Wear OS watches to be able to flip the UI when worn upside down

We all know that time is important in today’s centuries and now people are able to take time in there hands by the watches but sometimes it’s creates disturbance while you wearing watch spacially for the left-handed people so now you probably have no need to worry about it because this time Google has shared that future Wear OS watches will be able to be worn upside down, perfect for those who are left-handed to wear their watch on their right wrist.

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If we try to exaggerate the things so.. Wear OS watches today are expected to be worn in a specific orientation, on the left wrist with the crown — if there is one — facing toward the right for easy access by the right hand. While there’s certainly nothing stopping someone from wearing a Wear OS watch on their right wrist, the buttons and crown will be in an inconvenient location where your hand would block the screen.

It means that the spots of the button will be changed there places due to the cause of interruption in pressing the button while doing things, such as when exercising or doing yoga. In simple words, you can change the functions of your watch with your hands without blocking the screen.

Our development team has implemented the feature you have requested and will be available on future new devices. However, as it exists today, Wear OS does not support flipping a watch’s interface 180°, despite fans and watch owners lobbying for it in Google’s Issue Tracker since 2018. As shared by Ultra_HR on Reddit, Google has marked that long-standing issue as Fixed today, albeit with an unfortunate caveat.

We can see that how much Google has shown us their efforts. Meanwhile, Google has managed to introduce the ability to flip a Wear OS device’s interface, but the new feature is only currently poised to arrive on future new devices. This means that the feature is not likely to be a part of the Wear OS 3 upgrade coming soon to current watches from Fossil and Mobvoi, nor does it seem to be coming to the Galaxy Watch 4 series respectively.

Basically, it is an important thing for the user’s meantime, for those who have a smartwatch today and want to wear it on their right wrist, third-party developers have already created a solution that works for nearly all Wear OS watches, using accessibility features. Unlike a native Wear OS solution, however, this app can’t invert the button positions or scrolling direction perfectly.

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