Glances
Your watch comes preloaded with glances that provide quick information (Viewing Glances). Some glances require a Bluetooth connection to a compatible phone.
Some glances are not visible by default. You can add them to the glances list manually (Customizing the Glance List). Some glances are a grouping of related metrics, such as health or activity performance.
TIP: You can also download glances from the Connect IQ Store (Connect IQ Features).
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Name |
Description |
|---|---|
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Alternate time zones |
Displays the current time of day in additional time zones (Adding Alternate Time Zones). |
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Altimeter |
Displays the approximate elevation based on pressure changes. |
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Barometer |
Displays the environmental pressure data based on elevation. |
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Body Battery |
With all-day wear, displays your current Body Battery level and a graph of your level for the last several hours (Body Battery). |
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Calendar |
Displays upcoming meetings from your phone calendar. |
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Calories |
Displays your calorie information for the current day. |
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Camera controls |
Allows you to manually take a photo and record a video clip when paired with a compatible Varia headlight or tail light camera (Using the Varia Camera Controls). |
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Compass |
Displays an electronic compass. |
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Countdowns |
Displays upcoming countdown events. |
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Cycling performance |
Displays cycling performance metrics, such as your VO2 max. and FTP estimates. |
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Floors climbed |
Tracks your floors climbed and progress toward your goal. |
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Garmin coach |
Displays scheduled workouts when you select a Garmin coach adaptive training plan in your Garmin Connect account. The plan adjusts to your current level of fitness, coaching and schedule preferences, and race date. |
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Golf |
Displays golf scores and statistics for your last round. |
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Health Snapshot |
Starts a Health Snapshot session on your watch that records several key health metrics while you hold still for two minutes. It provides a glimpse of your overall cardiovascular status. The watch records metrics such as your average heart rate, stress level, and respiration rate. |
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Health status |
Displays health metrics, such as your respiration and skin temp. |
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Heart rate |
Displays your current heart rate in beats per minute (bpm) and a graph of your average resting heart rate (RHR). |
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History |
Displays your activity history and a graph of your recorded activities (Using History). |
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HRV status |
Displays your seven-day average of your overnight heart rate variability (Heart Rate Variability Status). |
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Intensity minutes |
Tracks your time spent participating in moderate to vigorous activities, your weekly intensity minutes goal, and progress toward your goal. |
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inReach controls |
Sends messages through your paired inReach device (Using the inReach Remote). |
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Jet lag adviser |
Displays your internal clock during travel, and provides guidance to help you acclimate to the time zone of your destination (Using the Jet Lag Adviser). |
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Last activity |
Displays a brief summary of your last recorded activity. |
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Last ride |
Displays a brief summary of your last recorded activity and history of the specified sport. |
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Lifestyle logging |
Tracks your day-to-day behaviors, and allows you to see how the behaviors affect certain health metrics in the Garmin Connect app (Lifestyle Logging). |
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Lights |
Provides bike light controls when you have a Varia light paired with your Venu watch. |
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Messenger |
Displays your Garmin Messenger app conversations and allows you to reply to messages from your watch (Garmin Messenger App). |
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Moon phase |
Displays the moonrise and moonset times, along with the moon phase, based on your GPS position. |
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Music |
Provides music player controls for your phone or watch music. |
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Naps |
Displays total nap time and Body Battery level gains. You can start the nap timer and set an alarm to wake you up. |
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Notifications |
Alerts you to incoming calls, texts, social network updates, and more, based on your phone notification settings (Enabling Phone Notifications). |
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Primary race |
Displays the race event you designate as the primary race in your Garmin Connect calendar. |
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Pulse oximeter |
Allows you to take a manual pulse oximeter reading (Getting Pulse Oximeter Readings). If you are too active for the watch to determine your pulse oximeter reading, the measurements are not recorded. |
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Pushes |
In wheelchair mode, tracks your daily wheelchair push count, push goal, and data for previous days (Wheelchair Mode). |
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Race calendar |
Displays your upcoming race events set in your Garmin Connect calendar. |
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Recovery |
Displays your recovery time. The maximum time is four days. |
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Respiration |
Your current respiration rate in breaths per minute and seven-day average. You can do a breathing activity to help you relax. |
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Running performance |
Displays running performance metrics, such as your VO2 max. estimate and lactacte threshold. |
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Sleep coach |
Provides recommendations for your sleep need based on sleep and activity history, circadian rhythm, HRV status, and naps. |
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Sleep score |
Displays total sleep time, a sleep score, and sleep stage information for the previous night. You can also view any overnight breathing variations (Sleep Tracking). |
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Steps |
Tracks your daily step count, step goal, and data for previous days. |
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Stocks |
Displays a customizable list of stocks (Adding a Stock). |
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Stress |
Displays your current stress level and a graph of your stress level. You can do a breathing activity to help you relax. If you are too active for the watch to determine your stress level, stress measurements are not recorded. |
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Sunrise and sunset |
Displays sunrise, sunset, and civil twilight times. |
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Training readiness |
Displays a score and a short message that helps you determine how ready you are for training each day. |
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Training status |
Displays your current training status and training load, which shows you how your training affects your fitness level and performance. |
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Weather |
Displays the current temperature and weather forecast. |
- From the watch face, swipe up.
The watch scrolls through the glance loop.
- Select a glance to view additional information.
- Swipe left to view additional options and functions for a glance.
- From the watch face, swipe up.
The watch scrolls through the glance list.
- Select Edit.
- Select a glance.
- Select an option:
- To remove a glance from the list, select
. - To change the location of a glance in the list, select the glance, and drag it to the desired location on the screen.
- To remove a glance from the list, select
- If necessary, select Add to add a glance to the list.
Your watch analyzes your heart rate variability, stress level, sleep quality, and activity data to determine your overall Body Battery level. Like a gas gauge on a car, it indicates your amount of available reserve energy. The Body Battery level range is from 5 to 100, where 5 to 25 is very low reserve energy, 26 to 50 is low reserve energy, 51 to 75 is medium reserve energy, and 76 to 100 is high reserve energy.
You can sync your watch with your Garmin Connect account to view your most up-to-date Body Battery level, long-term trends, and additional details (Tips for Improved Body Battery Data).
Viewing the Body Battery Glance
The Body Battery glance displays your current Body Battery level.
- Swipe up to view the Body Battery glance.
NOTE: You may need to add the glance to your glance loop (Customizing the Glance List).
- Select the glance to view a graph of your latest Body Battery data.
You can tap 
for more information. You can select 
for menu options.
- Swipe up to view a combined graph of your Body Battery and stress level.
- Swipe up to view a list of factors impacting your Body Battery level.
Select each factor to view more details.
Tips for Improved Body Battery Data
- For more accurate results, wear the watch while sleeping.
- Good sleep charges your Body Battery.
- Strenuous activity and high stress can cause your Body Battery to drain more quickly.
- Food intake, as well as stimulants like caffeine, has no impact on your Body Battery.
The stress level glance displays your current stress level and a graph of your stress level. It can also guide you through a breathing activity to help you relax.
- While you are sitting or inactive, scroll to view the stress level glance.
TIP: If you are too active for the watch to determine your stress level, a message appears instead of a stress level number. You can check your stress level again after several minutes of inactivity.
- Tap the glance to view a graph of your stress level for the last four hours.
Blue bars indicate periods of rest. Yellow bars indicate periods of stress. Gray bars indicate times that you were too active to determine your stress level.
- Swipe up or down to view stress score details and your daily average stress score for the last seven days.
- To start a breathing activity, swipe left, and select
.
Use the lifestyle logging glance on your Venu 4 watch to discover how everyday behaviors affect several health metrics, such as your sleep score, resting heart rate, and more. You can log and track behaviors that reflect your daily habits and actions, such as late caffeine intake, cold plunges, or reading before bedtime, on the Garmin Connect app (Tracking Lifestyle Logging Behaviors). You can even create and track custom behaviors.
Tracking Lifestyle Logging Behaviors
Before you can use the lifestyle logging feature, you must have a Garmin Connect account, download the Garmin Connect app, and pair your Garmin watch with the Garmin Connect app.
- From the Garmin Connect app, select
. - Select Health Stats > Lifestyle Logging.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
- Set up logging reminders (optional).
You can view detailed lifestyle logging reports on the Garmin Connect app.
TIP: You can enable the lifestyle logging glance on your watch to view and log lifestyle behaviors (Customizing the Glance List).
Menstrual Cycle Tracking
Your menstrual cycle is an important part of your health. You can use your watch to log physical symptoms, sex drive, sexual activity, ovulation days, and more (Logging Your Menstrual Cycle Information). You can learn more and set up this feature in the Health Stats settings of the Garmin Connect app. You can install the women’s health tracking app from the Connect IQ app (Downloading Connect IQ Features).
- Menstrual cycle tracking and details
- Physical and emotional symptoms
- Period and fertility predictions
- Health and nutrition information
NOTE: You can use the Garmin Connect app to add and remove glances.
Logging Your Menstrual Cycle Information
Before you can log your menstrual cycle information from your Venu 4 watch, you must set up menstrual cycle tracking in the Garmin Connect app and install the women’s health tracking app from the Connect IQ app (Downloading Connect IQ Features).
- Swipe to view the women’s health tracking glance.
- Tap the touchscreen.
- Select
. - If today is a period day, select Period Day > .
- Select an option:
- To rate your flow from light to heavy, select Flow.
- To log your physical symptoms, such as acne, backache, and fatigue, select Symptoms.
- To log your mood, select Mood.
- To log your discharge, select Discharge.
- To designate the current date as an ovulation day, select Ovulation Day.
- To log your sexual activity, select Sexual Activity.
- To rate your sex drive from low to high, select Sex Drive.
- To designate the current date as a period day, select Period Day.
Pregnancy Tracking
The pregnancy tracking feature displays weekly updates on your pregnancy and provides health and nutrition information. You can use your watch to log physical and emotional symptoms, blood glucose readings, and baby movement (Logging Your Pregnancy Information). You can learn more and set up this feature in the Health Stats settings of the Garmin Connect app.
Logging Your Pregnancy Information
Before you can log your information, you must set up pregnancy tracking in the Garmin Connect app and install the women’s health tracking app from the Connect IQ app (Downloading Connect IQ Features).
- Swipe to view the women’s health tracking glance.
- Tap the touchscreen.
- Select an option:
- Select Symptoms to log your physical symptoms, mood, and more.
- Select Blood Glucose to log your glucose levels before and after meals and before bed.
- Select Movement to use a stopwatch or timer to log the baby’s movements.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Customizing the Weather Glance
- Swipe up to view the weather glance.
- Select the glance to view the current weather for your location.
- Swipe left.
- Select an option:
- To update the weather information for your current GPS location, select Weather Options > Update Current Location.
TIP: You should wait while the watch locates satellites (Acquiring Satellite Signals).
- To change the units of measure for temperature, select Weather Options > Temperature, and select a unit of measure.
Before you can use the Jet Lag Adviser glance, you must plan a trip in the Garmin Connect app (Planning a Trip in the Garmin Connect App).
You can use the Jet Lag Adviser glance while traveling to see how your internal clock compares to the local time, and to receive guidance on how to reduce the effects of jet lag.
- From the watch face, swipe up or down to view the Jet Lag Adviser glance.
- Select the glance to view details about your trip and your current state of jet lag.
- Select an option:
- To see an informational message about your current jet lag level, tap .
- To see a timeline for recommended actions to help reduce symptoms of jet lag, swipe up.
- To see an informational message about your current jet lag level, tap
Planning a Trip in the Garmin Connect App
- From the Garmin Connect app, select .
- Select Training & Planning > Jet Lag Adviser > Add a Trip.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Before you can customize the stocks list, you must add the stocks glance to the glances list (Customizing the Glance List).
- From the watch face, swipe up to view the stocks glance.
- Select the stocks glance.
- Select Edit > Add.
- Enter the company name or stock symbol for the stock you want to add, and select .
The watch displays search results.
- Select the stock you want to add.
- Select the stock to view more information.
TIP: To display the stock on the glances list, you can press 
, and select Set as Favorite.