Ultra 2 tap to wake

[usmaak]

I just got an Ultra 2 this afternoon and have been wearing it for a few hours. I have tap to wake set up. When I tap it and the screen wakes up, it gets really bright, dims down, and then gets bright again. Also it will sometimes shift into night mode and then come back to regular. Is this an issue that anyone else has had? My older watch, an AW8, does not do this.

 

[Night Spring]

What you are seeing is Ultra2 adjusting brightness based on ambient light. As you noted this leads to screen brightness shifting unexpectedly, and I've read people complaining about this, especially shifting into night mode. No other Apple watch has this function, which is why you never saw this with your S8.

 

[usmaak]

If I shut night mode off, it doesn't seem to be a problem anymore. I tested a bunch of times last night in varying levels of room brightness and it came on I didn't see any perceptible shift.