Awesome Tips Apple Watch Double Tap Early Impressions
The Double Tap gesture is available for the latest Apple Watches, and this is just the beginning for a new wave of gesture controls. CNET’s Bridget Carey taps into her feelings about it and asks other reviewers about their experiences.
The Double Tap gesture is available for the latest Apple Watches, and this is just the beginning for a new wave of gesture controls. CNET’s Bridget Carey taps into her feelings about it and asks other reviewers about their experiences.
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I was excited too, but it not working when in the middle of a workout really limits the functionality for me. Most of the time I'd use it would be when walking the dogs but typically I'm doing an "Outdoor Walk" workout.
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Double touch has been in accessibility for the apple watch under accessibility option for years (I used it on my Apple watch 6). And other gestures are possible too.
Is this any different?
I use double tap skipping music as I’m working out
It needs to combine advance AND select. Something like double tap to advance; single tap or snap; to select. And it certainly ought to be able to advance through the weather app.
Sadly, I do not have the new watch ultra 2, I just have the original ultra. But saying that, I use the double tap feature set through accessibility – ALL THE TIME. It is a bit clumsy as I often still have to navigate to the primary button being displayed – it’s a great improvement to have it automatically go to the primary button so that the double tap works so much faster! But I guess I will have to wait till I get a new watch to try that out – unless Apple makes it available to other models eventually? Fingers crossed.
Times when I use the double tap are often when I see a call come through and I want to answer or decline the call.
And I actually use all the gestures – double tap, single tap, fist squeeze and double fist squeeze to move through the menu options.
Not sure if all those gesture options are also being used in the new watch?
I also agree that double tapping to scroll through the stack has to be improved. It’s too slow and it going to give everyone RSI lol…
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For me, the requirement to raise my wrist to “wake” the watch before double tapping is inconvenient. Like, I cannot imagine snoozing my alarm being any easier by raising my wrist, tilting it towards me, and then double tapping versus just cupping my hand on the screen. I suspect Apple does not want accidental taps, which is why the watch needs to be raised first, but it really slows down the process and convenience is king.
How does double tap work differently on series 9 and earlier models?
Gr8 tumbnail
It already exist in my old watch
I use the quick actions double tap to dismiss notifications all the time (series 6). Honestly the only reason I’d want a newer watch (in the future) would be to configure the double tap to skip music instead of just play/pause
I wish I could get rid of stacks… and swipe for control center. Ok I'm done 😂
Can’t wait for eye winking and nostril flaring to become future gestures if they incorporate a tiny camera in the watch.
good job
Old habits die hard. I know for many people losing their Home button on the iPhone was jarring for a while. Others like me, found gestures much easier.
Double Tap is as useful as 3D Touch was. It just doesn’t work like we want or expect and it’s just not useful.
Hand gesture >> Double tap
Thank me later
Love it
Me: [tapping fingers, frustrated that nothing is happening, then realizing I have a series 8… 🙄]
Bridget Carey is the BEST! That “Gen Z will control it with dance moves” part was gold. Thank you, BC! 🤣🤣🤣
I use it almost daily. What I really like it for is Messages. Here in the UK the weather is cooler now, and I'm wearing gloves most of the time now when I'm out walking. I can reply to a message, or send a message without needing to take my gloves off. I find it works reliably with gloves on (which I was a little surprised about) as I thought gloves would perhaps reduce the Apple Watch's ability to detect the Double Tap gesture.
BC got it right with how everyone uses things differently. I still say Hey Siri, and I still push the crown. Much of the time when I say Hey Siri, the HomePod in the other room is the one that responds instead of my phone or watch. The double tap is something I have been using on my Ultra 1 as the accessibility feature. But I do not use it very often because it is not very reliable. I think a lot of work needs to be done on the watch interface.
A quick flick of the wrist would be a more natural way to communicate with the wristwatch than a double tap of the fingers. Those of you who remember your uncle's kinetically charged wristwatches will remember their habitual flick of the wrist. A natural way to communicate with the wristwatch is also speech. The most natural, of course, is your other hand, if you are not tied to a situation where you cannot use it: e.g. carrying, dog on a leash, gloves in hand, etc.
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I find double tap to be very useful in lieu of conversation awareness being detected on the APP2 when using an app like Apple Music or other apps where it brings down the volume but won’t fully pause the audio. This ensures I don’t miss what I’m trying to hear and can double tap to resume. Other apps like SiriusXM will pause during conversation awareness and resume so then I won’t use double tap. Hopefully these examples bring a good use case example.