Do Not Disturb - Sleep Settings Should Not Override Manual Setting of Do Not Disturb

mikew_nt said:

Saying to change sleep times, turn off Bluetooth, etc are not acceptable solutions because people forget to change them back.  And because functions are not well documented by Garmin, I have no idea what impact changing sleep times might have on sleep tracking.....

The proper functionality is that if you manually turn ON DND on the watch, it should stay on until you manually turn it off on the watch.

What if you forget to manually turn DND off?  It's no different than trying to remember to turn Bluetooth back on.  You'll have to remember to do one or the other.

mikew_nt said:

And the DND status should be clearly indicated on the watch face as well I think

Both my 935 and 945 display the DND icon on my watch face.  Doesn't the 645 do so as well?

I'm running one of the stock analog watch faces on my 645 and there is NO indication of DND.

And I'm sorry, but there's a big difference between remembering to turn off DND vs. turning on Bluetooth.  The watch face should indicate DND, just like my phone does when it's in DND.  My phone doesn't require me to turn off data service as a proxy for DND.  I would not turn off Bluetooth on my phone because I have other things that depend on it being on, and I would not turn it off on the watch because, for one, at some point I'm going to use it as a sensor for Sleep as Android which is WAY better than the Garmin sleep metrics.  It's silly to have to hack around on all sorts of secondary things when there should be a DND master switch.

I'll be kind and say this is a minor thing.  Heaven knows there are a ton of other things more serious that I have suffered with buggy Garmin watches, including the delightful lockups and required reboots on this watch with FW 6.20.

I could work around this, turn off the auto "DND during sleep hours" and manually put it in DND at night just like I do with my phone.  That said, if you search, I'm not the first one to comment about this odd behavior.

Now I have to go search and figure out why Automatically Update apps switch quite clearly is not autoupdating apps on my watch.

Well, I understand what you're looking for and you should submit a request using the online suggestion site and perhaps it will be implemented.  But, I'm puzzled over the following comments:

mikew_nt said:

not acceptable solutions because people forget to change them back

mikew_nt said:

And I'm sorry, but there's a big difference between remembering to turn off DND vs. turning on Bluetooth.

How is there any difference at all, let alone a big difference?  Remembering to do something is just that.  Remembering.  There's nothing between the two actions of turning something on or off that makes one more difficult to remember then the other.  

You are puzzled when I explain in clear detail why turning off a core communication functionality like Bluetooth is an unacceptable work-around?

No.  I'm puzzled when you say people tend to forget to turn something back on, but wouldn't forget to turn off the DND feature you suggested.  They can just as easily forget to turn off a DND feature as easily as you say they could forget to turn Bluetooth back on, but you say there's a "big difference".  Let's say for argument sake there was a DND feature.  Your back in the same boat as before.  Just as you currently have to remember to turn Bluetooth back on to receive your messages, you'd have to remember to turn the DND feature off once activated to receive those same messages.  Is one really more difficult than the other?   I see absolutely no difference at all between the two.  You still have to remember to do one or the other, so is there really a need for a DND feature to override Bluetooth notifications when Bluetooth can simply be turned on and off and there's already an icon on the screen informing you of it's status and does exactly what you're looking for?

I'm really not sure where the comprehension issue is, or whether I'm not being clear enough, but:

a) I've explained why turning off core functionality like Bluetooth is NOT a reasonable workaround.  It's NOT about remembering to turn it on and off, which I think is what you are seizing on to make some sort of semantical argument.

b) I already stated that the stock watch face I used does NOT have an icon on the screen, yet you repeat that there is one.  There's not.  The icon is missing on about half of the stock watch faces.

A number of people have submitted similar but different enhancements for DND, so I'm not going to submit yet another (and I'm a little disappointed Garmin doesn't follow and participate here a bit more).  DND should be looked at overall.

You really aren't being helpful in the least, you are just being argumentative.

EXACTLY. I turn on Do Not Disturb because I do not want my watch constantly vibrating at certain times. But I realized that the watch turns off Do Not Disturb when the sleep time is over. This does not make any sense, since they are two separate options. 

The reason I use Do Not Disturb in the first place is that Im not able to adequately control which smart notifications I want to receive. I have an iPhone, so the notifications on my watch are identical to what shows in my Notification Center. The problem is that there are notifications that I want in my Notification Center which I do NOT want on my watch. D

Im ready to just disable smart notifications altogether because this is so annoying.

I’ve also went to settings > system > sounds > vibration and disabled it. I don’t know what vibrations this actually disables because my watch still vibrates for all smart notifications.