What do you expect from the next update?

[far-blue]

@giuliosq I’ve not done much swimming with my Suunto watch but my understanding is that it works the other way round. Without GPS the watch doesn’t have much of a handle on how far you’ve travelled so it uses detection of motions that suggest you’ve turned at the end of the lap along with the pre-set length of the pool to work out the distance you’ve travelled. The ‘auto-lap’ type behaviour for swimming is more an ‘auto-set’ where it groups lengths together that it thinks have the same stroke and where you’ve not stopped for a break.

[Inge Nallsson]

@far-blue What the poster want’s is a really simple data point that a certain category of swimmers use. For each length the watch should count upwards: ‘Lap Nr 1’, 2, 3, 4, … xx. I’ve often heard these swimmers say for example “Today I’ll do 40 laps”, or respond to a query from another person with “I’ve got 10 laps left”. They do not use metres/yards as a measuring stick while actively performing the deed. Suunto could quite easily implement it (like so many other brands have done) but for some unfathomable reason they only give us the option to count a ‘lap’ with the minimal length of 100 metres…

No extra algorithm is needed. When a push-off for the next 25 or 50 metres is detected (or 18 m as in the poster’s case), tick the ‘Lap Nr’ up!

[giuliosq]

@Inge-Nallsson thanks both (even @far-blue ) thats my very simple point, as the watch perfecelty counts the 18 meters distance (perfectly) it means the movmenet sensor does its job, then why on earth the watch is not able to calclate the laps according to the swimming pool lenght I pre-set. it’d be easy by changing the auto lap distances accoringly to the pool length (which is “the pool lenght” already an option). it’s just a very simple thing. thanks both

[Max maxilifeguard]

Tide watch!! Easy!

[maszop]

With more and more interesting SuuntoPlus apps coming out, some of them should be built into the main watch system - just like it started with Suunto Run.

And the current limit of 2 apps is a very poor solution.

[Highlands]

@maszop said in What do you expect from the next update?:

With more and more interesting SuuntoPlus apps coming out, some of them should be built into the main watch system - just like it started with Suunto Run.

And the current limit of 2 apps is a very poor solution.

Couldn’t agree more.

[A Former User]

My 3 wishes:

1. possibility to enable tones only during activities
2. possibility to disable vibration of the scrolling wheel only
3. bluetooth management (which is apparently coming, I hope)

[Tami999]

@timecode said in What do you expect from the next update?:

My 3 wishes:

1. possibility to enable tones only during activities
2. possibility to disable vibration of the scrolling wheel only
3. bluetooth management (which is apparently coming, I hope)

Disabling vibration only when scrolling, and keeping it for sports/notification… I can’t believe there’s still not an option to do that… It’s important for me, especially for phone calls, so I am forced to have vibration when using crown…

[emmavet87]

I’ve made a thread about it, waiting for approval. I hope they include the sport of caving speleology

[matteo_000]

I wish for the only vibration alert (not vibration+sound alert) for the phone call on the watch…like for the clock alarm

[EdCaballer]

Be able to add some fields in the map page like time or speed will be great!!

[maszop]

@EdCaballer It would be best if it was in the form of a circle around the map (instead of those useless dots), like on many watchfaces: compass, heart rate zones, battery status, daylight, etc.

[EdCaballer]

@maszop yes i don’t understand why these dots are there! somtimes can ve confiused with paths… The most I miss is the activiti time… I don’t like to change the field every now and then…

[Steven Hambleton]

Fix for laggy increased hr reading (Race S)

More watch faces

[sky-runner]

I expect trail visibility regression on the maps to be addressed. This should have been fixed immediately without waiting 3 months for the next update. If that isn’t fixed I’ll be very disappointed.

Ideally I’d also want map contrast improvements and improvements of the climb guidance feature which is nearly useless on rolling terrain with moderate hills where it seems fairly random and doesn’t reflect the actual terrain.

Finally, I’d like the glitchy route auto-reversal to be addressed or perhaps eliminated and replaced with a menu command.

[sorinus]

@sky-runner said:

I expect trail visibility regression on the maps to be addressed. This should have been fixed immediately without waiting 3 months for the next update. If that isn’t fixed I’ll be very disappointed.

I will also be very dissapointed if the trail visibility is not fixed. No excuse in the age of AI.

[Steven Hambleton]

I’m hoping it’s just solid bug fixes for now.

[sky-runner]

Seems like the old thread got resurrected.

My expectations are the same - to get the software more polished.
I use map, navigation, and climb guidance features very extensively - every week, sometimes multiple times per week. In my opinion it continues to be a mess. Almost none of this stuff works flawlessly - that is unless you use these features in the most most basic and straightforward way. There is a large number of quirks and bugs, and unfineshed rough edges. I could easily make a list of probably 10-15 issues that I continue to hit on every long run including:

• The watch not following the navigation route as planned and jumping from one part of the route to another
• Navigation direction reversing - almost guaranteed at a turn-around. Also often the route is reversed right from the start.
• Climb guidance switching direction (going right to left), swapping colors (green for uphill), or just plainly not working correctly and showing me on an uphill segment while I and descending
• Climb guidance zooming working incorrectly or even refusing to zoom
• Light blue navigation arrows not being visible
• Off-route notifications when I am not off route and the watch shows me right on top of the route

The above is what I could remember in a few minutes, but there are many more issues.

If someone at Suunto took a comprehensive look at this area of functionality and made sure it offers a more polished and reliable experience for trail runners, with all features completed and working correctly, this would be the best thing for me to have in the next update.

But in the last almost 2 years of owning 3 different Suunto watches I am continuously frustrated by the lack of improvement in these core areas of functionality. The only reason I continue using a Suunto watch is because there are no significantly better alternatives from competitors.

[runyx17]

@sky-runner I completely agree, nicely written. I really like Suunto’s navigation—graphically it’s much better and clearer than the competition—but climb guidance really doesn’t work very well. I also remembered one more bug in the navigation for me: when I turn back along a route I’ve already run, the color of the track log covers the navigation route.

[duffman19]

@sky-runner @runyx17 And I’ll say it again, on the chance someone out there is listening: Removing the auto-reverse “feature” would solve almost all of the navigation issues.