Distance to hazards on watch

Posted almost 4 years ago by Cory Piron

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Cory Piron

Would be great to see the distance to say bunkers or water on my Apple Watch. This feature has been available on Garmin gold watches for many years Thanks and keep up the great work!

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Jon posted 8 months ago

Also hoping this is not too far away :).

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Carlo Kassam posted 9 months ago

Any update of when we can have the distance to the hazards on the Apple Watch ?

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Beat posted almost 2 years ago

I just tested the behaviour with large and small Wear OS font size. I have TicWatch and Golfpad version 73 in the watch. In fact some fonts are indeed changing with the Wear OS font size change. I made screenshots for small font (left side) and large font (right side).

On the main screen the clock is changing from impossible to read to very tiny. The font size for HOLE, PAR and SCORE remains unchanged and still too small to read without reading glasses.

On the Hazard screen only the word HAZARD changes in size, but the important distance information remains unchanged and too small to read.

Please rectify this deficiency, users will be happy. Thanks

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Adrian Daetwyler posted almost 2 years ago

Yesterday, I just used Golfpad for the first time. Everything worked well and the statistics will be interesting in the long run. However, as Beat mentioned, the font of some information, especially the hazard info is way too small. Please change this shortcoming as fast as possible! Many thanks.

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Beat posted about 2 years ago

@Cindy - The font size in the GolfPad app unfortunately does not change if I change the font size in the Wear OS system settings.
Please check with the dev team to enlarge the font size and make it bold so I can see the distance to hazards and also the time, hole # and par in the main GolfPad screen on the Wear OS watch.

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Matej posted about 2 years ago

It is only available on Wear OS, not on Tizen (like samsung galaxy watch 3), if I understand correctly?

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Cindy Wren posted about 2 years ago Admin

@Beat - Thanks for bringing this up! I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the new distance to hazards feature on your smartwatch. We totally understand how important it is to have a font size that's easy to read, and we appreciate your feedback on this. I'll definitely pass your comments along to the development team for consideration in future updates.

In the meantime, have you tried adjusting your watch settings under "accessibility" and "font size"? That could potentially make a difference for you. Here's some helpful information on that: https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/11183305?hl=en-GB

Thanks again for reaching out, and please let us know if you have any other questions or suggestions.

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Beat posted about 2 years ago

Happy to see hazard distance working on my Wear OS Ticwatch Pro 3. However the size of the font of the distance of hazards is so tiny that it is impossible to read without putting on reading glasses (see my screen below). Like this it is pretty useless on the course.

Please make the font size bigger and bold.

The same applies for the time indication on the main watch screen and the score and hole number. There is enough space to make the font bold and slightly bigger.

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Michel Charron posted about 2 years ago

it's working now

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Cindy Wren posted about 2 years ago Admin

@beat - I'm checking on this for you. - Cindy

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Beat posted about 2 years ago

@Cindy, I still do not see the distance to hazards on my Wear OS watch. Do I need to setup something?

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Cindy Wren posted over 2 years ago Admin

Hi Carlo - I'm checking on this for you and will post an update once I know more. UPDATE: the team informs me we do not anticipate this being ready in December. It is something we are working toward, it just didn't come together as soon as we had hoped.

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Carlo Kassam posted over 2 years ago

@Cindy, is there still a change that the distance to the Hazards functionality will be included in the december '22 release?

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Carlo Kassam posted over 2 years ago

Hi Cindy, great news, I am looking forward to this new feature.

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Cindy Wren posted over 2 years ago Admin

@Carlo Kassam - I've confirmed with the team that iPhone is on the roadmap for completion this year. Things can change, but that's our plan. Thanks for asking!

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