Guide
Every option, the presets, and how Baseline works out your normal. In Baseline, change them on the watch (hold the face › Customize) or in the Connect IQ app (Baseline › Settings). Baseline Lite uses the All-rounder layout in the Neon theme.
Presets
| Preset | Ring | Tiles | Bars |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-rounder | Stress ring | Heart rate, Body Battery, pressure | Steps, intensity, sleep, recovery |
| Runner | Heart-rate ring | Heart rate, stress, Body Battery | Intensity, recovery, VO2 max, distance |
| Recovery | Body Battery ring | Heart rate, Body Battery, stress | Sleep, recovery, resting HR, intensity |
| Outdoor | Body Battery ring | Heart rate, pressure, altitude | Steps, floors, distance, battery |
A preset sets the ring, tiles and bars in one go; change any of them afterwards.
Look
| Option | Default | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Theme | Neon | Neon, Synthwave, Aurora, Ember, Glacier or Acid. Recolours the ring, the tiles, the bars and the minutes. |
| Day ring shows | Stress | Stress (bar length = stress), Body Battery (long cool bars = full battery) or heart rate (coloured by your HR zones). |
| Forecast on the ring | On | The part of today still ahead shows the hourly temperature line and rain-chance bars. Off: your normal day continues there instead. |
| Seconds when awake | Off | Small seconds next to the minutes after a wrist raise; never in always-on. |
Tiles (pick 3)
| Option | Default | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Heart rate | Tile 1 | Now, the last six hours, and resting HR coloured against your 7-day average (dashed line). |
| Body Battery | Tile 2 | Now, six hours, and today against your normal for this time of day (dotted line). |
| Pressure | Tile 3 | Sea-level pressure (hPa or inHg) and the 3-hour change; a fast fall turns red. |
| Stress | – | Now, six hours, and today against your normal (higher is worse). |
| Pulse Ox | – | The last reading and six hours of SpO2, where the watch records it. |
| Altitude | – | Now and the change over six hours. |
Bars (pick 4)
| Option | Default | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Steps | Bar 1 | Fill: steps against your goal. Tick: your 7-day average scaled to how much of your waking day has passed. |
| Intensity minutes | Bar 2 | Fill: this week against your weekly goal. Tick: the share of the week that has passed. |
| Sleep score | Bar 3 | Fill: last night's score. Tick: your average over the last seven nights. Needs Connect IQ 6.0.2+. |
| Recovery time | Bar 4 | Hours of recovery left (full bar = 72 h); READY at zero. |
| Floors | – | Fill against your goal; tick at your 7-day average by now. |
| Calories | – | Fill against your 7-day average day; tick at the share of the day that has passed. |
| Distance | – | Fill against your 7-day average day; tick at your waking-day progress. |
| Watch battery | – | Percent; the status line also shows days left. |
| Resting HR | – | Today against your 7-day average (tick). |
| VO2 max | – | Your running (or cycling) VO2 max. |
How the numbers are worked out
| Your normal | For stress, Body Battery and heart rate, each 15-minute slot of the day keeps a moving average of the days the face has seen (the newest day counts 30%). It starts after one day and settles over about a week. |
| Today's slots | Rebuilt from Garmin's sensor history every few minutes, so time spent in an activity or on another face is filled in when you come back (as far back as your watch keeps history). |
| vs normal | The value now minus your normal for this slot. Green is better, red is worse, grey is within a few points. While still learning, tiles show the change over the last hour instead. |
| Waking-day progress | From the wake and sleep times in your Garmin user profile, so a normal day’s steps at 3 pm are judged against a normal 3 pm, not a whole day. |
Always-on (AMOLED)
When the watch dims, Baseline shows the day ring as dots, the time, the date and the three tile values. Every other pixel row is blanked (alternating each minute) and the whole view shifts a few pixels every minute, keeping about 5% of the screen lit, within Garmin’s burn-in guidance. Memory-in-pixel watches keep the full face.
Touch
On touch watches, touch and hold a tile, a bar, the weather or the ring to open the matching Garmin widget.
Baseline shows Garmin’s own readings; it is general wellness information, not medical advice.