Does anyone get “cuff/sleeve” presses?

[JulianL]

Sort of the Apple Watch equivalent of phone “butt dialing”.

I’ve only had an Apple Watch for a week (first purchase a Series 6) but I’ve had about 10 instances where I’ve had phantom presses which I assume are from my sleeve. They’ve mostly (or maybe all, I haven’t done an analysis) been after I have washed my hands so my sleeve may be slightly damp and more capacitive to trigger the screen. It’s not caused me any problems so far, just the watch not being in the state I was expecting it to be in i.e. on a non-default watch face or in an app I hadn’t intentionally launched, but I’m interested to know whether others might have seen anything similar.

 

[Apple_Robert]

More than likely what you have been experiencing is due to your wrist flexing into the digital watch crown. Change your band so that the watch crown faces towards your body and you will probably see the problem go away.

 

[Night Spring]

I've taken to turning the "swimming mode" on before leaving the house in the winter, because my long sleeves would wreak havoc with the Apple Watch.

 

[JulianL]

Wow. Never thought of that (flexing wrist pressing crown)! I’m right handed but crown facing towards my body is no big deal usability wise but I would need to vertically invert the clock face if I turned the watch around and wanted to keep it on my left wrist. Is there the option to do that in Settings?

 

[Apple_Robert]

Wow. Never thought of that! I’m right handed but crown facing towards my body is no big deal usability wise but I would need to vertically invert the clock face if I turned the watch around and wanted to keep it on my left wrist. Is there the option to do that in Settings?

Watch > Settings > General > Orientation. I wear my watch on my left wrist even though I am left handed so, my watch orientation is ticked left for both options.

 

[Night Spring]

Wow. Never thought of that (flexing wrist pressing crown)! I’m right handed but crown facing towards my body is no big deal usability wise but I would need to vertically invert the clock face if I turned the watch around and wanted to keep it on my left wrist. Is there the option to do that in Settings?

yup, you can pick wear on left or right wrist

 

[JulianL]

I've taken to turning the "swimming mode" on before leaving the house in the winter, because my long sleeves would wreak havoc with the Apple Watch.

How do I turn on swimming mode? I’m not sure I’ve got to the “wreaking havoc” level yet but maybe no harm in doing it anyway.

 

[Night Spring]

More than likely what you have been experiencing is due to your wrist flexing into the digital watch crown. Change your band so that the watch crown faces towards your body and you will probably see the problem go away.

wouldn't pressing crown just switch it between app launcher and watch face? To switch to another watch face or to launch an app, something needs to interact with the screen"s touch surface.

 

[Apple_Robert]

wouldn't pressing crown just switch it between app launcher and watch face? To switch to another watch face or to launch an app, something needs to interact with the screen"s touch surface.

What I think is happening is his wrist initiates and then his sleeve touch etc, triggers other apps to show and run. Do away with the wrist flex and I don’t think he will have as much trouble with apps launching. I could be wrong in my diagnosis as I am not a watch doctor.

 

[Night Spring]

How do I turn on swimming mode? I’m not sure I’ve got to the “wreaking havoc” level yet but maybe no harm in doing it anyway.

swipe up to get control center. Look for icon that looks like a water drop.

to get out of swimming mode, turn crown until watch vibrates and you get the turn off animation.

 

[Night Spring]

What I think is happening is his wrist initiates and then his sleeve touch etc, triggers other apps to show and run. Do away with the wrist flex and I don’t think he will have as much trouble with apps launching. I could be wrong in my diagnosis as I am not a watch doctor.

You may be right. I wear my watch set for left wrist but on my right wrist most of the time (apparently my left wrist is sensitive and is irritated by watch, I kept switching wrists until it ended up on my right wrist most of the time, but I never bothered switching orientation). So my crown doesn't get unintentional presses from turning the wrist. I never get unwanted app launches, but my sleeves would do things like start/stop workouts and switch faces.