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So, how's that single handed tap/pinch thing going?
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as a city person who often only has one hand free (carrying groceries, walking the dog, etc.), loving it.
Accessibility can get you close to the same feature on older watches. I would not pay the premium for the 9 just for this.
I tried it once right after the update. It worked as expected. Then I promptly forgot it existed.
While your first sentence is incorrect, your 2nd one is absolutely correct
Well, wait until people are walking around with visionprosI can't use it, but I didn't expect to be able to with my hands the way they are. No problem, I think it looks stupid when people use it.
Nope, first sentence is correct.
Accessibility -> Assistive Touch -> Hand Gestures -> Double Tap set to Tap.
Now, this will not allow all the touches the Double Tap on the Series 9 watch allows....but it gets you 90% of them.
I use this all the time as my job and hobbies means I often have messy/dirty hands. I can do the Double Pinch and clear most notifications or get to a response area on the notification. It doesn't do all the things the Series 9 Double Tap action does, but it does get you close.....which is what I said.
see below double tap features for AW9/U2 and tell me how you match that 90% please
- Opening the Smart Stack from any watch face and scrolling through widgets in the stack.
- Answering and ending phone calls.
- Viewing a message from a notification, scrolling through longer notifications with an additional double tap, replying using dictation, and sending a message.
- Pausing, resuming, and ending a timer.
- Stopping and resuming a stopwatch.
- Snoozing an alarm.
- Playing and pausing music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
- Switching to the new Elevation view in the Compass app.
- Taking an iPhone photo with the Camera Remote in the Camera app.
- Starting or stopping automatic Workout reminders.
- Performing the primary action from notifications, such as replying to an incoming message from a messaging app and snoozing reminders — including from third parties.
Apple Watch double tap gesture now available with watchOS 10.1
The new double tap gesture for Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 is available today with watchOS 10.1.
www.apple.com
It allows me to do these with a double tap:see below double tap features for AW9/U2 and tell me how you match that 90% please
- Opening the Smart Stack from any watch face and scrolling through widgets in the stack.
- Answering and ending phone calls.
- Viewing a message from a notification, scrolling through longer notifications with an additional double tap, replying using dictation, and sending a message.
- Pausing, resuming, and ending a timer.
- Stopping and resuming a stopwatch.
- Snoozing an alarm.
- Playing and pausing music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
- Switching to the new Elevation view in the Compass app.
- Taking an iPhone photo with the Camera Remote in the Camera app.
- Starting or stopping automatic Workout reminders.
- Performing the primary action from notifications, such as replying to an incoming message from a messaging app and snoozing reminders — including from third parties.
Apple Watch double tap gesture now available with watchOS 10.1
The new double tap gesture for Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 is available today with watchOS 10.1.www.apple.com
- Stopping and resuming a stopwatch.
- Snoozing an alarm.
- Answering and ending phone calls.
- Playing and pausing music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
- Taking an iPhone photo with the Camera Remote in the Camera app.
- Performing the primary action from notifications, such as replying to an incoming message from a messaging app and snoozing reminders — including from third parties.
So, 55% of the list above.
Maybe more if I tested some of the others.....so maybe not 90%, but still a lot.Also, if you really want to do more. you can customize a single tap, clench of fist, and double clench.....so you could do even more with one hand.....but the tap action I have is enough for me.
And, I had this setup before the big Series 9 announcement....so it felt really underwhelming.....
I used it once or twice. It worked 50% of the time and promptly forgot about the “feature.”
It works, but it’s very limited even compared to the old one from accessibility settings. For instance, it can’t dismiss multiple notifications.
I wish there was an option to open the notification shade and scroll through notifications using double tap - it’s is much more useful than scrolling through widgets.
I wish there was an option to open the notification shade and scroll through notifications using double tap - it’s is much more useful than scrolling through widgets.
I finally found a legit use case for using the double tap to open widget stack - you can quickly read the timer if you can’t use your hands (like cooking).
So I didn’t think of using double-tap for the first mile of my walk with gloves on. But on the return trip, after this thread, I tried it and it worked. No need to take off my gloves. Neat.
Ok it was a walk to the bar and back. It still counts as 2 miles (second leg was 1.125 miles, first leg was 1.1 miles. Not sure why they were different on the same path 🤣).
This exactly. Couldn’t wait to update the watch to use it. Used it the first day and haven’t used it since. I keep forgetting to try it while on a call.
It allows me to do these with a double tap:
I have not tested some of the others, but these work.
- Stopping and resuming a stopwatch.
- Snoozing an alarm.
- Answering and ending phone calls.
- Playing and pausing music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
- Taking an iPhone photo with the Camera Remote in the Camera app.
- Performing the primary action from notifications, such as replying to an incoming message from a messaging app and snoozing reminders — including from third parties.
So, 55% of the list above.
Also, if you really want to do more. you can customize a single tap, clench of fist, and double clench.....so you could do even more with one hand.....but the tap action I have is enough for me.
And, I had this setup before the big Series 9 announcement....so it felt really underwhelming.....
wow, thanks taking the time to share this, I'll give it a go! đź‘Ť
my neighbor stated that these feature took him an hour to set up.
I just received a m1 MacMini that needs tinkering first.
im glad this thread is here, I will set up the watch for pinch
due to road cycling need 2 hands at times.
I just received a m1 MacMini that needs tinkering first.
im glad this thread is here, I will set up the watch for pinch
due to road cycling need 2 hands at times.
I’ve wanted to figure out how to implement this on my series 8.