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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:

Instinct Custom Watch Face


Customizing the Watch Face

  1. From the watch face, hold UP/MENU (middle left) button.

  2. Select Watch Face.

  3. Press UP/MENU button or DOWN button to preview the watch face options.

  4. 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.

      1. Press UP/MENU button or DOWN button to preview the options.

      2. Press START/STOP button to apply.

      3. 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.

Moon, battery, clock, phone symbols

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 symbol with rectangles insideBattery life

Displays the remaining battery life.

Letters WED over numbersWeekday and day

Displays the current calendar date and day of the week.

Letters NOV over numbersDay and month

Displays the current calendar date and month.

Heart symbol over numbersHeart Rate

Displays the reading taken from the optical heart rate sensor (OHR).

OHR sensor must be on to get a reading.

Two footsteps over numbersSteps

Displays daily step count.

Mountain symbol over numbers

Elevation

Displays your current elevation.

Arrow point right over numbersBarometer 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.

Sun symbol over timeSunset/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 symbol over dashesCalendar notifications

Display the number of calendar notifications for the day.

Letters NOW over number

Weather

Displays the weather information received from the Garmin Connect App.

Flames over numbersCalories burned

Displays total calories burned for the day.

Lines over a numberFloors climbed

Displays floors climbed for that day.

Stop watch symbol over numbersIntensity Minutes

Displays the number of intensity minutes generated for the week.

Letters UTC over timeUniversal Time Coordinated

Displays Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).

UTC is the successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Sun on black and white background

Sun Position

Displays the current position of the sun.

Moon with light and dark phases

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.

Instinct Small Graph Barometer

Barometer Graph

Displays current barometric pressure and graph showing the change of barometric readings over the last four hours.

Instinct Small Graph Elevation

Elevation Graph

Displays current elevation and graph showing the change of elevation readings over the last four hours.

Instinct Small Graph Heart Rate

Heart Rate Graph

Displays current heart rate in beats per minute and graph showing heart rate readings over the last four hours.

Instinct Solar Small Graph

Solar Graph1

Displays graph of changes in solar intensity over the last six hours.

Instinct Small Graph Steps

Steps Graph

Displays total step count for the day and a bar graph showing steps generated over the course of the day by hour.

Instinct Small Graph Tides

Tides Graph

Displays a 24-hour tide chart for the current date with current tide height and information about the next tide.

G1 Tissue Load Graph

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.

Instinct Large Watch Face Altimeter 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.

Instinct Large Watch Face Elevation Graph

Elevation Graph

Displays the current elevation based on unit settings and a graph that displays change.


Instinct Large Watch Face Heart Rate Graph

Heart Rate Graph

Displays the current heart rate and a graph showing the change of heart rate over the last four hours.

Instinct Solar Watch Face With Large Graph

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.


Solar graphs are only available on watches with solar charging.