i dunno why but gestures only work for me half of the time so i disabled them completely

I dont find it useful, dont even work with Spotify

I have no issues activating the gesture but I have no reason to use it for anything yet, for me, I'd like to be able to set it so the gesture just done one thing from anywhere in the interface (not just on the now playing screen) i.e. skip a track on Spotfy, it would be easier to trigger whilst jogging than having to double tap by Airpods.

Huh, so I guess it really is the same as the old accessibility version. I gave Apple the benefit of the doubt, thought it would be much better, and it indeed had to use the new watch tech.

But from what I've heard the new version is just as inconsistent as the old one... That's the main reason I stopped using the old one, it was just annoying that half the time it didn't work.

I prefer to use my nose because it’s not limited to pressing one button.

I use quick action. I love it!

Worst feature.

Yeah, when I remember that it is there. I’ve used an AW since 2018 and this feature is only a couple months old. Gonna have to train myself. But it is rather nice when I do remember it, makes replying to messages much easier.

Tried it but it isn’t consistent enough for me. Don’t want to look like an idiot double tapping multiple times in a row. I have the ultra 2

My wife has more success with it on her series9 and it is handy when you’re outdoor with gloves on etc.

It's a piece of poop. Worked first time by chance then look like an absolute fool for a few mins trying to get it to work again. Totally forgot about it to be honest.

I guess my band is on the loser side so would explain it like you said.

It's only usefull to me when streaming music. I have it set to skip tracks. Other than that, I havent found it usefull or necessary with anything else I do.

I like the feature but find it unreliable and the implementation is a bit messy for my liking. I use it for timers (when it works, which is usually after 2-3 attempts) and for dismissing notifications. The issues I'm having:

• It doesn't dismiss timers at the first attempt, it always takes 2-3
• For many notifications, it doesn't dismiss them, it opens them. I find this really inconsistent and rarely what I want, since double tap means I can't use both hands and opening a notification is more interaction than I've already indicated I'm capable of at that moment
• I don't find the widgets/stacks useful. I would much rather double tap to open and scroll through the notification list. I put two weather widgets in the stack to at least make double tap slightly useful for now.
• For my morning alarm, the screen doesn't always wake up immediately and double tap doesn't work when the screen is asleep, so this is a bit pointless. It feels like a bug though.
• Why can I start a workout with double tap but I can't end one? At least show me the screen with the End and Pause buttons and let me double tap End, then it's relatively certain I'm not ending it by accident.

Apple devs if you are reading, when I get an iMessage or some other notification, double tap should open the message or notification! This is the most obvious use case and I am surprised and frustrated it does not work.

So far it has never worked when or how it's supposed to.

I’ve been using it for months via the accessibility options. I love it and it’s become second-nature.

Using it to pause/play either my music or whatever’s playing on my Apple TV is super handy. Also my side button is basically shot because it’s all filled with crap, so using the double palm tap+double palm tap+finger tap+double palm tap is “handy” to get to my control center. Yes I typed out all the steps because it is pretty annoying how many steps it takes

Useless for me. Feels like a gimmick.

I turned it off on like day two. I’m too fidgety haha.

I was excited for it but the Accessibility version, which I just discovered a few weeks ago, seems better 😕 I might switch back to the Assistive for now as Double Tap just seems to annoy me atm

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).

Apple Watch has not been useful to me since the last watchOS update made the changes it did.