I’ve been really disappointed by the new Double Tap feature since I got the S9 last month. On top of not having many use-cases, the watch didn’t recognize every time I did the gesture which made it really frustrating to use.
I just realized though that I like to wear my bands on the slightly looser side, which I guess makes it way harder for the watch to recognize when you do the gesture. Tightening up my band has helped tremendously and the watch basically never misses it now.
The lack of many use-cases still is a bummer though. How are you guys using it?
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I prefer to use my nose because it’s not limited to pressing one button.
I haven’t used it even once. Don’t know what it does actually.
Unfortunately no I had high hopes but I don’t have raise to wake active on my watch so double tap doesn’t work I wish they made it where if your screen is on “sleep” mode and a timer or txt comes through double tap would work.
The back tap or double tap on iPhones is really inconsistent for me. I’d be surprised if it worked any better on the watch.
I don’t use it on the regular and the only time I used it to take a photo it didn’t recognize the gesture
I can’t justify enough to upgrade for a double tap so I’m staying with the first Ultra. I wasn’t surprised when Apple didn’t add this feature as they wanted me or some of us to upgrade for this. I understand that there are other upgrades besides this but I’m excited for the Ultra 3.
It’s a beta feature for the Vision Pro, it’s shocking how they rolled this out for the watch first and called it a feature lol.
….it uses completely different mechanisms. Vision Pro uses cameras to track movement. The watch uses the back health sensors and I’m assuming the accelerometer
Fun fact. It’s also not the first double tap movement. They tested it with accessibility at a lower accuracy as well.
If you don’t think this is going to be include or help support Vision Pro you are delusional.
Getting to the Smart Stack page from the home clock page to see the date has been useful.
I been using the snoopy face and it doesn’t have the date at a glance.
Accessing Smart Stack, dismissing timers and notifications, play/pause from now playing screen. I use it so often at work
For me, the primary use case is dismissing a timer. But when the watch is vibrating, it is not able to recognize the double tap.
Aside from that, I have no use for it.
100%. When walking the dog, cooking and anytime my other hand is busy.
I was using the Accessibility version of it to trigger Apple Pay one-handed occasionally, but it was mainly more of a magic trick than useful
What’s the gesture to do that?
Can you double snap for an added flair?
Well, I tried, I can do the gesture pretty consistently, but it does not work with snapping, at least not for me.
What a sad day.
It’s a pretty lame idea
I’m not using it at all but I still love my new Ultra 2.
I honestly prefer using assistive touch to double tap. Has the same gestures, but also adds a lot more options.