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The following article is the text of a message I sent to Garmin to start a discussion about improving the UX for saving activities. 🤞
Is there any way to prevent the Venu 2 from auto-saving an activity while I’m still working on it?
My old ForeRunner 235 would simply drop out of tracking mode and wait as long as I liked to restart the activity. This was fantastic for when I would stop for lunch on a hike. Or if I’d hiked or biked somewhere, wanted to stay x hours, but also wanted to record the hike there and back as a single activity.
The Venu 2 insists on staying active and auto-saves if I so much as brush a sleeve over the surface of the watch.
What I currently do to avoid the annoying auto-save is to lock the screen and then hope I notice when the watch threatens to auto-save my hike within 30 seconds if I dare to stop longer than 30 minutes.
This is quite annoying because I feel like my use-case is a pretty legitimate one. Is there any way to keep my watch from pushing me around about saving my activity?
There are several solutions I’d be happy with:
One final thing: While the “discard activity” behavior includes a confirmation, the confirmation uses the same hardware button that you’d use to continue the activity. If you accidentally brushed up against the “discard” touch-screen button and then press the hardware button to continue without reading the screen, then you accidentally discard the activity. You could avoid this UX issue by using the bottom-right button (the “B” button?) to confirm discarding.