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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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 would use it constantly to skip songs if it was set up properly in the Smart Stack. However, it is not.
The problem is you can only set the gesture to advance OR select. I know what you’re thinking… “just pin the Now Playing app to the top of the Smart Stack”. Great idea! Then at least I could gesture 3 times(lol) to skip a song.
- Open the Smart Stack
- Select Now Playing (I use Spotify for music and would rather pin Spotify but the skip song feature only works in “Now Playing”)
- Skip
Unfortunately, even with the Now Playing app pinned there is another default Widget that appears in the Smart Stack when playing media that always takes priority at the top, no matter what. This widget makes it impossible to skip because with the gesture set to “select” and the only option on the widget being pause/play, that’s all that can be done. If the gesture is set to “advance” I can scroll down to Now Playing but cannot open it.
I don’t use it. Don’t need it.
Accessibility gestures here on 8, double clench i use a lot when paying or looking at things without touching the watch. Id probably use the double tap a lot once i switch to a newer watch.
Apple is turning us into robuts
I only remember that Double Tap Is a feature when I see a Reddit topic about it. At least 90% of the time, my watch sits on my wrist and I never interact with it.
I have yet to figure out how to pause/unpause the Apple TV remote from it. They show it in the commercial, but I can’t get it to go
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.
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 haven’t used it even once. Don’t know what it does actually.
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.
Nah
I use it to dismiss notification and stop timer (when it work). Since there’s not Spotify integration to skip/pause music, it’s pretty underwhelming
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
