How to change the Activities list in the menu?

You can't change the list with available activities. Garmin manages that list and from time to time add new activities like HIIT and Ultra Running that was added very recently.

In an ideal world you shouldn't have to care about that list. You would instead just choose the correct activity type in your device and it will be logged correctly, but older watches do not support all those new activities so you sometimes need to manually change the activity type.

I'm referring to the Garmin Connect app, not the watch. In the app menu, there is an "Activities" list on the left side that keeps growing. It's cluttering up the screen, since I only need a few of these.

I also noticed that the Activities list in the Garmin Connect app is a completely different list than on the Garmin Connect web site, so clearly this is not specifically related to my profile or activities I've used.

Yes. I thought you meant the list with activity types.
It is Garmin that manages all lists in the app. You can't change it.

In the web page the filtering is a lot more advanced and done in the activities page and not in the menu. Different designs. The big screen allows for much more advanced functions.

Is that list really growing that much? I can't say that my list has changed recently. It is just the smae old main activity types. Maybe golf has been added in my list, but I think it was add when I got my Forerunner 945.

I think we're talking about two different things. I'm referring to the Activities list in the menu on the left side of the screen in both the app and on the web site. The menu in both of these places is nearly identical, except that Activities list is completely different.

Here are some screenshots. Since these menu lists performing exactly the same function and show the same information, they should really be the same lists. It doesn't really make a lot of sense for them to be different (I'm a software engineer, so these things stand out to my ocd mind probably more than they should, lol)

Web site


App

I see what you're saying about the Activities page on the Web site. That makes sense. It's just easier the way it's done in the app, where I can just jump straight to an activity type and not have to use the filter.

One thing I really do love about these Activities screens is I just did a big import of months' worth of activities from another tracking system, and all that history imported from a 3rd party system showed up in the History section on my watch immediately. 

That was freaking awesome. I have been doing a LOT of double and triple-entering into different tracking software for months now. Garmin really makes that a whole lot easier.

We are talking about the same lists.

There are many functions missing in the app so I always try to avoid using it. My best tip is to stop using the app. Use the web and don't compare the app and the web. They are different beings. Some things are similar, but lots of things are different and the web is pretty much always better and got more information. The app might have some functions that are more convenient to access, but it is still inferior.

The "Activities" function works in different ways in the app and web. In the app you will come to a report with the activities filtered below the report and in the web it is just a plain filtered list.

Yea that makes a lot of sense. Tbh, I never even knew about the web site in the first few days of the watch. The installation of the watch and the watch's manual walk you through installing the app and basically require the app to be installed to do anything (unless you already knew you didn't need it), and the Web site is never mentioned at any time during the watch setup or in any of the documents that come with the watch. I just stumbled onto the Web site purely by accident, because I was googling something else, and it happened to link to the site. And that's how I just happened to find the site.

But the web site is not mentioned anywhere (that I've seen) in the app, on the watch, on the forum page, on Connect IQ app, Garmin.com (it's buried in the footer if you happen to look there), Garmin product page, or my Garmin account/profile page, and i wasn't in any of the welcome emails I got from Garmin.

While it does seem apparent that the developers have prioritized the functionality in the Web site over the mobile app, it looks like the Garmin marketing department has gone to extraordinary lengths to pretend that the Web site doesn't exist, while (like you said) extensively promoting the inferior mobile app.

Very interesting reflections. When I started using Garmin it was before I could sync with the app. Was there even an app at that time? I was forced to use Garmin Express and used the web page automatically since I was at a computer every time I synced. 

But things are changing and everyone should have an app. Too bad the developers are not fixing all the missing functions, but some things are really hard to do in an app. Like plotting courses. It is a lot easier in the web page.

I wonder what the road map looks like at Garmin. The web site has recently been improved so it works better on small screens. Not everything, but the worst has been fixed. Some things are only available in the web. Like reports, group challenges, creating routes from activities, downloading FIT files and more.