every Garmin forerunner 970 Watch Face More: Detailed Garmin Forerunner 970 Review Garmin has taken inspiration from its other watch faces in the Forerunner series to give you a pretty good number of faces for the Forerunner 970. Here are all 16 AMOLED faces as of 2 jun 2025. [gallery size="medium" columns="4" ids="100046,100031,100032,100038,100039,100040,100041,100043,100045,100044,100030,100037,100033,100034,100035,100036"] Options There is scope to change various colours to suit your taste, with a neat option for the accent colour to follow whatever you have chosen as the primary data colour. Much of the true scope for customisation lies in the Data Complications that Garmin offers. It's a good list that encompasses a range of personal, environmental and other kinds of data, like these: training readiness, VO2max, weather, weekly running distance, acute load, alarm, altitude, barometric trend, battery, body battery, calories, day/date, date/month, floors climbed, HRV status, heart rate, intensity minutes, notifications, recovery time, steps, stress, sunset/sunrise, timer, and there is even a 'none' complication which can sometimes help the appearance a little. Opinions You've come here for an opinion. Here goes. Grab a coffee if you work for Garmin, you'll need it. Extremely poor designs: all we can meaningfully change are the complications and basic colour. This is a truly awful set of watch faces, made worse when you consider you are buying a top-end sports watch. The variety and inspiration on offer here are minimal. Whilst the colour palettes offer some scope for genuine customisation, how and where those colours and accents can be applied is limited to a great extent. Many of the designs are merely subtly different flavours of others - for example, DASH and FR570 are effectively the same. The selection of faces on Instinct 3 felt better - for those who don't know, that's a more affordable watch. Surely even those readers who like one or two of these Forerunner faces - some of you will, we're all different - are disappointed by the collection? Note to Garmin: At least for now, you've won the battle for having a sports watch on our wrists during sports. You are fighting for space on our wrists 24/7 against smart watches like the Apple Watch. To achieve that, the watch needs to look good all the time; in the case of FR970, it should have a sporty twist and work efficiently. You are failing to keep up in technical areas such as 4G LTE/5G connectivity (even though we know you will release an LTE version of Fenix 8 Pro later this year), fair enough, there are things beyond your control there. However, you have entirely failed to convince me to wear these watch faces. Whoop looks better, Suunto RUN looks better, Apple Watch looks better. Your designers appear to be taking you for a ride. You let them work from home, but in reality, they are out training and leaving the design work to their 14-year-old kids. Maybe I'm getting old and grumpy, but these watch faces seem like they might appeal to a younger audience... You know, the ones who generally can't afford $600 watches. Oh, and I'm not even going to start moaning about the stupid, stupid yellow bit on the side of the watch. FFS if I wanted a yellow watch, I'd buy one. I bought this watch as it was the blackest one you sold. Hint: I want the bit on the side to match. Does it match any of the yellow clothes I've? Of course not, I haven't got any. Sorry. I moaned. I'll get off the fence now. Jeez. Get a grip. Get a decent design team. Put the current team on testing duty, because you haven't done that properly either (again)...see below. [gallery size="medium" columns="4" ids="100057,100055,100054,100056"]
