I’ve tested this feature multiple times and it appears this is a bug. It simply doesn’t work
The feature works on my gf’s Fenix 6 Pro Solar. The feature doesn’t work on a friends Instinct either.
Ive had some back/forth with Garmin, reset the device, sent logs ect. I tried today with the latest firmware. No cigar.
Garmin offered a refund but raising the importance of the ticket wasn’t an offer on the table.
Does anyone else use this feature?
example:
you’re hiking and are in a saddle that is 400m elevation. You need to walk up the ridge and know that at approx 900m you need to start thinking about turning left to contour around the mountain so you set a Max alert of 900m. Shame it doesn’t work.
sometimes I try and remember the elevation that I need to make a turn but I often forget when hiking for days on end.
A workaround is to use the Ascent alert - and in the above example set the ascent alert to 500m - but it’s annoying because you get an alert every 500m (more annoying when you set it to a smaller increment such as 75m)
(The baro opening location is another issue (I wear it on top of my sleeve when want more accuracy and in general it works well. ))
