Is the screen suppose to flip on left wrist

[BradXY]

Is there a option for this so the button, mic, speaker are facing the same way as the right wrist?

[N8teGee]

Hi @BradXY, great to see you in the community.

Unfortunately it's not possible to change the orientation of the device so that the button can be on the other side. I agree, this would be a great feature. I suggest you add your vote to the following feature suggestion (here). 

[Rich_Laue]

The tracker is designed to be worn on the left wrist. This is because most users are right handed and will wear the tracker on the left arm. 

[t.parker]

@Rich_Laue as far as I remember there is a choice of wearing it on the dominant or non-dominant hand (without telling whether it's left or right). Fitbit never mentioned the device is designed for right-handed people. It is just a lack of a feature of flipping the screen when moving the watch onto the other wrist. I am right-handed and sometimes I move the watch to the right wrist just to let my left wrist rest. Finally, sometimes I wear two watches (like during important sports events) and one of them must be worn on the right wrist. With watches I use, I can change a setting to flip the display. I really missed that feature when I was using Ionic (eventually, it landed on my right wrist so a button had to be facing the wrong direction). I find flipping the screen even more important because all my watches have 4-5 physical buttons (and one of the watches doesn't have a touch screen), wearing them the wrong way would make UI navigation quite problematic. I see no reason why such a feature couldn't be implemented by Fitbit if competitors have been doing it for a long time. It's not rocket science to flip the display and transform touch UI input coordinates. In my company, we call such simple but rather big improvements 'a low hanging fruits" (and we squeeze them always into releases, it looks good in the release notes). Easy to implement and makes lots of people happy.

[Rich_Laue]

I also see no reason for this feature to be added, but having a conversation between Fitbit users will not change anything. Suggestions towards Fitbit really should be in the feature request. 

I never said that Fitbit says that the watch is designed for the right handed. I noticed that with the button being centered it is designed to be pressed with the thumb. The AW has the button raised so that it may be easily pressed by with the pointer finger. 

[t.parker]

@Rich_Laue why would you struggle like that with Apple Watch when you can actually flip the screen and press the button with the thumb of the left hand?

Fitbit devices are kinda unique with a lack of screen orientation support in the world of smartwatches.

[SunsetRunner]

Um..no they aren't.  You can't flip the screen on a Garmin either due to the button placement, three on the left and two on the right.

[t.parker]

@SunsetRunner true for Garmins. I didn't try to wear it on my right wrist yet and somehow I assumed it had this feature but the only orientation change I see is when using the navigation which isn't the same as the display orientation. Having 3 buttons on left and 2 on right wouldn't be a problem though. After moving the watch to the other wrist remapping input should fix the problem. The buttons would be on the correct side of the watch. Just backlight with the down button would have to be changed and functions of the right side would need to be inverted. Not sure why Garmin didn't think of doing it. Bad decision IMHO.

[Rich_Laue]

Having 2 fingers to the right and the thump pressing the centered button on the left will give a nice equalateral triangle. 

With the thumb on one side and the centered button on the the right. Pressing the button with a finger is not as stable. 

The AW is setup so that the user has the nice secure triangle support. Something a centered button on the right, when mounted on the left arm.