Garmin
Forerunner 970
Based on 185 Reddit mentions
$649.99
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Forerunner 970 stock watch faces are garbage
Disclaimer: this is a highly subjective opinion and I fully realize that I am very fortunate to be able to be picking between two super expensive watches.
UPDATE: it appears that Garmin is now going to stop developers from creating watch faces that are similar to Garmin originals. [Link](https://g
...waytoolatetothegame in r/GarminWatches
May 30, 2025 10:48 PM
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Forerunner 970 was fantastic until it wasn't!
Purchased the watch from Rebel Australia. Love the watch. Even better when paired with the HRM-600.
I wear it 24/7 pretty much. Lasts me 7+ days while doing 30-50km week runs, plus lots of walking activities.
Woke up yesterday and the START/STOP button decided not to work anymore. Then my LIGHT a
...RegularOriginal4223 in r/GarminWatches
September 2, 2025 12:23 AM
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Help me decide. Garmin Venu 4 or Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro
I'm an Apple user.
However, I'm not a fan of the Apple Watch Ultra 3 "Still in return window" really anymore. Seems like with what I do, the watch is always dead before I can sleep and the lack of Pedometer is kind of bothersome also.
I live a pretty active life. Basketball daily for 2 hours and
...Avian_Aces in r/smartwatch
October 10, 2025 9:34 PM
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Public Beta…
How Can I go back to a stable version after updating to a public Beta version? I found that my watch battery is draining more faster than before
My device: Garmin Forerunner 970
dev_davidfw in r/GarminWatches
October 14, 2025 11:40 PM
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Garmin Forerunner 970 Battery life experiences AOD on
I've been having issues with battery life in my brand-new Garmin 970 and thought maybe other users have had similar experience. Other posts mentioned quite longer batterylife than me in AOD ON.
My FR970 (Version 12.72) at 100% battery shows 5 days remaining on stock WF with AOD ON, and drops ± 20%
...mschapau in r/GarminWatches
October 19, 2025 12:26 PM
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Forerunner 970 music woes
Hi everyone,
I'm a new Garmin Forerunner 970 owner and I'm running into several frustrating issues with music playback that I could really use some help with.
First, I tried transferring my local music from my MacBook. I quickly found that long playlists (200+ songs) are a no-go — the watch either
...grantonstar in r/GarminWatches
August 19, 2025 7:30 PM
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Forerunner 970 Watch Faces
Most of the stock watch faces for the 970 are trash. I could live with this one, but I’m curious on what’s an editable data field. Obviously there are the 4 on the right, but can you also change the seconds and day/date to something else? If so, I feel like that’s pretty workable.
I’d also love to
...beer_voyager in r/GarminWatches
July 8, 2025 6:56 PM
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Forerunner 970 battery life as bike computer. Is this normal?
Yesterday I used my Forerunner 970 as a bike computer for the first time. I had the display set to always on with full brightness, and my main data screen was the map. The watch was also connected to my chest heart rate monitor. All other settings were left at their defaults.
After about 9 hours of
...theone1988 in r/GarminWatches
September 14, 2025 5:47 PM
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Just received the Forerunner 970. I was led to believe that maps are pre-loaded but there are NONE
… and now I have to do the painstaking task of uploading all the maps I want? I wanted to at least load North America Topo maps and it took an hour over wifi just to get 4% downloaded and it had to be plugged into power so I couldn’t do anything else with it… what the hell…
The watch doesn’t even k
...MemoryHot in r/GarminWatches
August 30, 2025 11:26 PM
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