Customer reviews from Garmin
Garmin - Instinct 2 Solar 45 mm Smartwatch Fiber-reinforced Polymer - Mist Gray - (2022)
Average customer rating
4.5
(481 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 481 reviews
5 Stars
334
4 Stars
83
3 Stars
35
2 Stars
9
1 Star
20
Customer Reviews for Garmin - Instinct 2 Solar 45 mm Smartwatch Fiber-reinforced Polymer - Mist Gray - (2022)
Customer Rating
5
Best ever for what I was looking for
on May 11, 2024
Posted by: DannyBR
Coming from a long line of smartwatches - Sony, Pebble, Pebble 2 HR, Moto 360, Samsung Active 3, Fossil Gen 6 - this is my first Garmin.
It's exactly what I was looking for:
- fantastic battery life
- lightweight
- not all bells and whistles under the sun as a smartwatch, but the notifications
- a great, great companion app
- waterproof
- Garmin's reliability.
- fantastic battery life
- lightweight
- not all bells and whistles under the sun as a smartwatch, but the notifications
- a great, great companion app
- waterproof
- Garmin's reliability.
Observe I mentioned none of all the sports and adventure (compass, altitude, etc) capabilities of the watch as unfortunately my life currently leaves little time for it - still, my daily walks and stairs climbing, sleep, heart rate are always there.
All in all, if you don't want the color displays and short battery life, and is looking for a no frills, superb watch experience, this is the one.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, May 15, 2024
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
5
Instinct 2 Solar - a great health system
on May 9, 2024
Posted by: JR70
I’m 77, 2 years into retirement and just now starting back at the gym seriously. The Garmin watch and software provide an outstanding health monitoring system that allows me to workout hard and monitor so I don’t over do it. It’s even helping me understand my sleep problems and improve. Anyone my age needs to be in regularly scheduled workouts and monitoring their health. The Garmin system (watch + app) is one of the best ways to do that without being under medical care.
It ‘s a watch for serious people.
It ‘s a watch for serious people.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, May 15, 2024
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
5
Great watch
on May 4, 2024
Posted by: Dozerguy1116
Replaced my Apple Watch with this one, as I needed a more rugged watch. It works great and does everything I would need!
Response from GarminBy Garmin, May 6, 2024
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
5
Great look and feel on wrist!
on April 30, 2024
Posted by: DavidT
This watch does everything I need for monitoring my fitness. Plus it can be customized with many downloadable widgets. It’s the perfect size and the light gray color looks great! The battery is more than adequate for extended use away from charging and it will auto charge. This has not been an issue for me. Glad I purchased it and fun to track my stats on my phone. Easy setup.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, May 2, 2024
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
5
Tough & Amazing!!
on April 29, 2024
Posted by: LadyDae
I purchased this watch 3-4 weeks ago after much research. I'm apparently not as gentle as one needs to be with Fitbits and needed something that would stand up for whatever and not look too masculine or bulky. It has so many different resources and activities you can track and stand up to swimming laps in the pool without water damage. My only "complaint", which isn't a real issue, is the screen is not color. So if you choose a fun watch face, just know it will be in black and white. It will still show you all your stats, but not in color. Otherwise, I love that it's solar as well. I'm going into a month of owning it and haven't charged it outside of the first day, after purchase. I will say that the solar charged aspect is quite slow, but absolutely beneficial if you're an outdoorsy type. I also noted in some other review that turning off text/call notifications on the watch will help battery life, so I never turned on those notifications. Almost a month and I'm just now below 40% battery. Can't beat that!
Response from GarminBy Garmin, May 2, 2024
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
4
Great watch!
on April 25, 2024
Posted by: TreJ
Over all this is a great watch. I am in the military so I prefer not to use an Apple Watch do to the battery life and how easy they break. For my life style so far has held up. I do run so did buy the garmin heart rate monitor. Hook up is very easy to this watch. This will lead to the only negative thing I’d have to say about this watch. I do not know if it is my tattoos but the heart rate on the watch does not seem to work well when I run. It reads my heart rate very low. But overall I’d give this watch a 8 of 10. Would still recommend for anyone with a life style that may put a watch through a rough environment or hitting it against things.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, May 2, 2024
Thank you for your review.
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Customer Rating
4
This is the watch I did not take back
on April 23, 2024
Posted by: Mark E
I tried a few smartwatches, and almost gave up. This one has the features, it's classy/athletic/durable/capable. There's a bit of a learning curve- like where are all the features? How do I get to them easily? Patience. All of a sudden the menus made sense and now it seems very intuitive- like any technology. Don't give up on this one, and don't feel bad you can't swipe your watch face like all the hipsters- this watch face is built for durability, and it looks cool when you can operate the functions by feel- there are 5 buttons to figure out but don't worry, it will come. There are a few video online by users to describe the depths of the functions, which are worth the 38 minutes to view, as you work through your own new watch. Oh, and the most interesting part is when you sync and download and discover how much your watch knows about you. It's worth knowing, leave your bluetooth on. This watch has so far motivated me to get out and exercise more than I have for months with a busy inside job, thanks Garmin for helping me become more outdoors-ey.
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Customer Rating
3
Garmin instinct two font.
on April 14, 2024
Posted by: Ctach
I bought this watch about a month ago.
Overall, I enjoy the operational look of the watch. Unfortunately, I would not recommend to a friend over the age of 45. My 50-year-old eyes have a very hard time reading the small text in a message screen. I’ve tried to increase the font size and you cannot.
This is a big disappointment.
Overall, I enjoy the operational look of the watch. Unfortunately, I would not recommend to a friend over the age of 45. My 50-year-old eyes have a very hard time reading the small text in a message screen. I’ve tried to increase the font size and you cannot.
This is a big disappointment.
Response from GarminBy Garmin, April 15, 2024
Thank you for your review and experience with the Instinct 2 Solar. We would like to discuss this further over email. If you would please email us at
product.support@garmin.com.
product.support@garmin.com.
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