Garmin is preparing a new health status timeline feature

We conducted a teardown of Garmin Connect 5.20 and found backend support for a new health status summary feature. A second summary endpoint has been added, designed to pull multiple days of health data instead of just one. This is the first sign that Garmin plans to offer a timeline-style health summary that spans days or weeks, not just isolated snapshots.

To remind, the Health Status feature debuted with the launch of the Venu 4. But it has since rolled out to many other devices in Beta. It combines five key overnight metrics in one place. These include heart rate, HRV, breathing rate, blood oxygen and skin temperature. Each one is tracked while you sleep and compared to your typical personal range, which the system learns over time.

Health status gains a date-range backend

Currently, you can only view your Health Status one day at a time. But Version 5.20 of Garmin Connect, which has just rolled out, adds a new path that accepts both a start date and an end date. You won’t see this in the app just yet, but the backend support is there.

This might sound like a minor change, but it opens the door to full-range queries. That’s exactly the kind of support needed for rolling summaries, health trends or historical overviews that combine multiple metrics over time.

Behind the scenes, Garmin has added a new getSummaries path to the internal health status repository. It’s now capable of fetching multiple days of status data in one call. This was not present in the previous version.

A new healthStatusFormatter has also been added, which usually signals that the data will be shown somewhere. Formatters don’t get added unless the end result is destined for the UI.

What the health status payload contains

The health status summary query itself gives a good preview of what Garmin is planning. The GraphQL schema reveals that each summary includes the date, a count of outliers, and a set of metric values. Each metric comes with a value, a status, and a feedback key, as well as upper and lower baseline limits.

There’s also a percentage field in each metric, hinting at confidence or completeness scoring. This could help Garmin prioritise what it shows, or help the user understand which signals are stable and which are noisy.

A bigger orchestration layer is forming

The summary fetch isn’t happening in isolation. The use case responsible for pulling this data is also wiring in deferred calls for sleep summaries and something Garmin labels “extra data”. It looks like the health status system is being designed to incorporate multiple categories and merge them into a higher level view.

There’s also a reference to shouldShowHealthStatusTrackingBanner, which looks like part of a gated rollout or onboarding flow. You don’t gate a feature unless you’re planning to expose it.

Several screen-related identifiers are also present. Garmin appears to be laying the groundwork for a reports page, a details page and possibly some kind of help or alerts section, all tied to health status.

Where this could be headed

If Garmin enables this in a future version or Connect+ rollout, expect it to appear as a trendline view, a calendar overlay, or a new card in the Health section. The fact that this has backend paths, formatters, repositories and multiple screen destinations means the plumbing is already in place.

But as of Connect 5.20, the feature is still dormant. Now it’s just a matter of when Garmin decides to light it up. Also as part of this update, we found the company is laying the foundation for native nutrition tracking with photo logging.

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