Playing Voice Alerts During An Activity; Health And Wellness Settings; Wrist Heart Rate - Garmin Fenix 8 Series Owner's Manual

Playing Voice Alerts During an Activity

Your watch can play motivational status announcements during a run or other activity. Audio prompts play on
your connected Bluetooth headphones, if available. Otherwise, audio prompts play on your paired phone. During
an voice alert, the watch or phone lowers the volume of the primary audio to play the announcement.
NOTE: This feature is not available for all activities.
1 From the watch face, hold
2 Select Watch Settings > Focus Modes > Activity > Voice Alerts.
3 Select an option:
• To hear an alert for each lap, select Lap Alert.
• To customize alerts with your pace and speed information, select Pace/Speed Alert.
• To customize alerts with your heart rate information, select Heart Rate Alert.
• To customize alerts with power data, select Power Alert.
• To hear alerts when you start and stop the activity timer, including the Auto Pause feature, select Timer
Events.
• To hear workout alerts play as a voice alert, select Workout Alerts.
• To hear activity alerts play as a voice alert, select Activity Alerts
• To hear a sound play right before a voice alert, select Audio Tones.
From the watch face, hold
Wrist Heart Rate: Customizes the wrist heart rate monitor settings
page 115).
Pulse Oximeter: Sets the pulse oximeter mode
Move IQ: Enables Move IQ
feature automatically detects the event and displays it in your timeline. The Move IQ events show activity
type and duration, but they do not appear in your activities list or newsfeed. For more detail and accuracy, you
can record a timed activity on your device.

Wrist Heart Rate

Your watch has a wrist-based heart rate monitor, and you can view your heart rate data on the heart rate glance
(Viewing Glances, page 72).
The watch is also compatible with chest heart rate monitors. If both wrist-based heart rate and chest heart rate
data are available when you start an activity, your watch uses the chest heart rate data.

Health and Wellness Settings

.
Health and Wellness Settings
, and select Watch Settings > Health & Wellness.
(Setting the Pulse Oximeter Mode,
® events. When your movements match familiar exercise patterns, the Move IQ
(Activity Alerts, page 59).
(Wrist Heart Rate Monitor Settings,
page 117).
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