Garmin Venu User Interface & Menu Walk-Through

[@Dcrainmaker]

Hey folks - thanks for watching! Here's my massive in-depth review (where I have tons of GPS & HR accuracy sets and way more details): dcra.in/VenuReview

[@KingLifeTale]

Hey DC .. have Garmin released the widget view for the Garmin 945 yet so it scrolls like a fenix? Cheers -kingo

[@Crying-x9z]

Hey DC do you know if respiration rate come in the future to the garmin forerunner 245 ,like polar did with nigthly recharge from polar ignite to vantage series?

[@L.M1792]

Can I use Google Pay on a Garmin?

[@Dcrainmaker]

@@L.M1792 No, only the banks supported by Garmin Pay.

[@gary8397]

I just brought one of these watches. Your video saved me hours of reading a tiny manual. thank you for your efforts.

[@staezione]

Love your reviews. Ordered a venu myself. Tested it today with a 1 hour walk with gps activity. The battery went from 100% to 40% in 1 hour...

[@Dcrainmaker]

That’s definitely not right/good. Give it a full fresh charge, and ensure the firmware is up to date.

[@Cookie.x.monsterr]

Just got mine this morning. Loving it so far. It’s not as bulky as I though it could be. Here now trying to get the most of it

[@geolocate]

I just picked up a Garmin Instinct on sale. Great watch. I'll add the Venu to my collection when the time is right. Great review Rainmaker!

[@moranmono]

I think in some case, like the layout of the screens while working out, it makes more sense to change on the app or website than on the device

[@xedslo]

Thank you for your work! Great video! Very usefull! I just need to mention that your main camera is constantly pumping focus. I suggest considering you're stationary to switch to manual focus, it will look much better!

[@TristanBailey]

Waiting for mine to come in the post. Look forward to adding more data to my runs

[@edgecrush3r]

Garmin Pay should work in The Netherlands, which i am pretty stoked about, especially since there is no sign of banks yet that will support Google Pay (Suunto 7).

[@SpencerHumphrey0802]

Perfect how to! Thank you for taking the time to make it make sense

[@andreasansone7824]

you can read the timetable while doing a running or other activity

[@testaccsolutions6784]

I'd have to say Ray, its a great review, detailed and well attention to all of the functions and features of Venu - which had me thinking a couple of times whether to get it or not (after having my old Fenix 3 Titanium and the Sunnto 9 Baro with me, and wanting to get something in the mid range to replace my old vivosmart)

[@ShellyLinder]

Thank you so much for this video, it helped me more than you will ever know. Cheers from Florida!

[@colleenbuchanan9720]

Thank you so much for this video! Garmin needs to pay you! I found more ways to use this watch than I intended. I was not aware of the Assistance Alert and plan on setting it up.

[@rosettamalvese5695]

What is the best sports setting for HIT workout to be calculated and data analysis ?

[@philmoreharrison1972]

Hi, what Garmin watch would you recommend for someone who is not an athlete,but health conscious, cycle to work,only do running on holiday but also need social media notification on the watch?

[@ErinBrookes]

4/4s or venu

[@dotvrai]

8:23?? Great review though. Tx!

[@PabloMontero1976]

Just someone moaning

[@jackrandom4893]

Thank you for this. I just purchased this for my fiance. I hope she likes it over her old Gearfit.

[@P8qzxnxfP85xZ2H3wDRV]

I want this display on my Fenix. With less bezel. Keep the buttons, but add touch additionally with a quick on/off gesture.

[@StuntpilootStef]

It would have a battery life of like 5 minutes.

[@P8qzxnxfP85xZ2H3wDRV]

@@StuntpilootStef The Venu seems to have acceptable results in that regard though.

[@StuntpilootStef]

@@P8qzxnxfP85xZ2H3wDRV It also has much less on board. And it only gets its results because the screen isn't on all the time. I don't think the Fenix will last a long hike with maps and music enabled like it does now with that Venu screen installed. The battery life would be unacceptable.

[@P8qzxnxfP85xZ2H3wDRV]

@@StuntpilootStef Hmm, not sure. It's an amoled screen. My Samsung Galaxy also has an amoled screen and it shows a clock at low brightness all the time instead of turning the screen off completely. It doesn't really affect battery life and was enabled by default.

[@StuntpilootStef]

@@P8qzxnxfP85xZ2H3wDRV That's what I said though, you can only any meaningful battery life by constantly turning the screen off. And even then it's much worse than the Fenix screen.

[@rays1443]

Great Video. Wish you covered Fitness Age in the App but everything else was great Thanks. Just got my Venu as an upgrade my Samsung Active 2

[@mahlatsembooi3375]

Just got a venu too from Samsung active 2. I like the active interface and I wonder how you're finding the ux/ui of the venu?

[@rays1443]

@@mahlatsembooi3375 sadly I am not sure what you mean by UX and UI?

[@mahlatsembooi3375]

@@rays1443 sorry about the terminology. User experience (ux) and user interface (ui). Placement of buttons and the menu's look and ease of usability and figuring things out easily.

[@mickwood1974]

Hi, great in-depth review but I wondered if you had a review on using the Garmin Golf app on the venu?

[@tylerparsons9119]

Is it possible to configure it to have an always on display, only during an activity? Without going in and changing the settings before you workout. It would be nice if there was 3 settings... always on, always on during activity, and raise to wake

[@sensovision]

Thanks for the nice review! Can you please tell if you can disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth completely when you don't need them to conserve a battery life? And another question, is it possible to control volume when you stream music via bluetooth from Spotify for example?

[@lewispersonaltraining5182]

Just got the watch, thank you for the review, very helpful.

[@ChrisBorg88]

Have you found how to access the weather settings??

[@antiferroelectrica]

Fantastic tutorial! But I wish you could tell me how to download songs from my own computer (no Spotify, no apps), and how many songs can I gel in the watch. Thank you very much. I adore your videos.

[@jessiguignard3248]

What about text messages? Or phone calls? My phone alerts me when someone is calling but nothing to do with text messages.

[@sianleitz4707]

I just got mine yesterday. You can go into your notifications and choose what apps you want to have notifications. Text should work after that. It did on mine. Hope that helps.

[@sarahsusen4709]

Is there a preloaded profile for snowshoeing?

[@gvs376]

What are the advantages of the Garmin 945 over this? The Venu seems to be a much better value. More attractive as well.

[@jean-phil]

the 945 is bigger and has a few additional features like Open Water Swim buy.garmin.com/en-CA/CA/catalog/product/compareResult.ep?compareProduct=643260&compareProduct=643382&compareProduct=621922

[@nikhilnanal4384]

Does it have step counting. I assume so. But was expecting to see that in the video

[@GreatAnubis]

I want that T-Shirt! :D There's no link where to buy it!

[@cherieh5296]

I have an Apple phone and iTunes account, can I add music to watch via iTunes from a pc?

[@delrichardson8365]

For the heart rate can you input your age to determine max heart rate so it will know which zones you are in

[@moranmono]

It's going to rain forever 😂😂

[@jippevandrogenbroek754]

Hey there! Is that the MTB track in Lage Vuursche? I recognize the map from my own rides. Super cool Track!

[@viktoriyakuznetsova2222]

Can you please show me how to hammer triples into the clock that they have given knowing when running intervals and forgluts. I think it’s supposed to beep or vibrate .

[@Crazydanehede]

I just bought it and I love, it however I can't seem to get the animations to work anyone know how?

[@rebeccalara4841]

Same here.. did you figure it out?

[@ameshinju]

I don't know if either of you are still watching for updates on this but what you do is hold down the bottom button, click watch face, scroll all the way to the right, click the + button, scroll down or up to the background you want, then keep scrolling right and up and down for the rest of the settings you want. Last thing you want to do is scroll all the way left until it asked you if you want to save your settings. It won't show as live until you save it.

[@volodymyrd5793]

@@ameshinju Thanks, I also couldn't get watch face animation (this purple cloud) until I read your comment and understand there is the same watch face but with animation

[@ultimatehp]

Can you pair the Garmin Running Dynamics Pod with this watch? Thanks.

[@davidstrnadel2486]

Hello, nice review. Could you please tell us what the screen looks like when someone is calling? Do you see the name, number (or both) or the picture of the person if it is attached to your contact? Also can yo urespond to messages? And one more thing. Is it possible - like on Fenix watches - to personalize the screen so you can see as much info as possible? Like time, steps, heartbeat, stres etc?

[@annanowaczyk2222]

Do helpfull video. So many details. That what I was looking for.

[@hendrikagassi4741]

Hi, thanks for your review. I have just a question about the battery between vivoactive 4 Vs Venus. I hard sometimes about the Venus 5 day and Vivo four 8 day. My question is , that is correct ? Is just 3 day the difference between Venus and Vivo ? Because if it is true the Venu has a great battery life for being amoled display. Thank Very much

[@wardatalsahara1]

Hello. Good work just bought the venu but it cant go on always on display is there a problem with Garmin softwares

[@ger-f1b]

im buying this watch tomorrow!

[@ashkanahmadi]

Thank you. Is it possible to make a route using Strava or ridewithGPS and have it shown with turn-by-turn navigation on the watch?

[@IAMMIKEO]

How well does it track weight lifting? There’s always latency issues of course with wrist based activity trackers but the Apple Watch actually does very well so curious how this one is.

[@_samurai_744]

Michael Lee According to the review of Vivoactive 4 by Techy Agent Garmin seems to have beaten Apple in terms of heart rate accuracy even for weight lifting type workouts. Also my previous device Forerunner 245 had also been fantastic after 3.40 update, heart rate accuracy and latency hugely improved. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHzKhZiiq9Grn8U

[@IAMMIKEO]

Kadir Şen I seen that but I wanna get a second opinion but of course Techy Agent actually lifts weights so I should probably assume him to be correct.

[@_samurai_744]

Michael Lee I trust techy agent, actually he’s a bit apple fun :) But also some other details have an effect on heart rate measuring performance such as skin colour, hair density, blood flow quality etc. DcRainMaker doesn’t test it on weightlifting, you may wait for the review by Desfit.

[@bjrnaresterlie4049]

Had the Venu for a month. Sleep tracking and the auto rep detection during weight training were the most disappointing aspects of this watch.

[@IAMMIKEO]

Bjørn Are Østerlie got it. The whole auto rep is a gimmick anyways. I have a specific app (Strong) that I use specifically to log. With the Apple Watch you can log the workout directly on the watch and it also detects the heart rate the whole time.

[@graphitesketcher22]

Hello, anyway to add a Total Gym workout to this device?

[@DonnieKluck]

Is the interaction for notifications a swipe feature to clear out reply like on Android Wear OS watch or is it like the 6S and Fenix style?

[@sethleibowitz2906]

Will this watch's heart rate monitor ect connect to a garmin head unit? I have the 520 plus

[@TheGreenDevil21]

Is the better screen worth it over the vivoactive 4?

[@ErinBrookes]

Yeah this is what I wanna know. I’m choosing between the two.

[@amity_jajc2564]

do you draw breath ever?

[@fidelbanuelos9601]

I noticed the stopwatch doesn't give tenths and hundreths. Does the running workout feature offer those? Can the buttons be used for splits? Thanks.

[@lornadonnelly6695]

I just bought the venu and found this very helpful. However, I’ve done all the trouble shooting possible and although I see an incoming call on the watch, my text messages from my iPhone are not syncing to the watch. Please can anyone help with this. I’m getting so frustrated. Thanks.

[@bhavanaajain6793]

Hi, Would you suggest Venu for half marathon runners?

[@todd5192]

Is there a hotkey to take you directly to music (on 245 you hold down the bottom left button)

[@Dcrainmaker]

Yup, you can specify the shortcut key, which is simply swiping left to right on the screen. Going straight to music is one of those options.

[@MarcoMarfia]

Hi! Nice video thanks! Is it worth it to upgrade from Vivoactive 3 Music to Venu? Thanks

[@IAMMIKEO]

The watch itself seems to not be very smooth going from one screen to the other. Kind of laggy like the Fitbit Versa.

[@jackt7331]

Yeah I think they trade the good battery life for a shitty processor, like the huawei watch gt2

[@equsnarnd]

I do a HIIT workout on a treadmill. It consists of a warmup, the workout, and the cool down. The workout has 8 segments of 2 minutes each with 30 seconds running at 7.6 mph with 90 seconds of walking at 2.5 mph. Is there a fitness tracking watch that can contend with that? I'd like to add jumping rope to this routine with 8 segments of 30 seconds of speed jump roping and 90 seconds of rest. Can any fitness tracking watch deal with that?

[@aurorablindpilot]

For a casual person,who want to record his sport activities, want to use the watch as daily driver and never had a smartwatch before(wont be an issue I think, but who knows), which watch do you recommend? Galaxy Watch Active 2 or Garmin Venu?

[@daveg3409]

Garmin should allow developers to utilize an always on display that has more available screen resolution. The always on display that is available for most 3rd party apps is very limited. Many users would gladly sacrifice some Battery life for a more robust always on display. This Would make it a much closer Competitor to the Apple watch 5.

[@supergregandre7084]

Hello. Does the venu have altimeter and barometer?

[@sveinvidarhansen3546]

fantastic review. Thank you DC

[@Somator]

Hi there. What is the name of facewatch (with City one)

[@dawoodatif4687]

I have troubles downloading custom workouts from the garmin app to the watch

[@bilbothejust]

Outstanding 'how to' - thank you so much.

[@PascalKolkman]

While Garmin kind of invented the ANT+ wireless sensors communication protocol. It seems they did not yet enable native detailed ant+ Powermeter recording support, besides some limited connect iq apps in their expensive middle end Vivoactive en Venu watches. Allthough Polar is utilising the same strategy of limiting powermeter functionality for the higher end and not on the middle end range Polar ignite and fitness watch Polar unite. As if the Garmin & Polar sales department are thinking Sport people who buy a powermeter will have more money to spend on watches too ;-) That con for these watches is the biggest no-go for me. Garmins custom configerable custom Fitness strength workouts like Polar's animated Fitspark though is a small good Pro imo.

[@yuanjyechong8834]

Here is the way to do Hard Reset on Garmin Venu 1. Switch off the device. 2. Long press back key. 3. Press start key together for 8 seconds. 4. Loosen BACK key and long press START and BACK keys together. 5. After first vibration, loosen START key. 6. After second vibration, loosen BACK key You need to download Garmin Express to update or else risk to get frequent shut down.

[@henrihelvetica5835]

Venu -vs- Vivo Active 4? What is the difference? Outside looking in, looks like the same watch other than casing details. Nice screen though.

[@wassupMannn]

Venu has AMOLED display and that's basically it.

[@henrihelvetica5835]

@@wassupMannn thx!

[@predragvilotijevic6324]

Hi! I am looking to get a smartwatch for new year... The Venu is quite expensive where I live, about 230euros, but I have an option to get amazfit stratos 2 for only 60, new. I know they are not in the same league, but, if you have a couple of minutes to spare, I would like your opinion. I am also looking at samsung galaxy watch (about 140e), and amazfit gtr 47mm (about 100e). I am 58, and I only do a lot of walking, and tennis in summer... thanks!

[@sagittude123]

I tried everything on my android phone and venu watch and connect app but i still couldnt get the notifications on the venu. Any idea why?

[@suefritz3997]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks!

[@mschenkel60]

Where did you find the NYC live watchface? It''s not preinstalled and I can't seem to find it on Connect IQ.

[@Dcrainmaker]

Odd, it's pre-installed on mine. :-/

[@KidtipsyEthn]

I was asking the same thing? I wonder if the different colour versions of the watch have different faces

[@mschenkel60]

Or maybe units sold in different markets get different watch faces?

[@KidtipsyEthn]

We are in Canada and not installed on my wife's

[@mschenkel60]

I’m in the US and it’s not on mine either

[@fantasma62]

Hey Ray, any screen protectors you can recommend for this watch? After watching your reviews I decided for this one, over the Vivoactive 4, but coming from a Fenix 5 (no longer able to tri) where I didn’t need it (sapphire glass), I’m concerned about this screen.

[@pradanakusuma]

How is venu’s build quality compared to fenix line?

[@Dcrainmaker]

It’s not as nice, but it’s also perfectly good. After all, the Fenix is 2-3x the price.

[@pradanakusuma]

@@Dcrainmaker thanks for the feedback, im considering saving a little for forerunner/venu Or go all out with fenix line, however will deffinitely check first to the outlet how they all look on my medium to small wrist 🙂

[@bdubbin16]

Thanks for the video! What does the Bike Indoor setting do vs the regular setting? Without an additional sensor is there any value to the Bike Indoor setting?

[@Dcrainmaker]

Bike indoor simply shuts off GPS (which saves on battery, and on having a weird GPS dot on a map for going nowhere). You'll want speed/cadence sensors on your bike if you want to measure that indoors. Some smart trainers also broadcast that too.

[@matsevensohai]

Hi, i would like to ask. Will the venu last for at least 4days if i have the wrist heart rate on automatically? I am kinda confuse whether to have it on or off

[@composer001]

Can someone please advice which is the best hr and calorie count smartwatch for electric biking (Low pedal assist) and running on a treadmill (Not too expensive. (Android user) Thanks

[@jerzonramz2]

Any idea how I can add sleep widget on the watch itself?

[@minniespad]

Does the Garmen Venu. Sync with the A50?

[@dondiegodeleval589]

yes

[@cindyramirez8686]

I just bought the Venu 2 watch and I'm having issues with the volume control for the music. The music is blasting out of my wireless Bluetooth earbuds. When I try to turn the volume down, nothing happens. Any suggestions?

[@simongunnarsson2941]

Great review! 🔥

[@robertarchambault3072]

Hello where did you take this watch face on the Garmin Venu which shows a city, and what is its name? Thank you and you do a very good job

[@ameshinju]

It's one of the default watch faces. Hold down the bottom button, click watch face, scroll right until you get to the + and click on it. Then scroll up or down until you find that background. Scroll right and up and down until you get all the other settings where you want them. Last scroll all the way back to the left until it asks you if you want to save.

[@paulcurd842]

Hi, I downloaded a sleep score app to my Venu, but cannot find how to install the data field to make it work on the watch. Sleep doesn’t come up in the activity menu, so there is no obvious way to set it up. Have you made any videos which include that process? Tia

[@hardmtnbiker]

Does the Garmin Venu work better with iPhone OS than the Polar Vantage?? I’ve been using Polar for years, the old S710 with its training software on my old PC ( it had temperatures, nice feature) then the M400 before the updates and now the M600, short battery life with GPS. I like the Polar Flow for training Diary but Strava is fine too. What’s your thoughts? I travel, ride bikes and do lots of indoor and outdoor training.

[@terridolecki8185]

When I walk on the treadmill, the venu is way under the distance given by my treadmill. Is there a way to calibrate the venu. I read that if you walk a mile, you can calibrate it, but I didn't see a way to do that after my walk.

[@rodneycrisortega1505]

Can it be used for trail running?

[@aleksandarlelic2495]

Is it still worth getting?

[@ted363636]

It's worth noting that Vivoactive/Venu doesn't have Resume Later option which is a real shame when you ski or hike with it. When you pause to it wurst or drink some mulled wine, after a few minutes it automatically saves activity and you have to start again and you end up with several activities instead of one.

[@jean-phil]

can you pause while in a running activity ? let's say you need to lace/tie up your shoe. if so, do you know for about how long it can be on pause ?

[@ted363636]

@@jean-phil Not sure but as I recall it was 5 or 15 minutes, so lacing shouldn't be a problem :)

[@dariuszlis4412]

Thanks for another great review. I have a question does it work with Tidal ?

[@michaeltran2743]

Is it still worth buying in 2023?

[@chustar2620]

Yes

[@jennifera2177]

I'm interested to know - have you found it to be an issue when you are running to have the image on your watch reappear? The only thing I'm hesitant about it the fact the display disappears. Not a huge problem, unless it doesn't want to pop back up when I need to look at my stats.

[@vantroy4284]

What’s the storage space for music?

[@Frauska]

Do you know why my Venu doesn't display my incoming phone calls? Phone and watch are connected, I receive notification for missed call as text msg, and I receive all sorts of notifications. Any ideas as im going crazy here!

[@ArmyJames]

I’m looking for the major-league rainmaker.

[@ansjehartenhof8327]

Can you please tell me how I get find my phone on my venu?

[@shirishcin]

unfortunately i am not finding this as easy to setup or use the options as he has made it on the video. I am unable to even open messages received let only see auto reply options .

[@shirishcin]

Garmin Venu just doesn't show degree celcius ? Why do i need to see degrees Farhenheit n UK ? GPS shows a near by neighbourhood and not the main town .

[@estic0]

is amazon music an option ?

Has anyone noticed, experienced problems with GPS accuracy on Venu ? I am using Fenix 6x pro sapphire and my wife has Venu. But when we compare the distances on walking for example, after 10km walk, my watch would show 10km, but my wife's watch shows like 9km. difference is gigantic for that distance ! I'm currently using GPS+Galileo setting, and my wife's watch has the same setting.

[@stevehollard9612]

Hi Ray Have you tried this watch in the pool with tracking laps? I'm wondering how accurate it is? Also wondering which watch you think is best overall, Garmin Venu or Samsung Galaxy watch active 2? Regards Steve

[@Wheeler81]

Hi Steve, I just got my Garmin Venu yesterday and put it through a 1.5km pool swim (salt water). All went well, however it didn't log my first 100m, due to it needing to be calibrated or something i presume? Other than that, it was super accurate with heaps data. Hope this helps. Cheers!

[@LoveBugXOXO]

Aaron Wheeler Still happy with the Venu in the pool?

[@Wheeler81]

@@LoveBugXOXO Hi Mate. Yeah so far so good! I'm gett accurate readings from my swims which is great. Cheers.

[@samascl2007]

Do you know if it keep up with time zones when you travel?

[@Dcrainmaker]

Yup, automatically.