Ratings & Reviews for Garmin Instinct 2 Solar Smart Watch with Step Counter, Heart Rate Monitor and GPS Enabled

Great Watch

I have had the watch 2 weeks now and still have 13% battery. That is with messing with settings. Way better than the previous Instinct. I am not impressed with sleep monitor. I say I am awake when I am asleep. My resting HR and movement shows that I am still asleep but watch will show awake time. Instinct tracking was better at this. Everything else is comparable to my previous Instinct. Can't wait until I can exercise again to test out other features.

Wonderful

I have had the instinct 2 solar for a few weeks now and I love it. It is what I have been looking for in a smart watch. Has the notifications and durability that I wanted in a watch!

Amazing watch

I’ve had this watch for 3 weeks and I love it and the watch faces and the features it offers its great

I love this watch.

I got it so I could track steps and heart rate and got a lot more. The gps tracking is fun for hikes and safety. At anytime you can send a signal out to let people know I am in trouble and a coordinate on where. The solar charger on it works very well. When camping or working outside it get a few days of charge as long as I am in one of the lower modes of operation. You can add your digital wallet to it for tap pay. I don't use all of the functions my self but there are videos on YouTube that e...

Great watch

So far so good, lives up to its reputation. Haven't used all of its capabilities just yet but will have by the end of December.

Wow

Amazing battery life. The watch arrived in the box with 28 days of charge. I finally got bored and charged it when it had 18 days left. The watch has so many features, I'm still figuring them out. Love the watch!

Rugged by all means

Love this watch and all the features it has.small issue with GPS connectivity.

Motivational

Many of the features motivate me and help me think about ways to get better. I especially value the sleep feature. I’m more focused on what helps me sleep better (eg, no alcohol or food) in the evening. The record of my hikes and sleep and other features give me a glimpse into my overall health.

Excellent watch.

I love that everything I want is right on the face.

GARMIN Instinct, Fenix 7 and Fenix 8 SUCK

I purchased my instinct and at first liked it a lot, the same with a Fenix 7 and Fenix 8. After 3 to 4 days of wearing the watches, they have stopped measuring my sleep. This is a big issue for me. I have gone to the website for answers and found none. I will never buy a garmin product ever again. Going back wearing a regular watch.

Didn’t know I needed this!

Coming from the vívoactive 5, this is a huge upgrade. I run, climb, and work as a wildland firefighter, and this watch is exactly what I wanted. I picked up the Instinct 2 Solar as I started training for an ultramarathon and it’s made the training more accurate, more focused, and more engaging. The UI and menus for tracking activities makes perfect sense to me, and the ability to customize menus / preferred workouts / stats I want to see during and after activities makes my training that much be...

I love it!

It has all of the features that I need on the face at a glance, all at once. Easy to read, and the app is easy to use.

Love this watch

Love all the features, heart rate monitor very accurate. Full of motivational workout challenges. Really been fun. Fully recommend this watch

Best in class battery? It seems so!

I have had the Instinct 2 Solar for about a month and have been putting it through its paces. I wanted to move away from Apple because I got tired of being tethered to a charger. Using my Instinct 2 Solar to track four to five workouts a week ranging from an hour to 3 hours I was able to make it over twenty one days on a single charge. This brought me down to 30% and “7 day remaining” on my charge. I have noticed that the solar charging doesn’t like to go from bright to dark to bright, I wou...

Great, just wish…

Awesome watch for an awesome price. I just wish it solar charged a bit more effectively, but it is still outstanding in its class.

Best all around wearable.

Use it for all of my activities. Swimming, MTB, paddling and more. Very durable and the solar charging helps significantly on those times when you are not around utilities. I was glad to finally find a wearable device that could hold up after others broke.

Great buy!

I’ve had this watch now for two months and it has been everything it was advertised as. I couldn’t be happier with the durability, function, and look.

10x Better Than My Apple Watch

I’m enjoying my Garmin Instinct 2 Solar. It’s not perfect but is 10x better than my Apple Watch was. The battery life is extraordinary! I’m pretty active and do use the GPS feature on a daily basis, so I get roughly 15 days out of the battery before needing to charge. However, my Apple Watch wouldn’t even last 12 hours if I was tracking a backcountry hiking trip. So, I’m very pleased with the Garmin Instinct 2’s battery performance. It’s also very rugged for all the outdoor activity I do! ...

It's alright

I thought I would love it but I didn't. I could t get use to the background light which made the numbers blue on a white background. Hard on my eyes. I also thought I could handle going from a colored Samsung watch to black and white but I couldn't. It's not a bad watch at all just not the right fit for me so I went to the Fenix 7 solar. The solar was a huge part of my decision since I work outside