Not ideal, but less invasive than disconnecting your phone/bluetooth from your watch. Go into your application settings in your phone and take the location services permission away from Garmin Connect.
This will allow your phone to remain sync'd with your watch. You will receive a notification on your watch a min or so after you do this as it reminds you that location services is off within garmin connect and asks if you want to switch it back. Just choose the option "don't ask again".
Cheers.
