
Garmin - Instinct Crossover - Standard Edition
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Last updated: Dec 10, 2025 Scoring
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"30 day battery life ... solar option I'd like to upgrade to which will net essentially unlimited battery life if you're outside or in bright light often enough"
"Amazing battery life, even with activity tracking. ... If you don't want to charge your watch everyday"
"max battery life ... it gets up to 28 days of battery with notifications turned off"
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"the screen, which is not the awful LCD/LED stuff that most watches have. It's clear in all conditions, and extremely durable."
"I'd had the instinct crossover for a few years before I bought this and it's still in utterly perfect condition ... I work a physical and messy job, and I've worn it to work every day expecting it to get rather messed up. literally looks brand new, and i've accidently scraped it down brick walls and all kinds of sillyness."
"The Instinct/Fenix are better for hiking/backpacking since they’re tougher, with longer battery and more rugged features."
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"GPS tracking for hikes including good ascent tracking"
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"as a swimmer I felt not worth for only swimming so I send it back"
"sometimes miss laps"
Mine as well, max waiting time on my Crossover 7 seconds, which is nothing.. ..even 30 seconds is almost nothing, I'd say.
r/Garmin • I have had an apple watch for over 6 years but should I switch? ->if you don't care about colourful screen, I highly recommend one of the Instinct (2, Crossover or 3), I personally use Crossover standard (but I should get Solar version) 2 years already, battery is still the same (2 weeks recording running 2mil, and walking 1mil daily, and strength 4 times a week). I really hope for the next version of the Crossover, but no signs of it for now 😔
r/Garmin • I have had an apple watch for over 6 years but should I switch? ->That's the watch I have (instinct 3, solar tactical), It's fantastic, wife has one of the AMOLED versions. It's no worse than the AMOLED for looking at all the stats, as long as you don't absolutley need bright colors for some odd reason. The battery life and always on screen make it a clear winner for me. I use it for sports tracking (Mainly runs, hikes, gym and cycling) and checking my recovery needed. I can't see anything more you'd ever need in a watch, just seems perfect. I'd had the instinct crossover for a few years before I bought this and it's still in utterly perfect condition, battery is still amazing. I work a physical and messy job, and I've worn it to work every day expecting it to get rather messed up. literally looks brand new, and i've accidently scraped it down brick walls and all kinds of sillyness. I only upgraded because I fancied trying out a solar one and loved the look of the tactical.
r/Garmininstinct • Instinct 3 mainly as a sports tracker ->Garmin instinct crossover, 28 days battery life, 50 without constant hr measurement. Instinct 2x and instinct 3 solar 50mm have 40 days battery life, 70 without hr. And solar charging.
r/smartwatch • Best smartwatch with decent battery life ->Check whether this reality. My crossover says I have 51 days battery life when the hr sensor is switched off, but in real life, it's about 33 days. Still amazing, but less.
r/Garmin • The best watch of all time ->I have s11 and garmin crossover, and s11 is just smartwatch. Garmin is complete training computer.
r/AppleWatch • Is an Apple Watch bad for workouts and hikes? ->Garmin. I started with an Edge Explore 2 GPS last year, and then later decided I wanted a Garmin watch to go with it, so I bought myself an Instinct Crossover this year. No one else makes a watch anything like it, but it's by far the best watch I've ever owned. Love the combination of an analog watch with sports / smartwatch features.
r/bicycling • Fitness watch/ecosystem of choice? ->Instinct crossover if you want a hybrid watch that tracks your HR halfway decently for sports. I love that it's an analog watch with Lume most of the time, but when I need it, it's a fully digital (amoled) display giving me all the training info I need in a glance.
r/GarminWatches • Best Value Garmin Watch at the moment? ->That would be sweet. I had to quit wearing my watch at night (Instinct Crossover) because I realized having something like that on my wrist was waking me up at night. I'd love to have sleep stats again.
r/Garmin • All I want Is A Decent Fitness Band ->I've used Garmin Instinct Crossover and 2X for over 2 years and had no issues with the software. I understand those are not Forerunner watches, but I've never heard of Garmin watch resetting during an exercise.
r/beginnerrunning • Smartwatch for running ->Apple's native swim app is horrible. I used the Swim.com app for a while but requires you to use the touch screen during your workout which doesn't really work. After 6 months, I gave the watch to my daughter and bought a new Garmin. Best wishes with the app. I really liked the Apple as a watch but it just didn't cut it in the water. I did own a series 3 so maybe they are better now. The GPS tracking for open water was horrible. I swim the same loop around a lake and the Apple gave huge differences in distance every swim. The map showed me swimming through backyards and the boat launch parking lot. In the pool, it regularly missed lengths.
r/Swimming • Apple Watch - do you train with it? ->Maybe I just couldn't figure it out but I like a customizable data screen. I'm farsighted (like a lot of older Masters swimmers) and I want my main data screen to show the distance of the rep I'm currently swimming in large font. My old watch only showed total distance. I don't like to do math while I'm swimming. Then a customizable rest screen. For that one, I like total distance, distance of the last rep, HR, and a running timer of my rest. This is all standard stuff on any Garmin 5 button watch. A drill mode would be nice, too. I don't use a kick board. I do kicks on my back in a streamline. It's pretty easy to record kick by just doing some left arm strokes on occasion but other drills, you can't. I've heard the newer watches can record some kick board drills. At the end, I want to be able to see all the data. Stroke count, AWOLF, Avg pace and pace for each rep, and HR data for each rep. A graph alone isn't too helpful.
r/Swimming • Apple Watch - do you train with it? ->I'm a big fan of the Garmin Instinct watches, but I do like and use more of the smart features like notifications and whatnot. Features I love: * completely and utterly water proof (almost everyone I know using an apple watch has killed at least one in the water) * The rubber band is different material from the fitbits, I find it a lot more comfortable and doesn't smell when I wear it while sweating a lot like some other watches I have * 30 day battery life, and they have a solar option I'd like to upgrade to which will net essentially unlimited battery life if you're outside or in bright light often enough * Music controls! I haven't used a fitbit in years now but I always missed that back then. * Timers and alarms, I find myself being a lot more organized with my timers when they're on my wrist and visible at all times * Actually good step tracking * Sleep tracking * Heart rate monitoring and resting heart rate * Exercise tracking and actually decent approx calorie burn estimates (I did the math with my CI and weight loss and found it lined up within a pretty good margin) * I use the compass a surprising amount * GPS tracking for hikes including good ascent tracking * Buttons instead of touch so it can be used while sweating buckets * A battery saving mode that boosts the already great battery life into the stratosphere * Automatic data import into the LoseIt app, which I use for calorie tracking Most of these are specifically things that I like a lot better than similar products I've used like fitbits and the google pixel watch lineup. I've never used an apple watch myself but my sister and previous partners have used them and I really don't jive with the interface, although they have all said the idea of having a streak of "closing their rings" sufficiently gamified the process such that they actually did more exercise.
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