feature idea/request: turn off touchscreen when water is detected

I have an E-Book reader that does this.

The watch could detect that there is a lot of irregular touch input in a really short amount of time (I guess it very easy to differentiate real touch input from a wet screen). Then the watch could display "No, I'm not having this. Switching touch off for X minutes".

Time could be up to the user to define. So far I always forgot to turn it off for the shower so most people would put in their general length of a shower session and it turns back on afterwards (if its still detecting water its turning off again of course).

Maybe in watersports I would use a shorter time, like if I've fallen in and am back out in like 30 seconds and the watch is dry again it could reactivate.

When worn in the rain would also be a scenario where it could switch off on its own.

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0 TobiasLj over 3 years ago

I would suggest a feature that instead of turning it off due to irregularity it should require regularity to turn it on. Imagine something like the auto-lock feature for any of the keys that would require a double click on the same spot in a short period of time to unlock.

Similar to the pattern unlock on an Android but only to avoid accidential selections and actions due to water and not for security reasons.

I have an Epix2 and the touch screen is sensitive to any fabric that is the slightest moistured. In reality I need to switch touch screen off all times unless I'm not inside wearing daily clothing.

0 Garmin - Chris over 3 years ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

We appreciate your feedback and suggestion.

0 KrapfenKringel over 2 years ago

Yesterday I was riding my bike when it started to rain, had to make a hard stop as my watch started to rearrange, add and delete my widgets.

I did not have it in activity mode, just the normal watch operation.

0 KrapfenKringel 4 days ago

Seems they added this without mentioning, haven't had my display go crazy for a while now when it's getting wet.