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pslates
over 3 years ago

I am rather new to the fenix 6 and love it and see it keeps track of the number of steps I walk each day and also I see graphs where it seems to summarize them in miles but is there a way for me to see a total of miles walked per month or later for the year.  I see where online you can easily view the totals of times I have instructed the watch to record a walk or bike ride but what about simply a day I simply go to work which I happen to walk over a mile to and sometimes over a mile at work and not actually tell the watch to start recording but get the results the watch has obtained automatically.

I turn 60 next year and would love to just have the watch automatically be able to tell me how many miles I walked for the year included with the times I have instructed the watch to record a hike.  The year I turned 50 I used a pedometer in my pocket and attempted to keep track writing the total down each week and got to around 3000.  Can the Garmin give me the same info automatically.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Go into your phone connect app. Go into steps.  Just under the today's step count you it will show distance (this distance would be for any tracked activity that counts steps i.e. walking, running etc; and would include your general step count (uses stride length to get distance for non-tracked activity steps) and calories.

    If you press on 7d you can see it for a week; 4w for a month, 1 yr. This is the best option I know.

    This is the only way I know of getting the combined data.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Actually you can get a lot of statistic and reports on Web version of Garmin Connect: https://connect.garmin.com/ there will be a way to see data for certain period too but I'm not sure if it's able to show just walks, I remember that I was able o pull run distance from there and maybe show distance for all activities.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to sensovision

    I, too, am a new Fenix 6 user (less than a month now), but I always check the Connect website after I've synced. It contains much more info than the watch shows, which makes sense. Also, the graph details that the watch does show are a lot easier to read across a laptop screen than on a watchface anyway. Plus I can rename the activities there and add comments (I don't use a smartphone.)

    Looking at one day's records, I see the stepcounter, which is always running in the background, calculated my steps as equivalent to 9 miles that day. That included the 6+ miles recorded with GPS on as a Hike activity. The rest of the walking is normal moving around house and garage, going to an appointment and the post office, etc.

    You don't even need to have the stepcounter widget in the widget list or on the control "quick dial". See pages 2 and 3 of the Fenix 6 user manual, plus the top of page 4.

    When I am not recording an activity, I keep the watch on a free watchface/datafield display called Bongo Cat, downloaded from Connect IQ. Yeah, call me silly. Its animated display and fun surprises is more interesting to me than rectangles and dials, and it includes steps walked that day, among other things.

    Have fun with your watch! Mine exceeds my expectations, an unusual thing. Can't wait to become more versed in using the navigation functions. The physio monitoring made me realize that I have been overdoing things, so I am using this watch far more of the time than I thought I would.