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Hi, thanks for pointing this out to me.  I wasn't aware of this feature.  Unfortunately, that is not what I'm talking about.  If I already have the app open, which I usually do most of the time during the day and night, your method would involved the following steps:

1. close the app

2. tap the app and hold it

3. hit add weigh in

4. enter my weight

So, again you are not solving the issue.  So this method is not a clean solution. Here is how I get to 4 steps with the new home interface:

App is already open

1. Change from home screen to More

2. Tap Health Stats

3. Tap weight

4. enter my weight

That is four steps! The option of having it right at my finger tips on the home screen is now gone.  I didn't get a choice.  You can argue its easy, you can argue that this is better, but in my book and working with lots of people in projects on UI interfaces, these are extra step and needless hunting around to get to something that was accessible on the home screen with one tap.  That is poor UI engineering!

I would like to help you with this but I don't want to make things more complicated for you - so I will just ask a question - do you have weight as one of your "at a glance cards"? If you do you should just be able to tap the + sign in the upper right corner and add your weight from there.

Yes, I do that have that glance card, but it is buried with others in that section.  Yes, I know you can add weight that way too, but again its not as simple as it used to be.  There are more steps involved. That is the issue. The Add Data button that used to be there and was simple and easy is now gone. I can't find an option to add that in the new interface.  I have given this interface nearly 3 weeks of a chance, but I'm fed up with it.  It is not simple, not intuitive and frankly, I don't want to spend more time on it.  It is a clunky UI. 

All you have to do is look at all the related forum posts by people unhappy with this new interface.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see there is serious push back from the community of users to this new release. Most of us are only looking for the option to return to the original home interface.  If other users want the custom options and the other cards, tabs, etc. that is fine, they can do that.  But I think for most of us that are being vocal about this just want the option to go back to the way it used to be.  Add that option for users. 

App open, scroll to weight. Tap „+“

I find it very easy to press the "+" once.

I am sorry that I cannot understand why it is so difficult to add the weight.

If this is too complicated for you, why don't you just use the Garmin Index scale ?

Then you don't even have to press "+". Get on the scale and your weight (and many more metrics) will be automatically synchronized.

I feel your pain, I don't like this update either, in fact I hate it, shame really because I loved my Forerunner 265. I only wanted to offer help if I could. 

New format is awful! Let me out of here. 20 years on Garmin! Will go Apple if this does not change. Give an option to go back to the old format.

7995309 said:

I only wanted to offer help if I could. 

I think we both tried that.

But If the op doesn't like the 2-tap route and chooses the 4-tap route instead, we have to accept that.

7995309 said:

the huge tiles and wasted space

Could it be that many people have simply chosen a font size that is too large ?

Yes it could be but some probably need to have the font bigger to be able to read the tiles, even so the smaller tiles you have shown are still too big and have too much wasted space. Why have a tile that size with such little data on them? Why have a tile at all when that could be a list of horizontal bars and you could have 10+ bars with the same amount of data on the same screen and see them all at once? The tiles are clunky and cumbersome, they don't work well on phones at any size.