Display will not turn on with Gesture (raising wrist)

While I have my "Gesture" Display setting as "on", the display will only turn on with a double tap.
When the setting on "Only During Activity" its working fine "during the activity", and it turns on while I raise my wrist.

Does anybody know how to solve this issue, or might it be a software problem?

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AmesRiggs over 2 years ago +7 verified

I have a Garmin Venu....I had my 'Do not Disturb' function on which is why my gesture display was not working. As soon as i turned it off, my gesture setting worked perfectly.
JoeWalters over 2 years ago +1

My Venu for some reason decided to switch the "Do Not Disturb" option on even though I was not in my sleep period. Weird. I definitely didn't switch that on. Anyway, once I had set that back to "off" I…
6723740 over 2 years ago in reply to AmesRiggs +1

Thank you! That fixed it for me too!

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0 MirceaForce over 1 year ago in reply to 1555506

have the same issue with garmin venu 2 :))

0 MirceaForce over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-AmberD

what is normal to have issues ?

0 Scuba_son 11 months ago in reply to AmesRiggs

I could not figure out why gestures wasn't working, stupid DND. i'm removing that as a shortcut!

0 7376834 7 months ago in reply to SLB63

Same for me, fixed now. Reading the other posts I was trying to stop Do Not Disturb from the app, which didn't work. When I did it through the watch, the Moon icon, then it worked.

0 3106997 6 months ago

Settings -> System -> Backlight -> Not During Activity (or During activity) -> Gesture -> On

0 7376834 6 months ago in reply to 7376834

YES! That's the one.