I was playing with a Motorola G72 and noticed this feature by accident: double-tap on the back of the phone to trigger a custom action.
Here is a video showing this feature
This is not the same as double tapping the fingerprint scanner. This phone has a front-facing under-display scanner.
It’s very neat and handy, I hope other phones implement this too.
Update: See this comment for a link to an app that enables the feature on many phones.
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chop chop flashlight is the very best feature of the Moto series
Honorable mention to twist twist camera
And to twist for switching between main and selfie camera.
For real. I moved over to Samsung a while back and I miss choppy choppy light light.
And shake for camera
Should be noted it’s fairly simple to do this on any Android phone with Tasker.
Profile > Event > Sensor > Shake Left-Right >
task=torch toggleTasks > Alert > Torch > Set Toggle >
task - torch toggle
It’s been six years since I switched from an X2 to a pixel 2 and I still miss the flashlight chop
I still chop chop the Teracube I’ve had for a while and then go “oh yeah…”
I had two moto phones back to back and then switched to the pixel. Can’t tell you how many times I tried to turn on the flashlight this way before realization kicks in.
I went to pixel because the last couple of moto phones were just meh, but chop chop flashlight was the greatest thing ever
Pixel phones also have this feature, called quick tap. Quite handy to turn on and off flashlight for example.
You can do this in iPhones too. Under accessibility and Backtap.
Wow! I bet most iPhone users don’t know this exists. This is more like a usability feature than an accessibility one. It even supports triple tap!
They don’t. I used to work the Genius Bar and sadly the majority of users don’t know how to sign on to iCloud haha.
Apple has a habit of hiding away features. There are some outstanding accessibility features on iPhone.
I personally use the Backtap to run a shortcut that turns off WiFi, not greys it out but off off. I get irrationally mad when it always try’s to connnect to networks and kills my internet.
The Pixel series have this. It’s called Quick Tap.
Combined with Tasker, you can make it do anything – if the existing options aren’t enough.
Cool. It’s incredibly useful. Didn’t know Pixels had this too.
Samsung has this as well as triple tap under RegiStar via Good Lock, but it randomly just stops working. It was great at first, but now I don’t even try to use it because so often it just doesn’t work.
Back when I had my Mi A1, I used to run a Pixel 2XL GSI ROM that enabled the same feature.
I used that to take a screenshot, and later, show the accessibility menu when my power button and volume buttons stopped working.
CC: @ladfrombrad@lemdro.id who is the only person I know that still has their A1
Asus has some of these.
So if I flip it, will I have to DM or will the phone do it for me?
