Apps keep pausing/resuming during activity

SzymonP 1 day ago

Since beginning of November I recievied couple of reports from users of my apps (racket sports) that:

" the activity pauses when you don't move. The feature seems useless and annoying. "
"whenever I stop device beeps and activity pauses"
"Everything is very good in the new update, except for all those beeps when you play without the score counter… Unbearable! Can they be turned off?"

This was reported for Fenix8 (2 other reports are coming from app reviews so I have no idea which devices those refer to).
I tried to find any similiar issues on the forum: forums.garmin.com/.../1990944

At the same time (2 November) I released app updates which only introduced support for new devices and were recompiled using latest SDK. Also at the same time multiple devices got new FW versions...

Short term I'm going to disable the sound in my apps but Is there any way I can disable auto pause in my apps? Has anyone experienced similar issues with your apps?

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flocsy🤠 1 day ago +1

I got similar reports about my hiking app. I thought it's impossible. The description of one user made me think he's using the datafield version and it has auto pause enabled. Is it possible that now sessions…

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flocsy🤠 1 day ago

I got similar reports about my hiking app. I thought it's impossible. The description of one user made me think he's using the datafield version and it has auto pause enabled. Is it possible that now sessions started from watch-app can have auto pause somehow?

SzymonP 1 day ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Do you know for which device user reported this issue?

flocsy🤠 1 day ago in reply to SzymonP

fr255. It's not very clear though, because I need to use Google translate, he seems to talk about 3 different things, out of which 2 are unrelated to my app (like something about MoveIQ) And some of the things he sent are screenshots of stupid answers from ChatGPT (though I don't see what was the prompt...) So it's not clear, my guess is that the user doesn't really know how to use the watch, and I'm not even sure he's really using my app (I asked screenshots to verify that, but I got no response since)