Charge6 button on wrong side.. must add option to rotate the display

[MimiSD]

To Fitbit design team:

I’m right handed so I’m wearing this on left wrist. But Button is on left side of watch!!! That is completely counter-intuitive. I have to reach over the display to press the button — that is just WRONG! If you feel you MUST keep the button on the left side, please add an option to rotate the screen. Because this is just bad design.

thx.

[RiekoC]

Hello @MimiSD 

Please submit this as a feature request in the Product Feedback forum (<-- click). I understand that the developers monitor this forum to see what features are being requested for potential future implementation.

After you submit your feature request, please consider replying to this thread with a link to your request so that other users can add their vote & comments. 

[LZeeW]

Hi @MimiSD.  Users have been asking for the ability to rotate screens ever since Fitbit released it first wrist tracker.  There are no plans to change this.

The way I understand it, Fitbit has always put the navigation button on the left, because wrist motion during exercise can activate the button.  About 90% of people are right handed and wear their watches on the left.  Usually, it's people who wear their watches on their right wrist that have been left to deal with Fitbit's designs.  My first wrist Fitbit was a Charge HR.  I have always pushed the button with my thumb.

[Rich_Laue]

The button, being on the center of the left side, is designed to be pressed buy the right thumb. 

I do agree, we should have the option to set the watch up to our likening. 

[MimiSD]

Indeed and as I stated this is awkward and counterintuitive because you would be straining your right wrist to slant your right hand to the right in order to reach around to the left side of the watch on the left wrist. Then having to use your right thumb instead of an index finger which is always preferable.
A more intuitive approach is if the watch is worn on the left wrist (usually the case for right handedness), the button on the watch would need to be on right side so it can be pressed with the right index finger.

This is in keeping with hundreds of years of successful watchmaking where the mechanism on the watch in need of human adjustment (such as setting or winding) is on the right side.

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