Wrist gesture doesn't work in 18.22 if watch worn over a sleeve

Just letting people know that the following bug reported in late January hasn't yet been fixed in the just published 18.22, and it's bound to affect a lot of winter sports enthusiasts:

https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/forerunner-965/forerunner-965---public-beta-bug-reports/i/public-beta-version-18-xx/wake-on-gesture-goes-dead-if-watch-is-worn-on-top-of-sleeve

If you wear your watch over the sleeve while doing an activity (and use a HRM strap to record your HR), wrist gestures to wake up the screen don't work.

As a temporary workaround you can disable wrist HR while doing the activity. Let's hope Garmin fixes this soon in another update, the bug/regression has been acknowledged and a ticket has been created (, it would be nice to hear if there's any update on this).

(BTW, this seems to be a good example of how fixing something may break something else. People have been complaining on these forums that when you stop your activity while wearing a HR strap, it takes a moment for the wrist HR to lock onto your HR again and give correct results. Now Garmin has improved this by keeping the wrist HR on while wearing a HR strap. But that has caused the watch to think it's not being worn when it doesn't detect optical HR while worn over the sleeve...)