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?
Well… it’s helped me spontaneously skip 30 seconds ahead in my podcasts when I’m least expecting to.
I wish it could just be used to control notifications instead. If a notification comes in, just use double tap to dismiss and move on to the next notification (if there is one). If a notification came in a little while ago and I raise my wrist and it’s just showing the watch face, I’d like to double tap to pull down the notification shade to see the last notification.
Really though, I think it would be more convenient if Apple implemented wrist gestures, like Android Wear used to have. Double twist the wrist one way and it brings up the widgets, the other way brings up notifications - double twisting again in the same direction will scroll through whichever you’re looking at. Then the double tap feature could just be used for selection of a notification, wrist gestures could be used again to scroll through the notification and then to cycle between a few options like “dismiss”, “reply with voice”, “reply with text”, with double tap again functioning as select. Multiple notifications could be read, replied to or dismissed without having to use your other hand (or nose).