@TyreseJ4 two comments: battery life is not an online hype, but one of the key specs of a sport watch. my S9B Ambassador is slow and the battery not in anyway living up to the one in Vertical 2 I would sell it, if it was not the Ambassador version and thus some kind of collectable…

I don’t live by the sea, and I get the message telling me to synchronise the data with my mobile phone. I then used fake GPS to send a different location to my smartphone, and Ocean immediately displayed the tide information. However, as soon as I switch back to my actual location, the widget stops updating because the app can’t find any sea nearby. A message then appears in the widget stating that the update has failed. At the moment, I can’t see any way to enter a fixed or preferred location. Perhaps this could be fixed with an app update, as the data comes from the smartphone.

@manno02 I’m not using the vertical 2 but this issues seem to happen across several devices. I stopped using the chest strap until this is solved because the OHR works fine on the Suunto Run.

Anything that increases font size has my blessing.

@aiv4r Thank you! I’m now looking for AirBnB accommodation for the UTA 22 next year I love this watch but I’m kicking myself for not trying on the Race 2 and the updated bands at the Suunto stand…

Wish I had read this thread before spending $10 on HRV4Training and $15 on RunGap to get Suunto HRV, resting heart rate and Sleep data over to TrainingPeaks. Why does Suunto have to have a walled garden for athlete’s data even when trying to use 3rd party services? Pretty sure Suunto won’t be my next watch.

Thanks @egika for your reply. I found another thread here where I see that the same problem already existed with the first Race (!) @Egika said in swimrun mode: @microniko Correct, the S+ app cannot change sport modes. […] This S+ is kind of a legacy app. It’s a bit confusing because the app’s description clearly states that it can detect transitions. The swimrun sport app also creates laps from each run and swim section (…) You can now define your own Swimrun sport mode. Please go to sport mode customization and select to create a Mulstisport activity -> Swimrun. […] So I tried creating a multisport mode called swimrun. I chose the automatic transition mode. I hope it works. However, I didn’t quite understand what the repeat option is for (repeat the sport modes in sequence). I’ll let you know how it goes after my next run, as soon as the weather permits .

@SamuelP I once had a problem installing watch faces, so I reset the settings. Now I’ve decided not to wait for the watch update after all, but to reset the settings instead. Of course, it’s a shame that I have to set everything up again, download maps, and wait for the HRV and ZoneSense ranges to be calculated. I’m curious to see how Suunto will resolve this issue—will the new software version help, or is the problem somewhere else entirely, meaning I’ll have to reset the settings anyway?

I wanted to know if it was a normal behavior of the watch because on my side it is a problem because it turns on almost all the time the watch and so the autonomy is not there

@2b2bff I think it was supposed to remember the external HR sensor per activity/sport, but it isn’t how it seems to work.

Have to say, what you don’t know you cannot miss. But last year, in a very dark hotelroom, the screenflashlight of my race s was sufficient for my wife to find something on the table while I could stay in bed. So, for now, I’m in “what’s all the fuss about” mode. The digital crown of my race s is complex. Just using it to scroll up or down through menus or items is hideous. The 5 button layout of my previous garmin was better, but with touchscreen I don’t use the buttons very often. But to zoom in and out in a map it’s great. Again with a but. I was used to zoom on the garmin and it was horrible. Complex and buggy as hell. So is the crown just better that worst case garmin or would a 5 button Suunto implementation beat the digital crown? Might. perhaps. Not unlikely. Have to say, the race s provides the features I want in the smallest possible case, so the vertical 2 wouldn’t be competition for my race s (for me). So 5 buttons or a digital crown wasn’t a consideration. Have to say, 5 buttons shouts a bit more outdoorsy and a digital crown a bit more watch like.

Does the Ocean really have all the features of the Nautic S? One thing I wasn’t sure is if Ocean supports Trimix - which Nautic S seems to do. And maybe Nautic S is lighter, but this could also just be the strap Edit: I forgot - also the Nautic S has no Trimix

@LGoSo said in A BIG BIG BIG THANKS and APLAUSE to SUUNTO Team both watch and IT designer ...: Digits after the decimal point have a meaning. 43 and 43.0 are not the same or better should not be the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures Not it this case. Battery meter resolution is 1%, with zero decimal places. So displaying this value with one, two, or whatever decimal places is complete waste of space and visual clutter.

The models of garmin that are testen in a scientific way (not by some sport gadget blogger) shows that hrv isn’t that accurate on those models. (See https://the5krunner.com/2026/05/05/forerunner-265-hrv-study/ , links to sources on that page) I have no reason to believe other models or other brands are more accurate.

@yassine-besbes If I remember correctly, the sensor indeed needs to be deleted from the watch and paired again. This came with the change in sensor management. Now I see that you have already tried to re-pair it. Have you deleted it before this? And then have you enabled the sensor in the exercise settings under “Sensor Data”?

The reason this happens is because we can avoid unrelevant / bot users spamming the votes. If you post (which you are allowed) you get a couple of votes and then you join the game. Imagine if one would upvote on silly features and be a bot