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Customization Options for Garmin Instinct Crossover Series Watch Face
The Instinct Crossover series offers eleven pre-loaded watch faces. Additionally, each watch face has the ability to customize what data or symbols to display. The selected watch face may change what can be customized, what options are available, or how the data appears. Depending on the watch face, you will have one to five data customization options.
The instructions below are for customizing the pre-loaded watch faces. For instructions on customizing watch faces that have been downloaded from the Connect IQ Store, see - How to Customize a Watch Face Through Connect IQ Store.
Customizing the Watch Face
- From the watch face, hold UP/MENU.
- Select Watch Face.
- Press UP/MENU or DOWN/ABC to preview the watch face options.
- Press GPS to select the desired watch face:
- To activate the watch face, select Apply.
- To customize the data that appears on the watch face, select Customize.
- Press UP or DOWN to preview the options.
- Press GPS to apply.
- Complete for all available data fields until you see a check in the dial screen.
 | Graph with Three Fields Watch Face Has one customizable graph field, and three additional data fields. Day of the week and date field is preset. |
 | Digital Time Watch Face Has two customizable data fields. Time and day of week fields are preset. |
 | Contours Watch Face Has five customizable data fields. |
 | Graph and Box Watch Face Has one customizable graph field, and three customizable data fields. |
 | Gauges Watch Face Has one customizable graph field; two gauge fields which can display seconds, battery percentage, percentage daily step goal, percentage daily floors climbed goal, or percentage weekly intensity minutes goal; and one customizable data field which includes a custom day of the week gauge in addition to the other data options. |
 | Analog Watch Face Has one customizable data field. |
 | Digital Time Background Watch Face Shows the current time in the background dots. Has one customizable data field. |
 | Seconds Background Watch Face Shows the seconds in the background dots which will disappear if the watch is stationary. Has one customizable data field. |
 | Sun or Moon Position and Graph Watch Face Includes customizable Sun position or Moon position gauge, and one customizable graph field. |
 | Alternate Time Zone Watch Face Displays Local or UTC time and has two customizable data fields. |
 | Diagonal Watch Face Has one customizable data field, and digital time can be shown or hidden. |
 | Battery Life Displays the remaining battery life. |
 | Time Displays the current time in digital format. |
 | Weekday and Day Displays the current calendar date and day of the week. |
 | Day and Month Displays the current calendar date and month. |
 | Heart Rate Displays the reading taken from the optical heart rate sensor (OHR). OHR sensor must be on to get a reading. |
 | Steps Displays daily step count. |
 | Elevation Displays your current elevation. |
 | Barometer Reading Will display the current barometer pressure (default unit is millibars). |
 | Sunset/Sunrise Displays Sunset/Sunrise time. |
 | Notifications Displays the number of notifications. Notifications number won't be cleared until they are cleared from the phone. |
 | Calendar Notifications Displays the time of the next upcoming event on your calendar |
 | Weather Displays the weather information received from the Garmin Connect App. |
 | Calories Burned Displays total calories burned for the day. |
 | Floors Climbed Displays floors climbed for that day. |
 | Intensity Minutes Displays the number of intensity minutes generated for the week. |
 | Universal Time Coordinated Displays Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). UTC is the successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). |
 | Solar Intensity1 Displays current solar intensity as a percentage. |
1Solar data only available on watches with solar charging.
 | Barometer Graph Displays current barometric pressure and graph showing the change of barometric readings over the last four hours. |
 | Elevation Graph Displays current elevation and graph showing the change of elevation readings over the last four hours. |
 | Heart Rate Graph Displays current heart rate in beats per minute and graph showing heart rate readings over the last four hours. |
 | Solar Graph1 Displays graph of changes in solar intensity over the last six hours. |
1Solar data only available on watches with solar charging.
For more information on customizing the Garmin Instinct Crossover series, refer to the Owner's Manual. The video below also gives an overview of customizing the watch face, as well as customizing the widget glance loop, on your Instinct Crossover series watch.