Rotate 180 deg. for use on right wrist

[rajid]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Proposed feature request

For use on the right wrist, controlled by the left hand, it would be A LOT easier and more natural to allow rotating the display 180 degrees. Yes, a watchface can have the feature of allowing this, however system menus and notifications would then be upside-down. (I actually included this into a watchface at one time, for my wife. She liked it, but notifications and menus being upside-down was a real pain and she stopped using it.) It's also just easier to use and more natural to navigate the 3 buttons with the index finger, which is more narrow, and the back button with the thumb, which is why it was designed this way!

If this were handled inside the OS itself, then no apps or watchfaces would need to change at all and all menus and notifications would be correct. I believe Apple watch is the only other watch which has this feature, so having it on an open source, "Maker's watch", would be a stand-out feature.

Alternatives

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Anything else?

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[leninnava]

Thumbs up. One detail is that, of course, it depends on initial input by the user and not fully auto. At least on my samsung watch 7, you can set it so it's right or left handed on both the set up and on the watch's settings.

[aidenscott2016]

+1 on this issue. I was disappointed to find this was missing as it’s standard on other brands of watch. At the moment the watch is impossible for me to use properly on my right wrist.

Wearing it on my left hand feel unnatural and uncomfortable and it keeps snagging on things

[clach04]

Cross referencing coredevices/PebbleOS#259