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How to flip Apple Watch screen to match your wrist orientation

January 29, 2022 by Hemant Saxena

If you are not a spiderman, blessed with those spidey senses and hanging upside down, telling time by looking at your Apple Watch, set in the wrong orientation can be a task of sorts. To fix it, you’ll need to change the orientation of the Digital Crown through settings. This will flip Apple Watch screen and display the time, correctly. Find out how it’s done!

Flip Apple Watch screen to match your wrist orientation

Whether you’re just started out with the new series of Apple Watch or have owned it for years, if it doesn’t match the orientation of the wrist you wear your watch on, the digital timepiece will display the time incorrectly or upside down. Here’s how you can flip Apple Watch screen and correct this erroneous behavior.

  1. Unlock your Apple Watch with the Passcode.
  2. Go to Settings.
  3. Choose the General heading.
  4. Scroll down to Orientation.
  5. Check the Digital Crown orientation.
  6. Change it to the correct orientation.

Let us cover the above steps in a bit more detail!

How do I flip my Apple Watch Screen?

Apple Screen Upside Down
Apple Screen Upside Down

The Apple Watch is designed to accommodate the needs of both, right-handed as well as left-handed people. As such, you can change its orientation to suit your preferences.

To get started, unlock your Apple Watch by entering the passcode.

Press the Digital Crown to display all the apps. You can choose to display the Apps in either List View or Grid View.

Go to Settings and switch to the General section.

Apple Watch Orientation Settings
Apple Watch Orientation Settings

Next, scroll down to the Orientation heading and tap it to expand its menu.

Flip Apple Watch Screen
Flip Apple Watch Screen

Move to the Digital Crown entry. There, change the orientation from LEFT to RIGHT if you are a right-handed person. Similarly, if you are a left-handed person change the orientation from RIGHT to LEFT.

Which way does Apple Watch go on wrist?

Apple shows no bias towards right-handed or left-handed users. As such, it uses both wrist orientations to show the watch on its website and in photos. However, if you want to move your Apple Watch to your other wrist or prefer the Digital Crown on the other side, you can adjust the orientation settings in Watch as desired.

That’s all there is to it. Hope it makes sense!

Category: Wearables Tags: Apple Watch Last Modified: January 29, 2022

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About Hemant Saxena

Hemant Saxena loves writing about technology full-time. He also enjoys making readers' lives easier by walking them through the most practical ways to use Apple devices, step-by-step.

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