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Speed Sensor 2 - Turning Off Activity Tracking

After reading DC Rainmakers review of the Speed Sensor v2, he intimates that Activity tracking can be turned off.

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/04/garmin-speed-cadence-sensors-v2-with-ant-bluetooth-smart-in-depth-review.html

"you can turn off the activity creation bit altogether if you want. Or, you could just disable the pairing to Garmin Connect Mobile"

Does anyone know how to do this because I can't find it in the settings?

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0 pete over 5 years ago

Maybe we have to ask DC Rainmaker.

0 pete over 5 years ago

I guess simply decouple it from your mobile (Garmin Connect App) should end the automatically tracking.

0 essexboyracer over 5 years ago in reply to pete

I left a comment on that article, I have also sent him a tweet and has yet to reply to either.

I have also sent a couple of tweets to Garmin UK and still nothing!!!!!

0 greg over 5 years ago

I also can't find how to do it. Disconnecting from the app seems like the only option. I find it really annoying.

0 essexboyracer over 5 years ago

Once you disconnect from the app you can't check for any firmware updates and apparently the speed sensor holds 300 hours of activities so when you do reconnect it will upload all those activities. Hopefully Garmin will come up with a solution, why they didn't think about this from the initial release I don't know.

0 ic3cold over 5 years ago in reply to essexboyracer

Spoke with Garmin Support this morning. This is what they advised: "We advise removing the speed sensor from the app. The updates will through the edge when available.". So, similar to how the HRM's get updated, the Edge will pass the updates.

0 9026155 over 4 years ago

Any update? When i walk my bike to my car it logs it as a workout on strava and garmin. Silly

0 Stefan over 4 years ago

Any solution to this? Everytime I walk my bike from the garage to the road I have an automatic activity created that's 0,1km long and is synced to Strava before I can delete it, so I have to manually remove two activities everytime I ride my bike. That's silly.

0 yareckey over 4 years ago in reply to Stefan

same problem....

0 3235000 over 3 years ago

Any updates on this annoying issue? It is preventing me purchasing it! I think it also breaks privacy laws as it records every ride from your home address, I always start my activities away from home as I don’t want all my connections knowing my home address!