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The Garmin Venu® 3S in the Soft Gold Stainless Steel Bezel with French Gray Case and Silicone Band configuration is a GPS smartwatch built for everyday wear, training, and wellness tracking. Its bright 1.2” AMOLED touchscreen is designed to keep key stats easy to read while supporting a wide range of workouts.
With detailed health and wellness insights plus advanced fitness tools, Venu 3S suits active users who want to better understand sleep, stress, and recovery alongside performance. It also adds everyday convenience with a built-in speaker and microphone for calling and voice-based texting when paired with a compatible smartphone, and it works with the Garmin Connect™ app on iPhone® and Android™ smartphones.
Training
Venu 3S supports more than 30 preloaded GPS and indoor sports apps, including walking, running, cycling, and pool swimming, plus activities for wheelchair users. It can also deliver animated workouts through the Garmin Connect app and support Garmin Coach plans, helping users structure training and track progress over time.
Health
Wellness features help connect daily habits to how the body feels. Body Battery™ energy monitoring shows energy levels throughout the day and highlights the impact of sleep, naps, daily activities, and high stress. Sleep Coach adds a sleep score and personalized guidance, with sleep-stage tracking, nap tracking, and metrics such as HRV status and skin temperature.
Connectivity
With a built-in speaker and microphone, Venu 3S can make and take phone calls when paired with a compatible smartphone. It can also use the phone’s voice assistant to reply to text messages and handle more tasks, keeping communication accessible without reaching for the phone.
Battery
Venu 3S is designed to stay in rotation across workdays and workouts. Battery life is rated up to 10 days in smartwatch mode, with Battery Saver Smartwatch mode up to 20 days. For training with satellite tracking, it offers up to 21 hours in GPS-Only GNSS mode and up to 15 hours in All-Systems GNSS mode, with up to 8 hours in All-Systems GNSS mode with music.
Health
A broad set of health and wellness tools helps users see patterns over time. Wrist-based heart rate is sampled constantly, and Pulse Ox blood oxygen can be used as a spot-check or set as optional all-day and in sleep. Additional tracking includes stress tracking, respiration, hydration logging, meditation, mindful breathing, HRV status, skin temperature when worn to sleep, and a Health Snapshot 2-minute session that can generate a report to share with a health care provider.
Design
This configuration pairs a stainless steel bezel with a fiber-reinforced polymer case and a silicone band, topped with Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3. The lightweight 41 mm case measures 41 x 41 x 12 mm and fits wrists with a circumference of 110-175 mm. It weighs 27 g (40 g with included band) and includes Quick Release bands compatibility (18 mm, Industry standard). Water rating is Swim, 5 ATM.
| Part Number | 010-02785-02 |
|---|---|
| Model | Venu® 3S |
| Configuration | Soft Gold Stainless Steel Bezel with French Gray Case and Silicone Band |
| Battery life (smartwatch mode) | Up to 10 days |
| Pulse Ox blood oxygen | Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day and in sleep) |
| Make calls and send texts via voice | Yes (with paired compatible smartphone) |
| Display type | AMOLED (optional always-on mode) |
| Water rating | Swim, 5 ATM |
| Strap material | Silicone |
| Lens material | Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 |
| Bezel material | Stainless steel |
| Case material | Fiber-reinforced polymer |
| Quick Release bands | Yes (18 mm, Industry standard) |
| Physical size | 41 x 41 x 12 mm; Fits wrists with a circumference of 110-175 mm |
| Weight | 27 g (40 g with included band) |
| Display Size | 1.2" (30.4 mm) diameter |
| Display resolution | 390 x 390 pixels |
| Battery type | Lithium ion |
| Battery life (Battery Saver Smartwatch mode) | Up to 20 days |
| Battery life (GPS-Only GNSS mode) | Up to 21 hours |
| Battery life (All-Systems GNSS mode) | Up to 15 hours |
| Battery life (All-Systems GNSS mode with music) | Up to 8 hours |
| Charging method | Garmin proprietary plug charger |
| Memory/History | 8 GB |
| Venu 3S |
| USB-C charging/data cable |
| Documentation |
| Gym | Strength, HIIT, Cardio, Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Jump Roping |
|---|---|
| Wellness | Walking, Pilates, Yoga, Indoor Walking |
| Indoor running | Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running |
| Outdoor running | Running |
| Outdoor recreation | Hiking, Indoor Climbing, Bouldering, Disc Golf |
| Cycling | Biking, Indoor Biking, eBiking, Handcycling, Indoor Handcycling |
| Swim | Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming |
| On the water | Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing |
| Racket sports | Tennis, Pickleball, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Padel, Platform Tennis, Racquetball |
| Snow and winter | Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Classic Skiing, Snowshoeing |
| Team sports | Basketball, Volleyball, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Football/Soccer, American Football, Lacrosse, Rugby, Ultimate Disc, Cricket, Softball, Baseball |
| In the ring | Boxing, Mixed Martial Arts |
| What You'll Love | Sleep score and insights, Garmin ECG app, Garmin Pay™, Music storage, Touchscreen, Wheelchair mode |
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| General | Built-in speaker/microphone, Color display, Large font option |
| Clock Features | Time/date, GPS Time Sync, Automatic daylight saving time, Alarm clock, Timer, Stopwatch, Sunrise/sunset times |
| Health & Wellness Monitoring | Heart rate (constant, every second), Resting heart rate, Respiration rate, Fitness age, Body Battery™ energy monitor, All-day stress, Relaxation reminders, Relaxation breathing timer, Meditation, Breathwork and 8 more |
| Sensors | GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor, Pulse Ox blood oxygen saturation monitor, Barometric altimeter, Compass, Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Ambient light sensor |
| Daily Smart Features | Find My Phone, Find My Garmin (helps locate lost device), Find My Phone during GPS activity, Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields and apps), On-device Connect IQ™ Store, Smart Notifications, Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only), View images from notifications on watch (Android™ only), Morning report, Calendar and 11 more |
| Workout and Training Plans | Garmin running coach experts, Cardio workouts, Strength workouts, HIIT workouts, Yoga workouts, Pilates workouts, Workouts for wheelchair users, On-screen workout animations, On-screen workout muscle maps |
| Safety and Tracking Features | Incident detection during select activities, Incident detection alert on phone for wearables, Assistance |
| Gaming Features | Gaming Activity, GameOn™ app compatible |
| Activity Tracking Features | Step counter, Wheelchair push tracker, Move alerts (displays on device after a period of inactivity), Weight shift alert, Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal), Calories burned, Floors climbed, Distance traveled, Intensity minutes, TrueUp™ and 3 more |
| Training, Planning and Analysis Features | Improved interval (includes open repeats, intervals data page, rest screen and auto detection), Customizable data pages, Downloadable training plans, HR zones, HR alerts, HR calories, % HR max, Recovery time, HRV status, GPS speed and distance and 14 more |
| Running Features | GPS-based distance, time and pace, Running dynamics, Vertical oscillation and ratio, Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute), Running power, Run workouts, Foot pod capable, Run/walk/stand detection |
| Golfing Features | Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green), Yardage to layups/doglegs, Digital scorecard, Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit), Garmin AutoShot™, Green View with manual pin position, Hazards and course targets, PinPointer, Round timer/odometer, CT10 Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory) and 2 more |
| Outdoor Recreation | Total ascent/descent |
| Mapping & Navigation | Back to start |
| Cycling Features | Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories), Compatible with Vector™ and Rally™ (power meters), Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar), Compatible with Varia™ lights, Power meter compatible |
| Swimming Features | Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories), Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories), Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only), Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only), Auto rest (pool swim only), Time and distance alerts, Underwater wrist-based heart rate |
| Abnormal heart rate alerts | Yes (high and low) |
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| Sleep | Yes (advanced) |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth®, ANT+®, Wi-Fi® |
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| Smartphone compatibility | IPhone®, Android™ |
| HR broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+® to paired devices) | Yes (using ANT+ or BLE) |
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| Respiration rate (during exercise) | Yoga, breathwork and meditation only |
| Area calculation | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
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| Fish forecast | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
| Sun and moon information | Yes (via Connect IQ™) |
When paired with your compatible iPhone or Android smartphone
Activity tracking accuracy
The ECG app is only available on select Garmin smartwatches with the latest version of the Garmin Connect smartphone app and watch software. The ECG app is not available in all regions; see Garmin.com/ECG for availability. The ECG app is only intended for adults aged 22 years and over. The ECG app is capable of recording an ECG similar to a Lead I ECG and detecting the presence of atrial fibrillation or normal sinus rhythm.
This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Breathing Variations not available in all countries.
The menstrual cycle tracking feature should not be used in support of conception, contraception or birth control. This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition.
This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety. Incident detection is unavailable when the watch is in wheelchair mode.
Compatible Garmin smartwatches are consumer wellness devices and are not medical devices intended to diagnose, treat, prevent or monitor medical conditions. The Natural Cycles app independently determines fertility status based on skin temperature and other data.
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