Navigation - turn notififactions

Jacobus

@pmossy I always have turn by turn turned off, I usually just run the route by briefly looking at my watch. Sometimes I start the same route with Komoot on my phone and then have voice prompts through my bone conduction headphones, which works quite handy in practice.

isazi

Agree, TbT prompts are wrongly timed and confusing, and this must change.

sky-runner

@pmossy The right solution would be to always display the next turn with the remaining distance at the bottom of the map (with or without the notifications). That’s what Garmin does, and that work really well.

Maryn

@sky-runner Very good idea

altcmd

@Jacobus turning off TbT is not a solution even if that’s what most do.

Antoine Lancrenon

@altcmd said in Navigation - turn notififactions:

@Jacobus turning off TbT is not a solution even if that’s what most do.

yes, i have turned off the TbT also because of what its described here. I really hope Suunto is aware, they must have some stats from the watch usage? and see that nobody is using the TbT. and it is a shame!

Still, I love my watch! and it can only gets better!

isazi

@Antoine-Lancrenon kinda reported it again to Suunto, they are aware of the situation.

stromdiddily

@isazi said in Navigation - turn notififactions:

@Antoine-Lancrenon kinda reported it again to Suunto, they are aware of the situation.

the Lord’s work

altcmd

@isazi its the same way they are aware that their watch is laggy, atleast to Garmins and Ambits.

isazi

@altcmd they are also working on making the new watches less laggy, and according to most users the lag is pretty inconsequential when using the watch for real (not for YouTube)

outdoorrama

Is there any progress or an interim status in solving this major problem?

Thanks!

A Former User

Hi together!

I have a short side-question, which i think belongs to this topic:

Is it true that the turn-by-turn-notifications can only be used when the route was created in the Suunto App?

If yes, how is it possible to turn them off, if i navigate with such a route? I only want to follow the route by looking at the route on my watch, without notifications.

Thanks!

Mff73

@flobru3101 said in Navigation - turn notififactions:

Is it true that the turn-by-turn-notifications can only be used when the route was created in the Suunto App?

False. 3rd party partners or specific gpx files can be used to create turn-by-Turn routes

If yes, how is it possible to turn them off, if i navigate with such a route? I only want to follow the route by looking at the route on my watch, without notifications.

In route edit mode there is a switch to toggle turn-by-Turn on/off

enriqueescoms

@flobru3101 Easy. When creating a route in the app you can enable/disable the little turn-by-turn tab.

When you sync with your watch, if the route has turn-by-turn turned off, then there will be no turn warnings when you navigate that route.

outdoorrama

@outdoorrama said in Navigation - turn notififactions:

Is there any progress or an interim status in solving this major problem?

Thanks!

This question still remains. And it is still a major problem.

Jonathan Schwarz

Issue is still present as of May, 2024.

Additional issues I would note;

Text is too small to read easily when moving quickly
Part of the instructions frequently get cut off (especially the street/trail name)
3. It would also greatly improve the usability if a quick view of the map with the upcoming turn showed along with the notification (ie especially if you are on a data screen, for the notification to pop up with a small glimpse of the upcoming turn on the map). That way you have two ways to process the instruction - text and visual)

Marco 4

@pmossy completely agree, it is totally confusing and annoying receiving an upcoming turn still having to take the actual turn. But suunto does nothing about this making it very disturbing navigating with tbt activated…

outdoorrama

@Jonathan-Schwarz Suunto … unfortunately I will not become a new user of your ecosystem. It’s no longer about the individual watch type, but that you don’t fix basic things.