Ratings & Reviews for Garmin Forerunner 265S Running Smart Watch with Step Counter, Heart Rate Monitor and GPS Enabled
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What Customers Are Saying
The product offers excellent performance, accuracy, and battery life, with many customers describing it as an amazing and user-friendly device. It is praised for its lightweight and comfortable design, as well as its customization options. The product excels at tracking activities, heart rate, sleep, and other metrics, making it popular among runners and triathletes. While a few minor issues were reported, the majority of reviews are overwhelmingly positive, and customers consistently recommend the product as a reliable and feature-rich smartwatch.
Customer review summary generated by AI, including incentivized reviews.Love it
My girlfriend bought it for me because she has the same one and I love it
From Garmin
Solid 245 upgrade
Absolutely loving this watch! I bought it around a year ago as a replacement to my 245. While I primarily use it for hiking and cycling, it’s on my wrist pretty much 24/7. Love the smaller face compared to the standard size. I’d recommend to anyone from walkers to marathoners. Great beginner interface with tons of data on sleep, menstrual cycles, and overall health!
From ExpertVoice.com
No accurate for sleep & poor connection to iPhone
The garmin looks better than my Apple Watch but it’s very glitchy with the connection to my phone and often doesn’t display weather and other metrics. Texts don’t come through reliably either
From Garmin
Bought as a second one just to have for swimming use and replacement. Great for running!
From ExpertVoice.com
Great Feature
I bought this a month ago. Very nice watch qnd feature. The measurements are accurate. Also the garmin coach very nice.
From Garmin
Love it
Great addition to my MTB kit. I have always shied away from wearing a watch, but the janky GPS signal from my phone when recording Strava made me consider a Garmin. Since I've gotten it, I've completely adopted it's functions into my life, and find great benefit from tracking my sleep quality, fitness metrics, HR, and more. It also serves as a great link to my phone, saving me the trouble of pulling out my phone every time I get a notification. Excellent product.
From ExpertVoice.com
Great watch for running
The 265s has been extremely helpful and motivational in getting into a regular workout routine (from 0 to 3 workouts per week). The charts and metrics are helpful. Before I was always running race pace and not sticking with a set running plan. Now I use the running zones and try to stay in zone 2 or 1 for 80% of weekly workout plan so I get more running in and build up my endurance. Also, the watch allows you to setup interval runs and setup custom pace target ranges for your workout. For exam...
From Garmin
Unreliable heart rate readings
I bought this as an upgrade to my FR45 and was excited for the brilliant screen and advanced features. Unfortunately, that excitement has been replaced with disappointment and annoyance. Two of the key features are complete fails: The optical heart rate and the Bluetooth headphone connection. Allow me to elaborate. The OHR is completely unreliable. During activities, it often displays a heart rate I know is grossly incorrect just from feel. Sometimes I'll take the watch off and immediately pu...
From Garmin
I'm sorry to hear this has been your experience with the Forerunner 265S. Our support team would be more than happy to look into these for you. Please...
Wear it everyday
I have used this watch for triathalon, running, biking, paddling (the sup feature), pool and open water swimming and I love it! I think it’s a lot cuter/fits better as a “S” than the normal sized garmins. I like the white and teal too. Activity tracking seems accurate and it has way more metrics than I could ever want. I also like that it has tap to pay. I’ve never been able to set up the Spotify features, but I think that’s user error. The heart rate monitor is nice and it does a great job proj...
From ExpertVoice.com
Perfect running watch (and everyday watch)
The battery life is amazing. The OS is very intuitive and the app it connects to is great. I use this for running & everyday wear. The gps & all health metrics are extremely accurate. Could not ask for a better watch.
From ExpertVoice.com
Not Sure Yet
The battery doesn't last a week. I like many of the features so far. Some of the running lap features are irritating because the watch gets stuck, and it is too hard to get it off the loop. The instructions are complicated. I find the watch difficult to use. I don't care about the watch color. Far cry from advertised. I don't know.
From Garmin
Very different from my other Forerunner
I'm still learning how to use this watch and the features of it. Change is hard and there is so much more to this one than the 235 I had. I really like that I can see my heartrate when I run, along with my pace and overall time. I don't like the charging cable. It is not USB compatible. Thankfully we have a portable battery pack that accepts the cord. Garmin could do better with that.
From Garmin
Easy to use and good features
Not sure why I took so long to get a Forerunner. Love everything about it. The features have helped me work on my running in new consistent ways the past couple of weeks! Also, I love that I can connect so easily to apps like Strava and runna.
From Garmin
Amazing watch
Amazing watch with great battery life, amazing tracking from running to swimming
From Garmin
Love my Garmin Forerunner
This is my second Garmin - so happy with the purchase! It is my daily coach for exercise and sleep - I see all my messages and notifications making it easy to deal with them quickly. My forerunner makes my life so much better!
From Garmin
4Runner265S
Although I got off to a rough start, once I was able to get the watch set up in English and start collecting data, I’m learning more and more about my athletic, fitness and health everyday.
From Garmin
Features
Love the garmin 745 and my new 265 but dissapointed the 265 doesnt have the interval creation option for open water swimming. This would make this watch perfect for me.
From Garmin
Hi there, here is a link that will take you to the steps on ensuring that your watch is properly connecting to the phone. http://ms.spr.ly/6426s2q12