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Whatever you do, own it with Instinct® 2S. This rugged GPS smartwatch is tough enough to keep up with you, unique enough to fit your style and small enough to fit your wrist. Do more of what you love with preloaded activity profiles for running, biking, swimming and more. Live the ultimate connected life with smart notifications and Connect IQ compatibility when paired with your compatible smartphone. Understand your body better with all-day health monitoring for energy levels, stress, sleep, Pulse Ox and much more (Pulse Ox not available in all countries. This device is intended to give an estimation of your activity and metrics; it is not a medical device).
Rugged GPS smartwatch is water-rated to 100 meters and thermal- and shock resistant with fiber-reinforced polymer case and scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla glass; designed to fit a smaller wrist
Built-in sports apps to take on running, biking, swimming, strength training and more; plus, VO2 Max and other training features
Live the ultimate connected life with smart notifications and Connect IQ compatibility when paired with your compatible smartphone.
Track your adventures with the built-in 3-axis compass and barometric altimeter, plus multiple global navigation satellite systems (GPS, GLONASS and Galileo)
Understand your body better with all-day health monitoring features that track your heart rate, sleep, Pulse Ox, respiration and more (Pulse Ox not available in all countries. This device is intended to give an estimation of your activity and metrics; it is not a medical device)
Battery life: up to 21 days in smartwatch mode; up to 22 hours in GPS mode
Customers say
Customers find the wearable computer has good functionality and features. It performs well for them, even for outdoor activities. However, opinions differ on the wrist band size and battery life.
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Esteban –
I love this watch
This is the watch I’ve been waiting for ever since I started obsessing over Casio watches when I was 12. It does everything I need. Other than time, alarms, and all the standard stuff, notifications, weather, and heart rate are my must haves. It does all of those things perfectly. I don’t have to get sucked into my phone just to glance at a message, I love the morning summary of my day. Heart rate is in a nice graph right on the watch face. The LCD display is distraction free, I enjoy that it’s not touch screen as buttons are way more usable to me, although a rotating bezel or crown would be useful, but more to go wrong.Everything about it is so thoughtful, and I love that it has an old school extensive manual with it, just like old Casios. And then the battery.Man, it’s just so great to not worry about charging. I honestly can’t think of one thing I’d change about this watch, other than a replaceable battery. I’m almost tempted to buy a second one just to keep in reserve for when the battery inevitably gives up for good.Coming from a Fossil WearOS, then Fitbit, and then a cheaper Chinese brand I couldn’t be happier. All of those watches had their flaws, from battery life, to blinding my wife at night when the screen lit up because dnd sucked, to touch screen being the worst way to interact with a watch (imo).To me a watch isn’t best when it’s a wrist phone. I get the allure of an Apple Watch, it’s so delightful, but it’s a compromise. It’s distracting, needs charging all the time, hard to see in bright sun, needs gentle handling, and so on. I can see the screen of my Garmin without a backlight in almost any scenario other than total darkness.I could go on gushing about this watch. I just hope it lasts because $350 isn’t Casio money.If you want a G-shock style watch that does every essential thing you’d want from a smart watch, with outstanding battery life, this is it. I kinda wanted the solar version because that again puts me back to the 80s and 90s when digital Seikos and Casios had too teir solar watches, but honestly the battery life is so good, I don’t think I’d notice the difference.
Karen L Manning –
Great watch
Bought for hubbys birthday, he loves everything about it. I didnt realize it was small band when I bought it, but it fits him well on outer hole.
Amazon customer –
Having fun with my Garmin Instinct 2S watch
Using this watch for nearly two months now and still exploring. Lots of apps and options/customization. It takes some time to get the know of how it works. Fortunately there are lots of good videos out there to help.The 2S size watch is just perfect for me although the band is a bit short for my 7 inches wrist. It fits, but barely.Battery is nowhere near the 21 days Garmin says. Closer to 9-10 days, so still good enough. I guess it varies according to how you uses. Mine has Bluetooth on all the time, pulseOx on at night, also some GPS for an hour or so a day. All these take a good hit on battery life.Can’t wait to use it for trekking and fishing next summer.
some guy –
Compact, with legendarily long always-on display battery life.
Coming from an Aliexpress special, I had a bunch of things I wanted in my next smart watch:- Always on display. I hated raise to wake because it absolutely murdered battery life, and I found myself needing to check my watch with only one free hand way more than I expected.- Battery life. The one thing the Aliexpress special did right was give me ~2 weeks per charge with my settings, there’s no way I’d tolerate < 1 week between charges.- Compact and light. My old rectangle design kept getting caught on my clothes, backpack, everything. I've even got a small scar on the back of my hand from the watch getting caught, pulling hard, and having the side button dig into my hand.- NO TOUCHSCREEN. The real oddball here, but as someone who likes to relax with crossed arms, I kept accidentally tweaking settings without noticing because my opposite arm kept press-and-holding the touchscreen...So yeah, the Instinct 2S fixes all of that. Also, some random notes:- Use a "light mode" watch face instead of a "dark mode" one. This display is basically e-ink, you need the lighter background to reflect more light.- Switch your watch face. The default's ok, but there's a lot of really good faces on Connect IQ that give you way more things to fiddle with.- The sleep tracking graph looks comedically wrong most of the time (compared to Aliexpress or Pokemon Sleep), but the rest score feels really accurate?But as for caveats.- The included wrist strap is tiny; I've got baby wrists so it fits me, but I've got exactly 7 notches left on the end. An average male adult probably can't wear this without buying a new strap.- The motion sensor seems bad? Some watch faces have raise to wake toggles, but I couldn't consistently get the watch to detect the motion. I've just bypassed using the feature, but it'll annoy some people.- The pulse oximeter is garbage. If it's correct, I have hypoxia 24/7, and apparently from my brief research, no Garmin watches have useful oximeters. Having said that, apparently all oximeters relying on reflection instead of shining all the way through your finger are bad? Incidentally if your battery life is 8 days instead of 21 days, that's because you set the oximeter to always on - the feature even tells you that.- Default weather is also garbage, and by garbage I mean it's giving me the weather half a province away or something because it's constantly off by ~5C, and again from research this is a problem everyone has. You can switch faces/widgets and hook in a free OpenWeather API key, but it's not a great solution...- I like the lack of touchscreen, but trying to remember what each button does on press/press and hold is a far steeper learning curve than having a touchscreen. It's notably a lot less convenient to set timers on this thing, for example.TL:DRI love this thing, it fits all my oddly specific needs, and I lose nothing from avoiding its flaws. But uh, yeah, my caveat section is chunky for a reason.
Kimberly Kostuch –
Hard to use
too complicated to set up and use
James Foucault –
Its like the friend you dont always want
Great watch…Tells time, wakes me up in the AM for work, Judges me and lets me know just how out of shape I am. I feel like I should deduct a star for it being so judgy but it also thinks I dont know it lowers my daily steps if I dont achieve the target for a couple days…I’m on to you you sneaky watch.
Donna Richards –
Garmin watch
I bought this for my husband but the strap was too short for his arm. It’s a great watch.
Larry plumstead –
so far so great bu band is small
Have been wearing this a week now and it’s been great …functions…features …supporting apps…all good…I almost returned the watch upon arrival because the stock band is much too short ..decided to invest in another much longer band instead and I’m glad I did
S –
Bought this after comparing a few models. This instinct 2s non solar has good battery life. So if budget is a constraint, this non-solar version is good enough. Easy to use.
Mayur –
Good looking watch – it’s simple yet powerful. Just what I need.
Jay Connor –
This watch is my very first fitness-focused watch, and I couldn’t be happier with it! It has been a fantastic motivator, encouraging me to consistently track all my bike rides and push myself to improve
MD78 –
Battery already Low after 4-5 hours on gps , like run and bike together, characters small to read quickly while running bike swim . A lot of useless stuff, but really not practical for activity, specifically for over 40 like me that needs essential clear things to check and do on their activities.I can just suggest to buy to a person that walk run in a park , but already not to bike or run long.
MP –
I’ve had the Garmin Instinct 2S is about 6 months now and it has met my expectations. I’m glad that I got the S version. (I like the smaller size.) My only disappointment is that the speed measurement drops out fairly often when hiking in the mountains. Learning which buttons do what takes some time.I really appreciate being able to make selections by the 5 buttons which are easy to use even with gloves on. It is extremely programmable, so I’ll be learning more ways of doing things for a long time.Primary uses other than date & time: Recording tracks of hikes, following recorded tracks, monitoring heart rate, daily step & steps count, current elevation, sun rise & set times.I like that I can see a mapped overview of my hikes easily in the Garmin Connect PC app and also can download the .gpx file if I want it.