Garmin acknowledges firmware 21.19 glitch in Forerunner series
Garmin has released into the wild public firmware version 21.19 for its Forerunner 255, 265, 955, and 965 models, with the update currently reaching approximately half of its user base. While the software brings several anticipated features, it has also surfaced an unexpected glitch.
Users have reported a persistent touchscreen issue following the update. Despite configuring device settings to disable touch functionality during activities, the touchscreen remains consistently responsive. Attempts to mitigate the problem through standard troubleshooting—such as device restarts and WiFi synchronization—do nothing to resolve the problem.
Garmin has acknowledged the touchscreen sensitivity issue and stated that they are actively investigating the problem. So hopefully a fix is in the near-future pipeline.
New features
Firmware 21.19 brings to public release features that have been in Beta testing for a couple of months now. Some of these are quite useful.
For example, the watches now have compatibility with Coach strength training plans, improved pool swim workout features, and new activity tracking options like meditation. The update also includes a moon phase glance and an automatic application of lactate threshold estimates based on training heart rate data.
Here is the full change-log:
- Adds compatibility for Garmin Coach strength training plans.
- Improvements to support Pool Swim workout with pace alerts and critical swim speed.
- Improvements to the Pool Swim rest screen and alert tones.
- Adds the Meditation activity.
- Adds the Moon Phase glance.
- Lactate Threshold estimates are applied automatically after training with heart rate.
- Function Threshold Power estimates are applied automatically after training with power.
- Fixed an issue where some types of daily suggested workouts do not show estimated training effect.
- Fixed an issue where when the timer is set to silent mode, it still makes a sound.
- Fixed an issue where Android smart notification images sometimes fail to load.
- Fixed an issue where heart rate randomly spikes after activity is saved.
- Fixed an issue where Navigation using map only adds turn icon for some sports profiles.
- Fixed an issue where accent color of “Other” activities would not save.
- Fixed an issue where custom workouts would not work in some activities.
- Fixed an issue where trying to select “Around Me” Navigation option could crash device.
- Fixed an issue where adding Heart Rate to glance folder would break when heart rate is disabled.
- Fixed an issue where sleep would sometimes not be recorded when waking up long after configured wake time.
- Fixed an issue where device would return to previous page when browsing Weather glance.
- Fixed an issue where sleep mode would resume after user manually exited sleep mode.
- Fixed an issue where Triathlon activity profile copies were showing as Run profiles.
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