- Garmin has added fertility tracking to several of its best wearables
- The feature comes via a partnership with Natural Cycles
- It’s coming to Fenix 8, Forerunner 570, Venu 4 and more
These days, the best Garmin smartwatches are more than just fitness trackers: 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 with the introduction of fertility tracking, aimed at Garmin users through a collaboration with Natural Cycles.
If you haven’t heard of Natural Cycles, it’s currently the only birth control app cleared by the FDA. This means it’s well-positioned to enable cycle tracking on Garmin wearables and make understanding your fertility a little easier.
The new feature will be available on many of Garmin’s most popular watches, including the Fenix 8, Forerunner 570, Venu 4, and Venu X1. It should therefore be accessible to a wide variety of Garmin customers.
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It works by measuring your skin temperature, then uses that reading to “unlock fertility information in the Natural Cycles app,” says Garmin. 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.
Planning or preventing a pregnancy
One of the benefits of using a smartwatch to track your fertility is that it is simple and non-invasive. No hormonal treatment or complex procedures are necessary, just a few measurements that can be collected from your wrist.
Garmin is neither the first nor the only company to add fertility features to its wearable devices. Competitors including Apple, Whoop, Fitbit, and more also offer some sort of cycle tracking, which means you have plenty of options if you want this type of functionality on your wrist.
The cycle tracking features from Garmin and Natural Cycles 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 clear when it might be deployed elsewhere.
But for now, it’s a welcome improvement over Garmin’s wearables and could help you keep track of a vital part of your life.
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