Keyword search removed – years of activity notes effectively lost?
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I’ve been a loyal Suunto user for 20 years and currently use a Suunto Vertical. I’ve always valued Suunto also for the app as a long‑term archive of my outdoor life.
Unfortunately, since the recent Suunto App update, this core use case has been severely impacted.
For years, I used the description field of each activity to add short but meaningful notes: tour names, conditions, key locations, or personal remarks.
The keyword search allowed me to quickly and precisely find activities again — even years later — by simply searching for these terms.
This was NOT a “nice to have” feature.
It was essential to how I organized, reused, and valued my activity data.Since the update:
- The keyword/text search for activity descriptions is gone
- All historic descriptions still exist, but are no longer searchable
- Years of carefully maintained notes and tours are now effectively impossible to retrieve
This turns the app from a structured personal archive into a chronological list that is extremely hard to navigate — especially for long‑term, highly active users.
Suunto support has confirmed that this search functionality has been removed and suggested browsing by date, sport type, or location. Unfortunately, this is not a realistic workaround when you are trying to find a specific tour based on a written note from years ago.
To be very clear:
The drama here is not about a missing feature, but about the fact that years of meaningful user-generated data have lost their usability overnight.
I genuinely struggle to understand how such a core function could be removed without offering:- an alternative solution
- a migration path
- or even a clear explanation of how long‑term users are supposed to work with their data now
So my question to the community is:
Has anyone found a workaround or solution to search old activity descriptions again?
Is there any way — within or outside the app — to make years of written notes usable again?
I say this with a heavy heart, because I’ve been with Suunto for a long time:
If this remains unresolved, I’m honestly very close to leaving my beloved 20 years Suunto ecosystem and switching to Garmin — simply because I can’t accept losing access to my own history.
Any insights, workarounds, or updates would be greatly appreciated. Cheers! -
@MountainGOATtyrol search is still there, in the activities tab
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@MountainGOATtyrol
And to illustrate
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@Mff73 and it is only shown for “My”, even if you don’t follow anyone… it makes sense, but I stumbled upon this one…
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@MountainGOATtyrol very long text for the simple question: how can I search for activities in the description or tags?
Plus for app questions it is always good not to post in the “watches” subforum. Plus it makes sense to mention the phone OS.But anyway:
The magnifier glass is at the same position in IOS
