Health Status starts appearing for Garmin users: Here’s where to find it

Garmin has rolled out a new Health Status feature, now available in beta. It debuted with the launch of the Venu 4, but you don’t need to wait for the final release. The Health Status page is already live, and in the past few days has started appearing in the Garmin Connect app for most users. In this article we explain how you can access the feature.

What Health Status is trying to do

Health Status brings together five core sleep-derived metrics in one view. These include heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), respiration rate, blood oxygen saturation and skin temperature. Each of these is tracked overnight and compared to your own baseline range, which Garmin establishes over time.

Garmin has tracked most of these health metrics for years, but they’ve lived in separate parts of the app. Health Status brings them together under a wellness-first lens. It’s not about pushing new data. It’s about giving context to what’s already there.

The system doesn’t just look at the raw numbers. Instead, it works to understand what’s typical for you. Once that’s established, each night’s data is evaluated against those personal ranges. If something falls outside the expected pattern, it’s flagged as an outlier. This could mean your heart rate was higher than usual, or your skin temperature dipped below your normal level.

The goal here is not to give you a diagnosis. Garmin makes that clear. But the feature can still act as a warning light when something feels off. A single outlier may not matter. A trend of them could be worth watching. These deviations might reflect poor recovery, overtraining, an approaching illness or just general stress.

According to Garmin’s help documentation, readings that fall within your typical range are considered normal. You can still improve those metrics with better habits, but there’s no reason to take action. If a reading is marked as an outlier, it means something pushed that metric above or below your personal range. Garmin doesn’t speculate why, but it does suggest factors like stress, fatigue or environmental changes could play a role.

This kind of framing is similar to what platforms like Whoop, Oura or Ultrahuman have offered for a while. The emphasis is on personalised baselines rather than population-wide norms. Garmin is taking the same approach here.

You can already access it

There are several ways to access the feature. The simplest is via the Garmin Connect app. This has only started appearing in the past few days for most users.

You might see a message that says “Calibration in progress.” Garmin requires three to four weeks of consistent sleep data to calculate your typical ranges. Until then, the page shows “no data”.

Once the system builds your typical ranges, the dashboard will start filling in. You’ll see a nightly average for each metric, along with the normal range next to it. When a metric moves outside that range, it shows up in red and gets tagged as an outlier.

The data can be found in Garmin Connect by tapping the Health tab and choosing Health Status Beta. That’s where you will see an overview. As can be seen from the screenshots below, I have a Forerunner 955 which doesn’t support skin temperature. Hence that field is empty. Tapping on any metric opens up a historical trend view.

You can turn on notifications so you get a heads-up even without opening the app. The idea is to let you respond early, whether that means resting more, adjusting training or simply paying attention. That is probably the easiest way to stay informed. Plus you can add the Health Status panel to the home page of Garmin Connect.

Another place to view the data is via the web dashboard. You can use this direct link to access the Health Status page.

For those with supported devices, such as the Fenix 8 or Venu 4, the condensed version of your metrics also shows on the watch. Tapping it reveals more details, but the view is still quite basic. But make sure to add the widget via the edit widgets menu. Garmin has not yet added Health Status to the Morning or Evening Reports, although that seems likely in the future.

What watches are included

Health Status first appeared on the Venu 4, but it is not staying exclusive. Garmin is pushing it out to a wide set of devices.

Watches like the Venu 3, Vivoactive 5, Forerunner 255, 955, 165, 265, 965, and Fenix 7 lineup will gain access via firmware updates. A second group of devices will get both Connect and on-device widget support. This includes Venu X1, Vivoactive 6, Forerunner 570 and 970 and the Fenix 8 series, along with Enduro 3 and new Tactix and Quatix models.

As mentioned, it seems the feature has started appearing for most users in the past few days. So check Garmin Connect. You might already have access to the new data.

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