Disable Apple Watch face customization with unwanted press

We appreciate you letting us know, senortz,

Do you happen to have AssistiveTouch enabled on your Apple Watch? This feature will allow you to navigate your Apple Watch with hand gestures as outlined here: Use AssistiveTouch on your Apple Watch

"How to turn on AssistiveTouch on your Apple Watch

1. Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch.
2. Tap Accessibility, then tap AssistiveTouch.
3. Tap AssistiveTouch to turn it on, then tap OK to confirm. Or you can tap Try It Out to see a visual introduction.

You can also turn on and customize all of the AssistiveTouch features in the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.

Navigate your Apple Watch with hand gestures

When you raise your wrist, a blue ring around your Apple Watch screen indicates that AssistiveTouch is turned on. To activate AssistiveTouch, clench your fist twice quickly. You can change the color of this visual signal in Accessibility > AssistiveTouch > Color. Or you can turn the visual signal off by going to Accessibility > AssistiveTouch > Hand Gestures > Activation Gesture.

After you activate AssistiveTouch, a focus ring appears around the first item on your screen. The focus ring indicates that you can tap the item via AssistiveTouch.

With the default actions, you can navigate your Apple Watch with these hand gestures:

• Move to the next item: Pinch (Tap your pointer finger to your thumb)
• Move back one item: Double pinch (Tap your pointer finger to your thumb twice quickly)
• Tap an item: Clench (Close your hand into a fist)
• Bring up the action menu: Double clench (Close your hand into a fist twice quickly). The action menu lets you perform a number of actions via AssistiveTouch, such as scrolling, pressing the Digital Crown, and more."

If you don't have AssistiveTouch enabled and still experience the same behavior, we'd suggest that you reach out to Apple directly to investigate this further with you. You can reach them here: Contact Apple Support

Take care!

Hello senortz,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We understand the concern with this behavior, and we'd be happy to look into this with you. How often does this happen? Every time you cross your arms? Is your Apple Watch and paired iPhone up-to-date on software? Also, when did you first notice this issue? This will help guide us through troubleshooting and towards a resolution.

To get started, let's try to restart your Apple Watch, and iPhone. The following link has instructions for both your Apple Watch and iPhone:

Restart Apple Watch

Restarting is a simple step that can resolve many unexpected behaviors.

Let us know the results. Kind regards.

Just as a data point, I tried to do this with my watch, but it never happens. (Mine in not an Ultra.) Even if I press the palm of my hand directly on the face. Even pressing on the face with two fingers doesn't activate the edit mode. Weird.

Hello senortz,

Thank you for checking. Since the issue still occurs, we'd recommend reaching out to support to have the issue investigated further here: Apple Support

Best regards.