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automatic recognition and start of activities?

Is there anywhere an option for this? I have not found anything in the Forerunner 255. I had other Garmin watches in the past, and for instance after 10 minutes of walking it started automatically an activity.

0 lonzek over 2 years ago

In my case my watch automatically registers such activities (eg. walking), but I can only see them on calendar widget, not activities. You need to have Move IQ enabled in the watch settings.

0 Jannis over 2 years ago in reply to lonzek

Thank you, I have read about the Move IQ and it's enabled. But it would be great if an activity is then started on the watch itself. In my former Garmin watch I got a notification and could choose to start or dismiss the recognised activity.

0 lonzek over 2 years ago in reply to Jannis

What was your previous Garmin watch, that had this feature? I had 3 different Garmin watches (FR230, FR645M and now FR255M) and none of them had it. All of them records the walking as I described above only (in the calendar, not as activity)

0 ovekvam over 2 years ago in reply to lonzek

The Vivoactive watches can do this. I always had it turned off, though. I prefer to start my exercise logging manually.

0 Jannis over 2 years ago in reply to lonzek

It was one of the Garmin Venu watches. But I think most of them support this automatic detection.