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Please roll back the revisions to the sleep tracker in Garmin Connect version 4.20

Former Member
Former Member

The graphic displays and reporting for sleep tracking were revised in the latest app update -- version 4.20 on iOS.  The new layout is a significant step backyard in terms of user experience. 

The biggest loss of valuable information and utility is in the 7 day view.  Previously, it displayed each day on a horizontal bar, color coded to type of sleep, and plotted precisely to time.  So one could see how consistent or inconsistent their overall sleep timing was, start and finish, as well as how their sleep cycles compared over the seven days, again, including tied to specific time.  With the new revisions, this information has been reduced with the new vertical columns that only show cumulative time per night in any given part of the sleep cycle --- significantly less information than previously, and not nearly as meaningful.  This is a significant step back in user experience and I strongly encourage you to restore or rework the layout to include the previous information and value.

Secondarily, meaningful information is also more difficult to find having to scroll down to the time graph, rather than being on the main screen, and with the info on stages occupying an unnecessary amount of space.  Even worse is the loss of utility with the new "Movement" graph, which has been scaled down to size that is difficult to discern much meaning from.

Again, I urge you to re-evaluate the amount of information, and the value of that information, in the user layout and either return to the previous format or find a way to bring that utility into a further revision.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago

    I came here to complain about this as well. I completely agree that the updated UI is bad and was better the way it was before the update.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago

    I support this opinion. The new version of the 7 day view is a step backward and provides less information as well as being harder to understand.

  • Agreed, the presentation of the sleep data was much better in the previous version.

  • Please add ticks for the time axis. It’s very hard to read without.

    On my iPhone the sleep ox graph disappeared in the one day overview.

  • I also came to report on the loss of information now that the 7 day report only shows the quantity and type of sleep, and ‘not the timewindow of sleep’ anymore which it used to show as well. Please revert to the original way of displaying the 7 days sleep view. If other people want the bar graph as well than show both.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago

    The new sleep tracking user interface is horrible. I don’t understand how they can turn something so useful into something so bad.