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?

  • A_tOWn1@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    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.

    1. Open the Smart Stack
    2. Select Now Playing (I use Spotify for music and would rather pin Spotify but the skip song feature only works in “Now Playing”)
    3. 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.

    https://preview.redd.it/ou1jkklee63c1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dff72f37bef1907074aa73409543080233a0ea17