Top FAQs for Garmin Connect Women's Health Features

NOTICE: This feature is not a method of contraception 

How Does the Feature Predict My Periods and Fertility Windows?

The period predictions are based on your past 6 months of logged cycles. The more you log, the more accurate they will get. Log your period consistently to receive more accurate predictions. 

Your estimated ovulation day is typically 13 days before the last day of your cycle. Your fertility window usually lasts from 4 days before your estimated ovulation day to 2 days after. Your fertile window is always shown as 7 days.

Why Do I Need to Add a Hormonal Birth Control Method?

Hormonal birth control can affect and alter your hormones, stopping ovulation from occurring. Knowing your birth control helps us better predict and adjust settings to what’s to come in your cycle.

What Is the Difference Between Regular, Irregular, and No Period Cycle Types?

Regular: Cycle can be anywhere from 21-35 days long

Irregular: Cycle is shorter than 21 days or longer than 35 days

No Period: This may be due to PCOS or similar conditions, because you are breastfeeding, because you are experiencing menopause, or for other reasons

How Do I Change My Cycle Settings?

You can change your Menstrual Cycle Tracking settings, including your Cycle Type, Cycle Length, Period Duration, your logging preferences, and more in Garmin Connect.

Can I Log Ovulation Test Results?

You can use the notes section to add your test results. If you are ovulating, you can add it as a symptom under Ovulation Day.

Can I Track More Than One Ovulation Day in a Cycle?

Yes, and if you track an ovulation day, you’ll see your fertile window adjust its predictions. If you track more than one day, we’ll adjust the window to account as well.

Why Can't I See My Fertile Window Predictions?

If you selected a hormonal contraception, your predictions have been turned off. This is because your contraception may have adjusted your hormones, stopping ovulation from occurring.

Can I Log Flow if I'm Outside My Period Window?

Yes; you can add a symptom and use “Spotting” in the discharge category to log it or mark it as the first day of your period to start a new cycle.

Can I Edit The Date of My Period or Delete a Previous Menstrual Cycle?

You can edit the date of your period or delete a previous menstrual cycle in the Garmin Connect app by following the instructions below.

Why Don't I See the Four Phases of My Cycle?

You’ll see the four phases of your cycle if your cycle type is regular, with a cycle length between 20-45 days and you don’t use a contraception method. Shorter and longer cycle lengths will not show the fertile window predictions by default due to a more irregular cycle.

If your cycle is longer than 100 days, your period and fertility predictions are turned off.

Can I Import Data From Other Apps?

This feature is not available at this time. It is possible to track previous days to better refine the period predictions.

Why Don't I See the Feature in Garmin Connect?

The feature is available in Health Stats for either female and unspecified genders in Garmin Connect. If you are male and would like to track your own cycle, you can change your gender, set up the feature, and after the feature is set up change your gender to any option at that point.

Can I Opt Out of the Feature Once It Has Been Set Up?

If you wish to discontinue using the feature, you can select Stop Cycle Tracking and discontinue tracking symptoms. Adjusting these settings will remove the Menstrual Cycle Tracking Widget from the My Day screen in the Garmin Connect app and you will no longer receive any predictions.

How Does the Feature Calculate My Gestational Age?

The gestational age estimates how far along you are in the pregnancy. This is based on your expected due date minus 180 days to predict your pregnancy start date.

Why Do I Get a "Conflicting Dates" Message When Entering My Due Date?

The due date selected overlaps with an existing pregnancy record. You may change the due date or remove the last pregnancy record from your settings.

Why Do I Get an "Invalid Due Date" Message When Entering My Due Date?

If the due date you have selected conflicts with existing cycle data, you will receive an "Invalid Due Date" message. You can select an available date or change the conflicting cycle dates by editing your previous period date. See "Can I Edit The Date of My Period or Delete a Previous Menstrual Cycle?" in the Garmin Connect Menstrual Tracking section for instructions.

How Can I Track My Pregnancy?

You can track your pregnancy by changing your cycle type to Pregnant in the Menstrual Tracking feature.

How Do I Change My Pregnancy Settings?

You can change your Pregnancy Tracking settings, including your Due Date, the number of children you are expecting, your weight before pregnancy, and more in Garmin Connect.

How Do I Keep Tracking My Postpartum Period Following Pregnancy Until My Period Returns?

We recommend you change your cycle type to No Period and use the feature to track symptoms or pause your menstrual cycle tracking during this time.

When your period resumes, you can change your cycle type to Regular or Irregular. You’ll see a gap in your report, indicating No Period in that timeframe.

Can I Customize the Pregnancy Weight Gain Goal?

The weekly weight gain goals are recommendations from U.S. national guidelines and are not customizable. They are based on your pre-pregnancy weight, which can be updated in your pregnancy settings.

How Are My Trimesters Displayed?

Trimester 1 starts from inception at week 0 until the end of week 13; Months: 0-3

Trimester 2 starts from the beginning of week 14 until the end of week 27; Months: 3-6

Trimester 3 starts at the beginning of week 28 until the end of week 40; Months: 6-9

How Do I Stop Tracking My Pregnancy?

You may stop tracking your pregnancy for any of the following reasons: you had your baby, experienced a loss, or prefer not to say.

How Do I View My Previous Pregnancies?

If you are currently tracking your pregnancy and have tracked a pregnancy in the past, go to the Pregnancy feature settings and select Previous Pregnancies.

Once you completed a pregnancy, select the Pregnancy feature and it will display a list row of all your previous pregnancies.

How Do I Delete a Previous Pregnancy?

How Do I Change My Gestational Age?

To change your gestational age, go to settings and change your Due Date. The feature will calculate your new pregnancy start date based on the due date minus 180 days.

How Do I Go Back to Tracking My Menstrual Cycle?

In the overflow menu of Pregnancy go to settings and Stop Tracking This Pregnancy link to end your pregnancy, then change your cycle type to Regular, Irregular or No Period.

Can I Time My Baby Movement?

Yes, you may add a start time, end time and a number of total movements for each baby movement session in Garmin Connect. The total duration of a baby movement session cannot be more than 10 hours.

Tracking baby movements can be recommended in the later weeks of pregnancy by health care providers, usually around week 28. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the typical method for counting baby movements is to track the amount of time it takes you to feel 10 movements, which is often two hours or less at this stage of pregnancy.

Can I Track My Pregnancy on My Garmin Device?

The Pregnancy Tracker is available for download in the Garmin Connect IQ app. This will allow you to track pregnancy on your compatible Garmin watch with a timer.