Garmin Venu 2 Plus In-Depth Review: 11 Things to Know!

The 11 New Things You Need to Know about the Garmin Venu 2 Plus, as well as detailed accuracy testing, and whether the new features are worth it.

The Garmin Venu 2 Plus aims to be an incremental update over the 7-month-old Venu 2/2S, with the core new features being voice assistants and a speaker for making and receiving calls. This is the first Garmin watch to offer any sort of voice assistant integration, and out of the gate it supports Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, and Samsung’s Bixby. However, most interesting in my opinion is the ability to take calls on your wrist, and even trigger emergency assistance and safety alerts using voice (which is new to Garmin as well). Plus you can now listen to music using the speaker on the watch if that’s your thing, and it’s surprisingly not horrible.

0:00 Quick Overview
0:39 Watch Size Changes
1:08 New Speaker & Microphone
1:29 Voice Assistants
2:43 Making and Receiving Phone Calls
4:40 Playing Music Using Watch Speaker
5:36 Emergency Assistance Calling
7:45 New Warm-Fuzzy Tones
8:26 Changes in Battery Life
9:17 Bezel and Case Design
9:51 Watch Face Widget Complications
10:37 Things That Haven't Changed
11:43 GPS & Heart Rate Accuracy
13:17 Recommendations

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[Tmacademia]

Great job by Garmin to put out a head to head competitor to the Samsung and Apple Watch. I personally have no need for the assistant, mic, and speaker for my watch because I have no need to use my watch for calls. But there are a lot of people who like those features

[ChaseTheSummit]

Nice one Ray! I like that you included all of the little jingle tones lol. They certainly make the watch feel more modern!

[KingLifeTale]

So ready for the Venu “plus” to have better training tracking.. training load for example would be great for target market (HIIT & hybrid athletes)

[fitgearhunter]

Awesome summary. Can’t wait for what’s next from Garmin.

[geoffgoldplum]

Great stuff, on point as usual! Hopefully F7 follows soon

[christoffertews]

When will the embargo on the Fenix 7 be lifted? 😉

[mitchelltanner]

Venu 2 does not have a beeper. I really appreciate the review though.

I had hoped Garmin would have addressed the sleep tracking issues (i.e. it is useless for shift workers) and how it deactivates the always on display. Ah well...the Venu 2 is still the best Sports watch I have owned.

[Lynn-zwdr]

Thank you for this. I really like the Venu 2S but sent it back as I didn't realise you couldn't take and make calls on it, but loved everything else about it. So I'm going to look at the white and gold Venu 2 Plus tomorrow, and as long as it's not too big as I have small wrists, I'm going to buy it. I have a Galaxy 4 watch using with my Pixel 6 Pro, (not impressed). Cheers from the UK. 👍🏻🇬🇧

[bcwest]

This might be the most awesome all-day + fitness watch ever made! Amazing! Glad Garmin is finally REALLY stepping into the smartwatch realm.

[brankododig]

Shame they didn't add more sport modes. Love the display on Venu2 and sleep tracking and everything it does, but no native outdoor swim support and not working with power meters is a bit disappointing.

[jkadbhjadhboa]

Great video, as always. Came for the info on the difference in screen sizes between the Venu 2 and the 2 Plus and was pleasantly surprised (same screen, smaller bezels). Thanks!

[rickyreynolds]

Amazing review. Thank you. 1 Question: can you reply to a text message via dictation? or only preset replys?

[kevinoconnor]

It's a bit disappointing that there is no training load, recovery time etc on this watch. If there was I'd snatch this watch up immediately. Do you know if that will possibly come on the watch in the future?!? Would it be as simple as a software update for them to add these features?!? Great review, thanks!

[cristiansasmiresan]

Hi there! :) Is it possible to listen to music while running without taking the smartphone with us? Thank you 🙏🏼

[mariorock]

Hi! Good review as always!
I bought this watch and I would like to know how do you choose Google assistant instead of Bixby when you have a Samsung cell phone? I don't use Bixby, and it's Bixby that opens anyway when I configure voice assistance on the watch...

[leeannkatzfey]

This video was sooo helpful to watch because this is my first Garmin watch. Question for you, I’m used to my Apple Watch always being connected to my iPhone. The Venu 2 plus needs to be reconnected to my iPhone through the day by opening the app. Is that how it should be or am I doing something wrong? It’s annoying that it doesn’t stay connected. Thanks for any help/thoughts!

[tonybowen]

So crazy that the 265/965 get about 7 days batt life with always on display vs only 2-3 days with the venu 2 plus. Maybe one day garmin will add the voice assistant and call features to the amoled lines.

[rochaa]

Just ordered mine! Thanks for video 🤙🏼 Love student discounts

[thani]

Always informative, the price is not far from fouruners and fenixs, when you going to unveils the Fenix 7.

[BleakVision]

The call function is going to be a treat on future Edge devices!