Area lamp dotted line that represents direction missing?

Hello,

I am doing the beginner doughnut Andrew Price tutorial on his BlenderGuru youtube channel and using area lamps and I notice that his has a dotted line that appears to represent the direction that his light is shining, whereas on mine i seem to have a line that goes down the Z axis from the light, but its not representative of where the light is shining because as i rotate the lamp that line doesnt move… Am I doing something wrong or how do I get the directional light?

Thank you

Edit:

I have since added another area lamp and it does have the dotted line and it does rotate so not sure whats up with the other ones.

Screenshots?
It sounds like the first was a point lamp instead