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Outdoor 4

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Outdoor 4 puts the most important Garmin watch-face features first: full customization from your phone and compatible watches, nine coordinated themes, a dedicated low-power Always-On Display, and flexible data and goal fields. KEY FEATURES - Customize themes, time format, data fields, goals, labels, icons and supported colors through Connect IQ phone settings or directly on compatible watches. - Choose from nine complete themes: Original, Monochrome, Ocean, Forest, Sunset, Lavender, Luxury, Sport and Alert. - Use a dedicated AOD with a true black background, theme-aware time color, 12/24-hour support, efficient partial updates and automatic burn-in position shifting where required. - Reassign available indicator and goal slots without reinstalling the watch face. - Switch supported indicators between readable text labels and custom icons. - Follow progress with rings, half-rings, lines, bars, edge indicators and side arcs. - Enjoy high-contrast typography, responsive spacing and layouts optimized for round, square, rectangular, AMOLED and smaller Garmin displays. THEMES & INDIVIDUAL COLORS A theme coordinates supported time, date, day, data, label, icon, goal, progress, separator, shape and AOD colors while preserving the original background artwork. Supported colors can also be changed individually for a more personal design. ALWAYS-ON DISPLAY The simplified AOD keeps the time easy to read while reducing illuminated pixels and unnecessary drawing. It follows the selected time format and theme, uses efficient low-power updates and shifts position on devices that require burn-in protection. COMPLETE INDICATOR CATALOG — 45 CHOICES Activity & movement: Steps, Intensity Minutes, Moderate Minutes, Vigorous Minutes, Calories, Distance, Floors Climbed, Floors Descended, Push Distance, Elevation, Accelerometer, Fitness Activity, Motion Intensity, Move IQ, Weekly Running Distance, Weekly Cycling Distance. Health, recovery & sleep: Heart Rate, Resting Heart Rate, Body Battery, Stress Levels, Respiration Rate / Breaths per Minute, Pulse Ox, Enhanced Beat-to-Beat / B2B, Recovery Time, Sleep Mode, Sleep, Advanced Sleep, Sleep Score, Training Status, Health Snapshot, Index Scale Biometrics. Weather & outdoors: Weather, Wind Speed, Weather + Wind, Temperature, High / Low Temperature, Rain Probability, Humidity + UV Index, Atmospheric Pressure, Next Sun Event, Solar Input. Smart & device: Device Battery Percentage, Notifications, Connection Status, Next Calendar Event. GOALS, PROGRESS & LAYOUT Data fields can be paired with visual goals using independent start, end and remaining-track colors, or colors linked to their matching indicator. Depending on the design, indicators can use text, symbols, compact rows, balanced columns or progress-focused layouts. TIME & DATE Choose Follow Device, 12-hour or 24-hour time. Supported date, day name and secondary time information can use their own colors. COMPATIBILITY & EFFICIENCY Device-aware checks prevent unsupported metrics from causing errors. Compatible on-watch menus hide choices when the required Garmin API is unavailable; unavailable sensor data safely falls back instead of interrupting the watch face. Feature availability depends on the Garmin model, display, sensors, permissions, firmware, Connect IQ version and Garmin API support.

What's new

Major customization, AOD, theme and data-field update. HIGHLIGHTS - Added customization through Connect IQ phone settings and compatible on-watch settings. - Added nine coordinated themes: Original, Monochrome, Ocean, Forest, Sunset, Lavender, Luxury, Sport and Alert. - Added a dedicated low-power Always-On Display with a true black background, theme-aware color, 12/24-hour support, partial updates and burn-in position shifting where required. - Added individual supported colors for time, date, day name, values, labels, markers, icons, goals, progress tracks, separators, shapes and visual accents. - Added text-label and custom-icon indicator styles. - Added rings, half-rings, lines, bars, edge indicators and side arcs for goal progress. - Added Follow Device, 12-hour and 24-hour time-format choices. NEW INDICATORS Next Sun Event, Recovery Time, Resting Heart Rate, Weekly Running Distance, Weekly Cycling Distance, Sleep Score, Training Status, Solar Input, High / Low Temperature, Rain Probability, Humidity + UV Index, Next Calendar Event. ALL 45 AVAILABLE INDICATORS Activity & movement: Steps, Intensity Minutes, Moderate Minutes, Vigorous Minutes, Calories, Distance, Floors Climbed, Floors Descended, Push Distance, Elevation, Accelerometer, Fitness Activity, Motion Intensity, Move IQ, Weekly Running Distance, Weekly Cycling Distance. Health, recovery & sleep: Heart Rate, Resting Heart Rate, Body Battery, Stress Levels, Respiration Rate / Breaths per Minute, Pulse Ox, Enhanced Beat-to-Beat / B2B, Recovery Time, Sleep Mode, Sleep, Advanced Sleep, Sleep Score, Training Status, Health Snapshot, Index Scale Biometrics. Weather & outdoors: Weather, Wind Speed, Weather + Wind, Temperature, High / Low Temperature, Rain Probability, Humidity + UV Index, Atmospheric Pressure, Next Sun Event, Solar Input. Smart & device: Device Battery Percentage, Notifications, Connection Status, Next Calendar Event. LAYOUT & READABILITY IMPROVEMENTS - Improved automatic layout generation with more realistic spacing between time, date, labels, values, goals and decorative shapes. - Improved collision checks, text fitting, visual hierarchy, contrast and balanced use of empty space. - Improved scaling across round, square, rectangular, AMOLED and smaller Garmin displays. - Added native, scalable and optimized bitmap-font fallbacks where supported. COMPATIBILITY & EFFICIENCY - Added device-aware API checks so compatible on-watch menus hide unsupported metrics. - Added safe fallback values when a sensor, permission or Garmin API is unavailable. - Improved low-memory Garmin compatibility with optimized release builds. - Reduced unnecessary AOD drawing for better low-power behavior. Feedback If you enjoy Outdoor 4, please leave a rating or review. Your feedback helps improve future updates.

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Compatible with 85 devices
Updated Jul 28, 2026
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