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Please add feature to turn off auto (adaptive) brightness

Stew

I just received a Venu 4, and spent some time trying to find the option to turn off adaptive brightness (which I find very annoying) but couldn't find one.  I thought my watch had a problem, until I did some research and found out that there is no way to turn that off.  I've never seen any modern device lack the ability to turn this off.  Please Garmin, add this feature.  I want the same brightness no matter the ambient light, and with the Venu 4, adaptive brightness does not work well, as the screen gets way too dark to the point that I cannot easily read the screen.  Honestly I have yet to see a manufacturer implement this well, and prefer to turn it off completely in all devices I use.

Thank you

  • 0 in reply to 7457667

    Call Garmin support at 913-397-8200 and create a ticket.  This has been going on for many months with the much more expensive Fenix 8 (there is a thread here that's up to 14 pages now about it), so not sure if they really care or will do anything about it, but your best bet is to call them, *** about it, and create a ticket.

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    I just purchased a new Venu 4.  I had to search around because of this issue but I can see is more complcated that i thought I have no control for this problem, so I would like to add my feedback regarding the adaptive brightness behavior on the Venu 4.

    The current implementation appears to prioritize battery optimization and AMOLED protection by dimming the display based on the ambient light sensor too much. While these goals are understandable from a product design perspective, the current behavior removes a level of control that many users expect from a premium device.

    For some users, readability is more important than maximizing battery life or protecting against long-term OLED wear. At the moment, there is no way for those users to prioritize visibility over those system protections.

    A common approach in consumer electronics is to keep the safe default behavior, while still allowing advanced users to override it with appropriate warnings.

    Suggested improvement:
    Provide one of the following options in Display Settings:

    • A toggle to disable adaptive brightness, or

    • A setting that allows users to define a minimum brightness threshold.

    Garmin could easily maintain its current defaults while simply informing users that higher brightness may reduce battery life or increase the risk of OLED burn-in.

    This would preserve Garmin’s design goals while respecting a basic principle many users value: the ability to control how their own device behaves.

    Please, I would appreciate if the team could consider logging this as a feature request for a future firmware update.

    Thank you for considering this request.

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    Just got my Venu 4 and this feature is very frustrating.  Throwing more support behind letting us disable auto dimming if we prefer a fixed brightness, or at least set a min level to drop to when dimming. I need reading glasses and this is so hard to see in low light simply because of this feature with them and impossible without. 

  • 0 in reply to Scott

    We have been told by Garmin that they do not monitor these forums and not even sure how much it helps to make a 'suggestion' with the link above.  Supposedly, the best way to register a complaint with them, is to call one of the numbers below and speak (or scream?) to a Garmin rep.  If enough people do that, maybe they will do something about this, but since it's been close to a year for the Fenix 8 (there's another thread on that forum about the same problem with >15 pages), I don't think they really care.

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