My QWIIC SAMD21 board does not start executing program on power up, until I manually press reset

I have a QWIIC SAMD21 board hooked up to a OLED display. I compiled and upload an app that displays an animation.

However, the board does not start running the app when I power up, until I press Reset button manually.

Is there something in the code I need to have to cause it to start running immediately on power up? Is the reset circuit on power up not operating properly?

This is how that board’s bootloader functions…unfortunately, unless switching to something besides SAMD models, the reset button requires being pressed to update the program

Another option is to swap to a different board with a non-SAMD chip