Garmin  |  SKU: 010-02985-01

Garmin vívoactive® 6

$299.99 USD

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vívoactive® 6

Bright. Smart. Colorful.

PLAY MORE.
CHARGE LESS.

Enjoy up to 11 days of battery life

KNOW YOUR BODY BETTER

Health and wellness features help you reach your goals

GET FIT WITH IT

80+ sports apps, Garmin Coach, downloadable workouts and more

ALL YOUR STATS.
IN ONE PLACE.

View all of your health and fitness stats in detail on the Garmin Connect™ app

IT’S ALL IN THE WRIST

FROM Smart notifications to Garmin Pay™ CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS, vívoactive 6 is as convenient as it is attractive

UNDERSTAND YOUR BODY BETTER

Featuring a bright, colorful display, up to 11 days of battery life, and purpose-built health and fitness features, the vívoactive 6 smartwatch gives you the tools and insights to help you know your body better.

BRIGHT AMOLED DISPLAY

UP TO 11 DAYS OF BATTERY LIFE

BODY BATTERY ENERGY MONITORING, SLEEP SCORE, STRESS TRACKING AND MORE

ADVANCED FITNESS FEATURES

WORKS WITH THE GARMIN CONNECT APP ON iPHONE® AND ANDROID SMARTPHONES

SMART NOTIFICATIONS, GARMIN PAY CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS AND MUSIC STORAGE

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE

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BODY BATTERY ENERGY MONITORING

See your energy levels throughout the day, so you’ll know when your body is charged up and ready for activity or drained and needing to recharge with restful sleep. And get even more details and personal insights on how sleep, naps, daily activities and high stress specifically impact your energy1.

SLEEP COACH

Get a sleep score and personalized coaching for how much sleep you need and how you can improve. Even keep track of different sleep stages and naps — and see several key metrics over your sleep period, such as HRV status to better understand your health1.

BUILT-IN SPORTS APPS

Track the ways you move with more than 80 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps — including walking, running, cycling, pool swimming, activities for wheelchair users and more.

WORKOUT OPTIONS

From daily suggested walking workouts to step-by-step workouts for strength, HIIT, yoga, Pilates, mobility and more, it’s never been easier to move. Simply find the workouts in the Garmin Connect app, and download them onto your smartwatch.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Continuously monitor your health with wrist-based heart rate1, HRV status, Pulse Ox4 and women’s health tracking — including menstrual cycle and pregnancy, meditation and more — to learn more about your body.

SMART NOTIFICATIONS AND TEXTING

Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone or Android smartphone. With an Android phone, respond to texts with the on-watch keyboard, and view photos sent to you directly from your watch’s screen.

BUILT FOR YOUR LIFE

HEALTH


HEALTH STATUS

Look for changes in your health data that could indicate added stress to your body, so you can know when you’re trending away from your usual range. This feature is currently available in beta2.

NAP DETECTION

Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and the ideal time and duration they should be.

BREATHING VARIATIONS

For a closer glimpse of your health, the breathing variations feature helps you understand shifts in your breathing patterns as you sleep3. These shifts could be related to environment, alcohol, or potential sleep disorders such as sleep apnea.

LIFESTYLE LOGGING

Log behaviors — such as caffeine and alcohol intake — and view reports on how they impact your health in the Garmin Connect app.

SMART WAKE ALARM

The smart wake alarm gently vibrates to wake you at the optimal time.

HRV STATUS

Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health through heart rate variability while you sleep.

MORNING REPORT

Receive an overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar, HRV status and more as soon as you wake up. You can even customize your reports theme, data shown and more.

EVENING REPORT

Prepare for tomorrow before bed with a reminder of sleep need, tomorrow’s workout, weather and events.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

The vívoactive 6 smartwatch constantly samples your heart rate, so you can stay in the know all day and night1.

STRESS TRACKING

Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day.

WOMEN’S HEALTH TRACKING

Track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and get exercise and nutrition education.

HEALTH SNAPSHOT

Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider.

PULSE OX SENSOR

Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep4.

MEDITATION

Help reduce stress, anxiety and more with guided meditation practices.

MINDFUL BREATHING

Start a breathwork activity to track your stress and respiration.

HYDRATION

Log your daily fluid intake as a reminder to stay hydrated.

RESPIRATION

See how you’re breathing throughout the day and night.

FITNESS


STRENGTH TRAINING

Elevate your body’s performance with a built-in activity profile, targeted strength training plans, workouts and more. Plus, track reps, sets and even rest time.

MOBILITY

Increase your flexibility and strength with new downloadable mobility workouts and an activity profile.

WHEELCHAIR MODE

Track your daily pushes1, plus get weight shift alerts, sports apps and workouts for wheelchair users, and more5.

ANIMATED WORKOUTS

Improve your form with downloadable animated workouts from Garmin Connect for HIIT, cardio, strength, mobility, yoga and Pilates. Plus, get push and handcycle workouts for wheelchair users.

GARMIN COACH

Prepare for your next race, train for a milestone, or simply improve your fitness with Garmin Coach adaptive or prebuilt running — or with strength training plans. Select plans even adapt daily based on your performance, recovery and health metrics.

RUNNING DYNAMICS

This smartwatch measures crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more.

PACEPRO PACING STRATEGIES

Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.

WORKOUT BENEFIT AND RECOVERY TIME

Better understand how each workout affects your body and how much time you need to recover so you can take on any fitness challenge.

FITNESS AGE

Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age.

RUCKING ACTIVITY

A dedicated rucking activity profile allows you to enter pack weight.

WORKOUT CREATION

Create step-by-step workouts from more than 1,600 exercises in the Garmin Connect app, and send them directly to your watch.

PERCEIVED EXERTION

Record your rate of perceived exertion after each workout.

INTENSITY MINUTES

Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes.

ACTIVITY TRACKING

Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned and more from your wrist1.

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VO2 MAX

See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more (not available in wheelchair mode).

AUDIO PROMPTS FOR ACTIVITIES

Get guided audio prompts for run and walk activities.

INTERVAL CREATION

Build your own interval workout for running and cycling activities.

MOVE ALERTS

Get reminders to move your body, including a variety of movement options.

CONNECT


GARMIN CONNECT APP

See your health and fitness information, connect with friends and more.

GARMIN PAY CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS

Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers.

MUSIC STORAGE

Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music or YouTube® Music accounts for phone-free listening (subscription may be required).

SAFETY AND TRACKING

If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location6. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually.

CONNECT IQ STORE

Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.

GOOGLE MAPS™ APP

Know where to go when walking, running or cycling. Enter your destination in Google Maps on your Android™ smartphone, then follow turn-by-turn directions on your wrist.

MULTIPLE FONT SIZES

Choose between multiple font sizes so you can view your data with ease.

What You'll Love

Sleep score and insights
Battery life (smartwatch mode) Up to 11 days (5 days display always-on)
Pulse Ox blood oxygen yes (spot-check, and optional all-day and in sleep)
Garmin Pay™
Music storage
Display type AMOLED (optional always-on mode)
Touchscreen
Water rating Swim, 5 ATM
Wheelchair mode

General

Strap material

silicone

Lens Material

Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3

Bezel Material

anodized aluminum

Case material fiber-reinforced polymer
Quick Release bands yes (20 mm, Industry standard)
Physical size

42.2 x 42.2 x 10.9 mm

Fits wrists with a circumference of 125-190 mm

Weight

23 g (36 g with included band)

Display Size 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter
Display resolution 390 x 390 pixels
Color display
Large font option
Battery type Lithium ion
Battery life

Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days (5 days display always-on)
Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 21 days
GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 21 hours
All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours
All-Systems GNSS mode with music: Up to 8 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
Smart wake alarm
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
Women's health
Health snapshot
Health status

Sensors

GPS
GLONASS
Galileo
QZSS
BeiDou
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor
Compass
Gyroscope
Accelerometer
Thermometer yes (tempe™ sensor required)
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
Evening report
Calendar
Weather forecasts
Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile
Battery saver (customizable 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
Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile
Smartphone compatibility iPhone®, Android™
Red shift mode
Passcode
Calculator

Workout and Training Plans

Daily Suggested Workout - Walking (Duration Based)
Garmin Running Coach
Garmin Running Coach Experts
Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans
Garmin Coach - Strength
Cardio workouts
Strength workouts
HIIT workouts
Yoga workouts
Pilates workouts
Workouts for wheelchair users 
On-screen workout animations
On-screen workout muscle maps

Activity Profiles

Gym Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor Rowing, Jump Roping
Wellness

Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking, Mobility

Indoor running Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running
Outdoor running

Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Obstacle Running

Outdoor recreation

Hiking, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Mountaineering, Disc Golf, Archery

Cycling

Biking, Road Biking, Gravel Biking, Bike Touring, eBiking, Handcycling, Indoor Handcycling Indoor Biking, Cyclocross

Swim

Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming

On the Water

Stand Up Paddleboarding, Kayaking, Rowing, Snorkeling

Motor sports Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motocrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling
Racket sports

Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball

Snow & winter

Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing

Team sports

Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, 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

Activity Tracking Features

Step counter
Push tracker
Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity)
Move Alert movement options
Weight shift alert 
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)
Calories burned
Distance traveled
Intensity minutes
TrueUp™
Move IQ™
Garmin Connect™ Challenges app
Automatic rep counting

Training, Planning and Analysis Features

Customizable data pages
Downloadable training plans
HR zones
HR alerts
HR calories
% HR max
Recovery time
HRV status
HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices) yes (using ANT+ or BLE)
Respiration rate (during exercise) yoga, breathwork and meditation only
GPS speed and distance
Customizable 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
VO2 Max (Run)
Training effect
Training effect (anaerobic)
Workout benefit
Improved recovery time yes (limited)
Voice alerts
Touch and/or button lock
Auto scroll
Activity history on watch
Physio TrueUp

Running Features

GPS-based distance, time and pace
Running dynamics
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies
Run workouts
Race predictor
Foot pod capable
Run/Walk/Stand detection

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
CT10 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)
Pairs with Garmin Golf app
Tournament legal

Outdoor Recreation

Back to start
Area calculation yes (via Connect IQ™)
Fish forecast yes (via Connect IQ™)
Sun and moon information yes (via Connect IQ™)

Cycling Features

Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories)
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)
Compatible with Varia™ lights
Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) yes (using ANT+ or BLE)

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)
Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)
Auto rest (pool swim only)
Time and distance alerts
Underwater wrist-based heart rate
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