Garmin watch, can you automatically return to clock screen?

mrcheez

Coming from a Samsung Watch one thing i miss on my Epix Pro Gen 2 is the ability to automatically go back to the clock when you stop looking at the watch for a few seconds (when no activity running) without having to click the button several times to get back.

Any setting I'm missing to enable this?

Reg'stoy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058384432/garmin-watch-can-you-automatically-return-to-clock-screen

Cover the watch face fully with the palm of your hand and it will return to the time.

mrcheez

Not working for me. On weather app, cover watch for 3 seconds, still on same.

Reg'stoy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122957940#Comment_122957940

Have you touchscreen disabled?

mrcheez

Nope

mrcheez

I've found it does EVENTUALLY go back to clock if I leave it alone for 2-3 minutes.

At least it goes to black i mean.

Then when I rotate wrist again it's back to clock.

So I guess it's working as I want, just slower.

Odd about the screen covering thing not working though 🤔

Reg'stoy

Try settings, system, display, general use and turn off wrist gesture and set timeout to say 8 seconds.

As far as I am aware it's not something you turn on or off. Try garmin forums and see if a similar issue has been raised.

mrcheez

Right, but I want wrist gesture.

I just want it to turn back to clock when I'm no longer looking at the screen for a few seconds, as it works on Apple and Samsung watches.

At the moment it does this, but after 2-3 minutes.

I've also set a Hot Key to show Watch Face, but it's a bit clunky to have to press a button just to go back to the home screen in less than 2 minutes.