StayLit Wear: Longer Backlight

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About this app

Note: StayLit Wear requires Wear OS 3 (e.g. Galaxy Watch 4/5/6, Fossil Gen 6, Pixel Watch) or Wear OS 2.2 System Version H (e.g. Fossil Gen 3/4/5, Ticwatch Pro/E3). To check your Wear OS version, open the Settings on the watch, then go to System > About > Versions. (System Version is a separate entry.)

Do you find your smartwatch's built-in backlight timeout period actually quite short? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could adjust the backlight timeout to have the screen stay on as long as you wish?

StayLit Wear lets you keep the light on for as long as you want - also for more than 30 seconds: 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, or unlimited until you switch the display off. StayLit offers a fine-grained scale for values between 5 seconds and 30 seconds.

On the Galaxy Watch 4/5/6, the extended light timeout will also apply when the watch has been waked by a gesture (this is locked to 5 seconds by Samsung).

NOTE: Some watch models (e.g. Galaxy Watch 4/5/6) force the light to be switched off when you lower your arm or turn your wrist, independently of the value you set in StayLit.

What's more, StayLit Wear features “automatic” mode: the light stays on until you switch it off, but is also switched off when you lower your arm or turn the watch away from you. That way, the light will be on exactly when you need it. (Note that also in this mode, StayLit respects the individual light timeout of apps like Google Fit, Maps, or Runtastic.)


Note: Setting a significantly longer screen timeout will reduce battery life. We recommend using "automatic" mode, or setting a value of 10 - 30 seconds...


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Ratings and reviews

I finally found this app after a frustrating hour of playing with the watch settings and searching online! This app is perfect for showing off my new smartwatch, although at the cost of frequent recharging. Downloding this app on my phone was useless as i couldn't see how to transfer it to the phone. Instead I had to use the tiny keyboard on my watch to search the Play Store for this app and install it there. Can't figure out the difference between 'indefinite' and 'indefinite+' options

Works like a charm, the “indefinitely+” seems the ideal mix, I have a Tickwatch Pro, with its secondary display I have all the gestures turned off and use the button to wake. So doing this I beleive should also help battery life, as doing a quick flick of the wrist turns screen off. Because of the standard short timeout I was finding having to keep waking the watch, reading messages etc was a pain. Not anymore :)

Does half the job on my TicWatch Pro. Screen stays on as per the settings as long as your wrist is raised, but if you either lower your arm or cover the proximity sensor, it still goes into ambient mode. It's like it's acting as "Indefinitely+" but in "Indefinitely" mode. I'd like Indefinitely to mean Indefinitely - I'll take the battery life hit!

What's new

- adapted selection menu to new Wear OS guidelines