My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026

eurohiker

I love the watch and Suunto just posting my wishlist hoping Suunto Devs see it No particular order.

Tides widget - high and low tide times and height geographically with LW and HW values. i live on the coast and some beaches are hidden with high tide and it’s good to know for water activities for safety.
More Tiles - I had the Suunto 7 and it could hold 5-6 tiles. These tiles were great for seeing things full screen quickly if you wanted.
Media Controls Volume - on the Suunto 7 the volume was mapped to the up and down buttons by default.

Currently, changing the volume takes 3 steps once in media app (i have it mapped as a long press on bottom button): scroll down to volume-> pressing volume -> then press up or down button to change volume.
On the Suunto 7 - it was on middle button by default only when music is playing on your connected phone -> up and down buttons are volume rockers by default.
Devs if you’re looking at this and have a Suunto 7 - play around with the media app and you’ll know what i mean.
I like many people listen to music while weight lifting, indoor cardio, lone running/downhill skiing. Changing volume, and songs in an instant is crucial for ease and safety (less time looking at the watch vs concentrating on activity).

Custom Sport Mode Customization via phone
a) let us search with keyboard with the list autopopulating as you type more letters
b) let us have more than 1 graph tiles during the activity
c) let us change the order of activity tiles
Offline Spotify (i have 20gb left after downloading all my apps + offline maps)
Popular Trails Nearby Suunto Phone App - For a mountain city of 3 million people. 3 Ski resorts and 1000kms of trails at my doorstep in Vancouver. There are only 53 popular routes of all sports, there’s no ski touring, mountaineering options. There are a lot of heatmaps which could be transferred into trails somehow?
Side note: Heat maps are great tbh and I hope suunto keeps making it better. With Fatmaps’ departure, ski tour routes are harder to find. Heatmaps really help on this front. I was going to subscribe to Strava for this feature alone
Flashlight Mapped to a button long hold should turn on and off the flashlight with the same long hold.
Multi-Day expedition (ski touring / hike / mountaineering) - Allow us to pause, and minimize activity once we get to camp. Resume activity from log book when restarting the hike the next day. This watch is meant from expeditions, this is a big feature that’s missing.
Voice Guidance via phone speaker
a) Turn-by-Turn Navigation Voice Guidance via phone. “In 50 meters, turn left”. This would be cool if you can do this in the pre-activity menu when selecting SuuntoPlus apps. Currently, you have to run the trail independently on your phone for this.
b) Pace/Power Coaching Voice Alerts. Currently, this can only be done with Runna

Tomas5

I would like to vote for Tides widget too. I get to nerby sea maybe once in a year or less but still i would like to have tides on my wrist and not need to lookup in phone.

And improvement of sports mode customization would be welcomed. Now it is slow because of constant connecting to phone and searching for fields just by scrolling is really bad. I would also like to change order of screens in sport mode without need to delete and recreate in correct order. And be able to create copy of existing sport mode and than change type would be awesome. For example i created cycling and when i want create MTB with exact same fields it would be nice to be able just copy first custom mode and just change type and maybe few fields if needed. Not recreate 95% of same over and over.

Tomas5

And one more thing ability use two graph screen in sport mode. In Ambit 2 times i used to have hearthrate and alitude graph together if my memories are correct. I understand that maybe Suunto 5 din’t have power to do that but Vertical 2 Race 2 are flagship models so i hope thay can handle it.

MarkG

@Tomas5 I’d like tides too and please forgive me if you already know this. To be useful it needs to be a lot more complicated than just low and high water times. It needs to include these of course but also which reference port (the times are different geographically) and the tide heights at that port at HW and LW.
There is a significant difference in height of water between Spring and Neap tides (and in between), more than enough to make a beach flooded or passable or a channel navigable or dry.

eurohiker

@Tomas5 I like this one, 2 graphs from custom sport modes would be cool. Altitude tracing with trail + heart rate. Adding this to my wishlist

eurohiker

@MarkG edited OP to reflect this! Great input.

MarkG

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

@MarkG edited OP to reflect this! Great input.

Thanks eurohiker. I’m a sea kayaker as well as other things. I suppose it just needs to be a similar presentation to weather.eg: HW Mallaig 1530hrs 4.6m, LW 2145hrs 1.6m.
A graph would be useful and make calculations faster but the basic info in conjunction with charts (or local knowledge) would be sufficient.