User manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Diving
- Activities and Apps
- Starting an Activity
- Stopping an Activity
- Adding or Removing a Favorite Activity
- Creating a Custom Activity
- Indoor Activities
- Outdoor Activities
- Multisport
- Swimming
- Golfing
- Climbing Sports
- Starting an Expedition
- Connected Features
- Safety and Tracking Features
- Wi‑Fi® Connected Features
- Connect IQ Features
- Garmin Pay
- Music
- Heart Rate Features
- Wrist-based Heart Rate
- Running Dynamics
- Performance Measurements
- Turning Off Performance Notifications
- Detecting Performance Measurements Automatically
- Syncing Activities and Performance Measurements
- About VO2 Max. Estimates
- Viewing Your Predicted Race Times
- About Training Effect
- Heart Rate Variability and Stress Level
- Performance Condition
- Lactate Threshold
- Getting Your FTP Estimate
- Training Status
- Body Battery™
- Pulse Oximeter
- Training
- Setting Up Your User Profile
- Activity Tracking
- Workouts
- Interval Workouts
- PacePro Training
- Segments
- Using Virtual Partner®
- Setting a Training Target
- Racing a Previous Activity
- Personal Records
- Pausing Your Training Status
- Clocks
- Navigation
- Saving Your Location
- Projecting a Waypoint
- Navigating to a Destination
- Navigating to a Point of Interest
- Courses
- Using ClimbPro
- Marking and Starting Navigation to a Man Overboard Location
- Navigating with Sight 'N Go
- Navigating to Your Starting Point During an Activity
- Navigating to the Starting Point of a Saved Activity
- Stopping Navigation
- Map
- Compass
- Altimeter and Barometer
- History
- Customizing Your Device
- Activities and App Settings
- Changing the Order of an Activity in the Apps List
- Widgets
- Customizing the Controls Menu
- Watch Face Settings
- Sensors Settings
- Map Settings
- Navigation Settings
- Power Manager Settings
- System Settings
- Viewing Device Information
- Wireless Sensors
- Device Information
- Device Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- My device is in the wrong language
- Is my smartphone compatible with my device?
- My phone will not connect to the device
- Can I use my Bluetooth sensor with my watch?
- My headphones will not connect to the device
- My music cuts out or my headphones do not stay connected
- Restarting Your Device
- Resetting All Default Settings
- Diving
- Acquiring Satellite Signals
- The temperature reading is not accurate
- Maximizing the Battery Life
- Activity Tracking
- Getting More Information
- Appendix
- Index
Playing Audio Prompts During an Activity
You can enable your Descent device to play motivational status announcements during a run or other activity.
Audio prompts play on your connected headphones using Bluetooth technology, if available. Otherwise, audio
prompts play on your smartphone paired through the Garmin Connect app. During an audio prompt, the device
or smartphone mutes the primary audio to play the announcement.
NOTE: This feature is not available for all activities.
1 Hold MENU.
2 Select Audio Prompts.
3 Select an option:
• To hear a prompt for each lap, select Lap Alert.
NOTE: The Lap Alert audio prompt is enabled by default.
• To customize prompts with your pace and speed information, select Pace/Speed Alert.
• To customize prompts with your heart rate information, select Heart Rate Alert.
• To customize prompts with power data, select Power Alert.
• To hear prompts when you start and stop the timer, including the Auto Pause
®
feature, select Timer
Events.
• To hear activity alerts play as an audio prompt, select Activity Alerts.
• To hear a sound play right before an audio alert or prompt, select Audio Tones.
• To change the language or the dialect of the voice prompts, select Dialect.
Using the Metronome
The metronome feature plays tones at a steady rhythm to help you improve your performance by training at a
faster, slower, or more consistent cadence.
NOTE: This feature is not available for all activities.
1 From the watch face, press START.
2 Select an activity.
3 Hold MENU.
4 Select the activity settings.
5 Select Metronome > Status > On.
6 Select an option:
• Select Beats / Minute to enter a value based on the cadence you want to maintain.
• Select Alert Frequency to customize the frequency of the beats.
• Select Sounds to customize the metronome tone and vibration.
7 If necessary, select Preview to listen to the metronome feature before you run.
8 Go for a run (Starting an Activity, page 24).
The metronome starts automatically.
9 During your run, press UP or DOWN to view the metronome screen.
10 If necessary, hold MENU to change the metronome settings.
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