Turning flashlight on/off during a workout
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@Gideon-Kaempfer no need to pause the activity.
and also no multiple clicks to control center.The only thing you need to do is long press the lower button and select flashlight on. It is the second option from the top.
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@Egika how did you configure this? When I long press the bottom button I get the Control Panel menu. Maybe because this is the pinned widget??
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@Gideon-Kaempfer you were asking for “during activity”.
During activity, the long press lower button always takes you to the activity control panel. Regardless of any pinned widgets or button shortcuts, that only are active when in the watch screen and no ongoing activity. -
@Egika I see. IMHO it would be better if we could have custom shortcuts during the activity. Fiddling with menus, especially the weird flashlight menu to select brightness, is not something I can manage while running…
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@Gideon-Kaempfer Whats weird about the brightness setting?
it is also just upper button: brighter, lower button: less bright. middle button: off
Imo this is not very weird, but easy to operate even if not looking at the screen.
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@Egika the weird part is that when you press the “off” (middle button) you still stay in the flashlight menu, and need yet another longer press on the middle button to exit it. If you don’t want long press, you need to go up (top button) and select “back” (middle button). I think it can easily be made simpler: enter the menu with a shortcut. Exit on off.
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@Gideon-Kaempfer i always swipe to the right to exit the menus.
plus I was referring to you mentioning the menu to select brightness.
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@Egika I get it. I was trying to avoid swipes due to sweaty fingers
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It’s being improved and known to all of us.
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On the Vertical 2, a swipe wouldn’t even do anything in activity mode, would it?
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@zhangschmidt if you are in the screen for flashlight it is two presses. Off button then swipe and you are back in the activity screen.
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@zhangschmidt yes, in the activity options touch does work.
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The tone of @Egika replies isn’t exactly the best way to have a constructive discussion about improving device usability.
The flashlight management on the Vertical 2 is inefficient. When you’re running at night during races like the TOR330 at 3000 m, the UTMB, or a 100 km alpine ultra — with gloves on, fatigue, and limited focus — needing the flashlight can be an urgent matter, and digging through menus is neither practical nor easy.
A double-click shortcut to turn it on and off could be a useful addition, and it should require minimal software effort to implement.
