I'm on 7.2 and after a period of not moving my wrist, the display turns completely off (this is after the expected dimming) even though I have Always On selected. I hope this is a bug and not one of the ways it gets the 6 days of battery life.
I'm on 7.2 and after a period of not moving my wrist, the display turns completely off (this is after the expected dimming) even though I have Always On selected. I hope this is a bug and not one of the ways it gets the 6 days of battery life.
Updated October 18th, 2022:
If your display was turning off despite your settings, the v9.37 software update has fixed the issue.
This picture will help and the Support Center article…
Thanks, Chris. Yes, that does help but given those specifications there isn’t really an option for a display that is always on so “Always on Display” is misleading (and now it makes sense how Epix is able…
I hope the 7 works out better for you. I’ll never be able to go back to that muted screen after having the Epix for a week.
To reiterate my experience, AOD on, gestures off, and I literally never…
Yeah, that's just not an AOD. The original Apple Watch could be set to a 70 second timeout after gesture, so this is less of an AOD than even that.
Hi,
Very interesting thread! Do you know if attaching the Epix2 to a handlebar and using the "always on mode", the display will turn off?
In this case, touching the screen will turn it on?
Thank you!
Update:
Chris's picture is correct, in that all watch faces go dark after 60 seconds, but there is a huge difference in how the native faces and the Connect IQ faces behave. With the native faces, the slightest movement will turn the screen back on. It's not like you have to do a full gesture to wake it up. I still think that's not the same thing as AOD, but it's not that bad.
The Connect IQ faces are different. Some of them go completely dark once it "dims." Some of them don't wake up unless you tap the screen or press a button. I guess it's a face by face issue that the developers will have to work out.
Garmin has just redefined the word “always”.
I still don't get why the display is turning off after 60 seconds when the gesture is on. It doesn't make sense for me.
I don't want to wake up the screen with the wrist movement...i just want the "standby" watchface all the time(except while sleeping of course).
But to keep the display on for the majority of the time i will need to keep the gesture on so that it goes off only after 60 seconds of no movement...if it's sensitive as you're saying it means it will be difficult to turn it off as small movement are normal during the day...whatever we are doing.
Is this a joke? You can't have an always on that's just always on as long as you move your arm. Seriously, this is an absolute deal breaker. I need to be able to glance at my watch even if I don't move my arm every sixty seconds. How about letting us setting it to at least an hour? Preferably letting us have a true AOD. It's misleading, advertising it as having 6 days of always on when in some conditions it's only always on for 60 seconds. So, disappointed.
The display behavior after the update is really a bad joke.
i can confirm that even sitting still while watching the news was enough for the display to turn of twice!
i will try to return the epix on Monday.
as I see it that’s a case of false advertisement
I agree. As long as we don't have the right to change the setting of the timeout to eternity. Or at least an hour, that I would be fine with, as long as it's really sensitive to movement.
Maybe this setting is made to avoiding burn in
Makes it still false advertisement