Add a lamp / flashlight app

One application for which I often reach to my phone is as a pocket lamp.. It seems to me relatively simple and super useful to implement an always on light mode from within the watch. It might not be a very strong light, but definitely a life saver in those moment when you can't find your phone in the dark or it ran out of battery..

Hi! I have tried it before and unfortunately it was really useless because the LEDs and screen simply don't get bright enough. But I will make another test

Hi Florian, Thank you for the swift reply :) When you are in complete darkness it is very useful. I actually sometimes make a very fast tempo on the metronome and use the fast flashes to look for things.. But the fast flashes are very unpleasant and the constant vibration is disturbing. I just wish to have a constant light on.

Wow that is surprising. OK thanks for sharing this. We will give it another test. Actually as far as I know the LEDs are currently set to 50% brightness to preserve battery life, so we could go even higher for a flash light function

Oh wow that's great news, at 100% constant light it will be way more useful.. Maybe even make the text screen to be full of characters or even white to increase the brightness even more ? Of course, if you test it not in full darkeness, it might be useless. But that's when having this thing on ne your wrist at all times makes sense.

And make it so you can scroll to change the brightness

Yes I have asked our developers already to prototype it with all the screen pixels turned on at max brightness as well to see if it has a positive effect. It could be interesting to use the dial as well to increase or decrease the brightness

Oh great idea for the brightness!

Yes! I emailed about this a while ago! I often use my watch (core steel 1) at night or to avoid cables when sneaking around backstage. I cope with the current brightness but the duration is too short for easy use. A triple tap Home Screen for 1 min torch would be great for me, even if it's only all the screen leds at 50% brightness!

Hello! Any news about this?

Hi, not yet, we have worked on a bunch of other features that had more upvotes that we just released. Our engineers might get around to prototyping this soon!

Merged into "Core: Flashlight" #14