Sleep Mode Schedule needs the ability to disable it

We really NEED the ability to enable/disable the Sleep Mode Schedule.

If I set a schedule typical of my sleeping hours, but go to bed late, my watch enters sleep mode while I'm still out. This happens in restaurants, movies, dinner.

If I set a schedule typical of my sleeping hours, but sleep in I get notifications of emails, texts and everything else while I'm trying to sleep.

If I set a schedule atypical of my sleeping hours, such as much later, the watch will repeated go back into sleep mode while I'm at work, walking around, typing talking with someone. It just came back on while I'm typing this.

If I could disable the schedule and manually turn on/off sleep mode that would be GREAT. As it is now, it is annoying at it's best and interrupting normally.

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0 Thommy N. 10 months ago

I can only support this. It has also annoyed me many times. Please, Garmin, do something about this. Thank you very much.

0 7843043 10 months ago

Sleep mode is really messed up on garmin watches. I have posted several times about it, I doubt they will ever fix it.

I fail to understand, why the watch goes off sleep mode while I'm sleeping and it knows I'm sleeping, just because of a schedule (that can't be disabled).

I fail to understand, why the watch refuses to keep sleep mode off while I'm awake and after I have manually disabled it.

I also fail to understand, why my watch can detect my naps or sleep in general, but won't turn sleep mode by itself while it knows I'm sleeping.

I have reported all this behavior and the respond I got was that it's not a bug and that I should suggest it as a feature. Maybe not technically a bug, but this is faulty logic and should have been addressed years ago already.

My $200 Huawei was absolutely perfect on this. Why is it so hard for a $1500 watch?

PS: Also, if you dare to nap for over 3 hours during daytime, it deletes your last night's sleep and overwrites it with the nap, completely messing up your sleep history.

0 puuuudding 10 months ago in reply to 7843043

Wow know this for the first time. They really mess up with the sleep mode. I once had the apple watch. The manual overriding action was always acting correctly over sleep schedule. I’d also prefer manually entering / leaving sleep mode for my Garmin watch instead of rely on schedule

7843043 said:
PS: Also, if you dare to nap for over 3 hours during daytime, it deletes your last night's sleep and overwrites it with the nap, completely messing up your sleep history.

0 7843043 10 months ago in reply to puuuudding

On my cheap Huawei watch it would just give a total amount of hours slept for that day and I could see my night sleep separate to my long nap. Like I don't understand what's so complicated for garmin and they won't fix this...

0 9737645 10 months ago

Agree please fix its a big issue for me on night with a rotating schedule

0 3684203 9 months ago

Argh..... Today I'm walking around and I notice the watch is in Sleep Mode. I turn it off. Within a couple of seconds it switches right back. I turned if off no less that 4 times in a couple of minutes. I just want to use my watch.

I HATE this schedule for Sleep Mode. It's awful for anyone that has a flexible schedule.

PLEASE!!! Change this.

0 7843043 9 months ago in reply to 3684203

Don't hold your breath. I have been searching the forums for their other watches and people have been repeating the same issues for more than 2 years.

Not sure what's their problem, but if they haven't fixed it in this long, for whatever reason they can't fix it. Embarrassing but it is what it is. I should have researched more before buying.

0 1149615 8 months ago

This is driving me mad! I came on here to find how to turn sleep mode off only to discover that there is no way to turn it off

0 bluefish 8 months ago in reply to 1149615

1149615 said:
I came on here to find how to turn sleep mode off

under the „controls menu“ :

„Select to enable or disable Sleep Mode“

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-9183E86B-2399-4CFC-AB50-EAFC6D6ED326/EN-US/GUID-700E76C4-F7E2-4984-8199-D59D6A31DFB9.html

0 1149615 8 months ago in reply to bluefish

Thank youuuu !!