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Disable GSP, Bluetooth, HR, etc or buy a watch that is specific for ultra and adventure racing. You can find an older Garmin model with ultratrac for a reasonable amount if you’re not looking to break the bank.

Ultra and Cadence.app (you have to pay subscription, of course). But in my opinion, Garmin is better option for cycling and I’ve tried both - Garmin needs no subscription, has offline maps and more and better metrics. And somewhat can export to Apple Health too :)

I’ve had both and definitely have had more issues with Garmin. I have yet to experience a mid activity crash on my AWU in over a year, something that I’ve had happened multiple times on every Garmin device I have ever owned (a lot, I started with a FR 205 or 305). I still own a Garmin edge and it happened again last week. Riding along and you look down and the screen is just shut off. I do miss the battery life of my old Fenix but I got used to putting the AWU on the charger every time I shower and that seems to work 99% of the time. I don’t see a bright future for Garmin. There’s companies like Coros that make arguably better watches now for a fraction of the price (don’t take my word, look at all the pros using Coros now). When my Edge dies I’ll probably switch brands.

I switched from a Garmin Fenix to an Ultra 2 and I’m never going back to Garmin. Most of your peeves can easily be remedied by going in the Watch app on your phone and setting up what you want to allow to show up on your watch as notifications. It’s 100 times more fine grained than what Garmin does (pretty much all or nothing). Not that it’s Garmin’s fault, they just don’t have access to the OS on your phone the way Apple does. I was overwhelmed at first but quickly turned off notifications for all but a few apps. Now, if you want something more focused on sports then you’ll be better served with Garmin, although Apple’s Ultra variant is no slouch either, especially paired with an app like WorkOutdoors. If you’re going to go that route I would take a serious look at Coros though, they make arguably better watches for much cheaper in my opinion.

I honestly am glad I switched back to Apple Watch after a year and a half with a Garmin Phoenix gen 2. I love my Apple Watch Ultra 2 it’s actually holding up better than my Garmin watch did even in the black metal color. It is way more comfortable than the Garmin that watch fucked up my wrist. All the things that I liked about my Garmin watch like body battery stress ect I’m able to get from the Bevel app but better and plus so much more. The battery life is enough 3.8-4 days (if I don’t work out) as I don’t use Wi-Fi/cell or always on display I typically just charge and clean my watch when I shower anyway. Biggest reasons I got rid of my Garmin it felt clunky the UI was absolutely trash and I felt like a lack of customization, especially with the watch face they all just felt very generic. Overall, just poor user Experience I mean there’s menus on the Garmin where it doesn’t even show you the fucking time WTH kind of watch doesn’t show you the time. I literally would have to hang up a phone call to see the time on my garmin. Apple Watch always shows the time no matter what screen it’s on. Obviously, the Apple Watch is a way smarter device. But the gps accuracy is pretty close I heard on the ultra three it’s basically the same as most Garmin watches but some scenarios with swimming in mountains get messy The hr accuracy is better on Apple Watch and you get way more health features better fall and car crash detection hearing damage, warning, ekg better, abnormal heart rate sensing. Blood 02 is more accurate but some newer models are limited to only manual O2 reading due to patent issues. Sleep tracking seems better especially when paired with the Bevel app this app is awesome seriously, they recently also just came to Garmin watches too. But god dam that battery life on my garmin was epic, I also really liked the amount of buttons and the fact that you could basically control the whole watch with button buttons. The ultra has an orange button that you can program to do anything I have it set for flashlight and the flashlight is way brighter than my Garmin but my Garmin watch didn’t have the actual flashlight that some do. Garmin is still awesome Great utility device and it seems as if many of their models have come down in price I got basically a brand new Apple Watch Ultra 2 open box in perfect condition for 600 bucks which was cheaper than my Garmin, I love Garmin but to use it every day or even just workouts made me go insane they just need to hire some good UI folk maybe this has changed on the brand new Garmins.

I run AMOLED and just have the display always on. Sure it uses more battery but I have a charger at my pc and like to take it off when I play intense games, so I charge it then. In practice I never have to worry about battery life. I do like MIP quite a bit but I do a lot of training in low light and the AMOLED is so much better there. I also find the maps a lot easier to read when I’m in the bush running an ultra.

I love MIP but amoled is not the future, is the present already.

Man MIP is just good in many ways, but they really need to work on the software. Particularly, the maps. Just allow us to install OSMAnd+ maps man. There are other issues of course, the maps doesn't quite track to speed of the car (it looks like it is underestimating the speed?), but I digress.