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If you buy an Apple Watch, after turning it on for the first time, you have to go through various basic settings, thanks to which you can customize the Apple Watch to suit you as much as possible. One of the main personalization options is to set which hand you wear it on - accordingly, the watch recognizes certain movements and is simply able to detect which hand it is on for all functions. However, some users may not be satisfied with the position of the digital crown - if you put the watch on your right hand, the digital crown is turned to the right, which may not be practical. Let's see together in this article how the orientation of the watch and especially the position of the digital crown can be changed.

How to change the orientation of the watch and the position of the digital crown on Apple Watch

If you want to change the orientation or position of the digital crown (left or right) on your Apple Watch, you can do so both on your Apple Watch, so on iPhone in the application Watch. In the first case, go to the native app on your watch Settings, where you move to the section In general. Then just click on the option here Orientation, where the option is already located wrist changes, on which the watch you wear together with position of the digital crown. In case you want to make this change to iPhone, so move to the app Watch, where in the lower menu, move to the section My watch. Then get off below and click the option In general, where tap on Orientation. Here you can wrist, on which you wear the watch alter, as digital position crowns.

Ideal setting if you wear your Apple Watch on your right hand

Since the watch is mostly worn on left hand so Apple watches this unwritten rule adapted. So if you wear an Apple Watch on left hand so you have a digital crown by default top right. If you put your Apple Watch on right hand so the digital crown will still be there at the top right, which is very impractical. But in this case, you can watch turn "upside down" and change the position in the settings digital crowns on the left. Thanks to that rotates the display and the digital crown will be located down on the left, which is definitely enough more natural. If you did not make this change, you would have to control the Apple Watch with your thumb instead of your index finger, or "over your hand".

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