The gesture doesn't switch the light on

You are right only if we assume that switching on the light by gesture is quite different then making it by pressing the button. For me it's true exactly the same thing so.

For me they're very different (how many times a day do you use the gesture purposely or accidentally, as opposed to pressing the button?) and I understand why Garmin needs the option to turn off the gesture but not to turn off the light button. Their original reason (for MIP) must be battery life, although of course your reason or the user's reason may be different.

Then again, for AMOLED, I can see wanting to also disable the Light button, because of:

- slightly increased chance of burn-in every time the display brightness goes to max

- more importantly, the chance of annoying people with the full brightness of the display in some situations. e.g. if you're in a dark movie theatre

-- generally, user shouldn't see anything (black screen) just because activity is in background... 

The user made the choice to turn the gesture off During Activity. This can be easily remedied by turning the gesture on During Activity

- for most user it doesn't matter :-) and we waste our time for showing our own opinion :-)

For sure haha :)

I do think it would be a good feature request to be able to disable single-clicking or double-clicking the Light button. If you post that feature request I will upvote it, although unfortunately there isn't a good subforum for that here.

Accidental double-click of Light is far worse than accidental siglge-click, since double-click turns on the flashlight, which never times out

- for tactic activity or real war activity watch should ask 10 times before it switch the light on 

Yeah, I was thinking that Tactix is also a good use case for disabling the Light button (i.e. being able to disable the light completely). I actually searched the internet to see if this is possible, but ofc it isn't. (Tactix AMOLED does have "night vision" mode)

You are right only if we assume that switching on the light by gesture is quite different then making it by pressing the button. For me it's true exactly the same thing so.

For me they're very different (how many times a day do you use the gesture purposely or accidentally, as opposed to pressing the button?) and I understand why Garmin needs the option to turn off the gesture but not to turn off the light button. Their original reason (for MIP) must be battery life, although of course your reason or the user's reason may be different.

Then again, for AMOLED, I can see wanting to also disable the Light button, because of:

- slightly increased chance of burn-in every time the display brightness goes to max

- more importantly, the chance of annoying people with the full brightness of the display in some situations. e.g. if you're in a dark movie theatre

-- generally, user shouldn't see anything (black screen) just because activity is in background... 

The user made the choice to turn the gesture off During Activity. This can be easily remedied by turning the gesture on During Activity

- for most user it doesn't matter :-) and we waste our time for showing our own opinion :-)

For sure haha :)

I do think it would be a good feature request to be able to disable single-clicking or double-clicking the Light button. If you post that feature request I will upvote it, although unfortunately there isn't a good subforum for that here.

Accidental double-click of Light is far worse than accidental siglge-click, since double-click turns on the flashlight, which never times out

- for tactic activity or real war activity watch should ask 10 times before it switch the light on 

Yeah, I was thinking that Tactix is also a good use case for disabling the Light button (i.e. being able to disable the light completely). I actually searched the internet to see if this is possible, but ofc it isn't. (Tactix AMOLED does have "night vision" mode)