Don’t Worry, Lefties: There’s A Southpaw Mode Of The Apple Watch

Just imagine the screen isn’t upside down, and you can see how it’ll look.

By now you may have seen photos or videos of the Apple Watch unleashed on the world yesterday during the company’s big to-do announcing it and two new iPhones. And if you noticed that all the people (or set of hands) demonstrating the timepiece were wearing it on their left hand, to enable ease of use for righties. “But what about us lefties?” many people of that set grumbled — the “digital crown” is on the right, making it not so easy to use when the watch is placed on the right hand.

You’re not being left in the dust, my friends. As if left-handers need anything else to make them the coolest members of our society (I’m a rightie, I’ve just got major leftie envy), Apple has assured several sites including Business Insider that the Watch will indeed, work when flipped over and placed on the right hand. The straps can also simply be switched which side of the watch they attach to get the right orientation.

The digital crown will instead be on the lower lefthand side of the watch in that orientation, but apparently the Apple Watch will give users the option to orient it for a rightie or a leftie, the first time it’s switched on so no one has to try to read anything upside down.

It’s unclear if Southpaw mode can be reversed if you end up giving your watch to a rightie, but it would stand to reason that the Watch would have a way to reset to the device’s defaults.

by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist