Garmin Venu 3 Complete User Guide: Start Here! 

Awesome, enjoy it!

@@Dcrainmaker, just to tidy everything up, your videos and reviews have been responsible for a host of purchases this year. As luck would have it, my Samsung phone, Garmin 520 bike computer, and Oura Ring batteries effectively died in the same week - no kidding. In addition, I had a retro bike build (my old Lemond TSX with Campagnolo C-record from 1991) where I wanted to add a power source to capture my riding telemetry. In short, your reviews and research have been responsible for the purchase of the following devices: Garmin RS200 pedals, Garmin 840 (non-solar) computer, Garmin Venu 3 watch, and a Wahoo Kickr back in 2019. All have been excellent additions to the stable. Thank you for your unbiased product overviews over the years!

When it is release for Garmin 8 ?

2025​@@sebastijangombac5249

hopefully your journey is coming along swiftly & your watch is providing additional motivation

now that it's been about 3 months what are your impressions? I'm considering getting this watch for 4th of July

It makes everything a little bigger, but not much. Some text in certain places are still very small, but all the mnus and stuff are bigger. Maybe like 10-15%... but it helps

Have you considered something like the Forerunner 255 or the Fenix 7?

No, I'd say both the Vivoactive as well as any mid-range Forerunner MIP display days are done (meaning, the FR255 marks the last MIP display at that price point).

I’ve been trying to figure out the same thing. I want to set different times between weight sets. I hope someone answers this question

@@gailgrieco1781 For weight sets, I just choose Strength workout and hit the bottom button after a set, fill in reps I did and then hit it again to start a rest period. I have to look at it to see how long that is though.

Indeed, finally!

Did you make up your mind? I'm also having the same doubt. I have a 155mm wrist and I also want to buy the 45mm, because of the bigger screen and bigger battery, but I'm afraid it my be a little bit too large for my wrist.

Also wondering what you decided! I have a 160mm wrist and am torn as well!

I got the smaller one, I have fat fingers and haven't been having problems gesturing or seeing things on smaller font. Made the mistake of getting the bigger watch last time and it was too painful for my wrist sadly. I'm not slim by any stretch of the imagination and I don't think it looks that small on the wrist which is surprising

Normal Venu 2 is a little better because less Metal an lighter. Vivomove Sport is the best Garmin for Sleep Tracking.. But its marginal. Better gonwirh Fitbit or Apple if Sleep Tracking is important. See "the quantified scientist".

You’ll always start/stop any workout with a physical button. To save that workout after stopping, then you can use the touch screen.

@@Dcrainmaker Fantastic. That's making my decision to go back to Garmin seem more likely. Thanks heaps as well for the Super quick reply.

@@GH0STST4RSCR34M But the 265 has everything that the Venu has apart from the speaker (which works only when you have your phone nearby and you might as well just use your phone), and more. The Venu 3 is just a 265 with fewer features for the same price.

​@@GH0STST4RSCR34Mforerunner ist focused on running and cardio sports... and a venu is also a very good watch for doing a workout and also with other kind of sports like bouldering, tennis, kickboxing, hiit strength and so on.... a forerunner comes with more detailed informations of running and the focus of daily readiness score is also more into running progress or for Triathlon athletes.

@Desfit has made one! Great comparison

I’m also stuck between the two. What did you go with?

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While I suspect the new hardware sensor is capable of it, Garmin has not enabled such a feature yet in software.

That's actually just one of the stock ones, you can dig around and mix and match them from the different Live Watch face categories.

I’d say try it.. Personally I think you won’t loose stuff because everything is saved on the watch 🤔 But not sure, haven’t tried it 😅 I do think it’s a hassle because you have to disconnect to connect to another phone..

Funny I was looking for a video on the text and call feature. I currently have the galaxy watch 6 but the battery life at 1D feels horrible to me but a huge pro is quick text and being able to answer calls during work

There is no navigation features on the Venu 3, save an arrow for Back to Start and Saved waypoints, showing you as the crow flies which way to go.

@@Dcrainmaker Thanks for your quick reply! I am aware that there is no map navigation in the Venu 3 but i thought you can plan a route from A to B and that the watch is then showing arrows (to the left in 50 meters etc....). If that is not the case I better look for an other watch, But the Venu is the only Garmin with a speaker/mic :( Which watch do you suggest if I want both, besides apple)

I just saw on youtube that you can make a trip with komoot and use it on a Venu 2 plus (without full mapping)! 🙂

Yup, correct! But, you can also just do a regular broadcast too (I didn't cover that, but you don't technically have t o start an activity). If you recorded it on both, it would create a duplicate - but it wouldn't impact your training load (on Edge), or recovery on watch, etc, as that's all reconsiled.

Thanks for the swift reply ! @@Dcrainmaker

Great, that's preceisely the part that I still need to figure out in details, so I'm going to contnue reading about it. Great and useful review, thanks !! @@Dcrainmaker

Probably the most expensive one... Is it always like this

Four data fields per data page, and three custom data pages, plus one dedicated heart rate gauge page.

The Venu 3 doesn't support Training Readiness. While I agree with you, basically Garmin's 'logic' for whether or not a TR score shows is if the baseline feature is enabled on your account via some compatible watch. That said, if you use your Venu 3 for running for example, that'll contribute to your trianing load/recovery/etc scores that the Edge 840 sees.

The 975 doesn’t exist.

Oh, well that is unfortunate

Identical - usually 1-3 seconds.

Correct, no football, but does have the other two.

I’ve just gotten mine a few days ago and I’m noticing the same issue. Often I see these red exclamation points ❗️ showing my water intake is disconnected, my stress levels, or the weather. Usually I just open the Garmin connect app and it reconnects. Easy fix BUT absolutely ridiculous given the price of these watches. A $400 watch should not have these issues from a long time established fitness company. However the annoyance, at this time, doesn’t make it a deal breaker for me. But it’s very annoying, especially since my Apple Watch just doesn’t have these issues, it just works! I have watched many reviews from the well known fitness device review channels and I haven’t seen anyone mention these annoyances with the watches, looking on Reddit, it’s not an issue that’s isolated to the Venu 3, this seems widespread to varying degrees across all Garmin watches. Really sad.