Garmin Vivoactive 5 notifications disappearing too quickly

I got the Garmin Vivoactive 5 a week ago, and I’m a bit frustrated that notifications from the watch disappears so quickly. When feeling the watch vibrate, the text on the watch disappears in just 1-2 seconds. And unless you’re staring at the watch when the notification appear, it’s usually gone before you’re able to react. Like for instance today. I was out showeling show, and felt the watch vibrate, so I immediately let go of the shovel to look at the watch, but the text disappeared just as I was beginning to read it. And then it’s gone forever. Not stored in any history or anything, and swiping from left to right and opening «notifications» shows nothing.

The problem is just with the Garmin watch notifications, like achievements, goals and supportive messages you get from the watch during the day like «be more active» or «take a pause» and stuff like that. Notifications from the phone, like sms messages, stays in the notification queue on the watch, and can be read at a later time (unless you read and delete it on the phone first).

My Garmin Vivoactive 5 is set up and paired correctly with my iPhone 13, and everything works and syncs just fine between the watch and the Garmin apps on my phone. The only problem is with these notifications disappearing too fast. I’ve looked through all the menys on the watch and my phone, but there’s no place where I can either set a longer duration time for these notifications, or access them in a notification history queue.

I really hope Garmin fixes this, and also gives us the choice to both set the time the notifications should be displayed on the watch screen (for instance 5, 10 and 30 seconds), and also make notifications that have disappeared accessible in the notifications history queue.

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Same issue here but I didn’t even know it was notifications I was getting. I would just feel a vibration, then look at the watch, and only the watch face would be there with no indication of why the watch…

Yes, happens all the time. they disappear in 5 seconds or so. THE INTERNAL (watch) alerts/notifications should also appear in the notification center of the watch - I don't understand why this is…

They disappear in 5 seconds no matter what the watchface is. A configuration option for this is a no brainer, really!