Bug: Watch requires gesture to see screen during activity

I agree see my post here 

forums.garmin.com/.../955-vs-the-265---my-experience-as-a-955-user

Yes I saw your review but wanted to make the issue known to Garmin

I've not experienced this... it's perfectly readable in full sunlight for me, with a very simple wrist gesture. 

Thst's why MIP screens are better for sports watches.

Let the AMOLED be on watches for fashion bloggers

Give you an example or two of the areas where it stood out for me:

You are doing an interval session and the step is static rest 60 seconds. With an MIP watch you can see the countdown screen very easily with your wrist static, with the AMOLED the screen goes off in that time even with extended delay and you then have to either touch the screen to see it or jiggle your wrist. 

You are in an interval session , say 3 mins hard with a target pace range. You want to take a quick glance at the gauge to see if you are in range. You have to move the wrist more than I would normally have done to have the light turn on as you cannot see it without that.

In both those instances the MIP was much clearer for me in my view. Sure it may be personal idiocy but it was very noticeable. Something I am sure one would adapt to in time.

There need to be more granular settings for the AID brightness and the gesture sensitivity that currently available.

That's fair, doing activities where wrist gestures aren't an option is always challenging.  I have a waterrower, and when I do that early morning (i.e. before sunrise), I typically don't have a lot of light in the room, and it was impossible for me to read the 745 MIP screen without the backlight... and wrist gesture for enabling that was challenging on a rower to say the least.  With the 265, I can see the screen well enough with the AOD enabled at default brightness during that activity, so that part has been an improvement.  

My outdoor activities are pretty much running and biking, and I find the wrist gesture to be acceptably sensitive to trigger the backlight to be readable during both.  Haven't had to try cranking up the brightness to full on the Activity AOD.  

I'm not sure what the brightness setting is referring too (System | Display | During Activity | Brightness)... is that referring to the AOD, or the gesture brightness?  I thought the gesture brightness was always determined by the ambient light sensor, as it's WAY brighter in sunlight than it is in a dark room.  My "during activity" brightness is at the 7-8pm mark, so has one more brightness setting to go up by.  

When the AOD is "on" before a gesture or anything ...that base level. If one could adjust that slightly brighter - which one apparently cannot - then it would be a lot easier to see things. Sure battery may be impacted but that is a personal choice. 

The setting you describe refer to the settings on Gesture activation (or button press), maybe also impacted by the ambient light sensor. On cannot adjust the brightness level of the AOD pre activation - I did check this with support also just to see if I had missed some setting.

With 745 you set backlight timeout to "indefinite" after wrist move and you get always on backlight. I do this with 955 when I swim or when running at night