New PIN keypad is awful

Maciek 5 days ago

Hi,

Is it possible to change PIN keypad layout to the good old ring-based layout?

The new one with numeric keypad is not best for devices without touch screen. Even after few weeks I still don't know which button should I press to move digit selector in proper direction.

The ring based layout was easy to use and very intuitive, please at least give us option to choose prefferd way of entering PIN code.

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Bitti 4 days ago in reply to mw1717 +1

Then you should have heard from me 5 years ago already. I'm 55...
Bitti 4 days ago in reply to 9820003 +1

Yes, here 255 clearly suffers from the fact it shares the firmware with its newer siblings. On the other hand, if it didn't it wouldn't probably have received other new features either...

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0 Albert 3 days ago

Totally agree, I can imagine on touch screen is useful but on on-touch (like FR255) is both hard to use and looks bad. Please Garmin, revert to circular pinpad on non-touch devices. Also, it seems that Garmin Pay is being locked in random intervals so as usual it gets blocked in the worst possible moment and then putting the code is really annoying and takes too long.

0 4284668 3 days ago

Totally agree here too, esp on non touch watches.

Depending on the pin you choose it takes way longer is much less well-arranged. The colors are also awful. Please bring back the old ring design...

0 ovekvam 3 days ago in reply to Albert

The locking is not random. After entering the PIN, it lasts 24 hours, or until you take the watch off the wrist (heart rate signal is lost).

0 Albert 3 days ago in reply to ovekvam

It was like that previously, yes. But after last update it lasted at least 72h (then I've lost track of the time) before it asked me for pin again.

0 ovekvam 3 days ago in reply to Albert

I didn't notice, as I take the watch off for my daily shower, washing it.

0 Gary Garmini 11 hours ago

Agree. On touchscreens it might be an improvement, but on something like 255 this UI does not make sense. It even looks out of place visually since quick access menu is rotary and previous PIN entry window nicely blended in, this one looks like a calculator UI.

If it really takes that much internal memory to have a choice which is always the best option, is it really that hard to manage 2 FW versions that would be suited for touch and non-touch watches?