We are now going into 2025 and it's beyond my understanding how anyone in authority at Samsung would produce a new watch with a highly touted "quick button" that cannot be assigned to any app on the Watch Ultra. Even the simplest watch faces allow the user to assign software buttons to any app and assigning the quick button would have been just as easy. But even worse than limiting the quick button to use a Samsung defined use, it doesn't even allow the user to decide which Samsung app other than 5 hard coded possibilities. No amount of software magic has yet to overcome this limitation.
Right now that button sits there doing nothing, reminding me that Samsung still hasn't fixed this glaring desire for the watch to work the way one engineer wishes. You might as well call it the dedicated Bixby button in an effort to think that using the rod is going to get all purchasers to use what you wish. It's things like this that are the cause of why I don't have far more Samsung products.
Just fix this to work the way every user expects it to work and able to assign to and launch an app of the user's choice.
Dear Samsung, let us use the watch the way we want to use it, the way virtually. Every other manufacturer has been providing technology for many years.
I'll add another piece of pitiful. I don't want daily reminders about exercise targets. My priorities are not the same and I get my workouts in the gym. There is absolutely no way to turn off Samsung health exercise targets. You must get notifications on the watch at least once daily. It's a distraction.
I went to the Samsung health app to see if I could set my target to zero steps, zero stairs. Can't do it. You must climb at least one staircase and walk at least a thousand steps.
I've never seen anything this technologically backwards. You've reminded me why I'm waiting for Google to finally change its watch build to something durable later this year and I will never look back.
PS: solving this problem by turning off and disconnecting Samsung health and using Google fit. Next is working with my app developers to create an app to fix the quick launch button.
