I’ve not been impressed, there’s like 2 new ones with limited customisation options. I’d like my steps, weather, baro, sun event, date, all fairly easy to do on the likes of Instinct 2 or F7 can’t be done on 255
You need to look at more watch faces in the CIQ app store. There are some that look really good on the 255. have little impact on battery life, and that can be customized on the watch itself without using…
... don't scale that well to the resolution of the 255, are laggy, eat up your battery life ...
I have not experienced this.
...can't be customised from the watch.
True…
I've tried some of the faces mentioned and most of them are laggy and also look terrible from both a design and a readability perspective. You can't even exit the widget glances without dropping loads…
The ones on the CIQ store don't look that great and don't scale that well to the resolution of the 255, are laggy, eat up your battery life and can't be customised from the watch.
I agree with the OP that the stock ones suck though, there's so little room for customisation - please give us more options Garmin
You need to look at more watch faces in the CIQ app store. There are some that look really good on the 255. have little impact on battery life, and that can be customized on the watch itself without using app settings on your phone or Garmin Express.
... don't scale that well to the resolution of the 255, are laggy, eat up your battery life ...
I have not experienced this.
...can't be customised from the watch.
True, but I think they are much more customizable from the app (phone) than the factory ones from the watch. For me, it's not just fine, I like it better.
Yes, there are some real gems that look very good on the 255 namely:
MARQ Athlete/Aviator/Captain Gen 2 MB
Polaris Stealth (made by Garmin)
Used Look/Metal Look/Numberfully Big Numbers Gen 2
Luminal
Morphius
Army (made by Garmin)
Analog Switch
Infocal V2/Di2
Plus they do have settings which allows you to switch off seconds and set the display to only update once every minute, which often results in better battery life than stock faces.
I use
ActiFace
apps.garmin.com/.../7ef071c3-4a14-4eb3-aca9-e3a531262711
and
Enduro Like Plus
apps.garmin.com/.../ea0f473c-dead-41b7-b383-ff42421684d5
I like both :)