vívoactive® 6

Bright. Smart. Colourful.

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, colourful 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

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 energy.

SLEEP COACH

Get a sleep score and personalised 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 health.

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 rate, HRV status, Pulse Ox 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 fitness 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

NAP DETECTION

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

SMART WAKE ALARM

The smart wake alarm gently vibrates to wake you at the right 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 customise your reports theme, data shown and more.

WRIST-BASED HEART RATE

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

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 healthcare provider.

PULSE OX SENSOR

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

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 pushes, plus get weight shift alerts, sports apps and workouts for wheelchair users, and more.

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

RUNNING POWER

See how much power you’re applying to the road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training.

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.

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 wrist.

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 or Amazon Music accounts and more for phone-free listening (subscription required).

SAFETY AND TRACKING

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

CONNECT IQ™ STORE

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

MULTIPLE FONT SIZES

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

What You'll Love
Sleep Score and Insights	Yes
Battery life (smartwatch mode)	Up to 11 days (5 days display always-on)
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation	Yes (spot-check, and optionally all-day and in sleep)
Garmin Pay™	Yes
Music storage	Yes
Watch display type	AMOLED (optional always-on mode)
Touchscreen	Yes
Water rating	Swim, 5 ATM
Wheelchair mode	Yes
General
Strap material	Silicone
Lens material	Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3
Bezel material	Anodised aluminum
Case material	Fibre-reinforced polymer
Quick release bands	Yes (20 mm, Industry standard)
Physical size	42.2 x 42.2 x10.9 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 125-190 mm
Weight	23 g (36 g with included band)
Display Size	30.4 mm (1.2″) diameter
Display Resolution	390 x 390 pixels
Colour display	Yes
Large font option	Yes
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 See details
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
Smart alarm	Yes
Timer	Yes
Stopwatch	Yes
Sunrise/sunset times	Yes
Health & Wellness 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
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
Nap detection	Yes
Hydration	Yes
Women's Health	Yes
Health Snapshot	Yes
Sensors
GPS	Yes
GLONASS	Yes
Galileo	Yes
QZSS	Yes
BeiDou	Yes
Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor	Yes
Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor	Yes
Compass	Yes
Gyroscope	Yes
Accelerometer	Yes
Thermometer	Yes (tempe™ sensor required)
Ambient light sensor	Yes
Daily Smart Features
Connectivity	Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®
Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets 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
Compatible with Garmin Connect™ Mobile	Yes
Smartphone compatibility	iPhone®, Android™
Red shift mode	Yes
Workout and Training Plans
Daily Suggested Workout - Walking	Yes
Garmin Running Coach	Yes
Garmin Running Coach Experts	Yes
Garmin Coach - Strength	Yes
Cardio workouts	Yes
Strength workouts	Yes
HIIT workouts	Yes
Yoga workouts	Yes
Pilates workouts	Yes
Workouts for wheelchair users	Yes
On-screen workout animations	Yes
On-Screen Workout Muscle Map	Yes
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, Surfing, Snorkeling
Motor sports	Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motorcrossing, 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
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
LiveTrack	Yes
Activity Tracking Features
Step counter	Yes
Push tracker	Yes
Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it)	Yes
Move alert movement options	Yes
Weight shift alert	Yes
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal)	Yes
Calories Burned	Yes
Distance travelled	Yes
Intensity minutes	Yes
TrueUp™	Yes
Move IQ™	Yes
Garmin Connect™ Challenges app	Yes
Automatic rep counting	Yes
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
Customisable screen(s)	Yes
Downloadable training plans	Yes
HR Zones	Yes
HR Alerts	Yes
HR Calories	Yes
% HR Max	Yes
Recovery Time	Yes
HRV Status	Yes
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	Yes
Customisable activity profiles	Yes
Auto Pause®	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®	Yes
Manual lap	Yes
VO2 Max (Run)	Yes
Training Effect	Yes
Training Effect (Anaerobic)	Yes
Workout benefit	Yes
Improved Recovery Time	Yes (limited)
Voice alerts	Yes
Touch and/or button lock	Yes
Auto scroll	Yes
Activity history on watch	Yes
Physio TrueUp	Yes
Running Features
GPS-based distance, time and pace	Yes
Running dynamics	Yes
Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute)	Yes
Running power	Yes
PacePro™ Pacing Strategies	Yes
Run workouts	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)	Automatic
Digital scorecard	Yes
Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit)	Yes
Garmin AutoShot™	Yes
Green View with manual pin position	Yes
Hazards and course targets	Yes
PinPointer	Yes
Round timer/odometer	Yes
Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory)	Yes
Pairs with Garmin Golf app	Yes
Tournament legal	Yes
Outdoor Recreation
Back to start	Yes
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)	Yes
Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar)	Yes
Compatible with Varia™ lights	Yes
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)	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
Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only)	Yes
Auto rest (pool swim only)	Yes
Time and distance alerts	Yes
Underwater wrist-based heart rate	Yes
Security Information
Security updates until at least (YYYY-MM-DD)	2027-04-02