Forerunner 165 Series - Recent Threads

Garmin Forerunner 165

9592707 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:56:13 GMT

I bought a Garmin forerunner 165 in the uk but I cannot change over from the French language as the language option is not available on the settings: any help greatly appreciated

RE: Garmin Forerunner 165

Jacquers — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:37:59 GMT

Suggest you contact customer support directly.

RE: How to change wake/sleep window on Garmin 165 Watch?

trux — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:11:27 GMT

There are several ways to go to the menu, but it may differ slightly from model to model. The simplest is opening the menu (long press of the middle left button, if your watch has it) when you are on the Sleep Score glance, and then selecting Sleep Settings » Schedule.

If this does not help, either check out the manual for your watch, or post on the forum for FR 165.

How to change wake/sleep window on Garmin 165 Watch?

6230580 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:52:13 GMT

I want to change the Wake up time set during original watch setup but can't find it anywhere on the Watch or Android connect app

Surely not a factory reset?

Enhancement to add Metronome feature

mandohack — Wed, 22 May 2024 18:23:55 GMT

Please, add the Metronome (running cadence, footfalls per minute) function to the Forerunner 165.

RE: Enhancement to add Metronome feature

Jacquers — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:41:41 GMT

Old model. Abandoned ito getting new features. Maybe you'll find something in the Connect IQ store.

RE: Enhancement to add Metronome feature

3351795 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:41:41 GMT

Please add it

RE: garmin coach lapcounter not tracked for running tracks

pdurys — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:42:36 GMT

I am not sure if posting here produce expected result, as Garmin is not actively monitoring those forums for SW improvement

Sadly Share Ideas | Garmin do not seems to work either, but you can still contact Support.

Anyway, could you be a bit more specific what is your problem?

I guess you have Coach plan and you would like to use it with Track Run activity and got information for each lap.

If that is correct than maybe you are starting activity in wrong way?

Usually when you just select activity type on the day when you have scheduled Coach Run workout, watch is asking you if you like to follow it with summary of activity. It is easy to dismiss that and activity will tracked without "link" to the plan, but still used for calculation your workload etc

Just for checking try next time this procedure on the day when you have planned workout:

1. Select as usual Track Run, if there will be not prompt like do 48 minutes @ 130 bpm go to next step, otherwise you good to go and it should be recorded correctly with laps (*)

2. Press on menu button to open Track Run Settings, scroll to Training --> Workouts --> now you should see your Garmin Coach Plan Today's Training (all this should be in German)

You should be able to select workout for today or any from next 7 days

garmin coach lapcounter not tracked for running tracks

7104730 — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:14:37 GMT

Hi Garmin SW team:

Here is a sw request: please enable the lapcounter and lapstatistics for running track (german "Laufbahn") also for activities started via Garmin Run Coach.

Currently it is just giving all stats only for the full activity but its not separated by laps as it is for non Garmin Coach activities.

I guess this topic is for update on all Garmin watches.

Thanks!

measurement HR is now very bad

6779092 — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 07:39:02 GMT

I love my 165 (19.18). First 2-3 months was all OK but now few FW measurement HR is useless for training! Watch show 100-120 bpm and my real is too high (160-180 sometimes i use HRM). Please Garmin FIX IT! THX

RE: measurement HR is now very bad

1931947 — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:39:04 GMT

I use Garmin HRM to track now

RE: Heart Rate Monitor Incorrect Following 27.09 Update

4174052 — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:44:27 GMT

My Forerunner 165 appears to have gone completely berserk over the last two or three months. It tells me my body battery is low and my sleep is poor when neither of these things is true. I did a pretty mild exercise session with a resistance band and it said I had to recover for 96 hours. Nonsense ! I thought there might actually be something wrong with me so I substituted my old Apple watch for three weeks and it behaved as it always did. Resetting the Garmin didn't help. Bit of a mystery really, I don't think I shall bother wearing a watch at all.

Heart Rate Monitor Incorrect Following 27.09 Update

4206607 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:55:06 GMT

I am noticing the heart rate monitor is incorrect following the 27.09 update. I have tested with my Garmin Forerunner 165 Music in built heart monitor and my Garmin HRM Pro Plus external monitor when running.

I have tried rebooting the watch multiple occaisions, but it does not recognise when my heartrate increases when running.

Anyone else experienced something similar since the latest update?

RE: Continued Horrendous Elevation Tracking

Jacquers — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:02:55 GMT

It's just really bad that they took away the calibration, but you might still be able to access it. Find a watch face on the store that supports long press of data fields. I think Quatro or Big Easy can do that. Customize it so you can see elevation on one of the fields. Long pressing it might bring up the elevation screen and options to calibrate. Hopefully they don't take this away as well.

Continued Horrendous Elevation Tracking

3446903 — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:43:57 GMT

My Forerunner 165 is regularly off on the elevation tracking by 1,500+ feet over a two hour run. It vastly overstates elevation gain and loss, though the altitude minimum and maximums on the run are correct. I've tried to clean the altimeter port three or four times but it just doesn't work. I think that the problem is that the altimeter can't be manually calibrated and/or isn't calibrating with the GPS properly. When Garmin turned off the manual calibration for the 165 they said it was to "differentiate the 165 with higher end models," now that the 170 has arrived and has manual altimeter calibration, can Garmin please turn the ability to manually calibrate the 165's altimeter back on. I'm really annoyed by this, as I live in a kind of hilly area and want to track the elevation properly.

RE: Return to Watch Face During Activity

3827140 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:15:03 GMT

I just swipe two times from left to right on the screen (the whole screen, from one side to the other) and I'm back to watch screen, and to get back to activity i just swipe one way the other way around and press start button (Garmin Forerunner 970).

Return to Watch Face During Activity

p.shindig — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:58:30 GMT

I cannot find a way to return to the Watch Face during an activity, specifically during activities that utilize the lap/set button. I would like the ability to return to the Watch Face and access my normal glances. For example, when I receive a text message and I miss the few seconds to open the message from the watch screen popup, there is no way to view the message from my watch. I would also like to access other glances too (weather, steps, body battery, etc). If anyone knows a way, please let me know.

I have tried workarounds I found on other threads including:

Holding the lap/set/back button - This does not do anything. The FR165 does not have the Hot Key function like other models to be able to program this feature.
Enabling touch screen during activity and swiping right to return to Watch Face - This also did not do anything.
Enabling the clock as a data screen for the activity and pushing the lap/set/back button when the clock data screen is showing - This also did not do anything.
Holding the up button, going through settings, and applying a watch face - Not only is this overly cumbersome, I was not able to find the watch face settings in the menus to actually do this workaround.

My suggestions to developers:

Enable long press of lap/set button to return to Watch Face. Not only during activities, but from within any menu in the watch. If the “Hot Key” feature is reserved for higher-end models, at least enable this one action for just this one button on the FR165
Create a setting that allows the user to disable the manual lap/set button (not just the auto-set feature) for selected activities. When the button is disabled, allow it to function as the normal “back” button to return to Watch Face

Lastly, I also have an Instinct 2 and it has the same issue. However, for that model the “Hot Key” feature is a suitable workaround to assign Watch Face to a long press button. Regardless, my second suggestion also applies to the Instinct 2 as another potential solution.

RE: measurement HR is now very bad

8536041 — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:38:54 GMT

My Garmin was showing good HR values since I bought it a few weeks ago. Then, this morning it staterted giveving values around or below 30 while running. Cleaning the sensor didn't fix the problem. But then I turned off the watch and after turning it on started working fine. So far...

RE: Touch screen does not re-enable from the controls menu.

CitizenX — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:15:55 GMT

I permanently disabled the touchscreen anyways. Too error prone. Keep touching this and that. The 5 buttons work just fine for me. Can get everything done and more positively.

Touch screen does not re-enable from the controls menu.

Nick S. — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:48:04 GMT

I've had this issue since I first started using this watch in August 2025. I like to turn off touch screen if my watch will be getting wet (in the shower or during swimming) so that it doesn't go haywire. I will toggle it off from the controls menu and it will disable. Then when I am ready to turn it back in, nothing. I have to reboot the watch for it to re-enable. Super annoying.

RE: Touch screen does not re-enable from the controls menu.

Jacquers — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:47:02 GMT

I suggest contacting customer support directly. It seems like it's mostly users replying here.

RE: Touch screen does not re-enable from the controls menu.

CitizenX — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:18:55 GMT

Yup. I get that too.

Ultra Trac lost track / single point

7104730 — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:31:32 GMT

Hi Garmin,

I have sometimes a bug by using UltraTrac as satelite system: the activity (f.e. walking) starts without issues and also showing the track.

but: once I save the activity it is then showing only a single coordinate point and this activity is not loadable into the Garmin App.

All other satelite systems (f.e. GPS) I did not observe this.

May also effect other Garmin watches.

Thanks!

count hike activities as walking

7104730 — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:26:35 GMT

Hi Garmin,

pls. also count all hike activities in your walking challanges & badges -> there is no reason for not to track&count them into this challanges and badges.

Is affecting all watches.

Thanks!

stepper km tracking missing

7104730 — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:22:50 GMT

Hi Garmin team.

SW request : please add for stepper activity the tracking of the distance.

this can be done easiliy by add step lengt as a config param in a the activity config.

thanks!