How to change the unit of measurement on your Garmin watch

Making an attempt to transform miles to kilometers (or vice versa) in your head throughout an exercise can additional pressure your assets. Fortunately, altering the items of measurement on Garmin is easy. 

In contrast to different watches, Garmin additionally provides you loads of management over what exhibits up in your system. This implies you may customise and tailor items to your exercises—for instance, you may show your working distance in miles and your swimming distance in meters.

You possibly can even have items of measurement show in another way and individually on Garmin Join—although, frankly, we’re undecided why you’d need to try this. 

This additionally means you’ll have to select the place you need to see the change to the items of measurement seem; there isn’t any such factor as altering it within the Join app and syncing the modifications over to your watch.

So, with that in thoughts, skip to the corresponding part beneath for all the small print. Under, we’ll cowl each strategies to alter the items of measurement to your most popular choice. 

Change items in your Garmin watch

These steps will range relying in your Garmin mannequin and the software program replace you’re working. We developed these steps utilizing our Epix Professional (Gen 2), however they need to be comparatively replicable no matter your watch.

1. Maintain the ‘Up/Menu’ button till the settings choices seem.
2. Scroll all the way down to ‘System’.
3. Choose ‘Format’ from the checklist. 
4. Choose ‘Items’.
5. Now you can edit the precise measurement you need within the following sub-sections: ‘Distance’, ‘Tempo/Pace’, ‘Elevation’, ‘Depth’, ‘Weight’, ‘Peak’, ‘Temperature’, ‘Strain’ and ‘Vert Pace’.
6. As soon as your most popular unit has been chosen, use the ‘Down’ button to again out – modifications are saved robotically.

Change items on the Garmin Join app

Garmin provides you three choices for the items in its app – metric, statute, or stature UK (imperial).

Metric will see distances proven in kilometers, weights in kilograms, and heights in meters, whereas the imperial system is predicated on miles, toes, and kilos.

The statute (UK) choice on Garmin is distinguished by elevation knowledge displayed in meters, not toes.

First, guarantee you have got the most recent model of the Garmin Join app earlier than attempting these steps. 

1. Open the Garmin Join app on iOS/Android. 
2. Faucet your profile icon within the top-left nook. 
3. When the pop-up seems, choose ‘Settings’.
4. Select ‘Consumer Settings’.
5. Discover ‘Measurement Items’ beneath Items and faucet.
6. Choose between the three items of measurement.
7. Your selection will probably be saved robotically and seem in Garmin Join instantly.