Review on 🎵 Renewed Garmin Vivoactive 3 Music, Granite Blue with Rose Gold Hardware - Worldwide Version Featuring Music Storage, Built-in Sports Apps, Automatic Sync, and Spotify Support by Steve French

I use Garmin fitness watches before smartwatches existed and I love their products. This does most of what I want for running, however I'm missing the 4 face stats I had with my fitness watch. This gives you 3 fitness faces, each with 3 displays, but you switch between them. Good. I give it 4 stars for running. I can't get out of circle mode when swimming (or at least it's not intuitive on how to do it). I'm doing 0.95 mile "laps" back and forth to another island and just want to know the final distance, but I just keep it in run mode for swimming. As a fitness watch in general I give it 3 stars. I don't really use smartwatch features so I can't comment too much on them. What is very frustrating are the bugs, there are several of them but one is particularly bad. The music function occasionally does not connect to my headsets. So when I go for a morning jog, I plug in my headphones and they act like they're plugged in, but no music is playing. It just pauses the music and doesn't play. The only workaround I've found is to remove and re-add all my music. This happens a few times a year and then I just take my phone with me for this run as reinstalling music is quite difficult and time consuming and I fix it later. This musical feature is one of the reasons I bought the watch and I give this part 0 stars. If they fix that one bug I'll give it a 3 or 4. It has other cool stuff like sleep tracking etc but the music bug makes me mad when I get up at 3am and just want to run. I liked Garmin's fitness watches before smartwatches, but I'll probably switch brands for the next watch because I need a music function now.