Apple Watch on charger

[circatee]

A few months back, when I last used my Apple Watch 4, I could have sworn when the watch was on the charger, it showed the time; all the time. Sort of a 'Bedside Mode' feature of sorts.

Am I mistaken? Has an update/feature removed this?

PS: I do have the 'Bedside Mode' feature on, in my watch settings.

 

[StumpyBloke]

Nope not all the time. You have to ‘move’ the watch to wake up the accelerometer to display the time.

Having said that, when I very first enabled it on mine the display stayed on the clock non-stop. I knew it wasn’t meant to so took the watch off the charger and put it back on again and it’s never done it since.

 

[axantas]

It wakes up very easily. Slightly touching the table is sometimes enough. Sometimes the "earthquake" you cause, walking near the watch is enough to wake it up