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Garmin Approach S50 Specs
What You’ll Love |
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| Sleep score and insights | ✔ |
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| Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 10 days |
| Pulse Ox blood oxygen | yes (spot-check and optionally in sleep) |
| Garmin Pay™ | ✔ |
| Music storage | ✔ |
| Watch display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
| Touchscreen | ✔ |
| Watch water rating | 5 ATM |
General |
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| Strap material | ComfortFit nylon band |
| Lens Material | Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 |
| Bezel Material | anodized aluminum |
| Quick Release bands | yes (20 mm, Industry standard) |
| Physical size | 43 x 43 x 11.4 mm
S/M version fits wrists with a circumference of 127-190 mm (Ivory) |
| Weight | 29 g |
| Display Size | 1.2″ (30.4 mm) diameter |
| Display Resolution | 390 x 390 pixels |
| Color display | ✔ |
| Large font option | ✔ |
| Battery life | Smartwatch mode: Up to 10 days GPS Mode Up to 15 hours (using default display settings: gesture wake-up in Smartwatch mode and always-on while golfing) |
| Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
| Memory/History | 4 GB |
Clock Features |
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| Time/date | ✔ |
| GPS Time Sync | ✔ |
| Automatic daylight saving time | ✔ |
| Alarm clock | ✔ |
| Timer | ✔ |
| Stopwatch | ✔ |
| Sunrise/sunset times | ✔ |
Health & Wellness Monitoring |
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| Wrist-based heart rate (constant, every second) | ✔ |
| Daily resting heart rate | ✔ |
| Abnormal heart rate alerts | yes (high and low) |
| Respiration rate (24×7) | ✔ |
| Fitness age | ✔ |
| Body Battery™ energy monitor | ✔ |
| All-day stress | ✔ |
| Relaxation reminders | ✔ |
| Relaxation breathing timer | ✔ |
| Meditation | ✔ |
| Breathwork | ✔ |
| Sleep | yes (advanced) |
| Sleep coach | ✔ |
| Nap detection | ✔ |
| Hydration | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Women’s health | yes (in Garmin Connect™ and optional Connect IQ™ widget) |
| Health snapshot | ✔ |
Sensors |
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| GPS | ✔ |
| GLONASS | ✔ |
| Galileo | ✔ |
| Compass | ✔ |
| Gyroscope | ✔ |
| Accelerometer | ✔ |
| Ambient light sensor | ✔ |
Daily Smart Features |
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| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® |
| Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) | ✔ |
| On-device Connect IQ™ Store | ✔ |
| Smart Notifications | ✔ |
| Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only) | ✔ |
| View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only) | ✔ |
| Morning report | ✔ |
| Calendar | ✔ |
| Weather forecasts | ✔ |
| Realtime settings sync with Garmin Connect™ mobile | ✔ |
| Controls smartphone music | ✔ |
| Plays and controls watch music | ✔ |
| Find My Phone | ✔ |
| Find My Watch | ✔ |
| Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile | ✔ |
| Smartphone compatibility | iPhone®, Android™ |
Activity Profiles |
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| Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing |
| Wellness | Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking |
| Indoor running | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running |
| Outdoor running | Running, Outdoor Track Running, Trail Running |
| Outdoor recreation | Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Climbing, Golfing |
| Cycling | Biking, Mountain Biking, Indoor Biking |
| Swim | Pool Swimming |
| On the Water | Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking |
| Racket sports | Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball |
| Snow & winter | Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Snowshoeing |
| Team sports | Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball |
| In the ring | Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts |
Safety and Tracking Features |
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| Incident Detection during select activities | ✔ |
| Incident detection alert on phone for wearables | ✔ |
| Assistance | ✔ |
| LiveTrack | ✔ |
Activity Tracking Features |
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| Step counter | ✔ |
| Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity) | ✔ |
| Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) | ✔ |
| Calories burned | ✔ |
| Floors climbed | ✔ |
| Distance traveled | ✔ |
| Intensity minutes | ✔ |
| TrueUp™ | ✔ |
| Move IQ™ | ✔ |
| Garmin Connect™ Challenges app | yes (optional Connect IQ app) |
Gym & Fitness Equipment |
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| Cardio workouts | ✔ |
| Strength workouts | ✔ |
| HIIT workouts | ✔ |
| Yoga workouts | ✔ |
| Pilates workouts | ✔ |
| On-screen workout animations | ✔ |
| On-screen workout muscle maps | ✔ |
| Automatic rep counting | ✔ |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features |
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| Customizable data pages | ✔ |
| Downloadable training plans | ✔ |
| HR zones | ✔ |
| HR alerts | ✔ |
| HR calories | ✔ |
| % HR max | ✔ |
| % HRR | ✔ |
| Recovery time | ✔ |
| Auto max HR | ✔ |
| HRV status | ✔ |
| HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices) | ✔ |
| Respiration rate (during exercise) | yoga, breathwork and meditation only |
| GPS speed and distance | ✔ |
| Auto Pause® | ✔ |
| Advanced workouts | ✔ |
| Auto Lap® | ✔ |
| Manual lap | ✔ |
| Configurable lap alerts | ✔ |
| VO2 Max (Run) | ✔ |
| VO2 Max (Trail Run) | ✔ |
| Touch and/or button lock | ✔ |
Running Features |
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| GPS-based distance, time and pace | ✔ |
| Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute) | ✔ |
| Run workouts | ✔ |
Golfing Features |
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| Preloaded with 43,000 courses worldwide | ✔ |
| Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green) | ✔ |
| Yardage to layups/doglegs | ✔ |
| Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course) | ✔ |
| Digital scorecard | ✔ |
| Custom targets | ✔ |
| Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit) | ✔ |
| Garmin AutoShot™ | ✔ |
| Auto CourseView updates | ✔ |
| Green View with manual pin position | ✔ |
| Hazards and course targets | ✔ |
| PinPointer | ✔ |
| PlaysLike distance | ✔ |
| Handicap scoring | ✔ |
| Swing Tempo | ✔ |
| Round timer/odometer | ✔ |
| CT10 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) | ✔ |
| CT1 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) | ✔ |
| Pairs with Garmin Golf app | ✔ |
| Tournament legal | yes (with tournament mode enabled) |
Cycling Features |
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| Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories) | ✔ |
| Speed and cadence sensor support (w/sensor) | yes (using ANT+ or BLE) |
Swimming Features |
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| Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | ✔ |
| Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories) | ✔ |
| Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only) | ✔ |
| Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only) | ✔ |
| Auto rest (pool swim only) | ✔ |
| Time and distance alerts | ✔ |
| Underwater wrist-based heart rate | ✔ |
In the Box:
- Approach S50 GPS golf watch in selected colour
- Charging/data cable
- Documentation