Historical Step Badges??

Looks like the old badges are no longer available.

With the 4.5 update to Garmin Connect legacy badges have been removed and a new redesign is rolling out. The new badges will include many new steps, activity, challenge, and health related badges.

Some information about the badges can be found here: https://support.garmin.com/faqSearch/en-US/faq/content/6pECo6UIFn7ergw8kNmfu9.

And for those of us who have no interest in marking our achievements with badges, how can I turn this off so I don't see them in my Connect Dashboard?

If you do not wish to see Badges on your dashboard, you can click the gear/cog icon in the upper right part of the Widget and Select Remove.

one can remove the widget
one can not remove the badges from the activity view

Yes you can. I don't see them unless I select 'Badges' from the sidebar. They are not visible in either of my dashboards.

and I am not going to tell what I think of these badges :)

Thanks heavens for that!

one can not remove the badges from the activity view

please give us the option to remove them also from the activity view

@philipshambrook, I think he was referring to this:



Personally, I am equally unenthusiastic about the new badges as I am giving a user options to customise and tailor online services to the n[sup]th[/sup] degree, no matter how easy it is for a developer or service provider to offer more control of one's user experience.

As least OnlyTwo said ‘please‘. :-)

I do stand corrected. I'm sure they weren't there yesterday when I looked :p. I can't get enthused about them either, but I'm equally sure there will be plenty of people who think otherwise. As an aside, a run I did Wednesday morning did not have any badges applied - https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/2599158062, but a ride I did in the afternoon did - https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/2599783857

And, as you say, there's a limit to how much customisation is provided. I couldn't careless about stuff like this, as long as the data I want is correct and visible.

But if they are going to be there, perhaps they'll get around to making the units compatible with those I've selected...We've long been metric in this part of the world.

With the 4.5 update to Garmin Connect legacy badges have been removed and a new redesign is rolling out.

This seems to me to be somewhat arbitrary. And I write as someone not that bothered about the old or the new badges. It remains to seen if this will upset many people having their more or less hard won trophies binned and having to start over. I'd have let people keep their past trophies them on an archive page instead of just deleting them perhaps.

As for the new badges (notwithstanding me not feeling strongly about this), as a regular cyclist, I find it a bit patronising to receive a badge for going for a ride. Or a "Garmin Fan" badge for having two or more bits of Garmin kit.

Marketing people, I suggest you work on empathy and or consultation as well as graphic design.

Garmin could use the user settings data "Activity Class" to differentiate between "Show Badges" or "Hide Badges" in Activity Window.

To what end? Someone who regularly clocks five or more hours of vigorous exercise a week and rightly belong in Activity Class 7 may still be chuffed to be ‘recognised’ for having run full marathon distance in a single activity, or cycled 100 miles within five hours, or clocked up 200 intensity minutes on a single day. It's a question of personality and perhaps of personal goals, and you cannot judge or guess whether someone is keen on attaining or collecting badges just because they only do 9,000 steps a day on average and play racquet sports two or three times a week.

Just to reiterate, I'm no advocate of allowing users endless or ever-increasing ‘say’ over their user experience, if the only impetus touted is their enjoyment and satisfaction that the product manufacturer or service provider in question cannot monetise or turn into business benefit. If you think collecting badges is beneath you as a serious or self-respecting athlete, then don't make a point of doing so, even if obviously Garmin does not acknowledge that aspect of your self-image and does not make the user interface congruent with it. Unless the badges in activity view is so disruptive that it is pushing useful information further down the page and off-screen, it causes no harm or practical inconvenience even if it's an eye-sore or rubs you the wrong way. Given that Garmin is seemingly keen to use gamification to keep some product users more engaged (or ‘addicted’), it makes sense for the company to err on the side of catering to the lowest common denominator among users, and provide or push the badges display into default views in the user interface without the user having to dig for it.

Given that Garmin is seemingly keen to use gamification to keep some product users more engaged (or ‘addicted’), it makes sense for the company to err on the side of catering to the lowest common denominator among users, and provide or push the badges display into default views in the user interface without the user having to dig for it.

I agree to a certain extent; but why prevent other users from hiding that view if they don't want to see it? This is not a major technical requirement, it simply needs a line of code to toggle display on or off.