| Daily Smart Features |
| ✔ Connectivity (Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi) |
| ✔ Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) |
| ✔ On-device Connect IQ Store |
| ✔ Smart Notifications |
| ✔ Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only) |
| ✔ Calendar |
| ✔ Weather |
| ✔ Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile |
| ✔ Battery saver (customizable low power watch) |
| ✔ Controls smartphone music |
| ✔ Find My Phone |
| ✔ Find My Watch |
| ✔ VIRB Remote |
| ✔ Smartphone compatibility (iPhone and Android) |
| ✔ Pairs with Garmin Connect Mobile |
|
| Safety and Tracking Features |
| ✔ LiveTrack |
| ✔ Live Event Sharing (Android Only) |
| ✔ Incident Detection during select activities |
| ✔ Assistance |
|
| Activity Tracking Features |
| ✔ Step counter |
| ✔ Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) |
| ✔ Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) |
| ✔ Calories burned |
| ✔ Floors climbed |
| ✔ Distance traveled |
| ✔ Intensity minutes |
| ✔ TrueUp |
| ✔ Move IQ |
| ✔ Garmin Connect Challenges app (optional Connect IQ app) |
|
| Gym & Fitness Equipment |
| ✔ Available gym activity profiles (Strength, HIIT, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates, Yoga) |
| ✔ Strength workouts |
| ✔ HIIT workouts |
| ✔ Yoga workouts |
| ✔ Pilates workouts |
| ✔ On-screen workout animations |
| ✔ On-screen workout muscle maps |
|
| Training,Planning and Analysis Features |
| ✔ HR zones, HR alerts, HR calories, % HR max, % HRR, Recovery time, Auto max HR |
| ✔ Morning report, Race glance/widget, HRV status, HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) |
| ✔ Respiration rate (during exercise), GPS speed and distance, Customizable data pages, Customizable activity profiles |
| ✔ Auto Pause, Interval training, Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection) |
| ✔ Advanced workouts, Downloadable training plans, Auto Lap, Manual lap, Rest timer, Configurable lap alerts, VO2 Max (Run) |
| ✔ VO2 Max (Trail Run), Training Status (improved), Training Load, Training load focus, Training Effect, Training Effect (anaerobic), Primary benefit (Training Effect labels), Improved recovery time |
| ✔ Daily suggested workouts (7 Days), Custom alerts, Audio prompts, Finish time, Virtual Partner |
| ✔ Race an Activity, Auto multisport activities, Manual multisport activities, Course guidance, Touch and/or button lock, Auto scroll, Activity history on watch, Physio TrueUp |
|
| Running Features |
| ✔ Available run profiles (Running, Outdoor Track Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running, Virtual Running, Ultra Running) |
| ✔ GPS-based distance, time and pace |
| ✔ Running dynamics (with compatible accessory) |
| ✔ Vertical oscillation and ratio (with compatible accessory) |
| ✔ Ground contact time and balance (with compatible accessory) |
| ✔ Stride length (real time) (with compatible accessory) |
| ✔ Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) |
| ✔ Running power (with compatible accessory) |
|
| Performance Condition |
| ✔ Lactate threshold (with compatible accessory) |
| ✔ PacePro Pacing Strategies |
| ✔ Run workouts |
| ✔ Race predictor |
| ✔ Course- and weather-specific race predictor |
| ✔ Foot pod capable |
|
| Outdoor Recreation |
| ✔ Available outdoor recreation profiles (Hiking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing) |
| ✔ Point-to-point navigation, Bread crumb trail in real time, Back to start, TracBack, UltraTrac mode, Up Ahead |
| ✔ Elevation profile, Distance to destination, Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert, Trail run auto climb |
| ✔ Vertical speed, Total ascent/descent, Future elevation plot, Projected waypoint, Sun and moon information |
|
| Cycling Features |
| ✔ Available cycling profiles (Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking, eBiking, eMountain Biking) |
| ✔ Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) |
| ✔ Courses, Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor), Race an activity |
| ✔ FTP (Functional Threshold Power), Compatible with Vector and Rally (power meters), Power meter compatible, Compatible with Varia Vision (head-mounted display) |
| ✔ Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar), Compatible with Varia lights, Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) |
|
| Swimming Features |
| ✔ Available swim profiles (Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming) |
| ✔ Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) |
| ✔ Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) |
| ✔ Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) |
| ✔ Drill logging (pool swim only), Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) |
| ✔ "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only), Auto rest (pool swim only), Time and distance alerts, Pacing alerts (pool swim only), Countdown start (pool swim only), Pool swim workouts |
| ✔ Critical swim speed, Underwater wrist-based heart rate, Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) (with HRM-Swim or HRM-Pro) |
| Kid Activity Tracking Features : Toe-to-Toe Challenges app (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe Challenges app) |
|
| Product Features : |
| ✔ Get an uninterrupted picture of your daily health and nightly sleep with up to 12 days of battery life in smartwatch mode and up to 26 hours in GPS mode. |
| ✔ With its sleek design and 39g weight, you’ll almost forget you’re wearing Forerunner 255S — even when you’re asleep. |
| ✔ Featuring easy-to-use buttons and a silicone band, this watch is ready to wear — and tear — with durable Corning Gorilla Glass 3. |
