I can no longer do strength training, even 'free' without it automatically tracking sets reps and rest. Sets and Auto are TURNED OFF in settings. It drives me CRAZY - it doesn't even recognise when I'm ACTUALLY starting a new set or resting. It's completely random! It's disappointing if I need to stop recording workouts as Strength and use another activity instead.
Model:Forerunner 265. Still issues with tracking swimming,especially breaststroke-it doesn't count some lengths. Now I create and preload the workouts which improved the issue for other strokes but still facing it for my main stroke so I improved my rating. Another issue I'm facing: my weight and body composition data is not being synced from Health Connect. My scale provides all that data to Health connect but I can't get it in Garmin app. I hope suggestion to get another scale isn't serious.
Great app. Garmin watches are far ahead of the competition. thank you Garmin for listening to us about the app. it is been much improved. One more thing that could be improved would be to be able to edit more with sleep times than the start and stop time. I would like to be able to add an awake time during the night for them the watch doesn't register it.
Still hate new app interface from April 2024. It used to be perfect - trash now. I can't choose the focus I want on the main page. Must drill down mult levels and back out for each stat separately. This plus frequent sync issues causes excess battery drain. Manually added data can't be deleted. Sleep tracking is a joke. No choice but to use this app for syncing your device to right time/date. Unless endurance trainer, do not waste your $. Will not buy again unless app reverts to old perfect app
Too clunky. and very irritated that it thinks it should vibrate to ask me to turn off an alarm when I'm struggling to get extra sleep. Like straight up enough to ruin a day... The app itself seems to be riddled with other issues that just don't make sense. Such as: (1) notifications that won't go away; (2) stating "cannot calculate fitness age," but it tells me a number; (3) assuming you lost 0.1lb every time I try to update weight, the input is also messed up there. PLEASE FIX THE APP Y'ALL.
Terrible application overall in my opinion. My biggest gripe is it averages your heart rate over 2 minutes. I find this very annoying for accurately tracking my fitness progress. I don't want a smooth line. I want accuracy. I shouldn't need to buy an external hr monitor and app to track my heart rate. I should be able to disable averaging of heart rate at the expense of storage and battery life.
Difficult to use. Scheduling workouts is a pita. If I have a workout I missed I can't go back to it or reschedule it for today. I added my custom workout to the schedule and it doesn't show up on my watch. Garmin watch is Not user friendly at all. Custom workout doesn't show up. Takes so much effort just to do normal tracker things. The charts are ugly, why not look like the watch on app?? At a glance mismatch. Presentation of events is poor. Impossible to setup music Playlists on your watch.
Recent update had the app running constantly in the background. You cannot keep it from running. I put in deep sleeping mode and it still runs. If you close it in the background it restarts itself within a minute. I even logged out of it and later went to check and it had restarted itself again. Why exactly do you need 24 hour constant access to my phone!
I'm coming from the old bip watch/zepp app was mostly fantastic, accurate, inexpensive capable and intuitive. This Garmin watch/app is frustrating, inaccurate, expensive and the organization seems convoluted. The sleep tracker is a joke in comparison. I really only switched to get the better battery & i didn't want the oled screen. I'm getting used to some of it but so far I've been very disappointed. I do like the way alarms/timers are done on the Garmin way more. please fix via updates!
Update 8/18 resolved my complaint with activity tracker exercise editing. 5 stars. Been using for the last 3+ years and like it, until last update (4/24). Everything still works (unlike others I've seen complaining about syncing). But, now, when trying to edit a strength workout, I have to select the exercise, and click back twice to add it. Previously, you just selected the exercise and it added automatically. Not efficient or user friendly since the update.
