Galaxy Watch 4 Classic screen goes off by turning the watch

[Laziip]

Hello. I just bought a new watch 4 classic (BT 42mm) 3 days ago. 

I have issue with the screen, it turns off by itself just when i turn my wrist watchface away from me. This is really annoying because i cannot see notifications at all without waking the screen manually. 

Does anybody else have this same kind of issue and any suggestions how i can turn this feature off? I had watch 3 before and with that there was no problem like this. 

I just want the screen to wake up automatically (when new notification comes) and stay on until i cover it by my hand or after the 15 sec pass by. Sorry for my bad english, hope you get what i meant this post.

[Jim Jalil]

I tried your solution, now it takes the opposite wrist twist direction to shut the screen off!!! 😀

[tas3]

OMG. This!!! Thank you! 

I ditched the Galaxy Watch 4 because of this issue and battery life. Just bought the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro and this issue still exists. This looks like it fixes it. Just switched the setting a couple hours ago and I haven't had a hiccup. I can now raise up my wrist to look at the notification without anxiety 

[PowerScissor]

Doesn't changing "orientation" setting then make your ECG measurements wrong?

[MadMonk]

I may have found the solution here...try going into the setting on the wearable app, Advanced features, Sleep mode and turn off Sync Sleep mode off.

[DCBeck]

If you are having the issue where the watch display shuts off after raise wrist to wake feature then use this workaround. Changing the orientation setting from left wrist to right wrist now keeps the display on longer than a millisecond. Thank you! 


Edit: Nevermind. Thanks anyways. 

[Clarkie1]

Its mostly annoying for me when I try to use Google pay because I go to turn my wrist to pay but the screen turns off so the nfc stops.

[brettmorris]

it's been over a year with no fix in sight. A simple setting to allow us to change the 5 second timeout is all that is needed. 

[Mish1]

I'm actually looking to turn it on 💀

My Active 2 used to have this feature and I personally loved it. Turn wrist to face me, it turns on. Face wrist away, it turns off.

I have the 6 classic now and the screen won't turn off when I turn my wrist away or even cover it with my palm (fully touching the screen), so idk. To me, it seems like an issue if turning it away doesn't turn it off. The palm thing, too.