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Feature Request: Automatically turn on Do Not Disturb for Activities like Running

Jesse
over 1 year ago

Hi all,

I'd love a feature for my 955 where it has a setting to automatically turn on Do Not Disturb on the watch when activities like Running start - and to turn off when they end.

Does this already exist? Have others suggested this as well?

Sorry if I've missed an existing feature or threaded discussion.

Love my 955!

Jesse

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Martin Serafín

    Thanks Martin! Submitted.

    Only issue with this is ...

    1. I don't know if anyone else has had the same idea.

    2. I don't know if they've thought about any dimensions of the issue or feature that would influence my own thoughts or ideas.

    3. I don't know where this ranks with all the other feature ideas.

    Perhaps wishful thinking, but I would love it if Garmin had a public feature request tool like UserVoice, Productboard, etc.

    Cheers!

    Jesse Savage

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    So what's wrong with the current function that automatically sets notifications to "off" during activities?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to PiratDjinn

    Thank you PiratDjinn! I missed that. For those that need the detail, I found it in Garmin Connect:

    Settings > Bluetooth > Smart Notifications -- Where you can turn the "Status" off.

    I'll try that!

    *** My only minor nit, is that if you used this to automatically turn Do Not Disturb on -- then you could choose to turn them on during an activity, i.e. tying it to Do Not Disturb seems more flexible and elegant. 

    --- Finally, I like the idea of having this option per activity. For example, you may want notifications while walking or biking, but not for running. Perhaps this makes it too complicated. I could live without this.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Jesse
    Jesse said:
    Perhaps wishful thinking, but I would love it if Garmin had a public feature request tool like UserVoice, Productboard, etc.

    Agreed 100%. I feel like [https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/] is useless since you're just sending a one-way plea into the void. You have no way of getting feedback from Garmin, seeing how many other people share the same idea, etc.

    I also like Spotify's community ideas page.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I actually have the opposite request lol. Sometimes I run a bit later at night when I'm supposed to be sleeping, which means that DND is turned on and the wrist gesture for the backlight is disabled.

    I would prefer if auto-DND due to my sleep schedule would not take effect while I'm in an activity.

    I guess I could fix this on my end by entering my real sleep hours haha

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to FlowState

    Yeah, sounds like you would want my auto-DND off. And you'd also like the auto-DND from sleep schedule to be ignored if an activity starts. Seems very reasonable to me. :-)