Almanac

Almanac is a calm, typographic dashboard for your watch. Big legible time, the date in your watch's own language, sunrise and sunset, and three data fields you choose yourself — laid out with room to breathe rather than packed edge to edge. ADAPTIVE MODE Most watch faces look the same at 3am as they do at noon. Almanac doesn't. In Adaptive mode the face changes both its colours and its content as the day goes on, anchored to your actual sunrise and sunset rather than fixed clock hours: • Morning — cool blue. Heart rate, Body Battery and Recovery, with last night's sleep score along the bottom. • Day — a light, bright dial. Heart rate, steps and calories, with Body Battery along the bottom. • Evening — warm sand tones. Heart rate, steps and intensity minutes. • Night — deep and dimmed, with the current moon phase drawn softly into the background. Back to rest data: Body Battery, Recovery and sleep. The resting phases show recovery data, because that is what matters when you are not moving. The active phases show activity. The face follows your day instead of asking you to configure it. Prefer something constant? Four fixed palettes are included: Vivid, Warm, Cool and Forest. ON THE FACE • Time in 12- or 24-hour format • Date, localised by your watch • Sunrise and sunset, always shown in 24-hour time • Three configurable data columns • A progress bar along the bottom • A moving ring around the edge, with a leading dot CUSTOMISE IT ON THE WATCH Press and hold the watch face and choose Edit. You can pick the colour theme and set each of the three data columns right there, without reaching for your phone. Each column can show heart rate, steps, calories, battery, Body Battery, intensity minutes, floors climbed, stress, sleep score or recovery time. In Garmin Connect you can also change what the edge ring tracks (seconds, day progress, battery, step goal, or turn it off), hide sunrise and sunset, and switch between colour-coded and plain white data fields. A LIGHT TOUCH Almanac asks for two permissions and uses both narrowly. Activity data, so the three columns can show your numbers. And location, purely to work out when the sun rises and sets where you are — it reads the position your watch already has from its last weather update, and never switches on GPS. Until your watch knows where it is, those two times simply read as dashes. In low-power mode the face draws only the time and date on black, shifted slightly from minute to minute to be kind to the display. COMPATIBILITY Built for round Garmin watches with an AMOLED display — fēnix 8 and 8 Pro, fēnix E, epix 2 and 2 Pro, Venu 3 and 4, Forerunner 165, 170, 265, 570, 965 and 970, vívoactive 5 and 6, Instinct 3 AMOLED, MARQ 2, and the tactix and quatix models that share them. The layout is drawn in code and scales to each screen size. LANGUAGES The settings are available in English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish. The date on the face follows your watch's own language, whichever that is.

Fixed Crash ("IQ! Error") on Venu 3, Forerunner 965, epix 2, MARQ 2 and several other models, most often in the morning and at night. Sunrise and sunset stayed blank instead of showing your times. The bottom bar showed an empty SLEEP bar on watches that have no sleep score; it now shows Body Battery there. Changed The face now asks for location permission. It is used only to work out sunrise and sunset from the position your watch already has, and never turns on GPS. Removed fēnix 8 Solar (47 mm and 51 mm), temporarily. The layout does not fit its smaller screen. Existing Solar users keep the face as it is.