Live Up Your Life
Switch up your routine with the vívoactive 3 Element – a GPS smartwatch with the essentials that you need to keep moving to unlock new adventures and achieve more goals – the key to living your life the best you can while staying in style with easy-to-swap bands in fun colors to match your mood.
- Personalize your watch with thousands of free watch faces, apps, and widgets from our Connect IQ store
- More than 10 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps, including yoga, running, and more
- Monitor your fitness level with VO2 max and fitness age estimates, plus keep an eye on how you handle stress1
- Get connected features³ such as smart notifications, automatic uploads to Garmin Connect, LiveTrack, and more
- Battery life3: up to 8 days in smartwatch mode; 13 hours in GPS mode.
Make It Yours
vívoactive 3 Element is compatible with our Connect IQ store, where you can download watch faces, widgets, and apps that make it go from smartwatch to your watch. Turn on your lights at home with the SmartThings app, and even use the AccuWeather MinuteCast app to find out when the rain will start. You can also use our free Face It watch face app to add personality to your device that’s uniquely you. Just download the app, choose any image from your photo library, make your customizations, and set it as your watch’s face.
Play More Sports
More than 10 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps, including yoga, running, and more. Finding a fun way to stay active is easy. When you head outside, built-in GPS lets vívoactive 3 Element track the details of your chosen activity with no phone connection required.
Fits You and All You Do
Feel free to take this watch outside in all kinds of weather. Not only is it safe for swimming and showering, but its Garmin Chroma Display is also easy to read — even in direct sunlight — and housed under extra-durable chemically strengthened glass.
Download and Create Workouts
Keep your workout schedule fresh and invigorating. Create your own custom running, cycling, cardio workouts, and download them to your watch. Then, your vívoactive smartwatch will keep track of the exercises.
Daily Fitness and Stress Tracking
With help from Elevate wrist-based heart rate technology², vívoactive 3 Element lets you monitor key aspects of your fitness and stress to show how your body responds under various circumstances. For example, it’s able to estimate your VO2 max and fitness age — 2 indicators of physical fitness that can often improve over time with regular exercise. It also tracks your heart rate variability (HRV), which is used to calculate and track your stress level. vívoactive 3 Element can make you aware when physical or emotional sources cause your stress level to rise so you can find a way to relieve the pressure.
Always Connected
Life doesn’t have a pause button, so stay connected with your vívoactive 3 smartwatches while you’re playing hard or working out. Once paired with your compatible smartphone, you’ll be able to receive and even respond4 to text messages and see social media updates, emails, and more right on your wrist. Find your phone, access music controls, and let friends LiveTrack your sports. Your finished activities will even automatically upload to our Garmin Connect online fitness community.
Share and Compete
Syncing your activities to Garmin Connect is for more than just storing your data. Garmin Connect is a thriving online community where people on the go can connect and compete by joining challenges, encouraging each other’s successes, and even sharing their triumphs via social media. Garmin Connect is free and available on the web or on your smartphone with the Garmin Connect Mobile app.
General
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Lens Material |
chemically strengthened glass |
Bezel Material |
stainless steel |
Case material |
fiber-reinforced polymer and stainless steel |
Strap material |
silicone |
Physical size |
43.4 x 43.4 x 11.7 mm Fits wrists with a circumference of 127-204 mm |
Weight |
43.0 g |
Water rating |
Swim/5 ATM |
Touchscreen |
✓ |
Display type |
sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) |
Display size |
1.2" (30.4mm) diameter |
Display resolution |
240 x 240 pixels |
Color display |
✓ |
Battery life |
GPS mode: Up to 13 hours Smartwatch mode: Up to 8 days |
Memory/History |
7 timed activities, 14 days of activity tracking data |
Clock Features
|
Time/date |
✓ |
GPS Time Sync |
✓ |
Automatic daylight saving time |
✓ |
Alarm clock |
✓ |
Timer |
✓ |
Stopwatch |
✓ |
Face It watch face creator |
✓ |
Sensors
|
GPS |
✓ |
GLONASS |
✓ |
Garmin Elevate wrist heart rate monitor |
✓ |
Barometric altimeter |
✓ |
Compass |
✓ |
Accelerometer |
✓ |
Thermometer |
✓ |
Daily Smart Features
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Connectivity |
Bluetooth® Smart and ANT+ |
Connect IQ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps) |
✓ |
Smart notifications |
✓ |
Text response/reject phone call with text (Android only) |
✓ |
Calendar |
✓ |
Weather |
✓ |
Music controls |
✓ |
Find My Phone |
✓ |
Find My Watch |
✓ |
VIRB remote |
✓ |
Smartphone compatibility |
iPhone®, Android |
Compatible with Garmin Connect Mobile |
✓ |
Activity Tracking Features
|
Step counter |
✓ |
Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it) |
✓ |
Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal) |
✓ |
Sleep monitoring (monitors total sleep and periods of movement or restful sleep) |
✓ |
Calories burned |
✓ |
Floors climbed |
✓ |
Distance traveled |
✓ |
Intensity minutes |
✓ |
TrueUp |
✓ |
Move IQ |
✓ |
Fitness Age |
(in app) |
Fitness Equipment/Gym
|
Preloaded gym activity profiles |
Cardio, Elliptical, Stair Stepper, Yoga. |
Cardio workouts |
✓ |
Training, Planning and Analysis Features
|
GPS speed and distance |
✓ |
Customizable data pages |
✓ |
Customizable activity profiles |
✓ |
Auto Pause |
✓ |
Advanced workouts |
✓ |
Downloadable training plans |
✓ |
Auto Lap |
✓ |
Configurable lap alerts |
✓ |
V02 max |
✓ |
Customizable alerts |
✓ |
LiveTrack |
✓ |
Touch and/or button lock |
✓ |
Auto scroll |
✓ |
Activity history on watch |
✓ |
Heart Rate Features
|
HR zones |
✓ |
HR alerts |
✓ |
HR calories |
✓ |
% HR max |
✓ |
HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+ to paired devices) |
✓ |
Running Features
|
Preloaded run profiles |
Running, Indoor Track Running, Treadmill Running
|
GPS-based distance, time, and pace |
✓ |
Run workouts |
✓ |
Foot pod capable |
✓ |
Cycling Features
|
Preloaded cycling profiles |
Biking, Indoor Biking
|
Time/distance alerts (triggers an alarm when you reach goal) |
✓ |
Compatible with Varia radar (rear-facing radar) |
✓ |
Compatible with Varia lights |
✓ |
Speed and cadence sensor support (with sensor) |
✓ |
*Typical value tested under Garmin’s laboratory conditions. The actual battery life depends on the features enabled on your device and environmental factors, such as activity tracking, wrist-based heart rate, smartphone notifications frequency, GPS status, internal sensors, and connected sensors.