Menu Button goes to last widget in list instead of first

Just set up my Fenix 6 Solar yesterday

today I noticed when I open the widget menu with the menu button, it automatically goes to the last widget in the loop.

Accessing via the Down button brings me to the first widget in the loop.

Did I mess something up? Is there a way to automatically go to the first widget in the loop with the menu instead of the last?

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago

That is exactly how it works. up and down allow you to go through the widget loop in either direction

0 5188212 over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

I guess I don’t understand why it wouldn’t start me at the top of the loop. Being able to reorder the widgets doesn’t help much if I automatically start on the last widget in the loop

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to 5188212

the terms "top and bottom" aren't that important. the thing is that with up and down you can move through the list from either direction.

0 5188212 over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Sure not the biggest deal, but it would be nice to go right to my most used widget. That’s why I reordered it to the top of the loop

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to 5188212

What I do it the widgets I use most I put at the beginning or end of the list.

Down button, the widget that operates my garage door. Up button, weather.

0 FlowState over 4 years ago in reply to 5188212

Think of it like this. Say you have 3 widgets:

Widget #1
Widget #2
Widget #3

The watch face has to go *somewhere* in that list. The most reasonable place for it to go is "before" Widget #1 or after Widget #3. If we think about it, it makes no difference (provided that the list wraps around when you reach the end or the beginning, which it does.)

...
Watchface
Widget #1
Widget #2
Widget #3
Watchface
Widget #1
Widget #2
Widget #3
Watchface
...

Maybe in this context it makes more sense that the UP button takes you to the "last" widget, and DOWN takes you to the "first" widget?

Or is there a different way you were envisioning it?

(Also, when you press the "menu button" without holding it down, it's actually UP, not MENU.)

0 FlowState over 4 years ago in reply to FlowState

5188212 said:
I guess I don’t understand why it wouldn’t start me at the top of the loop.

A different way of looking at it. If UP really started at the top of loop (moving you to Widget #1 in my example), what you would expect the DOWN button to do at this point?

If DOWN takes you to Widget #2, that means that pressing UP at the watchface followed by DOWN doesn't get you back to the same screen (the watchface), which would be unexpected.

If DOWN takes you to the watchface, then UP has to take you to Widget #2. Which means that your widget list is actually in reverse order, which is probably also unexpected.

0 5188212 over 4 years ago in reply to FlowState

Yea I came to this realization myself. It was throwing me off that the face is part of the loop. I’ve come to terms with it now lol

0 4871257 over 4 years ago

Yeah I have the same issue! It would make sense for the menu/up button to take you to the top of the menu, and the down button to take you directly to the bottom.

0 4871257 over 4 years ago

Yeah, I have the same niggle. The up/menu button would intuitively take you to the start of any menu, not the bottom of it. Ideally the down button would take you to the last item in the widget menu.

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work like that.