My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026

MikeC30

I would appreciate being able to customise what long button pushes do during an activity. I have never needed to access multi sport or the control panel during an activity. If we can customise what a long button push does when not doing an activity, I’d hope it would be possible to add this for during an activity.

With the vertical 2 and its torch, one long push would be useful to activate this feature for short sections in town where there is no street light or in short tunnels to provide a bit of light to guide me when a head torch would be overkill. It’s quite hard to activate the torch from the control panel whilst running.

Robbin053

For the next update, I would like to see more options regarding the brightness of the AMOLED screen. It is still very bright even at the lowest setting. Additionally, a red shift mode after sunset would also be very pleasant.

dreamer_

Improve navigation and Climb Guidance:

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/15016/vertical-2-2.53.42-map-and-navigation-features-are-greatly-improved-but-there-are-still-a-lot-of-old-issues-and-also-new-bugs-introduced-in-the-latest-update/

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/15071/several-navigation-issues-feedback/

Better integration with Spark:
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/15018/suunto-spark/
Bluetooth FTMS:

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/15154/bluetooth-ftms-support/

One minimalistic watchface.

The rest is almost perfect for me, just those things.

James Alexander

On device music for me like the Run… I would have thought it would be easy to copy over? V2 would be almost perfect then… apart from payments but I can go without.

dreamer_

@James-Alexander think that the music can be accomplished very easily with the headsets (that in any case you already need).

Ze Stuart

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

Better integration with Spark:
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/15018/suunto-spark/

And Aqua. Basically treat them as the chest strap is treated: sync and merge after, the code already exists afterall. Stops it being a marketing exercise of a feature and transforms it into something useful for us.

Ze Stuart

I forgot, espresso maker. Please. For the summit.

EDIT: altimeter calibration using the elevation data now present on the map!

zhangschmidt

@Ze-Stuart said in My Vertical 2 Wishlist for Next Update in 2026:

I forgot, espresso maker. Please. For the summit.

Hahahaha. Poll idea: Who’s old enough to remember that “feature suggestion”?

Tieutieu

@Ze-Stuart could you elaborate ?

Ze Stuart

@Tieutieu yep.

Present: altimeter is calibrated either by GNSS signal, or manual user calibration.
Suggestion: the maps have topo lines, which suggests the maps have elevation data. Let’s assume they do, and it’s queryable, and not just in the GUI. A 3D GNSS fix takes a lot more time than a 2D GNSS fix. With a map and elevation data, and a 2D fix, you can infer altitude with a reverse lookup: what is the altitude on the map for this lat/long?

Not only does this give us known-accurate elevation data, but the benefit that our barometer is more likely to be accurate, too, as currently the data from the manometer has to be parsed to determine if the change is elevation or barometric pressure. FusedAlti is great, but, why infer when you can calculate?

Unless you meant the espresso maker…?