You may have many reasons for this. You may want to save the appearance of a watch face, the progress of an activity, an incoming notification or simply anything else, perhaps even an error, which you can then send to Garmin as a report. Here you will learn how to make a print screen on a Garmin watch and where you can find such images.
Some Garmin watches are capable of taking a screenshot of the watch face at any given moment, both during and outside of activities. However, the procedure differs depending on the model of the watch you are using. Here we will describe the procedure for the most common ones.
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How to make a print screen on Garmins
Forerunner series, Venu, vívoactive 4/5
On lower models of running watches such as Forerunner 45, 55, 165, 255, 265, respectively Came and vívoactive you can make a print screen very easily, by simply pressing the Back and Light buttons simultaneously for about one to two seconds. A message on the dial with the path to where the image was saved informs you about the successful capture of the image, which applies to all Garmin watch models.
As for the Forerunner 745, 935, 945, 965 models, they offer a Hot Key function that can be adjusted to take a screenshot. To do this, you need to go to the main menu, select Settings -> System -> Hot Keys and select a button or a combination of them and assign it a screenshot function.
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fēnix series, Descent, Enduro, Epix, Instinct, MarQ, quatix, tactix
The fenix, fenix 2 and fenix 3 watch models do not have the ability to take screenshots. You can store them from the fenix 5 watch generation and above. For the quatix series, the screenshots do not support the original model and the quatix 3. For the tactix series, it is the original model and the Bravo model. Taking a print screen for other models of the aforementioned series works exactly the same here as for higher models of the Forerunner series, so you must first set a button or a combination of them in Settings -> System.
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How to download Garmin printscreen
Connect your Garmin watch to your computer using the charging cable. If you don't see the GARMIN folder automatically, find it and open it. Find the folder here ScreenShot. In it, you can already see the screenshots you have taken, which you can download to your computer. You can also delete them from there. If you use a Mac, you may find the app useful Android File Transfer, which simplifies connecting the watch to the computer.
