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New format beta

Please, please do not do this.

I've had it for at least several days now and it is the most annoying thing.  The layout of the standard garmin home screen was fine ... don't fix what's not broken.  

I was hoping there might be additional training insight, but there is no new information; instead, all the information is harder to locate, and requires an excess of side swiping and searching through to see what was a very efficient, simple, easy to read layout before.  I was just going to turn off the beta but I'm afraid this will be coming out as the standard format soon and feel compelled to voice my very strong objections. 

If you're going to change anything make it easier to see more training insight.  The garmin watch is supposed to be able to sense what swim strokes youre doing, but it gives no information on that for my swim workouts (because i switch between several strokes through my swims, and it seems that information should be viewable if it is advertised that the watch model does this).

Or another improvement I would really appreciate is being able to sync my garmin watch to Zwift for when I'm doing bike trainer rides, because it definitely does not show accurate heart rate while I'm on the bike trainer, and i have to have another brand chest strap hr monitor to incorporate heart rate data for my rides in watopia.

But the garmin app homescreen was something which I had never even considered as needing improvement, and now that the beta has made me think about it, I really appreciate the old home screen much more.  Please don't change it, or at least don't do anything as drastic and cumbersome as the beta layout.

  • I hate the new beta version of the connect app!!!! Where did all the colors go??? Everything looks the same and is sooooo confusing. The weekly summary is gone, which I used all of the time. I could use the different colors of the activities for an at-a-glance of my day. The cognitive load on my brain to find information and see what I'm doing is terribly high! The old version was sooooo much better. It's no longer showing me my sleep stats (days it's unavailable). Revert!! Revert!!! How can I go back? It wouldn't let me NOT choose to be on the Beta program, which u didn't want to participate in.

  • See the sections "I Am Part of the Program. How Do I Leave Feedback?" and "How Do I Leave the Beta Program?" of the Garmin Connect Home Page Beta Program FAQ

  • I just got the new Beta format today and I already lost my intensity minutes for the week. Does anyone know how to get it back on this Android Beta mode?

     

  • I already lost my intensity minutes

    From either the app or the web interface:

    • From the home screen, at the bottom of the main page click on "Edit Home."
    • Verify that "At a Glance" is toggled on.
    • Click on "Edit at a Glance"
    • Click the '+ Add' at the bottom of the screen
    • Choose "Intensity Minutes"
    • Drag Intensity Minutes to the location you desire.
    • Click Save
  • Thanks for the help. Unfortunately,  the Intensity Minutes option no longer appears in "Add" menu for the Beta version on my Android phone. See below. Unless Garmin has a solution, I may just roll it back out of Beta in a day or two and send them the feedback. 

     

  • I'm also on beta on android phone. Works for me.

  • Oh man, I see it. I can't find an option to add it anywhere. That's frustrating. Thanks for sharing that screenshot.