Can you use apple watch on the inside wrist?

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Thanks for the update - even though the answer isn't what people want, it's useful to have the facts

I also tested my answer before I posted. Turning your wrist to illuminate the display when the wrist is turned DOES WORK with the watch on the inside, but as I said previously it is very difficult to achieve. I understand from a practical point of view that the outcome is much the same (you'll need to tap the screen), but from a technical point of view the answers are contradictory and I think it important to point that out.

Acknowledged

Just got mine today. VERY ANNOYING!

The heart rate monitor seems to work just fine for me wearing the watch the "wrong way".

My problem is with the "wrist detection". I haven't worn a watch in a decade and a half. Started using my cell as a "pocket watch" way back then and never looked back. Today I un-boxed my new apple watch and immediately put it on "backwards". I always used to wear my watch that way. Don't know if it is from a past life as a fighter pilot (or a nurse), or if it simply makes more sense than the way normal people wear a watch.

Anyway, even 15 years later, wearing the watch this way seems to me to be the only right way...and yet the millennials at Apple that did the machine learning with the gyro to do the auto-on detection apparently never wore a watch before.

Apple, PLEASE add some more settings to the "orientation" menu for those of us who wear a watch in the only sensible way (with the face pointing at you without pointing your elbow at the ceiling.)

Apple won't hear you here - this is user-to-user. Go to the link below to leave feedback.

Myself, I think you're bing a little unfair on the designers - the majority of people who wear a watch wear it on the outside of the wrist. I appreciate that it's a pain for those, like you, who wear it the other way. I can also see the technical challenges in finding/creating a sensor that works reliably on the inside - much of the technology here is immature.

Anyway - feedback page is her:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Turning your wrist down will activate the screen. This is the only solution I got for me a right handed wearing on right hand inside my wrist.

I tried moving my arm in a "backwards" motion to activate and then moving it to where I can see it, and it kinda worked...sometimes...but far from awesome.

I also tried switching the setting in the watch app to the opposite of the arm I wear it on, hoping that might fool it into using a different detection algorithm that might just turn out to be easier to activate in the "inside of wrist" orientation. It didn't. It was worse.

I hope lots of you will use the link above to send feedback to apple to add this very necessary settings feature.

From a technical and medical standpoint, the capillaries are easier to discern and measure on the inside of the wrist; but Apple developed their software with the expectation that most Apple Watches would be worn on the outside of the wrist, so noise filtering of the raw sensor data is likely to be less than optimal for inside the wrist wear, although, if Apple is using an adaptive algorithm, it is plausible that it may adjust its long term trims of these filters with sufficient baseline data, from regular inside the wrist wear.

Bring your wrist up like you wearing the watch face on the outside and then just rotate your arm so you can see the watch face. You'll have to be somewhat quick though.

You need to lower it further down and tighten it so it will not slip. Read my other comment on my experience liftin.

Yes! You and me both! This is my only issue. But easily fixed. I just turn the watch around pre Run or workout! Except the times I forget... ugh! Lol

Seems to me that Apple want nothing more than people be seen wearing identifiable Apple Watches.