Repro:
- Open a 3rd party app via it's glance view
- Go back to the watch face via long press of Back button
- Press Start (upper right) button
- App that was opened above is re-opened instead of showing the list of activities (or resuming an activity)
Note that this happens only when exiting the Glance/App via a long press of the Back button to get back to the watch face.
The I2 a long press doesn't take you to the watch face
The Instinct 2 manual suggests otherwise. (I assume "clock menu" is a copy-paste error and they meant to write "clock".)
Also, the Instinct 2 has hot keys. according to the manual. Is there an implicit assumption here that Instinct 2 doesn't have hot keys (because it's cheaper than Fenix) and any device that doesn't have hot keys doesn't have the "long press Back to return to watchface functionality"? The 2nd assumption might be right, but the 1st seems to be incorrect. Or maybe the manual is wrong. But then again, OP said it works.
www8.garmin.com/.../Instinct_2_Series_OM_EN-US.pdf
The Fenix 6 manual says something similar:
Yes, on some devices (such as 935 and 945 LTE), this functionality doesn't work without explicitly assigning a hotkey, but on others, it may exist even without changing hotkey settings. Yes, I realized you covered this with "the hotkeys may default differently", but based on the manual alone, the default behavior of long-pressing Back should take you to the watch face, regardless of whether you even know about "hot keys" or not.
Long press of back is a hot key that is often assigned to "clock" - the watch face - so you're not really returning to the normal watch face.
What does this even mean? You actually are returning to the "normal" watch face (you get the same watchface [*] that you normally see, and you can scroll through the widget/glance loop as usual [**]), the behavior under discussion is what happens when you subsequently press START on the watch face.
[*] except if your watchface is a CIQ watchface, under some circumstances you'll see a native watchface instead.
[**] except some widgets/glances may be unavailable or may crash when you try to open them
^ I see both of these situations when I return to the watchface while a CIQ app is recording. I don't interpret that as not returning to the "normal" watchface, I interpret that as certain things don't work normally because the CIQ app is taking up too much memory. After all, if you do the same thing during a native activity, you usually get the normal watchface and the normal widgets (perhaps depending on whether you have CIQ fields installed in the activity, and depending on how old/new your watch is.)
Sounds like for older devices (including 935 and 945 LTE), if you use the "default long-press Back" or "Clock/watch face hot key" functionality to return to the watch face while a CIQ device app or widget is open, the subsequent press of START does not take you back to the CIQ app. In contrast, if you do the same thing during a native activity, the subsequent press of START always take you back to the activity (whether it's started or not). (I verified the behavior on my own 945 LTE -- if you return to the watch face from a CIQ app, then press START again, you're taken back to the activity list, unless your CIQ app is recording an activity, in which case you're taken back to the CIQ app.)
And it sounds like for newer devices, the subsequent press of START always takes you back to the CIQ app. (I'm just going by OP's description.)
Whether you want to say this is normal or classify it as a bug, it sounds like it's new behavior.
To be fair, the new behavior for CIQ apps sounds like it's more consistent with the existing behavior for native activities.
