Garmin vivoactive 6 Black
€309.00
RRP €330.00
In Stock
HIGHLIGHTS
Features a bright AMOLED display, advanced running metrics, smart wake alarm, GPS, expanded health tracking, and up to 11 days of battery - designed for active lifestyles with music, Garmin Pay, and guided workouts.
IN THE BOX
- Garmin vivoactive 6 Black
- USB-C charging/data cable
- Documentation
Garmin vivoactive 6 Black
€309.00
HIGHLIGHTS
Features a bright AMOLED display, advanced running metrics, smart wake alarm, GPS, expanded health tracking, and up to 11 days of battery - designed for active lifestyles with music, Garmin Pay, and guided workouts.
IN THE BOX
- Garmin vivoactive 6 Black
- USB-C charging/data cable
- Documentation
VERSIONS / COLOURS
Features
Overview
Track your health and fitness like never before with the Garmin Vivoactive 6 in sleek black. Featuring advanced running metrics, GPS, smart wake alarm, and an AMOLED display - all with up to 11 days of battery life.
Features
- 42mm case size, fits wrists with a circumference of 125-190 mm
- 30.4mm (1.2 inch) diameter, AMOLED colour touchscreen display with 390 x 390 pixels
- High-sensitivity GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BEIDOU and QZSS receiver
- Up to 11 days in smartwatch mode, up to 21 hours in GPS mode without music
- Water rating: 5 ATM
- Elevate V4 wrist-based heart rate monitor, pulse OX sensor
- Advanced body battery energy monitoring; stress, respiration and hydration tracking
- Women's health tracking
- 80+ built-in GPS and indoor sport apps including walking, running, cycling, pool swimming and more
- Customisable morning report containing overview of your sleep, recovery, daily calendar and HRV status
- Smart Notifications - receive emails, texts and alerts when paired with compatible smartphone
- Meditation practices and mindful breathing activities
- Features health snapshot that provides report of key health stats
- Supports interval creation for running and cycling
- Nap detection, automatically tracks your naps to see how they benefit your body
- Create workouts from over 1,600 exercises using Garmin Connect app and send directly to your watch
- Wheelchair mode for tracking of daily pushes and workouts for wheelchaire users
- Music support - download songs and playlists from Spotify and Amazon Music for phone free listing
- Safety and Tracking features with incident detection and emergency contact calling
- Compatible with Garmin Connect App and Connect IQ store
- Garmin Pay contactless payments
Comparison between vivoactive 6 and vivoactive 5
The Garmin vivoactive 6 introduces several enhancements over the vivoactive 5, focusing primarily on software and feature improvements.
- Form factor: for the most part identical to the vivoactive 5 except slightly thinner at 10.9mm compared to vivoactive 5's 11.1mm.
- NEW: Revised user interface for improved usability
- NEW: Includes running dynamics, including ground contact time, vertical oscillation and stride length
- NEW: Includes PacePro and Course navigation - PacePro feature offers grade-adjusted pace guidane during activities
- NEW: Added daily suggested workouts for walking
- NEW: Added workout animations
- NEW: Added smart wake alarm feature that wakes users during an optimal sleep stage for a more refreshed feeling
- NEW: Addition of Beidou and QZSS satellite systems to enahance location accuracy
- NEW: Built-in compass providing directional assistance during activities
- NEW: Now supports 8 data fields per page during activities versus 4 on vivoactive 5
- NEW: 8GB internal storage versus 4GB in vivoactive 5
Specs
Technical Specification
| Garmin vivoactive 6 Black | Product Code: 010-02985-00 |
What You'll Love | |
| Sleep Score and Insights | yes |
| Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 11 days (5 days display always-on) |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation | Yes (spot-check, and optionally all-day and in sleep) |
| Garmin Pay | yes |
| Music storage | yes |
| Watch display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
| Touchscreen | yes |
| Water rating | Swim, 5 ATM |
| Wheelchair mode | yes |
General | |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Lens material | Corning Gorilla Glass 3 |
| Bezel material | Anodised aluminum |
| Case material | Fibre-reinforced polymer |
| Quick release bands | Yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Physical size | 42.2 x 42.2 x10.9 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 125-190 mm |
| Weight | 23 g (36 g with included band) |
| Display Size | 30.4 mm (1.2") diameter |
| Display Resolution | 390 x 390 pixels |
| Colour display | yes |
| Large font option | yes |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 11 days (5 days display always-on) Battery Saver Smartwatch mode: Up to 21 days GPS-Only GNSS mode: Up to 21 hours All-Systems GNSS mode: Up to 17 hours All-Systems GNSS mode with music: Up to 8 hours |
| Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
| Memory/history | 8 GB |
Clock features | |
| Time/date | yes |
| GPS time sync | yes |
| Automatic daylight saving time | yes |
| Alarm clock | yes |
| Smart alarm | yes |
| Timer | yes |
| Stopwatch | yes |
| Sunrise/sunset times | yes |
Health & Wellness 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 |
| Fitness Age | yes |
| Body Battery Energy Monitor | yes |
| All-day Stress | yes |
| Relaxation reminders | yes |
| Relaxation Breathing Timer | yes |
| Meditation | yes |
| Breathwork | yes |
| Sleep | Yes (Advanced) |
| Sleep coach | yes |
| Nap detection | yes |
| Hydration | yes |
| Women's Health | yes |
| Health Snapshot | yes |
Sensors | |
| GPS | yes |
| GLONASS | yes |
| Galileo | yes |
| QZSS | yes |
| BeiDou | yes |
| Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor | yes |
| Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor | yes |
| Compass | yes |
| Gyroscope | yes |
| Accelerometer | yes |
| Thermometer | Yes (tempe sensor required) |
| Ambient light sensor | yes |
Daily smart features | |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth, ANT+, Wi-Fi |
| Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | yes |
| On-device Connect IQ Store | yes |
| Smart Notifications | yes |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only) | yes |
| View images from notifications on watch (Android only) | yes |
| Morning report | yes |
| Calendar | yes |
| Weather forecasts | yes |
| Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect mobile | yes |
| Battery Saver - customisable low power watch | yes |
| Controls smartphone music | yes |
| Plays and controls watch music | yes |
| Find my phone | yes |
| Find my watch | yes |
| Find My Phone during GPS activity | yes |
| Compatible with Garmin Messenger app | yes |
| Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile | yes |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone, Android |
| Red shift mode | yes |
Workout and Training Plans | |
| Daily Suggested Workout - Walking | yes |
| Garmin Running Coach | yes |
| Garmin Running Coach Experts | yes |
| Garmin Coach - Prebuilt Cycling Plans | yes |
| Garmin Coach - Strength | yes |
| Cardio workouts | yes |
| Strength workouts | yes |
| HIIT workouts | yes |
| Yoga workouts | yes |
| Pilates workouts | yes |
| Workouts for wheelchair users | yes |
| On-screen workout animations | yes |
| On-Screen Workout Muscle Map | yes |
Activity profiles | |
| Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Indoor rowing, Jump Roping |
| WELLNESS | Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking, Mobility |
| INDOOR RUNNING | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running |
| Outdoor running | Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running, Obstacle Running |
| Outdoor recreation | Hiking, Horseback Riding, Golfing, Mountaineering, Disc Golf, Archery |
| Cycling | Biking, Road biking, Gravel biking, Bike touring, eBiking, Handcycling, Indoor Handcycling, Indoor Biking, Cyclocross |
| Swim | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
| On the water | Stand Up Paddleboarding, Kayaking, Rowing, Surfing, Snorkeling |
| Motor sports | Motorcycling, Overlanding, Motorcrossing, ATVing, Snowmobiling |
| Racket sports | Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball |
| Snow & Winter | Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, XC Skate Skiing, Ice Skating, Snowshoeing |
| Sport profiles | Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball |
| In the ring | Boxing, Mixed martial arts |
| Other activity profiles | Inline Skating |
Safety and tracking features | |
| Incident Detection during select activities | yes |
| Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | yes |
| Assistance | yes |
| LiveTrack | yes |
Activity tracking features | |
| Step counter | yes |
| Push tracker | yes |
| Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) | yes |
| Move Alert movement options | yes |
| Weight shift alert | yes |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | yes |
| Calories Burned | yes |
| Distance travelled | yes |
| Intensity minutes | yes |
| TrueUp | yes |
| Move IQ | yes |
| Garmin Connect Challenges app | yes |
| Automatic rep counting | yes |
Training, planning and analysis features | |
| Customisable screen(s) | yes |
| Downloadable training plans | yes |
| HR Zones | yes |
| HR Alerts | yes |
| HR Calories | yes |
| % HR Max | yes |
| Recovery Time | yes |
| HRV Status | yes |
| HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) | Yes (using ANT+ or BLE) |
| Respiration Rate (During Exercise) | Yoga, breathwork and meditation only |
| GPS speed and distance | yes |
| Customisable activity profiles | yes |
| Auto Pause | yes |
| Interval training | yes |
| Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection) | yes |
| Advanced workouts | yes |
| HRM running pace and distance | yes |
| Auto Lap | yes |
| Manual lap | yes |
| VO2 Max (Run) | yes |
| Training Effect | yes |
| Training Effect (Anaerobic) | yes |
| Workout benefit | yes |
| Improved Recovery Time | Yes (limited) |
| Voice alerts | yes |
| Touch and/or button lock | yes |
| Auto scroll | yes |
| Activity history on watch | yes |
| Physio TrueUp | yes |
Running features | |
| GPS-based distance, time and pace | yes |
| Running dynamics | yes |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | yes |
| Running power | yes |
| PacePro Pacing Strategies | yes |
| Run workouts | yes |
| Race predictor | yes |
| Foot pod capable | yes |
| Run/Walk/Stand detection | 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) | Automatic |
| Digital scorecard | yes |
| Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | yes |
| Garmin AutoShot | 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 |
| Pairs with Garmin Golf app | yes |
| Tournament legal | yes |
Outdoor recreation | |
| Back to start | yes |
| Area calculation | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
| Fish forecast | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
| Sun and moon information | Yes (via Connect IQ) |
Cycling features | |
| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | yes |
| Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar) | yes |
| Compatible with Varia lights | yes |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | Yes (using ANT+ or BLE) |
Swimming features | |
| 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 |
| Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | yes |
| Auto rest (pool swim only) | yes |
| Time and distance alerts | yes |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | yes |
Security Information | |
| Security updates until at least (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2027-04-02 |
