My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026

sky-runner

@elbee said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

Garmin added this to their watches. And it couldn’t be turned off. Super irritating if you listen yo music.
That was the final push for me to sell a one year old forerunner 965 and buy a suunto race s.

Fully agree, especially that some of the voice notifications couldn’t not be turned off. And I’m general I cannot comprehend why people may want their watch to speak notifications to them when they can simply look at it at any moment.

MikeC30

I would like to able to access the led torch during an activity with just one button push, not relying on menus. Sometimes when I run in the dark there are short unlit sections where this would be a useful feature instead of having to rely on carrying a headtorch as well.

Horizontal_2

I really would like to use the “navigate now on watch”-function multiple times during an activity.

Most underrated function on Suunto, I think.

Is there even another brand that do that?

GiPFELKiND

@Horizontal_2 it would be great if its possible to make the routes offline on the App . Actially you need Internet to create a Route like navigation on watch.

sky-runner

@MikeC30 said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

I would like to able to access the led torch during an activity with just one button push, not relying on menus.

This would be great, but what button would you use? All buttons are already used - both short and long presses are already mapped to other functions. Having only 3 buttons is the limiting factor.

jmolenaar2

@sky-runner Suunto could make a “flashlight” page. You should be able to add this page as a screen (or page, not sure how it’s called) during any activity. During the activity swipe to this screen and there would be a button to turn the flashlight on or off. Even some gesture to brightness could be there. Tap to turn on and off. Swipe up or down for brightness.

MikeC30

@sky-runner

I’m not sure, I’d hoped that perhaps a long button push would be possible to implement through the firmware to make more use of the 3 buttons. Or a long touch on the watchface?

sky-runner

@jmolenaar2 said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

During the activity swipe to this screen and there would be a button to turn the flashlight on or off. Even some gesture to brightness could be there. Tap to turn on and off. Swipe up or down for brightness.

Cannot rely on touch. That is no go for an outdoor watch. That would be useless in a rain or even when wearing a long sleeve shirt when the sleeve covers the watch. When I wear a long sleeve shirt I pretty much cannot leave my watch on the map screen because my shirt sleeve starts panning the map all the time.

The best solution I can think of is double tap on the lap button. Implementation of the double tap can be a bit tricky because the first tap would have to be ignored and not trigger a lap, but it could be done. Another possible solution is combination of two buttons where the second button is pressed before the first button is released.
Garmin does actually have that for some of the button shortcuts and that works reasonably well, but buttons should be on the opposing sides of the case for that to be usable.

Kaikkionkaytos

On/off toggle for nap detection

Doodoo Runner

Cycling FTP widget (Watch and App.)

Steven Hambleton

@sky-runner How about two at the same time?

Sportsfreund

@Kaikkionkaytos I need an on-Switch. Because my nap track doesn’t work.

Ecki D.

My two cents:

Timer Improvements

Custom timer presets (e.g. 4 min, 6 min)
Timer should continue ringing/vibrating until manually dismissed (easy to miss currently)
Optional escalating vibration/sound if not dismissed
Option: vibration only (no sound)

Privacy Zones

Automatic privacy zones around home/work
Custom radius selection (e.g. 200–1000 m)
Applies to shared links & exports

Native Live Tracking

Built directly into Suunto app (no 3rd party dependency)
Auto-start with activity
Battery-efficient tracking mode

Activity Editing

Trim start/end of activity in app
Remove accidental pauses or idle time
Keep original file as backup

Custom Button Mapping

Fully customizable long-press & short-press actions
Flashlight, Timer, Media, Live Tracking etc.

Notification Controls

Separate sound & vibration controls
Quiet hours per notification type
Repeat alerts option

2b2bff

@Ecki-D. said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

Timer Improvements

Custom timer presets (e.g. 4 min, 6 min)

I think it would be sufficient to have the current timers as a start list and then the watch simply remembers the last 10 recently used ones. So the list will eventually be personalized without the need to implement any additional preset UI…

I like to have a sleep mode without the need to set the watch to full DND. So that urgent calls can reach me while sleeping…

elbee

Set the alarm more flexible (my workdays are mo,tu,we,th)

Set the gps accuracy a little less accurate without loosing maps

Set beeps + vibrate during activity and only vibrate in watch mode.

Set the datafield in maps to distance to next turn during navigation

Able to permanently turn off morning report (there is literally zero info on it that I need to know first thing in the morning)

Able to turn off sleep measuring without also disabling hrv measuring.

Disabling haptic feedback of the digital crown (when I use the crown I look at the screen. Haptic feedback is only useful when I perform actions without looking)

Or in short, more fine grained settings.

sky-runner

@elbee said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

Set the datafield in maps to distance to next turn during navigation

This is how it used to work one year ago.

Sportsfreund

@jmolenaar2

While activitie -> hold down -> down -> down -> middle

Very easy to use de lamp.

elbee

@sky-runner said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

@elbee said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

Set the datafield in maps to distance to next turn during navigation

This is how it used to work one year ago.

Yeh. On my race s also when I bought it. Now it is the super useless (in my views) distance to finish. I contacted suunto support and they claimed someone requested distance to finish so they changed it.

I asked if they could explain why distance to finish might be more useful than distance to next turn. They couldn’t explain.

I asked them to change it back or at least make it user configurable. No reply.

sky-runner

@elbee said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

Yeh. On my race s also when I bought it. Now it is the super useless (in my views) distance to finish. I contacted suunto support and they claimed someone requested distance to finish so they changed it.

I seems it hasn’t occurred to Suunto team that some people liked it the way it was and that it would be possible to satisfy both groups of users by adding an option.

What is even more, there is already a choice in the app whether to include turn directions into a route a not. The right solution would be to show distance to a next “event” on the route, whether that is a turn or next waypoint, or end of route. Then if someone didn’t want to see distance to next turn, they could simply not include turn directions in the route.

Furthermore, there is already another way to see distance to next waypoint or end of route by switching to the elevation profile - the climb guidance screen. It does show distance to the finish or next waypoint at the bottom. So with the current implementation we have two different ways to see distance to next waypoint or end of the route but zero ways to see distance to next turn.

Egika

@elbee said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

@sky-runner said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

@elbee said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

Set the datafield in maps to distance to next turn during navigation

This is how it used to work one year ago.

Yeh. On my race s also when I bought it. Now it is the super useless (in my views) distance to finish. I contacted suunto support and they claimed someone requested distance to finish so they changed it.

I asked if they could explain why distance to finish might be more useful than distance to next turn. They couldn’t explain.

I asked them to change it back or at least make it user configurable. No reply.

your voice was heard though. The next update will bring some nice changes to navigation as well.