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Customization Options for Garmin Descent G1 Series Watch Face
The Descent™ G1 series smartwatches offer eight unique watch faces, with a color inverted option of each. 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 two to seven data customization options.
Example:
Customizing the Watch Face
From the watch face, hold UP/MENU (middle left) button.
Select Watch Face.
Press UP/MENU button or DOWN button to preview the watch face options.
Press START/STOP button 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/MENU button or DOWN button to preview the options.
Press START/STOP button to apply.
Complete for all available data fields until you see a checkmark in the top right dial screen.
The Garmin Descent G1 series watches offer a unique display with a dial screen in the top right corner to isolate different data options. For more information on the Dial Screen options, select Dial Screen below.
Dial Screen
The following options are available on most of the watch faces. Many of these options can be viewed on the other data fields outside of the dial screen.
Status Icons
Displays current battery life, if the watch is set to Do Not Disturb, if an alarm is set, and if it is paired with a phone.
Battery life
Displays the remaining battery life.
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 trending line and the barometer reading
Will display the current barometer pressure in millibars.
The barometer trend line considers the last 6 hours, broken into two 3 hour segments. If there is a 2.3 millibar change over the 3-hour segment, the line will curve up or down depending on the direction of change.
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
Display the number of calendar notifications for the day.
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).
Sun Position
Displays the current position of the sun.
Moon Phase
Displays the current phase of the moon.
There are three watch faces that offer a graph data field. The small graph watch face offers all the Dial screen options listed above. The Large Graph watch face offers only four1 of the Dial screen options. Information on the graphs and what options are available can be found by selecting an option below.
Small Graph Watch Face
The small graph watch face offers a graph displayed in the top left corner. There are two watch face options that offer the small graph. Other data field options that can be customized are located below the current time.
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.
Steps Graph
Displays total step count for the day and a bar graph showing steps generated over the course of the day by hour.
Tides Graph
Displays a 24-hour tide chart for the current date with current tide height and information about the next tide.
Tissue Load Graph
Displays a graph of tissue load levels.
Large Graph Watch Face
The large graph watch face offers graphs that display depending on the dial screen option that is selected. This watch face offers a limited amount of dial screen options. There are two other data field options that can be customized, located above the current time and below the graph.
Altimeter Graph
Displays current barometric reading, barometric trending line, and a graph showing the change of barometric readings over the last six hours.
Displays the current barometer pressure in millibars.
The barometer trend line considers the last 6 hours, broken into two 3 hour segments. If there is a 2.3 millibar change over the 3-hour segment, the line will curve up or down depending on the direction of the change.
Elevation Graph
Displays the current elevation based on unit settings and a graph that displays change.
Heart Rate Graph
Displays the current heart rate and a graph showing the change of heart rate over the last four hours.
Solar Graph1
Displays graph of changes in solar intensity over the last six hours.
For more information on the Garmin Descent G1 series watches, refer to the owner's manual.
1 Solar graphs are only available on watches with solar charging.
