Ambient Sensor Control

Is it possible to disable or control the ambient light sensor?

the vivoactive wakes on gesture to a dimly lit screen. Its not bright enough and makes the watch too hard to use when you have less than perfect vision.

I've looked and searched and i cant find any way to control it.

I imagine its simple to add a button to disable this?

0 7007939 13 days ago in reply to Rob444

Same issue, returning as well.

0 Lavier 8 days ago

I had a Vivoactive 5. And you could manually adjust it to keep it whatever brightness level YOU wanted. You were able to disable that ambient stuff that is being referred to here, and just keep it to whatever brightness you wanted regardless the lighting conditions. People in this thread that are talking about that it's just fine, which is maybe one or two, they have probably settled on mediocrity and have very very young eyes. This is horrific for a watch that's close to 300 bucks and you have to deal with however Garmin designed it which is to say when in a dark environment it's going to stay looking dark, and you can't do anything about it. It is very difficult to read in low lighting conditions. I've only had it close to 2 days and I was in a restaurant for example in which the lighting was sort of low, and the screen stayed very lowly lit. It was very difficult to read. Garmin has gotten to a point where they're charging a small fortune for practically their entire lineup, and now they're making it so that you can't make adjustments that accommodate what you want. I am returning this watch immediately. You're supposed to become a better company, not worse.