Garmin Smartwatch 43mm Forerunner 165 Music in Black and Slate Gray - 010-02863-30
Garmin Forerunner® 165 Music Smartwatch
Looking for a smart accessory to be both your musical and fitness companion? The versatility of the Garmin Forerunner® 165 Music smartwatch could be a perfect match for your lifestyle. This wearable device features a 1.2-inch AMOLED display that acts as a touchscreen, although the watch also has button controls. When you connect your smartwatch to your smartphone, you can view texts, emails and other alerts on the screen. You can also download your favorite playlists and albums from your Amazon Music, Spotify or Deezer profile and listen wirelessly without needing your phone at all. You can even use the Garmin Forerunner® 165 Music for contactless payments at your favorite stores via Garmin Pay.
Reach Your Health Goals
Enjoy using your watch as much as you want, as the battery offers life up to 11 days in smartwatch mode or up to 19 hours in GPS mode. The Garmin Forerunner® 165 Music watch also shares many characteristics with fitness trackers, as it's packed full of features for health and exercise. This Garmin accessory can monitor your sleep stages and sleep quality overnight and provide you with a morning report full of data, plus training outlooks, weather and your HRV status. The watch can also track your stress, energy levels, blood oxygen saturation, heart rate variability, menstrual cycles and more. When you spend two minutes logging your most important health stats, you can even generate a report on the Garmin Forerunner® 165 Music that's sharable with your healthcare provider.
Enhance Your Workout Routine
Before you begin exercising, the Garmin Forerunner® 165 Music smartwatch can tell you your current fitness level and provide you with a "fitness age". The watch comes with over 25 built-in sports apps for activities like strength training, cycling and swimming. When you use the Garmin Connect app, you can find or create your own fitness courses, as well as browse dozens of strength, yoga, HIIT, cardio and Pilates workouts. Runners will especially love the Garmin Forerunner® 165 Music smartwatch with features like race adaptive training, Garmin Coach, race predictor and PacePro™. This is just the beginning of the fitness benefits this watch has to offer. If you're interested in learning more about accessories like this one before investing, dive into our smartwatch buying guide first. Otherwise, all other questions about this Garmin product can be directed to our experts at 800-860-3577.
Features
- Pace, Distance, Heart Rate
This easy-to-use GPS running smartwatch provides the essential features you need to take your running to the next level — including GPS, pace, distance and wrist-based heart rate1. - Daily Suggested Workouts
Get workouts made for you. They adapt after every run to match your performance and recovery as well as the races coming up in your Garmin Connect™ smartphone app calendar. - Garmin Coach
Get free adaptive 5K, 10K and half-marathon training plans from expert coaches to help you take on a new challenge. - Race Adaptive Training
Get ready for your race with training tips, personalized daily suggested workouts and completion time predictions based on race details you enter into Garmin Connect. - Morning Report
Receive an overview of your sleep1 and training outlook as soon as you wake up — alongside HRV status and weather. You can even customize your report to show you what you want to see. - Training Effect
With training effect, you can see how your workouts impact your fitness and understand the primary benefit from training runs and workouts.
Plan
- Long Battery Life
With up to 11 days in smartwatch mode and up to 19 hours in GPS mode, you’ll get a more complete picture of your health and training. - Recovery Time
Know how long to recover before your next high-effort workout based on your latest training as well as overall stress, sleep and daily activities outside of workouts. - Sleep Monitoring And Sleep Score
Understand how your body is recovering with sleep score, get a breakdown of your sleep stages, and gain detailed insights for improved sleep quality1. - Body Battery Energy Monitoring
Track your body’s energy levels to find the best times for activity and rest1. Even get details and insights on how sleep, naps, activities and stress impact your energy. - Courses
Create or find existing courses in the Garmin Connect app and from favorite third-party platforms, and sync directly to your watch. - Race Predictor
Get an estimate of what your pace could be for a 5K, 10K, half-marathon and even a marathon. - Nap Detection
Automatically track or log your naps to see how they benefit your body and what their ideal time and duration should be. - Women’s Health Tracking
Track and log your menstrual cycle or pregnancy, and get exercise and nutrition education.
Prepare
- Wrist-Based Heart Rate
Constant measurement of your heart rate helps you gauge how hard you work during activities, so you can stay in the know all day and night1. - Wrist-Based Running Dynamics
Get measurements of crucial running metrics such as cadence, stride length, ground contact time and more to help improve your running form. - VO2 Max
See your current fitness level, and track changes over time to set goals, evaluate progress and more. - Intensity Minutes
Track your moderate and vigorous activity minutes to help meet your goals. - HRV Status
Gain a deeper understanding of your overall health, training and recovery through heart rate variability. - Audio Prompts
Get alerts to know how you’re performing and even be guided through workouts. - Stress Tracking
Find out if you’re having a calm, balanced or stressful day. - Pulse OX Sensor
Track your blood oxygen saturation while you’re awake or asleep2. - Cross Training
Browse the Garmin Connect app for dozens of free HIIT, strength, cardio, yoga and Pilates workouts. You can even build your own in the app and send them to your watch. - Health Snapshot
Log a 2-minute session to record key health stats, then generate a report to share with your health care provider. - Activity Tracking
Keep tabs on your daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed and more from your wrist1. - Fitness Age
Estimate how fit you are compared to your actual age.
Perform
- Built-In GNSS
Our built-in sensors connect to multiple satellite systems so you track where you run, and get accurate stats, including distance and pace. - Wrist-Based Running Power
See how much power you’re applying to the trail or road so you can manage effort and fine-tune training. - Built-In Sports Apps
Tap in to 25+ built-in activities, including cycling, open-water swimming, strength training and more. - Track Running
Record accurate lap distances, and see your distances in meters. - PacePro Feature
Plan race-day strategy with GPS-based pace guidance for a selected course or distance.
Connect
- Music
Download songs and playlists from your Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music accounts for phone-free listening with your wireless headphones. - Safety and Tracking
If your watch senses that an incident occurred, it will send a message with your live location3. Or if you feel unsafe, you can do it manually. - Garmin Pay Contactless Payments
Breeze through checkout lines or transit systems with participating providers. - Smart Notifications
Receive emails, texts and alerts on your watch when paired with your iPhone or Android smartphone. - LiveTrack Feature
Friends and family can follow your real-time location3 and view preplanned courses. - Garmin Connect App
See your health and fitness information, connect with friends, and more. - Connect IQ Store
Add watch faces, data fields and apps to your paired watch.
Footnotes:
- 1 Activity tracking accuracy: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/legal/atdisclaimer/
- 2 This is not a medical device and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or monitoring of any medical condition; see Garmin.com/ataccuracy. Pulse Ox not available in all countries.
- 3 When paired with your compatible smartphone. For safety and tracking feature requirements and limitations, see Garmin.com/safety.
- SPOTIFY and the Spotify logo are among the registered trademarks of Spotify AB. Amazon Music and all related logos are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. iPhone is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Android is a trademark of Google LLC.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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The battery can last up to 11 days in smartwatch mode and up to 20 days in battery saver smartwatch mode. When using GPS only, it lasts up to 19 hours, and in all-systems GNSS mode it lasts up to 17 hours. If you use GPS mode with music playback, expect approximately 7 hours for GPS-only and 6.5 hours for all-systems GNSS mode.
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This device offers extensive health tracking including sleep monitoring with sleep stages and quality insights, stress tracking, energy level monitoring with Body Battery, heart rate variability, Pulse Oximeter for blood oxygen saturation, menstrual cycle tracking, and a 2-minute Health Snapshot report. It also tracks daily steps, calories burned, floors climbed, and more.
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Yes, the watch includes built-in music storage with 4GB capacity, allowing you to download songs and playlists from services like Spotify, Deezer, or Amazon Music. You can listen to music directly from the watch with wireless headphones without needing your phone.
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It features over 25 built-in activity profiles including running, cycling, swimming, strength training, yoga, HIIT, cardio, and Pilates. Additionally, you can use suggested personalized daily workouts that adapt according to your performance, plus access free adaptive training plans such as 5K, 10K, and half-marathon coaches via the companion app.
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Yes, it is compatible with both iOS and Android devices through the Garmin Connect app. The watch supports smart notifications such as texts and emails, live tracking sharing, safety incident detection, and allows downloading additional apps, watch faces, and data fields from the Connect IQ store.

