'Play Harder': Garmin has stealthily scheduled a YouTube live event, presumably to launch the Fenix 9 — here's when and how to watch

Garmin has scheduled a YouTube live event Titled 'Play Harder', it's scheduled for 25 August at 12:00pm BST (4am PT / 7am ET / 9pm AEST) It's likely to be the launch of the Garmin Fenix 9 Garmin has scheduled a live event on YouTube, without much fanfare.

<![CDATA[ <article> <ul><li><strong>Garmin has scheduled a YouTube live event</strong></li><li><strong>Titled 'Play Harder', it's scheduled for 25 August at 12:00pm BST (4am PT / 7am ET / 9pm AEST)</strong></li><li><strong>It's likely to be the launch of the Garmin Fenix 9</strong></li></ul><p>Garmin has scheduled a live event on YouTube, without much fanfare. Titled 'Play Harder', the event — we're not sure if this is a live event, or merely a trailer or series of trailers for another of the <a href="https://www.techradar.com/best/garmin-watch">best Garmin watches</a> — is scheduled to go live at 12:00pm BST. </p><p>For America, that translates to 4:00am Pacific Time (sorry) or 7:00am Eastern Time. For Australian watchers, it's a slightly more reasonable 9:00pm AEST. </p><p>Garmin doesn't normally schedule live events to announce new products — as far as I know, this is a first. So to schedule a live event to generate some build-up, presumably culminating in a public product reveal, means whatever's coming has to be pretty special indeed. </p><h2 id="fenix-rising">Fenix rising</h2><figure class="van-image-figure inline-layout" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style="max-width:1920px;"><p class="vanilla-image-block" style="padding-top:56.25%;"><img id="nsrBzH5SUZkQuVjoPcX2xW" name="split-image" alt="Garmin Fenix 8 Pro" src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nsrBzH5SUZkQuVjoPcX2xW.jpg" mos="" align="middle" fullscreen="" width="1920" height="1080" attribution="" endorsement="" class="inline"></p></div></div><figcaption itemprop="caption description" class=" inline-layout"><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder">(Image credit: Future / Matt Ray)</span></figcaption></figure><p>It may well be a slate of new products Garmin are announcing, but the star of the show is sure to be the Fenix 9. The <a href="https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/fitness-trackers/garmin-fenix-9-details-leak-and-if-true-were-getting-three-new-watches-but-the-most-interesting-part-of-this-reveal-is-about-garmins-screen-technology">Garmin Fenix 9</a> has been rumored to launch in the second half of 2026 for months, and recent retailer leaks suggest a launch is now imminent. </p><p>We're expecting to get three new kinds of Fenix: a standard AMOLED Fenix 9, like the <a href="https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/garmin-fenix-8-review">Garmin Fenix 8</a> before it, and two different kinds of Pro watch: one with InReach satellite messaging connectivity, and one without, plus solar charging options. </p><p>The <a href="https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/smartwatches/garmin-fenix-8-pro-microled-review">Garmin Fenix 8 Pro</a> launched around a year after the original, but Garmin seems to be dropping the whole range at once this time around.</p><p>We've not heard much around the Garmin Enduro 4, the latest version of Garmin's massive watch line that promises near-infinite battery on sunny days. It could launch with the Fenix 9, as the Enduro 3 did with the Fenix 8, or Garmin could be saving it for a rainy day (well, we hope not, or the solar charging won't work!).</p><p>You can check out the approaching live stream on the embedded video below, but there isn't much to see right now: just an image of a surfer and a date. But check back with us tomorrow, as we'll be covering the announcements live.</p><div class="youtube-video" data-nosnippet ><div class="video-aspect-box"><iframe data-lazy-priority="high" data-lazy-src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/WFW9SdPrjAo" allowfullscreen></iframe></div></div> </article> ]]>