Display always on feature needed during swim workout

[Elanhui]

I swim at least 60 laps four times a week.  I don’t want to stop or pause to look at my watch, just catch my time with a quick glance while making my turns.  I work out at different Intensity levels and want to be able to see my time in seconds which most watches stop doing in a font large enough to read through wet goggles after 30 or 60 minutes.  Is the ‘always on’ feature available during a swim? Can’t pause to turn  my wrist just so every lap.

[Jnesbitt82 · Accepted solution]

I know with the Maker clock face, it will let you build a watch design that you can set to always on, then turn it off in the settings later.

[N8teGee]

Yes the screen can be set to always on during swimming. You would select the workout app, scroll to swim, tap the gear icon in the top left corner of the screen and then scroll down to always on screen and set it to on. 

[Elanhui]

Thanks. I’ll give it a try.

[kpschleich]

Does it work? Thank you!

[Elanhui]

You can set it for always on in the exercise - swim settings. This sets it to always be on only while swimming. Unfortunately, this does use up the battery charge faster. Also, perhaps on an unrelated note, my Versa stopped working after less than three weeks of swimming. I swim eight miles a week. The pattern of failure looks like water damage but could also be due to a charger that I got on Amazon. It was fully charged by this device three times but the problem started about one hour after the third charge. It would be nice to know if its failure was due to either one of these causes or another altogether. I am awaiting a replacement.