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How do I disable the lap button in workouts?

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over 1 year ago

I believe this is the same problem as reported on the 945 here: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-945-lte/289173/disable-lap-button-during-workouts. 

Garmin FR 745, firmware 12.10. In "Run Settings", the "Lap Key" is set to "off."

Expected behavior: during a running workout (using a pre-created workout), hitting the "back" button should do nothing

Actual behavior: during such a workout, the "back" button skips to the next step in the workout

I assume this is a fairly trivial fix. Can we please prioritize it? It's really driving me to consider leaving the Garmin ecosystem.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    If you wanted to skip a part of the workout what would you then do? Sometimes one has something planned and one cannot complete a step so wants to jump forward to a later component, then one does this.

    An additional example workout steps are setup as warm up to lap button press...as part of a workout. or rest till lap button press .

    How would those be handled in your example if the "lap" button didn't work to move to the next step?

    I've done many many workouts and not seen this as an issue. What do you want to go "back" to , maybe a hot-key could assist with that?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to S.M.R.

    I think those are great questions for Garmin's interaction designers. 

    Fortunately, there is a setting to enable and disable the "lap" button, and it is enabled by default, so your use case is well represented. What's frustrating is that when it is disabled, the lap button still works--obviously a bug. 

    Given the multitude of related threads in which users request a fix for this, I trust Garmin's top engineers are thoughtfully working on this and will fix it in a future firmware update, but I hope they can speed that up a bit, given the trivial nature of the bug.