Apple Watch 6 - blue border around watch face

This can be switched off as shown below.

Go to Watch App (on iPhone) > Settings > Accessibility > Assistive Touch > Hand Gestures > Activation Gesture > Visual Signal

The blue border can be turned off by toggling this Visual Signal to off

You can toggle off the "Visual Signal" setting inside the assistive touch menu on the Watch app on the phone, while leaving assistive touch on. That will leave the assistive touch functionality active, but disable the irritating blue halo (I hated it too!).

Have the same issue and Apple Tech Support couldn't help.

Apple Chat Tech support didn't know what this border is. I think it has something to do with the small icons that show momentarily when you raise your wrist to look at the face - like the red dot and walkie talkie symbols that flash.

So we tried it now on the apple watch 5 of my husband with os version 8.3 and he has exactly the same problem. Are you guys sure that this is not a bug or something? If we can get it on 2 different watches and cannot make it go away?

if I am honest I have this watch since Thursday and I feel it is not a very good product if I have to reset it after just 3 days of using it already?

Hello, bedstuygal!

Thanks for reachig out to the Apple Support Communities! It looks like you havce a blue outline on your Apple Watch. You've done excellent steps so far to remove it and, at this point, we would recommend reaching out to Apple directly by checking out this link to Get Support and they will be more than happy to proceed with additional steps.

Have a terrific day!

I have exactly the same issue and I know by turning Assistive Touch off, it helps. But I just want the ugly borders gone, not the Pinch/Clench shortcuts. Can Apple please fix this by allowing us to toggle these frames/boxes on and off?

You are writing other users on this user to user only forum, none of whom have any input into what Apple can or can't do.

If you want to make a suggestion to Apple, use this link --> Feedback - Apple Watch - Apple

averlyn wrote:

I have exactly the same issue and I know by turning Assistive Touch off, it helps. But I just want the ugly borders gone, not the Pinch/Clench shortcuts. Can Apple please fix this by allowing us to toggle these frames/boxes on and off?

Then the next step would be to unpair the watch from your iPhone and set it up again.

Kind of a pain, I know, but will restore your watch back to factory settings. Then set it up again, only not from backup as that may contain whatever is preventing you from removing the border --> Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Then pair it again.

Did you force restart your watch? Force restart requires you hold BOTH the digital crown and elongated power button at the SAME time until the Apple Logo appears (can take several seconds of holding both buttons), then when the logo appears, let go.

We own two Apple Watch Series 7 on WatchOS 8.3 and we don't have this on either watch. If this was a bug, this forum, which is the worlds most visited forum for all things Apple device related, would be flooded with people complaining about this.

But you suggest you've had this watch just a few days? Apple doesn't sell Apple Watch 6 any longer. Where did you buy this watch?

Turn off Visual Signal.

Go to settings > Accessibilities > Hand Gestures > Activation Gesture > Turn OFF and ON Visual Signal.

You can change the color to your preference in Accessibilities > Under the Appearance* Color.

Or if you have assistive touch turned on.

i had the same issue. Shutting off assistive touch got rid of it. Thx

To remove it go to setting accessabity scroll down to assistive touch then slide off.

I can't seem to find that toggle... any suggestions on where they've hid it?