Vivoactive 4 - " Pause activity Function"

How Long Can My Activity Stay Paused For?

The amount of time an activity will remain paused will vary by watch model. To conserve battery power, after a certain amount of time your watch will automatically save your activity. Generally, you will receive a vibration or alert from your watch when it auto saves the activity.

You cannot adjust the amount of time you can keep your activity paused before it auto saves, nor can this function be disabled.

Thank you.  How sad that Garmin can not just add a simple function like this

Some watches, such as the epix, fenix, forerunner, and instinct, have a Resume Later function, which is designed for extended pauses. Unfortunately, none of the vivo series watches have this.

Some discission on this topic here: Can we have "Resume Later" functionality on our watch?

I've been using the Cycling App Professional for over a year. It has a pause function which does not turn itself off.
It is also freely configurable and is constantly being further developed.

https://apps.garmin.com/de-DE/apps/9cbef7c8-9a7e-4f90-b4ef-42b11a11d8cd#0

This is one of the nonsensical software limitations that Garmin likes to introduce to make people buy more expensive watches.

Even Vivoactive 3 can be paused for unlimited time, while Vivoactive 4 can be pause only for 15 mins.  

Thank you, everyone.  After a lot of frustration, I bought a Garmin 530 - problem solved.  I still think it is an absolute simple software upgrade to do this on the Vivoacctive - but ja that is it.  Thanks for the responses! Cassie 

Thank you, everyone.  After a lot of frustration, I bought a Garmin 530 - problem solved.  I still think it is an absolute simple software upgrade to do this on the Vivoacctive - but ja that is it.  Thanks for the responses! Cassie 

Of course Garmin could add this feature to the Vivoactive series if they wanted to, but they don't. They want you to buy more expensive equipment.