I just purchased the Venu and I also do shift work. Three nights a week I'm working 12 hr overnights and then I go straight into a 24hr shift (allowed to sleep at night) and I can sometimes nap an hour…
We are finding the same with our new watches. I can't believe my 5yo Samsung watch can get this right but Garmin still can't work it out
I have bought a Forerunner 945, not cheap. I really love it. But being one of millions of shift workers I do find that all of the wellbeing apps and devices seem to ignore us.
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I'm doing fine with a big time window. As long as I sleep into the window or sleep before it ends it works.
At least on my watch (Forerunner 965) you can specify in Sleep Mode settings if you want to use Do Not Disturb mode while in the sleep window. And Do Not Disturb settings allow you to specify if you want always-on-display and/or wrist gestures to be changed. So maybe by changing those settings you'll get the behaviour you wish?