Instinct 2 Solar

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This rugged, solar-charging GPS smartwatch is tough enough to keep up with you and unique enough to fit your style. Now it comes in two sizes to fit every wrist.

Features:

  • Solar Power Charging:
    • unlimited battery life in smartwatch mode
    • power manager lets you extend battery life by controlling what settings and sensors draw power
  • Water-rated to 100 metres and is thermal and shock resistant
  • Fibre-reinforced polymer case and chemically strengthened, scratch-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass, this device is built to endure
  • Multi-GNSS Support: Whether you’re hiking, mountain biking, trail running or skiing, you’ll have access to multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo) to track in more challenging environments than GPS alone
  • ABC Sensors: Navigate your next trail with ABC sensors, including an altimeter for elevation data, barometer to monitor weather and 3-axis electronic compass
  • TRACBACK® Routing: Take the guesswork out of your return journey by using this feature to navigate the same route back to your starting point
  • Reference Point: Keep track of a known place — such as your car or the trailhead — relative to your location, and easily find your way back to it
  • Smart Notifications: Receive emails, texts and alerts right on your watch when paired with your compatible smartphone
  • Connect IQ™ Store: Download custom watch faces, add data fields, and get apps and widgets from the Connect IQ Store app on your compatible smartphone
  • Garmin Pay Contactless Payments: Breeze through checkout lines and select transit systems with Garmin Pay contactless payments through participating providers
  • Safety and Tracking Features: When 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 Detection
  • Calendar View: Easily see your plans for the day with a dedicated calendar screen when paired with your compatible smartphone
  • SYNC with the Garmin Connect App: See your health and fitness information all in one place. The Garmin Connect app on your compatible smartphone is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect, compete and share
  • Built-in Sports Apps: Do whatever you love with preloaded activity profiles for running, cycling, swimming, strength training, indoor climbing, virtual running, golf, yoga and more
  • HIIT Workouts: This activity profile tracks your HIIT workouts, including AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata and custom. Set the number of rounds, work/rest intervals and more
  • VO2 Max: Train smarter with VO2 max, an indicator of how you can expect to perform. It even accounts for changes in performance that could be caused by heat or altitude
  • Daily Workout Suggestions: View your entire week of daily suggested workouts, which adapt after every run or ride to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar
  • Recovery Time: After each workout, recovery time lets you know when you’ll be ready for another hard workout. It even accounts for training intensity and factors such as stress, daily activity and sleep
  • Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding: These activity profiles now automatically distinguish between descending and climbing. So you can hit start on your first run and leave your smartwatch tracking all day long
  • MTB Dynamics: Track the details of every ride with mountain biking metrics plus specialised Grit™ and Flow™ measurements that rate trail difficulty and how smoothly you descend, giving you a score to beat next time
  • Wrist-based Running Power: See how much power you’re applying to the trail or the road so you can manage your effort and fine-tune your training. No accessory required
  • Wrist-based Heart Rate: Get estimated heart rate3 data along with alerts if your heart rate stays too high or too low while you’re at rest. Gauge how hard your heart is working during activities
  • Stress Tracking: Heart rate variability is used to calculate your stress level score, so you can see if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day
  • Sleep Score and Advanced Sleep Monitoring: Get a full breakdown of your light, deep and REM sleep stages. View it all on a dedicated widget that includes your sleep score and insights
  • Body Battery™ Energy Monitoring: Optimise your body’s energy reserves, using heart rate variability, stress, sleep and other data to gauge when you’re ready to be active or when you may need to rest
  • Pulse Ox: For altitude acclimation or sleep monitoring, a Pulse Ox sensor4 uses light beams at your wrist to estimate how well your body is absorbing oxygen
  • Fitness Age: This feature uses chronological age, your weekly vigorous activity, resting heart rate and BMI to estimate if your body is younger or older than you are. Get tips to lower your fitness age
  • Intensity Minutes: Track how many minutes of vigorous activity you’re getting, when you earn them and during which activity. You can even view them as a data field during timed activities
  • Women’s Health Tracking: Use the Garmin Connect app to track your menstrual cycle or pregnancy. Log symptoms, get exercise and nutrition education, and more
  • In the Box: 
    • Instinct® 2 Solar
    • Charging/data cable
    • Documentation

General:

Lens Material

Power Glass™

Bezel Material

Fibre-reinforced polymer

Case Material

Fibre-reinforced polymer

QUICKFIT Watch Band Compatible

Yes (22 mm)

Strap Material

Silicone

Physical Size

45 x 45 x 14.50 mm

Fits wrists with a circumference of 135-230 mm

Weight

53 g

WATER RATING

10 ATM

Display Type

Monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)

Display Size

Custom, two-window design;

0.9″ x 0.9″ (23 x 23 mm)

Display Resolution

176 x 176 pixels

Battery Life

Smartwatch: Up to 28 days/Unlimited with solar*

Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 65 days/Unlimited with solar*GPS: Up to 30 hours/48 hours with solar**

Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 70 hours/370 hours with solar**

Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 32 days/Unlimited with solar*

*Solar charging, assuming all-day wear with 3 hours per day outside in 50,000 lux conditions

**Solar charging, assuming use in 50,000 lux conditions

Charging Method

Garmin proprietary plug charger

Memory / History

32 MB

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 Monitoring:

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE (Constant, Every second)

Yes

DAILY RESTING HEART RATE

Yes

ABNORMAL HEART RATE ALERTS

Yes (high and low)

RESPIRATION RATE (24x7)

Yes

PULSE OX BLOOD OXYGEN SATURATION

Yes

FITNESS AGE

Yes

BODY BATTERY™ ENERGY MONITOR

Yes

ALL-DAY STRESS

Yes

RELAXATION BREATHING TIMER

Yes

Breathwork

Yes

SLEEP

Yes

SLEEP SCORE AND INSIGHTS

Yes

HYDRATION

Yes (in Garmin Connect™)

WOMEN'S HEALTH

Yes (in Garmin Connect™)

Health snapshot

Yes

Sensors:

GPS

Yes

GLONASS

Yes

GALILEO

Yes

Garmin ELEVATE™ wrist heart rate monitor

Yes

Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation monitor 

Yes

Barometric Altimeter

Yes

Compass

Yes

Accelerometer

Yes

Thermometer

Yes

Daily Smart Features:

Connectivity

Bluetooth®, ANT+®

Connect IQ™ (Downloadable watch faces, Data fields, Widgets and Apps)

Yes

Smart notifications

Yes

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

Yes

Calendar

Yes

Weather

Yes

Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ Mobile

Yes

Battery saver - Customisable low power watch

Yes

Controls smartphone music

Yes

Find My Phone

Yes

Find My Watch

Yes

VIRB® Camera Remote

Yes

SMART TRAINER CONTROL

Yes

Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile

Yes

Smartphone compatibility

iPhone®, Android™

Garmin Pay™

Yes

Safety and Tracking Features:

Incident detection during selective activities

Yes

Assistance

Yes

Livetrack

Yes

Tactical Features:

Dual grid coordinates

Yes

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)

Fitness Equipment / Gym:

Available gym activity profiles

Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, HIIT, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, and Yoga

Cardio workouts

Yes

Strength workouts

Yes

HIIT workouts

Yes

Yoga workouts

Yes

Pilates workouts

Yes

Automatic rep counting

Yes

Training, Planning and Analysis Features:

HR ZONES

Yes

HR ALERTS

Yes

HR CALORIES

Yes

HR MAX

Yes

HRR

Yes

RECOVERY TIME

Yes

AUTO MAX HR

Yes

HRV STATUS

Yes

HR BROADCAST (Broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices)

Yes (using ANT+)

RESPIRATION RATE (DURING EXERCISE)

Yes

GPS speed and distance

Yes

Customisable screen(s)

Yes

Customisable activity profiles

Yes

Auto Pause®

Yes

Interval training

Yes

Advanced workouts

Yes

Downloadable training plans

Yes

Power Modes - Customisable in-activity battery settings

Yes

HRM running pace and distance

Yes

Auto Lap®

Yes

Manual Lap

Yes

Configurable lap alerts

Yes

HEAT AND ALTITUDE ACCLIMATION

Yes

VO2 MAX (RUN)

Yes

VO2 MAX (TRAIL RUN)

Yes

TRAINING STATUS

Yes

TRAINING LOAD

Yes

TRAINING EFFECT

Yes

TRAINING EFFECT (ANAEROBIC)

Yes

Primary benefit (training effect labels)

Yes

IMPROVED RECOVERY TIME

Yes

DAILY SUGGESTED WORKOUTS

Yes

Customisable alerts

Yes

Audio prompts

Yes

Finish time

Yes

Virtual partner

Yes

Race an activity

Yes

Auto multi-sport activities

Yes

Multi-sport

Yes

Course guidance

Yes

Touch and/or button lock

Yes

Hot keys

Yes

Auto scroll

Yes

Activity history on watch

Yes

PHYSIO TRUEUP

Yes

Unified Training Status

Yes

Running Features:

Available run profiles

Running, treadmill running, indoor track running, trail running

GPS-based distance, time and pace

Yes

Running dynamics

Yes (with compatible accessory)

Vertical oscillation and ratio

Yes (with compatible accessory)

Ground contact time and balance

Yes (with compatible accessory)

Stride length (real time)

Yes (with compatible accessory)

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

Yes

Running power

Yes

Performance condition

Yes

Lactate threshold

Yes (with compatible accessory)

Run workouts

Yes

Trail run auto climb

Yes

Race predictor

Yes

Foot pod capable

Yes

Run/walk/stand detection

Yes

Golfing Features:

Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green)

Yes

Yardage to layups/doglegs

Yes

Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) 

Manual

Digital scorecard

Yes

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

Yes

Garmin Autoshot™

Yes

Auto Courseview updates

Yes

Green view with manual pin position

Yes

Hazards and course targets

Yes

Round timer / odometer

Yes

AUTOMATIC CLUB TRACKING COMPATIBLE (requires accessory)

Yes

Pairs with Garmin Golf app

Yes

Tournament legal

Yes

Outdoor Recreation:

Available outdoor recreation profiles

Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Skiing, Snowboarding, Backcountry Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Backcountry Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Surfing, Hunting, Kiteboarding, Windsurfing, Snowshoeing, Fishing, Horseback Riding, Tennis, Tactical, Obstacle Course

Point-to-point navigation

Yes

Breadcrumb trail in real time

Yes

Back to start

Yes

TRACBACK®

Yes

ULTRATRAC mode

Yes

Reference point

Yes

Elevation profile

Yes

Distance to destination

Yes

Barometric trend indicator with storm alert

Yes

Vertical speed

Yes

Total ascent/decent 

Yes

Future elevation plot

Yes

GPS coordinates

Yes

Sight 'N Go

Yes

Area calculation

Yes

Projected waypoint

Yes

Sun and moon information

Yes

XERO™ locations

Yes

Expedition GPS activities

Yes

Tides

Yes

Cycling Features:

Available cycling profiles

Bike, Road Bike, MTB, Gravel Bike, Cyclocross, Bike Commute, Bike Tour, eBike, eMTB, Bike Indoor, Triathlon

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

FTP (Functional Threshold Power)

Yes

MTB Grit & Flow

Yes

Compatible with VECTOR™ and RALLY™ (power meters)

Yes

Compatible with VARIA™ Radar (rear-facing radar)

Yes

Compatible with VARIA™ Lights

Yes

Speed and Cadence sensor support  (w/ sensor)

Yes

Power meter compatible

Yes

Swimming Features:

Available Swim profiles

Pool swimming, open water swimming

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

Countdown start

Yes

Pool swim workouts

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

Kid Activity Tracking Features:

Toe-To-Toe™ Challenges app

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