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 have no issues activating the gesture but I have no reason to use it for anything yet, for me, I’d like to be able to set it so the gesture just done one thing from anywhere in the interface (not just on the now playing screen) i.e. skip a track on Spotfy, it would be easier to trigger whilst jogging than having to double tap by Airpods.
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.
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 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.
Worst feature.
Tried it but it isn’t consistent enough for me. Don’t want to look like an idiot double tapping multiple times in a row. I have the ultra 2
My wife has more success with it on her series9 and it is handy when you’re outdoor with gloves on etc.
It’s a piece of poop. Worked first time by chance then look like an absolute fool for a few mins trying to get it to work again. Totally forgot about it to be honest.
I guess my band is on the loser side so would explain it like you said.
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.
Very inconsistent
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.
My main use case is skipping songs (I found I use skip more than play/pause so I modified that), and it advances on long notifications which is somewhat nice, though it is still taking my time to use more of it. I still think it needs more use cases, but it’s okay in its current state.