Feature request - touchscreen for maps only

So I was out hiking at the weekend and I normally have the touchscreen switched off for most activities, but I enabled it while I was using the maps widget. However, I forget to turn it off again and mid way through my hike when I went to fill up my water bottle and have a wash in a stream the watch was immersed in water while autopause was enabled and proceeded to stop and save the activity almost instantly. Very annoying but managed to stitch the two .FIT files together with GoToes on my laptop when I got home.

So my suggestion is as follows. Instead of having touch screen settings for activities how about on option to just turn it on whenever the map widget is open? As that’s generally the only time I want to use the touchscreen.

My other suggestion is to resume saved activities in case of the above scenario instead of having to use GoToes.

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0 razmichael over 1 year ago

I would like this as well. In the interim (assuming it is ever implemented) I use a hot key to toggle touch on and off. I did find a bug today as my hot key is the start and down button (top right lower left). When the map is in zoom mode the hot key does not work as the press of the lower left (zoom out) seems to override the hot key and cause the map to zoom way out. I’ll validate this and report on the Alpha forum (as well as try to use a different hot key).

0 C.sco over 1 year ago

Been asking for this since day 1. I was a bit surprised that it didn't come with this feature on release day, and I'm even more surprised today that it still doesn't have this feature.

But it's good to keep asking for it, hopefully they'll add it in a future update.

In the meantime I just do what razmichael does as well, set up a hotkey for quick and easy touchscreen toggling.

0 Klick over 1 year ago in reply to C.sco

agreed, would love this feature

0 Z over 1 year ago

How you, actually water, managed to stop hiking activity with just a touchscreen?! I just tried, no way. Only way to stop activity is to press a button.

0 Victor over 1 year ago

Agree. If only we had the touchscreen only when map and scrolling data screens (and not in menus to avoid accidental actions like recording activity, etc.), that would be great Garmin

0 scotthunter2 over 1 year ago in reply to Z

I assume it had gone into autopause mode, then it’s just a downward swipe and a press? When the screen gets wet it has a mind of its own

0 ufrat over 1 year ago

I solve this for me like with always having it off and only when I go to a map and I want to scroll it (happens not that often) I activate it with the hotkey.
You can enable and disable it by pressing upper right and lower left (Down and Start/Stop) for ~1 second (at least when wearing it on the left).

That is convenient enough for me.

0 jan.shim over 1 year ago in reply to Z

This morning after a 850m pool swim I saved the activity before hitting the showers. During the shower, with water hitting the screen, it was randomly activating the menu without my realizing it — until I noticed the DELETE menu was showing, the next series of water droplets to touch the screen would have wiped my pool swim activity.

0 entify over 1 year ago

Agreed! Would love this too.

0 Ieslei over 1 year ago

That would be very nice. The only moment I would use the touch screen. I don't like to use it with other functions because the screen gets dirty and ever harder to read.