Garmin Venu 4 Adds Flashlight and Accessibility Upgrades

Garmin Venu 4 brings flashlight, better sleep and accessibility

Garmin has launched the Venu 4, a follow-up to the Venu 3 that leans into accessibility and health tracking while adding a few unexpected hardware choices.

The watch arrives in 41mm and 45mm sizes and starts at $549.99, about $100 more than its predecessor. Garmin still promises long battery life — up to 12 days in smartwatch mode — and keeps a 1.2-inch OLED display while adding an LED flashlight on the case to improve low-light usability.

On the health side, the Venu 4 expands sleep tracking beyond naps to measure bedtime consistency over seven days and flag when metrics like heart rate, skin temperature, and respiration deviate from your personal baseline. Users can log caffeine and alcohol intake to see how lifestyle choices affect sleep and heart rate.

Garmin also introduced a new Fitness Coach that creates tailored workouts across 25 activity types, using your recent activity, recovery status, and sleep quality to shape recommendations.

Accessibility receives clear emphasis. The Venu 4 can now read aloud the time and health metrics shown on its watch face, and offers color filters — grayscale, red/green, green/red, and blue/yellow — to improve readability for users with color vision deficiencies. Wheelchair mode introduced on the Venu 3 is further supported with movement tracking and reminders.

Taken together, these updates show Garmin balancing battery life, on-device utility, and inclusivity. The LED light is a practical, power-efficient alternative to driving screen brightness for short tasks, while spoken metrics and color options make core features usable for more people.

Why this matters: wearables are increasingly expected to be both fitness companions and everyday tools. Features that surface meaningful health deviations, link behaviors to outcomes, and reduce friction for users with disabilities increase the watch’s utility beyond workouts.

Key features at a glance

• LED flashlight on the case for low-light tasks
• Expanded sleep tracking with 7-day bedtime consistency and lifestyle logging
• Spoken time and health metrics plus color filters for accessibility
• Personalized Fitness Coach across 25 activities
• Up to 12 days battery life; two case sizes (41mm, 45mm)

What organizations should consider

Manufacturers and health platforms should treat accessibility and sleep analytics as features that drive retention and trust. That means validating spoken-metric accuracy, ensuring color filters work across use cases, and tuning health alerts to reduce false positives while catching real problems.

For product teams, the Venu 4 is a reminder that small hardware choices — an LED light or a spoken-readout — can unlock everyday value without driving major battery trade-offs.

QuarkyByte’s approach is to measure how these features perform in the real world: quantify engagement lifts, model health alert precision, and build experiments that balance battery, usability, and inclusivity. Companies integrating similar updates can use data-driven roadmaps to make accessibility and health features core differentiators rather than afterthoughts.

The Venu 4 is on sale now, and for teams watching the wearable market, it’s a clear signal that hardware makers will keep pushing practical, inclusive features that extend beyond pure fitness tracking.