Answer calls on headphones

Wayne Cavanagh said:

Pair Headphones to Phone Only: The most reliable way to ensure calls come through your headphones is to keep them paired only to your phone. The watch will still show the incoming call notification, and you can accept it on the watch, but the audio will go to the phone, which will then send it to the headphones. The only downside is you won't get activity audio prompts from the watch through the headphones in this setup

That's not true. My headphones are paired that way and the calls still go to watch.

I often have touch response turned off my headphones because hoodies trigger the touch.

I'm not sure why you're so set on defending this. What's needed is an option in the watch to configure the desired behavior.

Do you work for garmin? You haven't been adding anything productive to the conversation.

Wayne Cavanagh said:

Answer on Watch, Switch on Phone: If you answer on the watch, you will need to manually switch the audio source on your smartphone's call screen from the "

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" (or similar HFP listing) to your headphones

Clunky and not equal to previous experience.

No  I don't work for Garmin, I just don't complain about smart watch features on sports watches as that's not the watch is for. It's a sports watch with some/limited smart features. I wasn't defending the feature I was trying to find answers for you instead of just moaning about something that worked on an old watch but not on your new one.  All the instructions I can find through multiple means give you work arounds which I put in this thread for you which is more productive than just complaining as that's not going to resolve your issue. You can either choose to use those work arounds or just be mad it doesn't work the way you want it to and not do anything about it. Have you even spoke with Garmin Support?  Suggested a different way of it working through the ideas web page - https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/forms/ideas/

Hello, I think I didn't complain. I wrote on a forum where are a lot of people, who has similar problem. And maybe someone found a solution for my problem. Maybe I didn't find a setting in the menu.

The other thing is, this feture worked on the previous forerunner, and i could use my watch together my hearing aid, what device is not a free choose thing. I think that's all what I waited for.

Finally thank you for the advise I didn't know that support page before. I'll try it.

Your workarounds are a step backwards. 

I started the post hoping there was a setting, because that's the real solution.

I disagree this isn't a smart watch. I wear it all the time and having the button to answer a call the way it worked on previous versions is pretty low expectation.

You can disagree all you want but the Forerunner watches have always beef a sports watch first  with limited smart features. If you want smart watch features, buy a smart watch with fitness tracking abilities.