Rush - GB - Manual

Most settings are on the watch. The basics are also in the Connect IQ app on your phone, see Settings on your phone.

On your watch, go to Menu → Watch Face → Rush and choose Customize, edit, configure or the edit icon. The exact path and wording are slightly different on every model.

Your settings are stored on the watch. They usually stay when you reinstall the watchface, but this isn't guaranteed.

In the Connect IQ app, choose My Device → Watch Faces → Rush → Settings. You find the basics there, and everything else stays on the watch. How it all works is explained in Settings on Your Phone.

• Theme and Load Profile, and in the free version the Pro Code.
• The options of this watchface: Time Size, Time Gradient, AOD Mode (AMOLED only), Divider, Lines and Status Icons. A theme also sets the Time Size and the gradient, so when you choose both in one save, the theme wins.
• DATA FIELDS: every field from the table below, each with its label. Date Progress and the ring only list data that can show progress.
• FONTS: the Hour, Minute, Text, Caption and Date Font, and on AMOLED the Hour and Minute AOD Font.
• COLORS: every color, like the time, the lines, the ring and the background.
• PLUGIN FIELDS and Custom Text at the bottom.

1. Open Data.
2. Choose Pick on screen and select a field on the watchface, or choose a field from the list.
3. Choose the Data row, then a category, then the field you want.
4. Use Data Options for its format, units and refresh time.

The fields on this watchface

The line under each side field shows the progress of that field, so a field with a goal (steps, calories, battery) fills its line. Pick on screen has every field except the AOD Field. Find that one in the list, or in Advanced options → Always-On Display.

You can also go to the same fields through Advanced options: Date, Side Fields and Ring & Dial. To set up a custom date, see Custom Date & Time Formats.

The divider is the leaning line between the time and the side fields. Find it in Advanced options → Side Fields.

• Divider: on or off.
• Divider Color 1, Divider Color 2: the divider goes from Color 1 at the top to Color 2 at the bottom. Give both the same color for a plain line.

The short, thick bars at both ends of the divider use the Unfilled Color of the lines (see Lines and progress). With Unfilled Color set to 70% darker or 40% lighter, they use Divider Color 1.

The 4 fields on the right are in Advanced options → Side Fields, or through Data. Side 1 shows its icon above the value, the weather icon by default. Side 2, 3 and 4 have a caption above the value.

• Text Label: the default. A short text such as HR or CAL, in the Caption Font. Change it with Text in the menu of the field.
• Icon: with a Text Label, the Icon row in the menu of the field adds the icon of the field to the left of the value, in the Icons color.
• An icon as label: choose a label such as Icon instead of Text Label to show only the icon.

The status icons show when your phone is disconnected, and when you have notifications, Do Not Disturb or an alarm. Find them in Advanced options → Status Icons.

• Position: Off, Below the fields or At the top.
• Color

AMOLED and MIP watches each have their own 33 themes, as they show colors very differently. MIP also has themes with a light background. See all of them on the themes page.

A theme sets the colors, the time fonts, the Time Size, the Gradient Style and the Line Style. Your data fields stay as they are. So choose your theme first, then change what you like.

Can't decide? The last option in the theme picker, AI Gen, makes a new set of colors and time fonts every time, with the gradients of the theme it starts from. You can also put Generate AI Theme on a touch area.

A MIP screen is always on. When you lower your wrist, the watch goes into low power mode, and Garmin only gives a watchface a very short moment to draw something new every second. Rush uses that moment for the fields that are set to update every second.

• Set the refresh time of a field to Always on in its Data Options. This works for the date and the side fields, not for the lines and the ring.
• Only one row of the screen can be drawn per second. With always-on fields on different rows, they take turns.
• Everything else updates on the next minute. When you raise your wrist, everything updates as usual.

The Instinct Crossover has real, physical hands. The watchface can draw a highlight on those hands, so they stand out against the screen. Find it in Advanced options → Hand Highlights.

• Hand Style: the shape of the highlight, or No Highlight. Fade-in, solid, Top Only, and 30% transparent versions, each in small, medium and large.
• Second Hand: No Second Hand, Fade-in or Solid.
• AOD Style: the highlight on the always-on display: No Highlight, Keep as is, Green, Red or Blue Lume, Custom Color, 40% darker or 60% darker.
• Minute Color, Hour Color, Second Hand Color: the colors of the highlights. These are their own settings, a theme doesn't change them.
• AOD Custom Color: only with AOD Style set to Custom Color.

The highlights are saved per profile.

On a watch with a touch screen, every field can open a shortcut. This watchface also has 4 touch areas of its own, one on each digit of the time: Hour Left, Hour Right, Minute Left and Minute Right.

Set them in Advanced options → Touch options. See Touch & Shortcuts for how to set them up, and for what a shortcut can do, such as the next profile or a new AI theme.

The PRO version from the Connect IQ store is fully unlocked. In the Free version, these need PRO:

• Data fields marked [PRO]. You can try one for an hour, then it shows PRO instead of its value.
• Touch shortcuts. You can try them for an hour, starting with the first shortcut you use.
• More than 2 profiles

To activate the Free version, open Pro Status → Activate and enter your code, or type it in Pro Code in the settings on your phone. Your phone needs to be connected. See Free vs PRO & Activation, which also explains which version to choose.

This manual only covers what is specific to Rush. The settings system works the same on every watchface with its settings on the watch, and the On-Watch Settings documentation explains all of it. For example:

• Settings Menu Map: everything in the settings menu, in one overview
• All Datafields: every field you can pick, with a search box
• Alternative Times: show the time in another city in any field
• Refresh Time: how often a field updates, and how that saves battery
• Custom Date & Time Formats: show the date or time exactly the way you want
• Goals & Progress Bars: set your own goal for a line or the ring
• Labels, Colors & Offsets: change the caption, color or position of a single field
• Profiles: save different setups and switch between them
• Themes: how themes work, and how to keep your own look
• Colors: change any color, or type an exact one
• Fonts: this watchface has an Hour, Minute, Text, Caption and Date font, and two AOD fonts on AMOLED
• Plugins: more data with OWM Weather GB, YR Weather GB, CGM+ and Tides GB
• Data From Other Apps: show values from apps that support complications
• Troubleshooting: what to do when something doesn't work

Have a question? See the Frequently Asked Questions.