Set-Up

Setting up your new COROS watch should take only a few quick steps for you to be ready to begin recording activities. 

Auto-Lock

When you first receive your COROS watch, it will be set as default to “Scroll to Unlock” to prevent any accidental starts/cancellations of activities, etc. To unlock your watch, scroll the dial consistently in one direction until the display unlocks 

 

Button Layout

1 (LIGHT):

 

Long press to activate and deactivate backlight

2 (Digital Dial/CONFIRM):

 

Scroll/rotate the dial to move your selection up and down

Press to confirm a selection

Hold to finish a workout

3 (BACK/LAP):

 

Press to return to the previous screen (BACK/LAP button)

Press to record a lap or rest during workouts

Hold to open Toolbox/shortcut menu 

Firmware Updates

To check for firmware updates, open the COROS app and navigate to the Profile Page. To view available firmware updates, tap on the watch icon and select Firmware Version.

How to Charge Your COROS Watch

* COROS watches support charging during workouts. Feel free to charge your COROS watch in the middle of the workout recording. Charging will not interfere, stop, or restart your ongoing workouts. 

Recording Your First Workout

Settings/Preferences

Wearing Your Watch

To ensure that your watch can gather the most accurate data possible, here are a few best practice tips to follow. 

3rd Party Integrations/Data Syncing

Link your COROS account with 3rd party apps to enjoy a fast and seamless data syncing experience.

Alarm, Stopwatch, Timer

Change vibration or tone settings on your watch. 

Timer 

Stopwatch 

Alarm 

Altitude Alert

Battery Usage Tool

Built into every COROS watch is a "Battery Usage" tool that allows you to view on-demand usage reports on the consumption of your watch battery during the current charging cycle.  

To access the Battery Usage tool, hold the back button to access the Toolbox, then scroll until you find "Battery Usage". The Battery Usage tool will then display a graph that shows you the current battery percentage of your watch, a graph showing your historical battery drain, when your last charge was, and the estimation of how long your battery will last based on "standard use". 

Control Insta360

·         To control your Insta360 from your COROS VERTIX 2S, the first thing that you will need to do is connect the two devices via Bluetooth. In order to do so, power on your Insta360 and then hold the back button on your VERTIX 2S to open up the Toolbox. From the Toolbox, select Insta360 → "Confirm” to add camera. 

·         Once you have paired the two devices, you will control your Insta360 camera through the Insta360 widget in your Toolbox. To locate this widget, hold the back button on your watch, scroll until you find "Insta360 Control" indicated with a camera icon and select this.  

·         After your VERTIX 2S connects to the Insta360 device, you then can scroll between using photo and video mode on the watch, using the press function on the digital dial to take photos or start/stop videos directly from your watch. 

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Control Insta360 GO 2

To pair your COROS watch with an Insta360 GO 2 camera, follow the instructions below:

  1. Power up Insta GO 2
  2. Enter Remote Pairing mode on Insta GO 2
  3. Long press the Back button on VERTIX 2S, choose Camera Control
  4. Confirm on the watch and search for the camera
  5. Add the camera
  6. Scroll between Photo and Video mode
  7. Press the digital dial to take photos or start/stop videos directly from the watch

Once connected, you will be able to control your Insta360 GO 2 using the digital dial. This includes starting/stopping photos and videos directly from the watch

For information on how to pair with other Insta 360 cameras, please view this article.

When pairing with the Insta GO 2, COROS watches will support 3 modes: Photo, Video, and Video Pro. You are able to switch modes using the digital dial.

Downloading Maps

Use the Map Manager tool to download and organize your map data via Wi-Fi, and store these maps on your watch directly through the COROS app.

Find My Phone & Find My Watch

Users that have their COROS watch and phone connected via Bluetooth can find their watch via the COROS app and vice versa.

On the app

On the watch

Wellness Check and HRV

·         Wellness Check is a convenient on-wrist test that provides you with a comprehensive overview of your wellness status. To access the Wellness Check test, press and hold the BACK/LAP button on your COROS watch to open the Toolbox menu, then scroll to the Wellness Check option. Follow the on-watch instructions to start the 30-60 second test.  During this time, your watch will use the optical heart rate sensor and ECG (electrocardiogram) sensor to gather data.

·         After completing the Wellness Check, you can view the results on your COROS watch right away, displaying key indicators such as Stress Level, Resting Heart Rate, HRV, Breathing Rate, and SpO2. After syncing your watch with the COROS app, you can view and track your results over time.

Light Key Shortcut

·         The Light Key shortcut creates a way to view the feature you need most, in the most efficient way possible. 

·         To create the shortcut, hold the BACK/LAP button to access your Toolbox → System → More Settings → Light/Option Key 

Music

·         Using your COROS charging cable, you will first want to connect your COROS VERTIX 2S to a Mac or PC. Once you have done so, wait for the VERTIX 2S to appear as an external hard drive on your computer. You will likely see this either on your desktop or in the "External Hard Drive" section of the disk management section of your computer. 

·         Next, after selecting the COROS VERTIX 2S hard drive on your computer you will see two folders, "Maps" and "Music". Open the "Music" folder on your hard drive. Using MP3 files stored locally on your computer (the VERTIX 2S only supports MP3 at this time), simply select the music you wish to download to your watch, then "drag and drop" the files from your computer into the "Music" folder on your COROS VERTIX 2S. 

·         With the music now stored on your COROS VERTIX 2S, you will want to ensure that you have either a speaker or Bluetooth headphones connected to your watch in order to play music, as the watch itself does not have speakers. To do so, hold the back button and navigate to Settings → Accessories → Add Bluetooth, and ensure your desired Bluetooth device is in Pairing Mode to make a connection.

·         Once you have headphones connected and music stored on the watch, all you will need to do is hold the BACK/LAP button, navigate to the "Music" icon and use either the touch screen or digital dial to begin playing music.

Night Mode

·         Night Mode provides low brightness level always-on backlight for training at night or darker conditions. Frequently activating the standard backlight will drain the battery life on your COROS watch. 

·         To access Night Mode, hold the BACK/LAP button to open the Toolbox → Night Mode

Storm Alert

All COROS watches are equipped with barometers to detect air pressure changes, which can be used to predict and detect weather changes. In the event of an incoming storm, the Storm Alert feature on your COROS watch can notify you in time should immediate actions be needed to keep you safe during training and daily use. 

Watch Faces

From the COROS app: To change the watch faces available on your COROS watch, open the COROS App and navigate to the profile page, tap on the image of your watch under "My Devices", and tap on "Watch Faces".  

From the watch: Hold the BACK/LAP button to open the Toolbox → System → More Settings → Watch Face

 

 

Wi-Fi

 

Daily Widgets 

Widgets can easily be accessed from the main watch face by scrolling up and down. Press the CONFIRM button on certain widget pages for additional information. Use either the dial or touch screen to view the recent history of the selected widget data page.

To customize these widgets first open the COROS app. Next, select the "watch" icon in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, then "Customization" within the COROS VERTIX 2S Device section. Now choose "Daily Data" which will display the full list of widgets that can be displayed. 

Using the three white horizontal lines on the right-hand side of the screen, you can drag and drop the different fields into any order that you would like. The widget which is shown at the top of the screen on the COROS app will appear as the first data available when scrolling down on your COROS VERTIX 2S watch. 

To remove or add widgets, you can use the +/- buttons on the left-hand side of the COROS app. All of the widgets that are currently appearing on your watch will appear under the "Manage Daily Data display order" heading. Widgets that are not displayed on your watch will appear under the "Hidden Daily Data" field. 

After customizing your widgets to your preference, make sure to choose the "Save" button in the upper right-hand corner of the app to populate these changes to your watch. If you want to reset the widgets to factory settings, choose "Restore Defaults" at the bottom of the COROS app. 

Calories 

Active Calories measurement displayed on COROS watches and within the COROS app is an estimation of the calories burned during recorded workouts and times where your watch records a cadence over 130 steps/minute, most common when walking quickly.  

In order to change or set your daily goals (both Calories and Exercise time), open the COROS app and navigate to your profile page. Next, scroll to the very bottom of the page to find where you can change your goals. 

 

Exercise Time 

Exercise Time is a measurement showing the amount of time in which you have recorded exercises during the day 

Sun Movements

Heart Rate 

Elevation

Barometer 

Sleep Time 

Weather

Steps

·         The steps widget on your COROS watch/app uses the hardware and proprietary algorithms to count the number of steps you have taken in a day 

Floors

·         The floors widget on your COROS watch/app uses the hardware and proprietary algorithms to count the number of floors you have climbed in a day

Notifications

·         Easily view incoming texts, emails, messages, calendar alerts, and phone calls from your watch.

·         Press the CONFIRM button to view and expand the last received notification.  Viewing notifications on your COROS watch will not affect the notifications received on your phone.

·         Scroll down to view the remaining or the next notification.

·         Press the CONFIRM button again to delete the current notification or all notifications stored on your COROS watch.  Deleting notifications on your COROS watch will not affect the notifications received on your phone.

Daily Stress

Assess your current stress levels, and monitor your daily and overall trends to gain a well-rounded view of your stress to help maximize training and recovery.

To toggle Daily Stress off, please follow the instructions below:

Overnight HRV

·         Automatically measure heart rate variability (HRV) anytime you wear your watch to sleep. Assess your body's physical and mental response to both daily, and overnight factors such as life and work stress, training, and sleep quality.

·         To receive your Overnight HRV normal range, wear your watch to sleep for 5 nights to establish a baseline. Once you have done so, you will be able to see your assessment on your watch or in the COROS app.

Running Fitness

·         Running Fitness represents your current marathon performance level.

·         View race time and pace estimates for 5k, 10k, half marathon, and full marathon distances based on your past 6 weeks’ training.

Training Load

·         Training load represents the amount of exercise stress your body is subjected to, and is a function of exercise time and intensity.. Track how different workouts on different days affect the amount of impact your body is sustaining, so you can build a plan that allows your body recover from hard training, and push through plateaus once you are ready.

Training Status

Understand the impact that recent training has on your body. This measurement consists of 3 different metrics:

Recovery

·         Get a quick glimpse of your readiness for training, factoring in your fatigue from recent workouts.

 

Activity Alerts

To set an activity alert, prior to pressing “Start Activity”, navigate to Settings → Activity Alerts. Activity Alerts are custom to individual activity modes and not all options may be available for select workouts. 

Activity Modes

 

Advanced Running Metrics

Running Power (provided directly from all COROS watches)

Form Power

Ground Time

Left/Right Balance

Stride Ratio

Stride Height

Stride Length

Background Color

·         To change the background color on your COROS watch (during workouts), hold the BACK/LAP button to open the Toolbox → System → Workout Interface → Background Color

Customize Activity Data Pages

To customize data pages on your COROS watch, please follow the steps below:

Manually Sending Data to 3rd Party Sites

 

Navigation and Routes

 

Notifications During Activities

To enable notifications during activities, please follow the steps below:

NOTE: Receiving notifications increases the battery consumption on your COROS watch.

Resume Later

During select activity modes (Bike, Trail Run, Mtn Climb and Hike) on COROS watches you have the option to use the "Resume Later" feature to help support Multi-Day activities and extend battery life on your watch.

To use this feature, start any of the mentioned activities as normal. Once you want to use the Resume Later option, with the watch unlocked, press the digital dial to pause the activity. Next, scroll to the "Resume Later" option. Press the digital dial once to confirm that you want to exit the activity using the resume later option.

To restart your activity, from the main watch face, press the digital dial. You will be prompted with the message "Resuming unfinished activity mode", press the digital dial to reopen the activity and resume.

Route Syncing to Watch During an Activity

During the activity on your phone: COROS app → Profile → tap on watch icon → My Routes → Select Route → Sync with your watch

During the activity on your watch: Press and hold the BACK/LAP button → Navigation → Select Courses → Choose the route → Start Course

Scrolling Options

Auto-Scroll  

Touch Scroll 

Syncing Data with the COROS App

·         After a workout is finished, the watch will sync data automatically to your COROS account on your phone if Bluetooth connection is established. If you don’t see the updated data on the COROS app, please tap on the Today page, pull down, and release the page until the top section shows syncing progress.

Using Different GPS Modes

The VERTIX 2s has three different Satellite Settings to fit different scenarios.

Can't Connect to COROS App 

A Bluetooth disconnection icon will show up on the main watch face when the Bluetooth connection is lost. “Please connect to the COROS App” will appear on the Notifications widget. Additionally, you will not be able to manually sync the data by pulling down the Progress page in the COROS app.

Please follow the steps to fix the Bluetooth connection.

Start, Turn Off and Restart 

Start  

Turn Off  

Restart  

Reset

Resetting the watch will not affect the data stored on your COROS app. However, all data on your watch will be removed and customized settings will be cleared.