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Customizing the Data on a Garmin Outdoor Watch Face
Garmin Outdoor watches offer the ability to customize what data is displayed on the watch face. The selected watch face may change what can be customized, what options are available, or how the data appears.
The below instructions apply to the following Outdoor watches. If your watch is not listed, see Related below to view our other FAQs for your product.
- Descent™ Mk2 series
- Enduro™
- fēnix® 6 series
- MARQ® Collection
- quatix® 6 series
- tactix® Delta series
Customizing the Watch Face
NOTE: If you are using a Battery Saver mode that sets your watch face to Low Power, you will not be able to customize the watch face until you have exited the Battery Saver mode. For steps on checking Battery Saver settings, see - How to Use Power Manager on Garmin Watches.
- From the watch face, hold Menu.
- Select Watch Face.
- Press Up or Down to navigate to other watch faces.
- Select Add New if you would like to start from a minimal watch face.
- Press Start/Stop.
- Select Customize.
- Select Layout to change layout of fields.
- Select Data to change what data options appear.
- Select Accent Color to change the color that is adjustable on the watch face.
- Select BKGD Color to change the background color.
- Select Done to save changes.
For more information on the types of Data options, select Watch Face Customization Data Options below.
 | Universal Time Coordinated Displays Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). UTC is the successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). |
 | Digital Time Displays current time in digital format. Time will default to 10:10 until changes have been saved. It will then update to the current time.
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 | Sunset/Sunrise Displays Sunset/Sunrise time. The ring will clear as time gets closer to the sunrise or sunset. An arrow will point down for sunset and up for sunrise.
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 | Steps Displays daily step count. The ring will fill in as you work towards achieving your daily steps goal.
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 | Floors Climbed Displays floors climbed for that day. The ring will fill in as you work towards achieving your daily floors climbed goal. |
 | Recovery Time Displays the number of hours left on recovery time. |
 | Notifications Displays the number of notifications. Notifications number won't be cleared until they are cleared from the phone. |
 | Intensity Minutes Displays the number of intensity minutes generated for the week. The ring will fill in as you work towards achieving your weekly intensity minutes goal. |
 | Weekly Running Total Displays distance of all running activities for the week, except Trail Run. |
 | Heart Rate Displays the reading taken from the optical heart rate sensor (OHR). The OHR sensor must be on to get a reading. |
 | Day and Month Displays the current calendar date and month. The ring will fill in as the month ends. |
 | Weekday and Day Displays the current calendar date and day of the week. The ring will fill in as the month ends. |
 | Calories Burned Displays total calories burned for the day. |
 | Calendar Notifications Display the number of calendar notifications for the day. |
 | Battery Life Displays the remaining battery life. Can display days remaining or percentage. Ring clear as battery life depletes. |
 | 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. |
 | Altimeter Reading Displays the current altimeter reading. |
 | Heart Rate Displays current HR read by the optical heart rate sensor. |
 | Weather Displays the current weather. |
NOTE: If you delete one of the pre-loaded watch faces, the watch will have to be reset back to default settings to recover the watch face. See your owner's manual for information about how to reset your watch to default settings.