My apple watch was updated over night to 7.2 and my iPhone and iPad were updated today to 14.3. Now the Apple Watch display is sideways when it on the charger. The buttons should be up and it’s sideways. Tried buttons down and it’s sideways. Very annoying. HELP.
The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:
How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Restart your iPhone - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.
Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support
The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:
How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Restart your iPhone - Apple Support
If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.
Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support
Hello there MIke-AZ,
Thanks for reaching out. We'd like to see how we can help with your Apple Watch. Having your watch working properly is key, so let's see how we can help.
We'd like to confirm that Nightstand Mode is not enabled.
You can check how to do that here: Add an alarm on Apple Watch
Specifically the section titled "Set up Apple Watch as a nightstand clock with alarm"
We look forward to your response.
Cheers.
I appreciate the reply, thanks, but no it was not Nightstand Mode. That was the problem, it would not go into Nightstand mode. The display was oriented the same direction as if I had it on my wrist but with huge numbers and not my watch face. I’m rather technical and have an Apple Watch which has been in Nightstand mode more than a thousand nights. Worked my way up to 3rd level tech support and got it solved.
I'm sorry I misunderstood your post. Seemed to me the way it was written was descriptive of Nightstand Mode. I'm glad you got it straightened out, but may I ask what the cure was? Someone may find this post in a Google search and are experiencing the same thing you did, and would love to hear the solution.
What you are seeing is NIghtstand Mode. Go to the Watch app on the iPhone, then General>Nightstand Mode. This will occur when the Watch is charging.
Apple Watch display is sideways after iPhone and iPad update to 14.3
