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What are your Back Tap settings?
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Double - Reachability
Triple - Control Center
Really liking the ability to invoke reachability without thumb gymnastics reaching for the bottom of the screen....
Triple - Control Center
Really liking the ability to invoke reachability without thumb gymnastics reaching for the bottom of the screen....
Nonexistent with iPhone 7. 
None. I've tried it a few times and it's either slow to respond or doesn't respond at all. iPhone X.
I didn't know this existed!
I just selected control center (2) and screen shot (3), which are 2 of the things I use the most.
i posted this before, but... it's still fun. no one (yet, outside of nerds & ppl on this forum) knows about back tap. so i set mine to invert the screen.
i tell friends i can invert my iphone screen with my fingers NOT touching the screen; i point 2 fingers at the phone with my left hand (while subtly tapping the back twice with my right)... and the GUI inverts. no one's figured it out 😂
other than that, it seems gimmicky to me, and don't need it. but cool if ppl find a, uh, more useful purpose for it.
i tell friends i can invert my iphone screen with my fingers NOT touching the screen; i point 2 fingers at the phone with my left hand (while subtly tapping the back twice with my right)... and the GUI inverts. no one's figured it out 😂
other than that, it seems gimmicky to me, and don't need it. but cool if ppl find a, uh, more useful purpose for it.
Possibly because it's not all that doable with one hand normally, while the back tap provides that ability.
I’ve created shortcuts to toggle the flashlight on/off and use double-tap to turn it on and triple tap to turn it off.
Google Assistant is the only thing I really inconsolably miss from Android, so it used to be that. Then I discovered how often I’m idly tapping my phone because the hard glass-and-steel is so nice. Now it’s off and I talk to myself instead of Google.
I use a very thin case and it works probably 90% of the time. But it does require a solid tap. I am amazed that it triggers by accident for some.