Garmin Forerunner 165: The Complete Guide - Start Here!

Here's everything you need to know about the Garmin Forerunner 165, from start to finish!

I dive into everything including daily activity tracking, sports features, and plenty more!

0:00 Quick Overview
0:26 The Hardware Basics
1:54 Watch Faces & Display Settings
4:52 Widgets & Widget Glances
6:13 Sleep & Nap Tracking
10:33 HRV Tracking Explained
12:56 Body Battery & Factors
14:06 Morning Report
15:00 Flashlight & Controls Menu
16:59 Sport Modes & Settings
26:48 VO2Max & Performance Metrics
27:58 Sensor & Accessories Pairing
28:54 Music (Spotify, Amazon, etc…)
31:56 Garmin Pay Contactless Payments

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[nathangoldberg]

This is the best review and guide of the Garmin 165 I've seen, and I've seen and liked several. So many details, and the most important ones! Thank you!!

[thingamabobs]

Super informative video. Thank you for making it. Good sound. Good video. Excellent content.

[ShelleyJoy-bd]

This is a great resource. My only suggestion would be to slow down your speech a little. For someone new to the watch, this is a vast amount of info to absorb and take advantage of. Also, while this may be second nature to folks under 50, for someone like me (a who swims 4+ miles a week, but who is just now introducing the technological advantages to tracking all that data) I need to be able to see what buttons you are picking while you are talking. Sometimes that's difficult because your fingers are often placed on more than one button. Otherwise, thank you. A great help!

[johnf]

Thanks for the video! I just bought a 165 today. It's a big change from my VivoActive 3.😅

[topcurious]

I just bought mine.. Today😂🎉excellent product

[Dctrue]

Thank you very much, it helped me set up my F165!

[dncmq]

PLEASE DO COMPARISON OF COROS PACE 3 AND GARMIN FORERUNNER 165 THANK YOU

[akumars]

Good work 👏🏻 👏🏻 .. helped me to get started with my new Garmin 165❤

[ThomasJeffersonWolfcall-knbx]

You just like to show off your VO2 stats! 😊

[kennyt]

29:00 I can't add music app (spotify) an error has occurred

[Ajajambo]

Nice review! Does this watch have a barometer widget since it I can see a sensor?? Thanks

[william]

Sending mine back. It's far too complicated for the simple health metrics I wanted. If you're an engineer, or a teen, I suppose this level of complexity might be intuitive. But after three days, I'm not working out, I'm watching videos and reading manuals just to get it to do to simple things. (Side note for the makers of this video: When you put your fingers on two or three of the buttons at the same time, there's no way for the viewer to know what button, or combination, is being pressed, especially when you talk at this rate.)

[Fernweh_]

I bought a 165 and setup the watch face, which included an elevation data field so you could access that information as needed. After the first update, that feature was removed and you can no longer access the elevation data outside of an activity. After reaching out to Garmin, they told me they removed the feature to "differentiate" the lower end device as such. To remove a feature that was previously there as soon as you release the product, which contains the hardware for the feature is a really bad look. I put in a case and Garmin verified the presence before, the the lack of the feature after the update and told me they would reach out via email to update me on whether this will be aded back. So far, I've not heard back form them ...sad.

[patrickzippetelli]

Fantastic review! I was setting mine up today while watching! Seems nice, BUT the display is very DIM.... maybe 1/2 the brightness of my old Venu and Venu 2+ not sure if I got a bad one or not!

[jaimegomezmatas]

Excellent guide as always Ray! Just one question: what about course navigation?

[einfach_rausfahren]

Hey, after saving a Health Snapshot on my girlfriends F165 it seems like it is quickly turning off, it shows the blue triangle and then the F165 intor "video".. afterwards it jumps back to the main screen. Anybody else having the same thing? On my Enduro two it saves and directly goes back to main...

[kderrins]

Great video, thank you so much. This is probably a silly question. What setting would you recommend for kayaking/paddleboarding?

[BGaud]

help me out here.. How do I get my miles to read daily and not weekly on the watch face?

[Voltic]

do the recovery and training abilities work for swimming as well?

[pascalmorgenthaler]

Hey, thank you so much for that guide!

Is it possible to display the altitude above sea level somewhere? It says that the watch has a barometric altimeter but I can't find a setting to display that...


Also I am wondering if it is possible to see how fast I am moving, so to display the speed of me running in km/h or when I am cycling how fast I am going, is that possible?