{"id":300410,"date":"2026-02-24T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300410\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:09:08","slug":"garmin-announces-massive-new-feature-update-for-multiple-smartwatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300410\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin announces massive new Feature Update for multiple smartwatches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\">Garmin is focusing on seven new features with its latest Feature Update. For instance, Garmin Fitness Coach will be expanded to more smartwatches after debuting on the Venu 4\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Garmin-Advanced-Smartwatch-Colorful-Flashlight\/dp\/B0FRGDGRXY?tag=nbcnewsnet-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\">(curr. $549 on Amazon)<\/a>. Other improvements include Varia Voice Alerts, Sport Scores and a Course Planner feature. Also, Garmin has added the option of seeing how aligned you are to your circadian rhythm through something called Sleep Alignment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">The comparison table highlights that other new features are coming too though, including Battery Manager and Expanded Morning Report for the Instinct 3 series. Garmin will introduce these new features gradually and has not put a firm timeline on when the February 2026 Feature Update rollout will finish. Please see the images above and below for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garmin is focusing on seven new features with its latest Feature Update. For instance, Garmin Fitness Coach will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[768,47110,165013,47111,54482,43366,47827,47828,356,1799,165012,769,761,767,111,139,760,69,770,47112,137459,766,762,763,47113,145,765,764,55125,39700,39630],"class_list":{"0":"post-300410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-benchmarks","9":"tag-enduro-3","10":"tag-february-2026-feature-update","11":"tag-fenix-8","12":"tag-fenix-8-pro","13":"tag-fenix-e","14":"tag-forerunner-570","15":"tag-forerunner-970","16":"tag-gadgets","17":"tag-garmin","18":"tag-garmin-feature-update","19":"tag-graphics-card","20":"tag-laptop","21":"tag-netbook","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-notebook","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-processor","27":"tag-quatix-8","28":"tag-quatix-8-pro","29":"tag-reports","30":"tag-review","31":"tag-reviews","32":"tag-tactix-8","33":"tag-technology","34":"tag-test","35":"tag-tests","36":"tag-venu-4","37":"tag-venu-x1","38":"tag-vivoactive-6"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}