you can get up to 11 days of battery life in smartwatch mode, up to 22 hours in GPS mode, or up to 8 hours in GPS mode with music streaming. Rapid recharging lets you get up to 1 day of smartwatch mode or up to 1 hour of GPS mode with music, with just 10 minutes of charging.

Battery Saver Mode

If you need to maximize your battery life, you can use this mode to adjust the settings that impact battery life the most.

Clock Features

Time/date

GPS time sync

Automatic daylight-saving time

Alarm clock

Timer

Stopwatch

Sunrise/sunset times

Health Monitoring

Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second)

Daily resting heart rate

Abnormal heart rate alerts (high and low)

Respiration rate (24×7)

Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation (spot-check, and optionally all-day and in sleep)

Fitness age

Body battery energy monitor

All-day stress

Relaxation reminders

Relaxation breathing timer

Sleep (Advanced)

Sleep score and insights

Hydration

Woman’s health

Health snapshot

Sensors

GPS

GLONASS

Galileo

Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor

Barometric altimeter

Compass

Gyroscope

Accelerometer

Thermometer

Ambient light sensor

Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation monitor

Daily Smart Features

Connectivity (Bluetooth, Ant+, Wi-Fi)

Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps)

Smart notifications

Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only)

Calendar

Weather

Controls smartphone music

Plays and controls watch music

Music storage (up to 650 songs)

Find my phone

Find my watch

Smartphone compatibility (iPhone, Android)

Pairs with Garmin Connect mobile

Garmin Pay

Safety & Tracking Features

LiveTrack

Incident detection during Select activities

Assistance

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)

Calories burned

Floors climbed

Distance traveled

Intensity minutes

TrueUp

Move IQ

Garmin Connect challenges app

Gym & Fitness Equipment

Available gym activity profiles (strength, cardio, HIIT, elliptical training, stair stepping, floor climbing, indoor rowing, yoga, Pilates, and breathwork)

Cardio workouts

Strength workouts

HIIT workouts

Yoga workouts

Pilates workouts

On-screen workout animations

On-screen workout muscle maps

Automatic rep counting

Training, Planning & Analysis Features

HR zones

HR alerts

HR calories

% HR max

HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices)

Respiration rate (during exercise, yoga and breathwork only)

GPS speed and distance

Customizable data pages

Customizable activity profiles

Auto pause

Advanced workouts

Downloadable training plans

Auto lap

Manual lap

VO2 max (run)

Touch and/or button lock

Auto scroll

Activity history on watch

Physio Trueup

Running Features

Available run profiles (running, indoor track running, treadmill running)

GPS-based distance, time, and pace

Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)

Run workouts

Foot pod capable

Golfing Features

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

Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)

Garmin AutoShot

Green view with manual pin position

Hazards and course targets

PinPointer

Round timer/odometer

Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)

Outdoor Recreation

Available outdoor recreation profiles (hiking, indoor climbing, bouldering, skiing, snowboarding, XC skiing, stand up paddleboarding, rowing)

Back to start

Total ascent/descent

Area calculation (via Connect IQ)

Hunt/fish calendar (via Connect IQ)

Sun and moon information (via Connect IQ)

Cycling Features

Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate, or calories)

Available cycling profiles (biking, indoor biking)

Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar)

Compatible with Varia lights

Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor)

Swimming Features

Available swim profiles (pool swimming)

Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories)

Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only)

Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)

Time and distance alerts

Underwater wrist-based heart rate

Kid Activity Tracking Features

Toe-to-Toe challenges app (optional Connect IQ app)