Just received a new Vivoactive 6 as a gift and loved it.... until I walked into a dim room. Could not read alerts, information, messages, texts, notifications, anything. Tried different watch faces. Tried setting brightness at maximum brightness. Spent quite a bit of time investigating and cannot find a solution. I understand the intent behind the dimming, but the dimming level is way too low and no way to adjust it. I can read everything on my watch when in a bright situation. I cannot read anything on my watch in a dim situation. Let us control HOW MUCH IT DIMS, because you make it WAY TOO DIM.
Here's an example. You spend a fortune on a new car and you love it and at night, the headlights come on. All of a sudden you drive away from streetlights and your high beams come on. Then as you pass another streetlight they turn off. Then you try to find someone's house with streetlights on their road and you cannot turn the high beams on to see addresses better. Then you have a car coming the opposite direction but there are no street lights so your high beams come on and blind the opposing drive but you have no way to turn them off. Would you be happy with that car, or would you prefer a car that you control when the high beams come on?
Come on Garmin, we don't need overlords forcing us to accept the brightness levels "they think are best" for us. We don't care if we have to put the watch on a charger more often. Let "US" (YOUR customers) decide what we want. Don't dictate what we get. Out TV's don't automatically change brightness depending on what lights we turn on in the living room. Our phones can be set to maximum brightness all the time. Our computer screens don't get brighter when we turn on the overhead lights. Stop with the over-reaching control stuff and let us control the brightness of what we pay good money for, the way we want it. Kind of like EVERY OTHER PIECE OF ELECTRONICS WE OWN. After all, us being happy with, and buying your products is what pays Garmin's employees and keeps Garmin in business.
Also, it appears you have the inactive display dimness set to some fixed dimming, and that never changes. The only thing you change is how bright the display is when active. Give us control of brightness or be ready for a whole lot of returns and bad reviews.
