Garmin Health Status now live in beta and 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 this article we explain how you can access it today.
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
You can already view the Health Status feature through the Garmin Connect web dashboard. Use this direct link to access the Health Status page. For now, the feature is not available in the Garmin Connect mobile app.
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,” even if the individual metrics are being tracked elsewhere. I do have historical data going back years on my Forerunner 966, but it doesn’t seem to be taking that into account. Hopefully it will update soon. It is in Beta, after all.
Another way to access Health Status on certain devices is directly on the watch. Open the edit widgets menu, then add the Health Status widget. At this stage, it has been confirmed to work on the Fenix 8.
What you get after calibration
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.
You can turn on notifications for these events, 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.
As mentioned – on watches that support it, a Health Status widget is available. The glance shows a condensed version of your metrics. Tapping it reveals more details, but the view is still quite basic. 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 plans to push it to a wide set of devices, starting with those that already track the necessary metrics.
According to DC Rainmaker, watches like the Venu 3, Vivoactive 5, Forerunner 255, 955, 165, 265, 965, and Fenix 7 lineup will gain access via firmware updates. Once that update arrives, Health Status will appear inside Garmin Connect in addition to the web dashboard.
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.
This article originally appeared on Gadgets & Wearables, the first media outlet to report the story.
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