Apple Watch 6 screen flicker when raise to wake.

The screen flickering problem when raise to wake has been finally solved after 2-3 months with the new OS 8.

As a temporary workaround I accidentally found that on my watch the infograph modular watch face is unaffected by the bug. Fortunately for me I quite like that clock face when colour matched to my watch strap, so I’ve stuck with that for a few weeks without a single flicker. Hopefully this might be useful and work for some of you with the same issue

Rebooted a watch and looks like the flickering issue is gone.

Guys I had this huge issue with flickering but first I sent it to repair & sent me a replacement which was brand new. Afterwards it did still with the watchOS 7 but now with new watchOS 8 it’s all perfect. It took me 2-3 months with this struggle but now it’s all gone…🏆

After two weeks of usage post OS8 upgrade I have not seen screen flickering issue anymore.

Seems they may have finally resolved it.

Hi iFiNi,

We see you're having an issue with your Watch display. Are you using the "Always On" feature or do you have that disabled? Does changing this setting alter your results at all? Have you tried restarting to see if the issue continues? What about unpairing the watch and pairing it to your phone again?

We look forward to hearing back from you.

Take care.

Following the thread that it may be a particular complication. Does this problem happen to you all on all faces or just one face? For me it seems like it only happens with the Infograph face, where I have one non-apple complication (Fantastical).

thanks iFiNi, tibs, kamran and richy for updating us about fix in Watch OS 8.

I've upgraded mine to OS 8 as well now and will give an an update after a few days of usage on the screen flickering issue.

iFiNi,

Based on all the troubleshooting you've already done we'd recommend reaching out for additional hardware support here: Get Support

Take care.

same problem, take back to apple store and took my third replacement, still showing same problem. I think it is software problem and apple should fix it. Disappoint on it.

Same issue here - AW6 currently on version 7.5. Worth noting that for me the issue isn’t constant - it’s intermittent. Rebooting the watch will temporarily resolve the problem, but it always comes back.

I use infograph and I use only stock complications:

• timer
• fitness
• rain forecast
• weather forecast
• battery level
• calendar

I too had the impression it was due to a custom complication, but since I use only stock complications, it seems less likely to be the reason.

I also observed that a reboot solves the problem for 1-2 hours in my case. Obviously not a fix I would want to live with for a longer period of time.

grudek not to mentioned its happened to all of us right after the last major watch OS update. Everything was fine the previous version of OS.

It cannot be a coincidence so many people experiencing it, the update definitely has broken something.