Hidden/unknown features

- quick double press on the light button enables (and disables) the flashlight on F7x (and I think on non F7x and Epix devices, too).

These hidden features are all explained in the really good manual. Just sayin‘, it’s certainly worth a read :)

Haha of course! Not once did it cross my mind that there’s a manual as well.

Page nr. 2 already has my two ‘hidden’ features explained… Oh well, time for some more reading. Thanks!

There are lots of cool lesser-known features on these watches - many of them also existed on previous generation Fenix models as well. Some of my favorites:

1. Hotkeys - some of which do things that cannot be done without hotkeys! For example, "Change Sport" (converts your current activity into a custom multisport activity on the fly), and Screenshot (takes a screenshot of whatever is on the screen, saves it as a .BMP file in the watch)
2. Navigation datascreens - it took me a long time to learn about this one. You can configure which datascreens you want to show up, and what datafields they contain, whenever you use navigation in any activity. It applies the settings to ALL your activities at once.
3. Map datafields - The default map has no datafields, but you can add 1 or 2 datafields as an overlay on any map in any activity!
4. Time/distance target - in the Training menu of an activity, you can set a target time and/or distance for your activity, such as "30 minute 5k" and the watch will tell you how you're doing in relation to your target, and will give you a nifty alert when you hit the target!
5. In an aircraft, if you use the Elevation and GPS Elevation datafields to see your actual elevation ASL (according to GPS) as well as the elevation that the cabin is pressurized to, at the same time.
6. If you put the graphical compass field in the top or bottom datafield on a 6, 7, or 8 field datascreen, you'll get a neat partial graphical compass.

That's all I can think of for right now!

One other cool thing I've found, which isn't a built-in feature per se, is a connectIQ datafield called "Simply Sun Time", which will display the time until the next sunrise or sunset (it toggles automatically based on which one is happening next). So instead of using the built-in (time of) Sunrise and/or Sunset datafields, you can use this single datafield which displays the actual hours and minutes until the next sunrise/sunset, so you don't have to do math in your head anymore ;)

I just wish there would be a hotkey to connect / disconnect with the phone.

Just press the light button followed by start

Yea, thats the normal way, not a shortcut. Just a longpress of whatever would be nice.

Covering watch with palm works different depending on the screen. For example if I cover the screen in health snapshot page without starting it, it switches to main page. However, the widget is running in the background and connecting to Tempe sensor etc. And if I hit back button, it switches to snapshot widget from the main screen. So someway some widgets or objects may be running in background at this mode.

You can press and hold the light button for 10 seconds or longer...

I would like a shortcut to be able to turn off gestures for backlighting. It's hopeless when you sit down to dinner, when you turn the fork to get some food in your mouth. I do not see this possibility without a lot of button presses.