Timeline 2
· v1
About
Timeline 2 is a highly customizable Garmin watch face built around three core features: complete theme control, a dedicated Always-On Display, and flexible data fields. It combines at-a-glance readability with efficient rendering and broad Garmin device support.
Themes and Personalization
Choose from nine coordinated styles: Original, Monochrome, Ocean, Forest, Sunset, Lavender, Luxury, Sport, and Alert.
Themes update supported time, date, day, data, icon, goal, progress, separator, and AOD colors while preserving the original background artwork. You can also personalize supported colors individually through the Connect IQ phone settings or directly on compatible watches.
Always-On Display
The dedicated low-power AOD keeps the time readable while the watch is inactive. It includes theme-aware colors, 12/24-hour support, efficient partial updates, and automatic position shifting on devices that require burn-in protection.
Custom Data Fields
Choose from: Steps, Heart Rate, Calories, Distance, Intensity Minutes, Active Minutes, Moderate Minutes, Vigorous Minutes, Floors Climbed, Floors Descended, Device Battery Percentage, Body Battery, Stress Levels, Respiration Rate / Breaths per Minute, Pulse Ox, Atmospheric Pressure, Weather, Wind Speed, Weather + Wind, Notifications, Connection Status, Sleep Mode, Sleep, Advanced Sleep, Push Distance, Elevation, Temperature, Accelerometer, Enhanced Beat-to-Beat / B2B, Fitness Activity, Health Snapshot, Index Scale Biometrics, Motion Intensity, Move IQ.
Each available data or goal slot can be reassigned without reinstalling the watch face. Compatible on-watch menus automatically hide metrics that cannot be safely provided by the device.
Phone and On-Watch Settings
Use the Connect IQ phone settings or compatible watch settings to change the theme, time format, data and goal metrics, and supported colors. Available color controls can include time, date, day name, data values, text labels, markers, icons, goals, progress tracks, separators, shapes, and other visual accents.
Text and Icon Indicators
Depending on the selected layout, data fields use clear text labels or custom icons. Supported text, marker, and icon colors can be personalized independently.
Goal and Progress Graphics
Track activity with visual goals such as rings, half-rings, progress lines, edge indicators, and side arcs. Supported goals can use separate start, end, and background/track colors or follow their associated data field.
Time Format
Choose Follow Device, 12-hour, or 24-hour time directly from the phone settings or compatible on-watch settings.
Readable and Efficient
High-contrast typography, responsive scaling, dark layouts, and simplified AOD rendering keep the watch face readable across supported round, square, rectangular, AMOLED, and smaller Garmin displays. Depending on the design and device, the watch face can use Garmin native fonts, scalable fonts with safe fallbacks, or optimized custom bitmap fonts.
Feature availability depends on the Garmin model, screen, installed sensors, permissions, Connect IQ version, and Garmin API support.
What's new
This release brings the most important customization and display features together:
- Added nine selectable themes: Original, Monochrome, Ocean, Forest, Sunset, Lavender, Luxury, Sport, and Alert. Themes coordinate supported time, date, data, icon, goal, progress, visual-element, and AOD colors without replacing the original background artwork.
- Added a dedicated low-power Always-On Display with theme-aware colors, 12/24-hour support, efficient partial updates, and burn-in protection through automatic position shifting where required.
- Added customization through Connect IQ phone settings and compatible on-watch settings for themes, time format, data and goal metrics, and supported colors.
- Expanded customizable data fields to include: Steps, Heart Rate, Calories, Distance, Intensity Minutes, Active Minutes, Moderate Minutes, Vigorous Minutes, Floors Climbed, Floors Descended, Device Battery Percentage, Body Battery, Stress Levels, Respiration Rate / Breaths per Minute, Pulse Ox, Atmospheric Pressure, Weather, Wind Speed, Weather + Wind, Notifications, Connection Status, Sleep Mode, Sleep, Advanced Sleep, Push Distance, Elevation, Temperature, Accelerometer, Enhanced Beat-to-Beat / B2B, Fitness Activity, Health Snapshot, Index Scale Biometrics, Motion Intensity, Move IQ.
- Added individual color controls for supported time, date, day name, values, labels, markers, icons, goal fills, progress tracks, separators, shapes, and visual accents.
- Added layouts with clear text-label or custom-icon indicators and independent supported text/marker colors.
- Added visual goal styles including rings, half-rings, progress lines, edge indicators, and side arcs, with independent or data-linked colors.
- Added Follow Device, 12-hour, and 24-hour time-format choices.
- Improved readability and device coverage with high-contrast typography, responsive geometry, and native, scalable, or optimized bitmap fonts with safe fallbacks where supported.
- Added device-aware metric checks so unsupported on-watch choices can be hidden when the required sensor or Garmin API is unavailable.
- Improved efficiency with dark layouts, lightweight drawing, and a simplified AOD mode.
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