Sleep mode keeps turning back on

Schedule has sleep mode turn off at 8AM. When I wake up before 8, I use the control menu to turn sleep mode off. However minutes later, sleep mode turns back on. Any way to turn sleep mode off without it coming back on?

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Garmin-Laurie 1 month ago in reply to Andrew +0 verified

Update May 7, 2025:

Our engineers are aware of a concern that may allow the watch to reenter sleep more, if sleep is manually ended before the scheduled end. They are anticipating a software fix for this…
viktorbankav over 1 year ago +7

Fenix 7, 16.22 version, still not fixed. Also would be great, if garmin allowed to control manually sleep mode, without auto schedule, so we can decide when to start sleep mode and stop it just with one…
James 11 months ago +4

This is still an issue for me with software v17.28
3067283 11 months ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie +4

Can confirm on my Epic Pro gen 2 that this issue still exists with fully updated software. I often get up before my sleep schedule and manually turn off sleep mode, but it keeps turning back on.

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0 5750239 11 months ago

Garmin-Laurie it is now end of June, any update?

0 5750239 11 months ago

Garmin-Laurie it is now end of June, any update?

0 Garmin-Laurie 11 months ago in reply to 5750239

Update June 27, 2024:

Our engineers are indicating this should now be resolved with the latest software version 17.23. If you are still experiencing this concern, I would recommend first try a hard reset. For this, hold the Light button until the watch shuts off, as opposed to selecting power off. Then power this on again.

If this continues, feel free to reach out to me via Private Message.

0 Dramol 11 months ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

Hi, Just FYI for everybody. For me after update and having 17.28 software version (beta enabled) issue still has not been resolved.

0 5750239 11 months ago

I got 19.18 with my Forerunner 965, still the same issue

0 pstoppani 11 months ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

Not fixed in 17.23. The only way it works correctly is by starting an activity. Even then, it asks if you want to end Sleep Mode only about 30% of the time so even that doesn't work quite properly.

0 Garmin-Laurie 11 months ago in reply to pstoppani

I am sorry to hear some of you are still experiencing this concern. I will be reaching out to you directly to investigate this, via Private Message.

5750239 said:
I got 19.18 with my Forerunner 965, still the same issue

For other models, I would recommend reporting this in the forum thread for your device. So this can be looked into.

0 OCP-Berlin 11 months ago

One of my problems with 17.23 is that I can exit sleep mode by pressing the upper right button but then I end up with a watch face different than mine, the watch only shows the time in digits.
if I then activate sleep (manually) and deactivate it again, then I get my watch face back.
if I exit sleep mode using the hot keys then it looks like I exited sleep mode but if I go through the widgets (bittom

left button) I can see that I’m actually ‘sleeping’.

all in all it feels like an ‘unfinished’ feature

0 3985033 11 months ago

I’m having the same issue, just upgraded to Garmin Vivoactive 5, it’s pretty annoying. My watch is up to date.

0 3985033 11 months ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

I just recently upgraded from Vivoactive 4 to 5 and i’m having this issue, on SW 10.20.