Viewing The Widgets; About My Day; Viewing The Controls Menu; Customizing The Controls Menu - Garmin FORERUNNER 945 Owner's Manual

Health stats: Displays a dynamic summary of your current
health statistics. The measurements includes heart rate,
Body Battery level, stress, and more.
Heart rate: Displays your current heart rate in beats per minute
(bpm) and a graph of your heart rate.
History: Displays your activity history and a graph of your
recorded activities.
Intensity minutes: Tracks your time spent participating in
moderate to vigorous activities, your weekly intensity minutes
goal, and progress toward your goal.
inReach controls: Allows you to send messages on your
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paired inReach device.
Last activity: Displays a brief summary of your last recorded
activity, such as your last run, last ride, or last swim.
Music controls: Provides music player controls for your
smartphone or on-device music.
My day: Displays a dynamic summary of your activity today. The
metrics include timed activities, intensity minutes, floors
climbed, steps, calories burned, and more.
Notifications: Alerts you to incoming calls, texts, social network
updates, and more, based on your smartphone notification
settings.
Performance: Displays performance measurements that help
you track and understand your training activities and race
performances.
Pulse oximeter: Displays your most recent blood oxygen
saturation percentage and a graph of your readings.
Steps: Tracks your daily step count, step goal, and data for
previous days.
Stress: Displays your current stress level and a graph of your
stress level. You can do a breathing activity to help you relax.
Sunrise and sunset: Displays sunrise, sunset, and civil twilight
times.
Training status: Displays your current training status and
training load, which shows you how your training affects your
fitness level and performance.
VIRB controls: Provides camera controls when you have a
VIRB device paired with your Forerunner device.
Weather: Displays the current temperature and weather
forecast.
Xero ™ device: Displays laser location information when you
have a compatible Xero device paired with your Forerunner
device.

Viewing the Widgets

Your device comes preloaded with widgets that provide at-a-
glance information. Some widgets require a Bluetooth
connection to a compatible smartphone.
• From the watch face, select UP or DOWN to view the
widgets.
Available widgets include heart rate and activity tracking. The
performance widget requires several activities with heart rate
and outdoor runs with GPS.
• Select START to view additional options and functions for a
widget.

About My Day

The My Day widget is a daily snapshot of your activity. This is a
dynamic summary that updates throughout the day. As soon as
you climb a flight of stairs or record an activity, it appears in the
widget. The metrics include recorded activities, intensity minutes
for the week, floors climbed, steps, calories burned, and more.
You can select START to view additional metrics.
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Viewing the Controls Menu

The controls menu contains options, such as turning on do not
disturb mode, locking the keys, and turning the device off. You
can also open the Garmin Pay wallet.
NOTE: You can add, reorder, and remove the options in the
controls menu.
1
From any screen, hold LIGHT.
2
Select UP or DOWN to scroll through the options.

Customizing the Controls Menu

You can add, remove, and change the order of the shortcut
menu options in the controls menu
page 20).
1
Hold .
2
Select Controls.
3
Select a shortcut to customize.
4
Select an option:
• Select Reorder to change the location of the shortcut in
the controls menu.
• Select Remove to remove the shortcut from the controls
menu.
5 If necessary, select Add New to add an additional shortcut to
the controls menu.

Viewing the Weather Widget

Weather requires a Bluetooth connection to a compatible
smartphone.
1
From the watch face, select UP or DOWN to view the
weather widget.
2
Select START to view hourly weather data.
3
Select DOWN to view daily weather data.

Opening the Music Controls

Music controls require a Bluetooth connection to a compatible
smartphone.
1
From the watch face, hold LIGHT.
2
Select .
3
Select UP or DOWN to use the music controls.

Connect IQ Features

You can add Connect IQ features to your watch from Garmin
and other providers using the Connect IQ website. You can
customize your device with watch faces, data fields, widgets,
and apps.
Watch Faces: Allow you to customize the appearance of the
clock.
Data Fields: Allow you to download new data fields that present
sensor, activity, and history data in new ways. You can add
Connect IQ data fields to built-in features and pages.
Widgets: Provide information at a glance, including sensor data
and notifications.
Apps: Add interactive features to your watch, such as new
outdoor and fitness activity types.
(Viewing the Controls Menu,
Smart Features