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The Auto Position (auto lap) option for Forerunner Series

Igor Petrov
over 1 year ago

It has been many years since the Auto Position option was accidentally removed from your Forerunner watch. I am very surprised that a basic sports watch, as opposed to a travel watch, did not merit the attention to set and return this feature:
"The Auto Position option marks laps at a location where you previously pressed LAP".
Perhaps this deserves to be only for Garmin/Ideas and included in long plans to add to future firmware.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    It was not removed accidentally, but as a 'consequence' of the major codebase rewrite between FR610 and FR620 in 2013 (the latter with the 'press-down' touch screen). They even removed Grade as a datafield, and several Last Lap X options for Heart Rate, Step X from Workouts etc. It truly was a disgrace. The fact that they never restored Auto Lap from position - whereas the Outdoors people seem to have embraced the concept - in spite of user wishes over the years, underlines the stubborness of the Sports section (management). But hey, we can have Nap detection and Sleep coaching galore!

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to soptunna

    Throwing hats now in the direction of the Forerunner software team and blaming them for the "shenanigans" of yesteryear would be wrong.
    If everyone who wants this feature restored makes a request to garmin ideas, I hope we will see this feature in the foreseeable future, like the Forerunner 995, and maybe even sooner.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I can confirm that this feature is present on the outdoor models (epix2), for running activity at least. But the FR 955 doesn´t have it.