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Bug Report: Disabled touch during activity still permits touches

Despite having touch disabled for specific activities, the touchscreen still works. 

Acceptable: When stopped, save/discard screen still disabled, but touchscreen works on the normal screens.

Unacceptable: Touch is enabled after receiving notifications until physical button press. Touch is enabled for a few seconds after pressing start. (It's also enabled for the short period of time before the save/discard screen pops up when stopping an activity, but that might be more difficult to fix if intent is to keep stopped screen touch functionality.) This allows involuntary long presses on data fields for customization to take place beneath gloves/long sleeves, usually resulting in multiple timer fields.

Workaround, and perhaps another bug: Disabling touch in controls before starting an activity prevents any touches, even if touches are enabled for specific activity. (Fine with me.) Once an activity is started, the controls page only permits toggling touch ability for that specific activity - which is pointless if touch is disabled for the watch as done previously. In that case, the only way to enable touches again is to navigate through system settings, or end the activity and do it through controls.

v13.22, but this may have occurred with previous versions.

  • Don't have F955 yet. But I support the disable touch during activity as it may accidentally pause/stop, furthermore sweating hand not easy to swipe between screen. If the touchscreen feature is smooth, I will use in navigate the notification and post activity stats.  How good or smooth is the touchscreen in map navigation? 

  • Since they fixed the swipe sensitivity, it does appear to be pretty smooth in map navigation. However, I tend not to use the pan function of the map with/without the touchscreen as I am primarily cycling with touch disabled. I usually only adjust the zoom (which I have to do almost every ride that I want a map because the zoom level does not persist between rides) because trying to pan a tiny map with buttons is a pain and dangerous on the road.