Version/Colour
Surf
Solar
Camo
Features
Overview
Smaller rugged, reliable outdoor GPS watch.
Features
- Rugged multisport watch with smaller 40 mm fibre-reinforced polymer case
- Water-rated to 100 metres, thermal and shock resistance, scratch resistance lens
- Multiple global navigation satellite systems support - GPS, GLONASS and Galileo
- ABC Sensors - 3-axis compass, altimeter and barometer
- Preloaded built-in sport apps: running, cycling, swimming and more
- Track HIIT workouts including AMRAP, EMOM and Tabata
- Measures VO2 max, suggest daily workouts and expected recovery times
- MTB Dynamics: Tracks details of every ride with mountain biking metrics
- Tracback routing - Navigate same route back to your starting point
- Wrist-based heart rate sensor
- Monitors stress, sleep, energy levels, Pulse OX, fitness age and women's health
- Smart notifications: texts, emails, alerts and social media
- Full Garmin Connect IQ app support
- Incident detection; send live location to contacts when pair with phone
- Battery life: up to 21 days in smartwatch mode, 22 hours in GPS mode, 54 hours in UltraTrac mode
What's New vs Garmin Instinct
- Now available in 2 sizes; standard 45 mm and smaller 40 mm
- Display resolution increased to 176x176 and 156x156, respectively
- Significant improvements to battery life
- Wrist-based heart rate updated to Garmin Elevate Gen4 Optical HR Sensor
- Fully compatible with Garmin Connect IQ
- Additional activity and sport profiles, apps and metrics making watch a true multisport watch
- Added HIIT workouts, golf support, MTB Grit & Flow, Pulse OX, VO2 Max, training load and recovery
Product Screen Shots
Package Includes
- Instinct 2S Graphite
- Charging/data cradle
- Documentation
Specs
Technical Specification
| Garmin Instinct 2S - Graphite | 40 mm | Product Code: 010-02563-00 |
General | |
| Lens material | Chemically-strengthened glass |
| Bezel material | Fibre-reinforced polymer |
| Case material | Fibre-reinforced polymer |
| QuickFit watch band compatible | Yes (20 mm) |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Physical size | 40 x 40 x 13.3 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 112-180 mm |
| Display Size | Custom, two-window design; 20 x 20 mm |
| Display Resolution | 156 x 156 pixels (active area) |
| Display Type | Monochrome, sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
| Weight | 42 g |
| Battery life | Smartwatch: Up to 21 days Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 50 days GPS: Up to 22 hours Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 54 hours Expedition GPS Activity: Up to 25 days |
| Water rating | 10 ATM |
| Memory/history | 32 MB |
Clock features | |
| Time/date | yes |
| GPS time sync | yes |
| Automatic daylight saving time | yes |
| Alarm clock | yes |
| Timer | yes |
| Stopwatch | yes |
| Sunrise/sunset times | yes |
Health monitoring | |
| Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | yes |
| Daily Resting Heart Rate | yes |
| Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts | Yes (high and low) |
| Respiration rate (24x7) | yes |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | Yes (spot-check, during sleep, all day) |
| Fitness age | yes |
| Body Battery Energy Monitor | yes |
| All-day stress tracking | yes |
| Relaxation breathing timer | yes |
| Sleep | yes |
| Sleep score and insights | yes |
| Hydration | Yes (in Garmin Connect) |
| Women's Health | Yes (in Garmin Connect) |
| Health snapshot | yes |
Sensors | |
| GPS | yes |
| GLONASS | yes |
| Galileo | yes |
| Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor | yes |
| Barometric altimeter | yes |
| Compass | yes |
| Accelerometer | yes |
| Thermometer | yes |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor | yes |
Daily smart features | |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth, ANT+ |
| Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | yes |
| Smart Notifications | yes |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only) | yes |
| Calendar | yes |
| Weather | yes |
| Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile | yes |
| Battery Saver - customisable low power watch | yes |
| Controls smartphone music | yes |
| Find my phone | yes |
| Find my watch | yes |
| VIRB camera remote | yes |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone, Android |
| Pairs with Garmin Golf app | yes |
| Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile | yes |
Safety and Tracking Features | |
| LiveTrack | yes |
| Incident Detection during select activities | yes |
| Assistance | yes |
Tactical features | |
| Dual grid coordinates | yes |
Activity tracking features | |
| Step counter | yes |
| Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | yes |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | yes |
| Calories burned | yes |
| Floors climbed | yes |
| Distance travelled | yes |
| Intensity minutes | yes |
| TrueUp | yes |
| Move IQ | yes |
| Garmin Connect Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Fitness equipment/gym | |
| Available gym activity profiles | Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, HIIT, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, and Yoga |
| Cardio workouts | yes |
| Strength workouts | yes |
| HIIT workouts | yes |
| Automatic rep counting | yes |
Training, planning and analysis features | |
| HR zones | yes |
| HR alerts | yes |
| HR calories | yes |
| % HR max | yes |
| % HRR | yes |
| Recovery time | yes |
| Auto max HR | yes |
| HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) | Yes (using ANT+) |
| Respiration rate (during exercise) | yes |
| GPS speed and distance | yes |
| Customisable screen(s) | yes |
| Customisable activity profiles | yes |
| Auto Pause | yes |
| Interval training | yes |
| Advanced workouts | yes |
| Downloadable training plans | yes |
| Power Modes - customisable in-activity battery settings | yes |
| Auto Lap | yes |
| Manual lap | yes |
| Configurable lap alerts | yes |
| Heat and altitude acclimation | yes |
| VO2 Max (Run) | yes |
| VO2 Max (Trail Run) | yes |
| Training status (lets you see if you're training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend) | yes |
| Training load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC) | yes |
| Training effect (aerobic) | yes |
| Training effect (anaerobic) | yes |
| Primary benefit (Training Effect labels) | yes |
| Improved recovery time | yes |
| Daily suggested workouts | yes |
| Customisable alerts | yes |
| Audio prompts | yes |
| Finish time | yes |
| Virtual partner | yes |
| Race an activity | yes |
| Auto multisport activities | yes |
| Multi-sport | yes |
| Course guidance | yes |
| Touch and/or button lock | yes |
| Hot keys | yes |
| Auto scroll | yes |
| Activity history on watch | yes |
| >Physio TrueUp | yes |
Running features | |
| Available run profiles | Running, treadmill running, indoor track running, trail running |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | yes |
| Running dynamics | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Stride length (real time) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | yes |
| Performance condition (after running 6-20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level) | yes |
| Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue) | Yes (with compatible accessory) |
| Run workouts | yes |
| Race predictor | yes |
| Foot pod capable | yes |
Golfing features | |
| Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | yes |
| Yardage to layups/doglegs | yes |
| Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | Manual |
| Digital scorecard | yes |
| Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | yes |
| Auto CourseView updates | yes |
| Green View with manual pin position | yes |
| Hazards and course targets | yes |
| PinPointer | yes |
| Round timer/odometer | yes |
| Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) | yes |
| Tournament legal | yes |
Outdoor recreation | |
| Available outdoor recreation profiles | Hiking, Climbing, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Fishing, Tactical |
| Point-to-point navigation | yes |
| Bread crumbtrail in real time | yes |
| Back to start | yes |
| TracBack | yes |
| UltraTrac mode | yes |
| Elevation profile | yes |
| Distance to destination | yes |
| Barometric trend indicator with storm alert | yes |
| Trail run auto climb | yes |
| Vertical speed | yes |
| Total ascent/descent | yes |
| Future elevation plot | yes |
| Compatible with BaseCamp | yes |
| GPS coordinates | yes |
| Sight 'N Go | yes |
| Area calculation | yes |
| Projected waypoint | yes |
| Sun and moon information | yes |
| XERO Locations | yes |
| Expedition GPS Activity | yes |
Cycling features | |
| Available cycling profiles | Biking, Road Biking, Mountain Biking, Gravel Biking, Cyclocross, Bike Commuting, Bike Touring, eBiking, eMountain Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | yes |
| Courses | yes |
| MTB Grit & Flow | yes |
| Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor) | yes |
| Race an activity | yes |
| FTP (Functional threshold power) | yes |
| Compatible with Vector and Rally (power meters) | yes |
| Power meter compatible | yes |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | yes |
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) | yes |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | yes |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | yes |
| Drill logging (pool swim only) | yes |
| Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | yes |
| "Repeat on" rest timer (pool swim only) | yes |
| Auto rest (pool swim only) | yes |
| Time and distance alerts | yes |
| Countdown start | yes |
| Pool swim workouts | yes |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | yes |
| Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim) | yes |
Kid activity tracking features | |
| Toe-to-Toe Challenges app | Yes (optional Connect IQ Toe-to-Toe Challenges app) |
Connectivity | |
| Smart trainer control | yes |
Reviews
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews for the Garmin Instinct 2S - Graphite | 40 mm.
