Garmin Instinct 2 Solar Smartwatch

My Instinct 2 Solar has all the features and all the durability of my old Instinct Solar but includes all the great features that I enjoy from my Forerunner 945 like garmin pay and the triathlon sport app. Notifications are much quicker now too

We bought this for Blackfriday Christmad gifts so far way better than our old Suuntos GPS tracks very quickly. Super happy. The only issue is base color and swapping of bands not a great color mix palet available.

I’ve had the Instinct 2 solar for a little over a year now and have been very happy with it. I’ve mostly used it as an everyday watch, to track runs and more recently to record hunts that involve lots of hiking and it’s done great for all. I really like how the gps tracks my routes and records distance that I would otherwise have no way to accurately measure. It froze once at around the one year mark and was a bit frustrating to get reset but once I did everything was back to normal. Overall I’m very happy with my purchase and have recommended it to friends. If I had to do it all over again I would still buy this exact watch, it’s a great product.

Battery dies approximately 36 hours after socket charging whether left in sunlight thereafter or not. Very difficult, if not impossible , to obtain "terms and conditions" "agreement" as well as "Bazaarvoice Privacy Policy". So, what is up here? Are only those willing to agree to any thing and everything encouraged to submit reviews?

I am an average to maybe just above average runner and this watch gives me all the data I need. Getting the Garmin pay feature is a lovely little addition too.

Very happy with this product, very simple controls yet many accesable features.

Got it this month, like it very much. still checking out the features

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.

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!

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

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 explain all of it It has been a long indispensable tool day to day.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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 better. The solar function is great and the battery life is insanely long. Incredibly happy with my purchase!

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

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 would get the no charging slash if I did that. In continuous sun though I have no problems with it charging. The point is, with long sleeves or when the watch face isn’t in direct sun expect some periods where you get a no charging slash. The sensors in the watch work as they should, Garmin knows what they are doing, and are accurate. If you don’t need, or don’t want wrist based maps and don’t want to have to put your watch on a charger every night this is the watch for you. Enjoy!

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

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.

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.

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! Without having to constantly charge it, I can wear it most all the time and use it to monitor my sleep and other metrics which is nice. On the slightly annoying side, I did have my first heart rate measurement hiccup today. I was riding an I door stationary bike. My heart rate was in the high 140’s to low 150’s bmp but the Instinct 2 was reading my heart rate in the 90’s to 100 bpm. Did this for 10 minutes of my 30 minute workout. I fiddle with it, trying to clean the sensor and finally got it to read properly. However, the incorrect heart rate measurement threw my whole workout measurements off. Other than this, I’ve really enjoyed my Garmin Instinct 2 Solar.

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

I love that it charges by sun so I don't have to worry.

The watch seems like a nice watch, however the screen not being in color and smaller made it very difficult for me to read. I ended up returning the watch and buying a fenix 7 pro solar. So far I like the fenix 7 more just due to being able to see the face better and read it better.

Bought this watch because battery life is my biggest concern, and it has been stellar. Even with using a lot of features, the battery lasts over two weeks per charge with the solar feature. With the Connect app, this watch can do anything you need (and likely more). It's been really easy to dial in my training intensity and amount. So far it's stood up to water and rugged conditions, cant recommend it enough.