- Garmin has added fertility tracking to many of its top wearables
- The feature comes via a partnership with Natural Cycles
- It’s coming to the 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. It has just been expanded further with the introduction of fertility tracking, which is tied to Garmin users thanks to a partnership with Natural Cycles.
If you haven’t heard of Natural Cycles, it is currently the only birth control app approved by the FDA. That means it’s well placed 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. It should therefore be available to a large number of Garmin’s customers.
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It works by measuring your skin temperature and then uses that reading to “unlock fertility insights in the Natural Cycles app,” Garmin says. This allows users to “better understand their reproductive health.” Your temperature is tracked overnight, with information synced to the Natural Cycles app in the morning.
Plan or prevent a pregnancy
One of the advantages of using a smartwatch to track your fertility is that it is simple and non-invasive. There is no need for any kind of hormone-based treatment or complex procedure, just a few measurements that can be collected from your wrist.
Garmin isn’t the first or only company to add fertility features to its wearables. Competitors including Apple, Whoop, Fitbit and more also offer some form of cycle tracking, meaning you have plenty of options if you want this kind of functionality on your wrist.
Garmin and Natural Cycles bike tracking features are not yet available everywhere. Garmin says it’s currently available in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the EU, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and the US. There’s no word yet on when it might be rolled out elsewhere.
But for now, it’s a welcome improvement to Garmin’s wearables and one that can help you keep track of a vital part of your life.
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