Tides App - change from feet to meters

Hi,

I'm based in the UK and I am having issues getting the Tides app to display the hight in meters. Currently it's displaying in feet.

I've checked over all the settings on my Quatix 7 Pro and I can't seem to get it to display correctly.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Alan

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Shano 3 months ago +1

Have you managed to sort this? I’m having the same issue.

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0 flocsy🤠 6 months ago

wrong forum, try here: forums.garmin.com/.../fenix-7-series

0 Shano 3 months ago

Have you managed to sort this? I’m having the same issue.

0 FlowState 3 months ago

Assuming you’re talking about the Garmin Tides app, I think this might be relevant:

https://support.garmin.com/en-CA/?faq=1ffvl6o9Yi79QTeNtjOXK6

Customizing the Tides App

From the watch face, press Start/Stop.
Select the Tides app.
Press Start/Stop.
Select an option:
- GPS Position: Updates your current GPS location to display tide data.
- Recent: Select a recent location to display tide data.
- Enter Coordinates: Enter coordinates for the location to display tide data.
- Units: Choose whether to display tide heights in meters or feet.
- Display Mode: Choose whether to display tide data in a graph or list format.

0 8671748 2 months ago

Did you find a resolution to this? I have the same problem. Part of the reason I bought the watch was for tidal info when sailing in the UK... where feet are useless for tidal heights.

I've been in system > format > units and set every available option from ft to m.

I've also tried following this:

https://support.garmin.com/en-CA/?faq=1ffvl6o9Yi79QTeNtjOXK6

But there is no option to adjust the units as described on that page. If I use the tool at the top of the page to confirm if the info is relevant to my device (Epix Gen 2), then it says "The content you are viewing does not apply to this device."

It seems odd that you can adjust every other unit on the device and that some devices seem to be able to adjust the tidal units but mine, and clearly some others, don't seem to have the option to easily change tidal heights from ft to m, thus rendering the tidal info largely unusable in most countries.

Maybe there is an obvious answer to this somewhere and I'm just being blind?

0 FlowState 2 months ago

Personally I would open the app’s page on the store and click Contact Developer.

Either there’s missing functionality (the units setting is unavailable in the app itself) or there’s a bug (the corresponding units setting on the watch isn’t used by the app.)