{"id":183594,"date":"2025-09-26T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183594\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:28:08","slug":"garmin-releases-major-new-update-to-high-end-smartwatch-showcasing-new-watch-faces-and-other-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/183594\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin releases major new update to high-end smartwatch showcasing new watch faces and other improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\">Garmin has been providing plenty of smartwatches with new updates lately, whether that be the flagship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Garmin-introduces-second-major-update-for-new-high-end-smartwatch-following-recent-release.1118063.0.html\" target=\"_self\" class=\"internal-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fenix 8 Pro<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Garmin-smartwatch-gets-new-voice-message-transcription-feature-in-update.1123908.0.html\" target=\"_self\" class=\"internal-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">budget Garmin Bounce<\/a>. Now, the company has returned to the Venu X1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lightweight-Smartwatch-Advanced-Features-ComfortFit\/dp\/B0FCYHNL3C?tag=nbcnewsnet-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" class=\"external-link-new-window\">(curr. $699.99 on Amazon)<\/a>, an unusual departure from the rest of the Venu series that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Garmin-Venu-X1-New-square-smartwatch-with-AMOLED-display-and-flashlight-launches.1035296.0.html\" target=\"_self\" class=\"internal-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released in June<\/a>.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Recently, Garmin has confined new Venu X1 builds to its stable software channel. To recap, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Garmin-smartwatches-get-bug-fix-for-Wi-Fi-download-issue.1111085.0.html\" target=\"_self\" class=\"internal-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Software Version 12.74<\/a> remains the most recent stable update for the Venu X1. However, Garmin has now kicked off v15.xx development on its Beta Program, starting with Beta 15.05.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Typically, Garmin packs the first update in a new development cycle full of new features, bug fixes and other associated improvements. This time though, the company only includes two lines in its official changelog.&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Nonetheless, it has bundled various bug fixes and improvements into one line, albeit without elaborating further. Similarly, Beta 15.05 adds three new watch faces. Garmin&#8217;s latest beta must be downloaded manually on Venu X1 smartwatches that have been enrolled on the company&#8217;s Beta Program. Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.garmin.com\/beta-program\/venu-x1\/f\/announcements\/422836\/venu-x1-beta---15-05\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external-link-new-window\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Garmin&#8217;s forum post<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garmin has been providing plenty of smartwatches with new updates lately, whether that be the flagship Fenix 8&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[904,108203,108204,166,4615,20582,51639,905,898,903,897,906,665,899,900,171,74,902,901,51640,173],"class_list":{"0":"post-183594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-benchmarks","9":"tag-beta-15-05","10":"tag-beta-version-15-05","11":"tag-gadgets","12":"tag-garmin","13":"tag-garmin-venu","14":"tag-garmin-venu-x1","15":"tag-graphics-card","16":"tag-laptop","17":"tag-netbook","18":"tag-notebook","19":"tag-processor","20":"tag-reports","21":"tag-review","22":"tag-reviews","23":"tag-smartwatch","24":"tag-technology","25":"tag-test","26":"tag-tests","27":"tag-venu-x1","28":"tag-wearable"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}