Watches · Garmin

Forerunner 955

The MIP triathlon watch that many still prefer for its battery and sunlight readability. A MIP-tuned face reads beautifully here.

955 and 955 Solar

The display, per variant

The single most important fact about any Garmin for watch faces: what screen it has. MIP variants are always-on and sunlight-first with a limited palette; faces need dedicated MIP rendering to look right.

VariantDisplayResolutionCharacter
955 / 955 Solar (47 mm)MIP260 × 260transflective MIP

Changing the face on the Forerunner 955

Hold UP (the middle-left button), then select Watch Face, scroll, confirm with START. New faces come from the Connect IQ store app on your phone; the install guide covers that end, and the per-model switching guide covers every other Garmin.

Our faces on the Forerunner 955

Ours, so we are biased; every claim below is verifiable on the store page.

Quipu watch face

Quipu

MIP palette, battery in days suits the long runtime.

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Tessera watch face

Tessera

Fully supported.

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Tessera+ watch face

Tessera+

Fully supported.

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Tifo watch face

Tifo · not on this model

Not available: Tifo is AMOLED-only; the 955 is MIP.

Beyond ours: the full catalogue for this watch lives in the Connect IQ store.

Frequently asked

955 or 965 for watch faces?
The 955 is MIP (sunlight, battery), the 965 is AMOLED (bright, colorful). Faces that support one usually support the other, but a MIP face and an AMOLED face look deliberately different. Pick the screen you want to look at.

Last verified: 2026-07-18 · SDK 9.1.0 device data + our face manifests