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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Apple Watch has not been useful to me since the last watchOS update made the changes it did.
Useless for me. Feels like a gimmick.
I turned it off on like day two. I’m too fidgety haha.
I was excited for it but the Accessibility version, which I just discovered a few weeks ago, seems better 😕 I might switch back to the Assistive for now as Double Tap just seems to annoy me atm
Well… it’s helped me spontaneously skip 30 seconds ahead in my podcasts when I’m least expecting to.
I wish it could just be used to control notifications instead. If a notification comes in, just use double tap to dismiss and move on to the next notification (if there is one). If a notification came in a little while ago and I raise my wrist and it’s just showing the watch face, I’d like to double tap to pull down the notification shade to see the last notification.
Really though, I think it would be more convenient if Apple implemented wrist gestures, like Android Wear used to have. Double twist the wrist one way and it brings up the widgets, the other way brings up notifications - double twisting again in the same direction will scroll through whichever you’re looking at. Then the double tap feature could just be used for selection of a notification, wrist gestures could be used again to scroll through the notification and then to cycle between a few options like “dismiss”, “reply with voice”, “reply with text”, with double tap again functioning as select. Multiple notifications could be read, replied to or dismissed without having to use your other hand (or nose).
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.
Accessing Smart Stack, dismissing timers and notifications, play/pause from now playing screen. I use it so often at work
The fact that they got all the tech news outlets touting this as a “feature” is a hilarious display of apples marketing push. It’s not even a feature. It’s a sidenote.
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.
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
Very inconsistent