- Garmin has added fertility tracking to many of its best wearables
- The feature comes through a partnership with Natural Cycles.
- Coming to Fenix 8, Forerunner 570, Venu 4 and more
The best Garmin smartwatches are more than just fitness trackers these days – they can help you get a clearer picture of your overall health, with many metrics that go far beyond exercise. This has just been expanded further with the introduction of fertility tracking, which is aimed at Garmin users thanks to a collaboration with Natural Cycles.
If you haven’t heard of Natural Cycles, it is currently the only FDA-approved birth control app. That means it’s well positioned to enable cycle tracking on Garmin wearables and make understanding your fertility a little easier.
The new feature is coming to many of Garmin’s most popular watches, including the Fenix 8, Forerunner 570, Venu 4, and Venu X1. Therefore, it should be available to a wide variety of Garmin customers.
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It works by measuring skin temperature and then uses that reading to “unlock fertility information in the Natural Cycles app,” Garmin says. This allows users to “better understand their reproductive health.” Your temperature is tracked overnight and the information is synced to the Natural Cycles app in the morning.
Planning or preventing pregnancy
One of the benefits of using a smartwatch to track your fertility is that it is simple and non-invasive. There is no need for any type of hormonal treatment or complex procedure, just some metrics that can be collected from your wrist.
Garmin is not the first or only company to add fertility features to its wearable devices. Rivals including Apple, Whoop, Fitbit and more also offer some form of cycle tracking, meaning you have plenty of options if you want this type of functionality on your wrist.
Garmin and Natural Cycles’ bike tracking features are not yet available everywhere. Garmin says it is currently available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the European Union, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It is not yet known when it could be implemented elsewhere.
But for now, it’s a welcome improvement for Garmin wearables and could help you keep track of a vital part of your life.
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