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.
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.
Very inconsistent
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.
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.
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.
Accessing Smart Stack, dismissing timers and notifications, play/pause from now playing screen. I use it so often at work
It’s a pretty lame idea
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
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.
What’s the gesture to do that?
I honestly prefer using assistive touch to double tap. Has the same gestures, but also adds a lot more options.
I’m not using it at all but I still love my new Ultra 2.
It’s not that helpful at all. If the double tap feature could be routed to specific commands, like activating Siri, I’d use it a lot. But even when I get a notification, I can even get to “Dismiss”. It always activates the top option so in that regard it’s completely not helpful at all.
I expected more.
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