This is my personal organized resource for those with Garmin Watches. I'm a fanboy, and here I attempt to make it easier for others to get to know their Garmin. I have referred a lot of friends and family to get a Garmin Watch and here I've tried to collect and publish the most useful tutorial videos and guides to help them (and myself) optimize our watch and getting the most out of the investment.
Many of the below videos and resources are official from Garmin while others are from 3rd parties.
Most Garmin watches have the same basic functionality and navigation so regardless which model you have you should find these resources helpful but since I use a Garmin Instinct watch most of these video focus on the Instinct.
Table of Contents
Getting Started
This is a great official video about powering on your watch, selecting your language, connecting it to your phone and other basic setup.
Incident Detection & Assistance
Garmin watches will detect an incident like a fall automatically if you are tracking an activity and you have turned the feature on. This is known as Incident Detection.
Additionally, you can manually trigger the same action. This is known as Assistance.
Navigation, Waypoints, and Project Waypoint
Garmin watches set the standard at connecting to GPS and navigating with that data.
The first video walks you through the basics of saving waypoints and navigating to them.
It also covers the Track Me functions.
The second video provides a great overview for "Project Waypoint" which is a very valuable skill if you are following a land navigation course.