Improve watch "Discard activity" option

I agree. Certain watches make it too easy. My Forerunner gives me plenty of warnings before that happens to make sure it's intentional. Meanwhile, it might be possible to recover your run. See this thread - how do I get my activity back if I delete it?

I would have liked a folder with discarded activities that was not emptied before at least 24 hours after discarding.

yeah, sounds like a great idea to me! I wish that Garmin could add that feature on all of their devices.

Achieved my 1st marathon the other day and while changing trainers at mile 20 it decided to discard activity... Nice! I really don't see the need for discard to even be on that screen. 

I've seen people suggest you can use file recovery programs but any I've tried don't even see it despite windows being able to see it as flash drive. 

I lost another activity today. Swimming this time. After the activity was stopped, I wanted to save it, but there was no swipe options, only buttons. Both buttons were just starting new intervals, which I am not interested in at all. Tried to long press a button, and the result was discarded activity. Turns out I should have long pressed the other button to save. I will probably repeat this mistake, as the information on the screen makes no sense to me. It is 50/50 guessing, and no way back if you guess wrong.

Please write things like "Save" or "Discard", not colored symbols. For me, red means stop, and green means continue. To stop the intervals, I will choose red.

Agreed, i've lost several activities over theh past few years. It should AUTOMATICALLY SAVE and you can delete later if required. 

On the Forerunner it would be a rather strange set of random button presses to accidentally discard an activity, perhaps the vivoactive 4 should be more like this...

There are no icons and no touch screen, just text in a large font with actual buttons on the watch. After pressing Stop, you're prompted to choose either Resume, Save, or Discard in that order, with the default answer being "Resume."  You'd have to press the down arrow twice to select "Discard." Additionally, you're then prompted to confirm Yes or No, with the default answer being "No" You'd have to press the up arrow to get to "Yes."

This is literally driving me insane! I've lost quite a few rides. In the past. You'd think that autosave is a standard these days...

seilogramp said:

On the Forerunner it would be a rather strange set of random button presses to accidentally discard an activity, perhaps the vivoactive 4 should be more like this...

There are no icons and no touch screen, just text in a large font with actual buttons on the watch. After pressing Stop, you're prompted to choose either Resume, Save, or Discard in that order, with the default answer being "Resume."  You'd have to press the down arrow twice to select "Discard." Additionally, you're then prompted to confirm Yes or No, with the default answer being "No" You'd have to press the up arrow to get to "Yes."

This is true for older Forerunners, but for newer Fenixes and the 945/945 LTE at least, it’s a lot easier to accidentally discard your activity. You still have to scroll down to select Discard, but once you press the START button to select that option, the Yes/No screen is no longer a menu as you described, but a prompt screen with two icons and the text “Discard?”:

- Green checkbox beside the START button (pressing START will discard the activity)

- Red checkbox beside the DOWN button (pressing DOWN will cancel the discard)

All yes/no questions are handled this way in the new UI, which is a bit more convenient and efficient, but also makes it easy to accidentally answer “yes” to any given question. In this case, you could accidentally discard an activity by pressing START twice on the initial Discard menu item.