Minimalist Analog Easy Read - Data Plus

Your data, without turning your watch into a dashboard.

Get it on Connect IQ

Version 1.0.3.1. 14 accent colors.

Minimalist Analog Easy Read - Data Plus on a Forerunner 965. Yellow accent.

What it is

A discreet easy reader that shows the data of your choice in twelve positions around the dial, without turning your watch into a dashboard.

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SIXTEEN FIELDS TO CHOOSE FROM

Heart rate, Steps, Calories, Distance, Floors, Active minutes, Battery, Body Battery, Stress, Notifications, Altitude, Temperature, Sunrise and sunset, Date, Calendar week, Time (digital)

Hold a field to open its own Garmin screen, where Garmin provides one (only on watch models with a touchscreen). Heart rate, steps, calories, Body Battery and more are one long press away, without leaving the face to go looking.

CUSTOMIZATION

Compact fields take one position, long ones take two, so a full date gets the room it needs. Any field can be set to long when you want it to breathe.

Any position can be left empty for a cleaner dial.

Battery as percent or days remaining.

Reset fields brings the ring back to the defaults.

An extra touch: the second hand as a sweeping needle with a counterweight (Signature), as a plain needle without one, or as a quieter marker stepping around the minute track. Or none at all.

Fourteen accent colors.

Configure everything on the watch under Customize, or from the Connect IQ Store app. Adding, changing and removing fields works without your phone.

TUNED FOR YOUR SCREEN, DEVICE BY DEVICE

On AMOLED, the face uses the full resolution and color depth for crisp numerals and fine detail, and the always-on view stays readable while dropping the accent color. Our custom anti-aliasing technique gives the hands and numerals smooth, clean edges on MIP (memory-in-pixel) screens, where most faces settle for jagged ones. Also, most faces are drawn once and stretched to fit every watch. This one is tuned device by device, to look its best on the screen you own.

SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE

The interface is translated into 32 languages, and the day and month names on the dial into 24. Numbers and times follow your watch settings, including thousands separators, 12 or 24 hour time, and metric or imperial units. Week numbers follow ISO 8601.

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See it on your watch

Pick your watch model and an accent color, and see Minimalist Analog Easy Read - Data Plus on it.

Accent color
Minimalist Analog Easy Read - Data Plus on a fēnix 8 47mm / 51mm / tactix 8 47mm / 51mm / quatix 8 47mm / 51mm, Blue accent.

Accent colors

14 accent colors, picked in the face's settings. Here they are on the dial they sit on.

MIP screens show 64 colors, and each accent takes the nearest one they can show.

How to use it

  1. Install it

    Open the Connect IQ Store app on your phone, search for "Minimalist Analog Easy Read - Data Plus" and install it. The face reaches your watch at the next sync. Or start from its Connect IQ store page.

    Watches that carry the Connect IQ Store can install it on the watch itself, too.

  2. Configure the watch face in the settings menu

    The way in depends on your watch. These are Garmin's own steps, from the owner's manuals. Pick your watch.

    On the watch it appears as Minimal. Analog Easy Read Data, which is the longest name the watch will show.

    Five-button watches with a touchscreen

    fēnix 7, 7 Pro, 7S, 7X and their Solar editions, fēnix 8, 8 Pro and 8 Solar, fēnix 9, 9 Pro and 9 Pro Solar, fēnix E, epix (Gen 2) and epix Pro (Gen 2), Enduro 2 and 3, tactix 7 and 8, quatix 7, 7 Pro, 7X and 8, MARQ (Gen 2), Descent Mk3, Mk3i and G2, D2 Mach 1 and 2, Forerunner 165, 170, 265, 570, 70, 955, 965 and 970.

    1. From the watch face, hold the middle-left button. It is called MENU on fēnix and UP on Forerunner.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Press UP or DOWN to scroll to Minimal. Analog Easy Read Data.
    4. Press START, the upper-right button.
    5. Select Apply to make it your watch face. To change its settings, select Customize, then Settings.
    Five-button watches without a touchscreen

    Forerunner 255, 255 Music, 255s and 255s Music, Instinct 3 AMOLED 45 mm and 50 mm.

    1. From the watch face, hold the middle-left button. It is called UP on Forerunner and MENU on Instinct.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Press UP or DOWN to scroll to Minimal. Analog Easy Read Data.
    4. Press START, the upper-right button. On Instinct it is called GPS.
    5. Select Apply to make it your watch face. To change its settings, select Customize, then Settings.

    These watches have no touchscreen, so the hold gestures are not there. Everything else works the same.

    Venu 3, Venu 2 and vívoactive 5

    Venu 3 and 3S, Venu 2, 2S and 2 Plus, vívoactive 5.

    1. From the watch face, hold the lower button, B.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Swipe right or left to Minimal. Analog Easy Read Data.
    4. Tap it to make it your watch face. To change its settings, select the edit icon, then Settings.
    Venu 4, D2 Air X15 and vívoactive 6

    Venu 4, D2 Air X15, vívoactive 6.

    1. From the watch face, swipe left.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Scroll to Minimal. Analog Easy Read Data.
    4. Swipe left on it.
    5. Select Apply to make it your watch face, or Settings to change it.
    Approach S50, S70 and D2 Air X10

    Approach S50, Approach S70, D2 Air X10.

    Open the page called Customizing the Watch Face in your owner's manual. On these watches you browse the faces by swiping up or down, and select Apply to make Minimal. Analog Easy Read Data your watch face.

  3. Or set it up from your phone

    In the Connect IQ Store app on your phone, open My Device, select Minimalist Analog Easy Read - Data Plus, then Settings.

  4. Choose your settings

    A lot of settings, in the order the watch shows them.

    Data slots
    Up to twelve slots around the ring, packed clockwise from the top. On the watch, use Add slot and Remove slot, and give each slot a Data field and a Size. Default: Eight slots: Date (long), Battery, Calories (long), Heart rate, Sunrise / Sunset (long), Temperature, Steps (long), Body Battery.
    Data field
    What a slot shows. Choose from: Heart rate, Steps, Calories, Distance, Floors, Active minutes, Battery, Body Battery, Stress, Notifications, Altitude, Temperature, Sunrise / Sunset, Date, Calendar week, Time (digital). Or pick Off to keep the position empty.
    Size
    Compact takes one position, Long takes two. Twelve compact positions fill the ring.
    Accent color
    The color of the ring and the fields. Choose from: White, Gray, Silver, Bronze, Gold, Blue, Red, Green, Teal, Orange, Yellow, Forest Green, Purple, Peach. Default: Blue.
    Second hand
    Signature is a sweeping needle with a counterweight. Simple is a plain needle. Tick is a marker stepping around the minute track. Or pick Off. Default: Signature.
    Battery in days
    On, the Battery field shows days remaining. Off shows percent. Default: Off.
    Reset fields
    An action, not a switch. Open it and choose Reset field positions: the slots go back to the eight above. Accent color and second hand stay as you set them.

  5. Hold for the full glance

    Hold a data slot and the watch opens that reading's own Garmin glance: the heart rate page for Heart rate, the steps page for Steps, and so on (only on watch models with a touchscreen). Hold Date or Calendar week and the watch opens the calendar (only on watch models with a touchscreen). Time (digital) has no glance of its own, so a hold on it does nothing. Distance has no complication of its own either, so a hold on it opens Steps.

  6. What the readings show

    Sunrise/Sunset shows whichever comes next: the sunrise before dawn, the sunset through the day, the next sunrise after dusk.

    Time follows the 12 or 24 hour setting of your watch.

    Calendar week follows ISO 8601 and shows as W and the number. Weeks start on Monday, and week 1 is the week with the first Thursday of the year.

    Numbers use the thousands separator of your watch, and the units it is set to (metric or US/imperial). Temperature comes from the watch's own sensor or its weather, as the watch provides it.

    A value too wide for its slot is drawn tighter first. A value still too wide belongs in a Long slot.

  7. Always-on and battery

    On AMOLED watches, the always-on view keeps the dial readable and drops the accent color and the second hand. On MIP watches the face stays fully drawn.

  8. Your language

    The settings are in 32 languages, and the day and month names on the dial in 24, following the language of your watch.

  9. Check your watch

    This face is currently available on 65 watch models, AMOLED and MIP. The Connect IQ Store offers the face only for a supported watch. If you cannot find it in the store, check which watch is currently associated with your Garmin account in the Connect IQ Store app, and that it is supported.

More questions? Read the FAQ, or ask us.

Version and what changed

VER1.0.3.1

In the store since September 30, 2026.

Battery can show days remaining instead of percent.

Reset fields brings the data fields back to the defaults.

Color optimization for MIP displays. Other various small improvements.

Fixed: the data slots can now be set correctly over your phone in the Connect IQ Store app. Slot 1 to Slot 12, one list each.

Every version and what changed

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