Panel
· vV1.6.3
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Panel reads like the instrument cluster of a well-made machine. A big white seven-segment time sits high on a true-black screen, drawn in an authentic ghost-LCD style where every unlit segment stays faintly visible — exactly the way a real LCD panel looks. A dim, letter-spaced date line rides above it. Below sits a tidy two-by-two grid of instrument panels, each one framed and headed by its own colour-filled tab, each showing a hero value, a matching gauge and a quiet sub-label. One accent colour per panel; everything else stays calm and dark. A subtle bottom row keeps battery, phone connection and unread notifications in view without ever shouting.
Every panel is yours. Each of the four slots takes any metric from a broad catalogue, and its tab label, hero value, gauge and sub-label all follow whatever you pick.
Body: heart rate, resting heart rate, heart-rate zone, Body Battery, stress, SpO2 and respiration. Activity: steps, floors, distance, active minutes, weekly intensity minutes, the steps, floors and intensity-minutes remainders to your goal, a move-bar reminder, ascent, descent, and total and active calories. Weather: temperature, today's high and low, feels-like, humidity, precipitation, wind, UV index, dew point and the current condition. Environment: elevation, pressure, solar intensity, sunrise and sunset. Plus battery, notifications and the date.
Turn a slot off and its cell simply goes dark.
The gauge shows where the value sits at a glance, and you choose its shape per panel: a segment bar, a needle dial or a segment ring. Or leave it on Auto, which fits the gauge to the metric — a bar for the ones that accumulate, a needle for instrument scales, a ring for percent-of-target vitals.
Theme the whole face with one of seven palettes: the signature Panel set that tier-colours your battery tab, Aurora, Ember, Mono, Ocean, Sunset or Berry. Or override any single panel with one of eighteen accent swatches, and leave a panel on Auto to let the palette colour it for you.
The time and every readout are set in a custom-baked typeface, smoothly anti-aliased for clean, exact letterforms. The always-on display keeps the same ghost-LCD signature at a dimmed, burn-in-safe luminance, and you decide how much it shows: just the time, the time and date, or the time, date and battery. There are no ticking seconds, to spare your battery. Temperature honours your Celsius or Fahrenheit setting, distance your kilometres or miles, and the clock your 12 or 24-hour preference. You can also switch the time separator and the 12-hour leading zero to suit your region.
Press and hold any panel to open that metric's own Garmin glance. Set the palette, clock and date options right on the watch, or in the Garmin Connect IQ app.
What's new
V1.6.2 - Improved: bigger, easier-to-read panels across the dial.
New: clock size options - keep the classic look or fill the dial.
New: status icon row - Bluetooth, alarm, notifications and battery.
New: turn the date off and the clock grows to fill the space.
New: clock colour - white, follow your theme, or choose your own.
New: panel tab and frame styles, from bold to minimal.
New: choose your layout - a grid of panels, or one hero panel top or bottom.
New: wide panels - the top row can run full width, and each panel grows its contents to fill the space.
Improved: a bigger step count, the number you glance at most.
Choose the always-on time size: small, standard or large.
Unread notification count beside the envelope, on the face and the always-on screen.
On device settings now supported
V1.2.0 - Please note: this update needs TWO NEW PERMISSIONS, which you must accept when you update — your Garmin complication data (for sleep score, VO2 max, recovery time and race predictions) and your location (for sunrise and sunset). As always, nothing leaves your watch.
This update begins the full transitions from single items in complications to FULL panel displays. First phase has updated the following to be rich panels:
Heart Rate, Total Calories, Steps, Body battery, Sunrise/sunset, Stress, Weather.
For these you can no longer set a specific guage style.
A much wider choice for the four panels, plus a live Garmin health-data feed. New readouts you can now drop into any panel: resting heart rate, heart-rate zone, the steps, floors and intensity-minutes goal remainders, weekly intensity minutes, a move-bar reminder, ascent, descent, active calories (estimate), today's high and low, dew point, solar intensity, VO2 max for running and cycling, recovery time, and race predictions for 5K, 10K, half and full marathon — plus sleep score on supported devices (newer watches) — and sunrise and sunset. Each carries its own crisp icon.
V1.1.0 - Five new live-weather readouts you can drop into any of the four panels — Feels Like, Humidity, Precipitation, Wind and UV Index — each with its own crisp icon. Settings menus are now localised in more languages, including Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
V1.0.0 - First public release.
A disciplined instrument-cluster face for AMOLED: a big ghost-LCD seven-segment time over a two-by-two grid of tab-headed instrument panels. Set each panel yourself — any metric from a full catalogue, one of eighteen accent colours, and a gauge you choose: bar, needle or ring — all on true black. Seven palettes, three-level burn-in-safe always-on, units and 12/24-hour that follow your watch. One on-device permission, nothing leaves the watch.