first of all thanks for implementing the possibility to hide the display by a simple key stroke or touch of a button in the companion app.
Please enable the feature in workout mode as well.
Before the update I used the “minimal ui” option in Zwift-Preferences for my workouts. I used it because I like a clean view on my ride without unnecessary distraction. For making sure I hit the power target I used the companion app. All this helped me to stay focussed during my workouts, especially the intense ones.
Since the introduction of the new feature there is no way I can hide the display in workout mode anymore. I’m now beeing patronized without any benefit.
@everyone: if you feel the same and you would like to be able to train without the HUD again, please consider to vote for this thread. Who knows, maybe it does mean something to the Zwift developers
I think the thread should be “Fix the Hide Display Feature” and be in the bugs section.
Why is this not allowed in workout mode? If a user presses ‘H’ by accident, it’s not a calamity, the world will continue to spin. They just press ‘H’ again. Voila!
But if they pressed it deliberately they must have a good reason to do it right? Like for example they like an uncluttered screen and also have the companion app.
Zwift is overall such a high quality product that to see something poorly thought through sticks out like a sore thumb and does disservice to all the other good stuff.
Please just fix this!
At least I could work around it with zwift-preferences before, another very questionable feature decision to take that away.
Bump. Sometimes I’d rather not be constantly reminded that I have to slog through my interval for another ## minutes, I just want to zone out and push through it. It’s easy enough to look at the companion app for data when needed.
I pressed “H” today only to be told I can’t turn off the display in a workout.
It was disappointing. I was doing a flat zone 2 ride and had no need to see my power, cadence, the interval sections etc. Even if I did, I had my Edge or the Companion app to check those with.
I’d also like the ability to hide the HUD in workouts.
Adding a vote to this old feature request.
Was hoping to enjoy the scenery on the new watopia routes today during my interval workout, but can’t get rid of the display.
Since I have all information I need in front of me on the companion app, I would like the ability to turn off the GUI/data during workouts on my game display, just like in non-workout mode.
I would loooove the ability to turn off the inane “Rah, rah, you can do it” motivational chatter instructions built into the workouts (often with terrible grammar, too ). It’s just a distraction when I’m trying to focus.
Just started using workouts after a few months of free riding + robo pacers, and this was an unpleasant and baffling surprise. Compounding the issue is that UI overlay for workouts is particularly obnoxious, even by Zwift standards: if you use zwift on a large screen the power meter is absurdly large, blocking a large part of the view.
I set up a TV for Zwift but more likely as I use the UI I realise it’s going to get used for Netflix and zwift stays on a phone just for stats. What a waste of all the work that’s gone into the world and the graphics, to just plaster over them. The top image google returns for “how to hide riders nearby” is a 3 year old joke with a piece of cardboard taped on the screen.
). It’s just a distraction when I’m trying to focus.