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.
The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English31•1 year agochop chop flashlight is the very best feature of the Moto series
ten4 ( @ten4@kbin.social ) 13•1 year agoHonorable mention to twist twist camera
And to twist for switching between main and selfie camera.
thenicnet ( @thenicnet@kbin.social ) 10•1 year agoFor real. I moved over to Samsung a while back and I miss choppy choppy light light.
pe1uca ( @pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev ) 5•1 year agoAnd shake for camera
ladfrombrad 🇬🇧 ( @ladfrombrad@lemdro.id ) English6•1 year agoShould be noted it’s fairly simple to do this on any Android phone with Tasker.
Profile > Event > Sensor > Shake Left-Right >
task=torch toggle
Tasks > Alert > Torch > Set Toggle >
task - torch toggle
Yoast ( @yoast@notdigg.com ) English5•1 year agoIt’s been six years since I switched from an X2 to a pixel 2 and I still miss the flashlight chop
The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year agoI still chop chop the Teracube I’ve had for a while and then go “oh yeah…”
Landericus ( @Landericus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•1 year agoI 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.
Rev. Layle ( @revlayle@lemm.ee ) English3•1 year agoI went to pixel because the last couple of moto phones were just meh, but chop chop flashlight was the greatest thing ever
iamroot ( @iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de ) English12•1 year agoPixel phones also have this feature, called quick tap. Quite handy to turn on and off flashlight for example.
FredericChopin_ ( @FredericChopin_@feddit.uk ) English10•1 year agoYou 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!
FredericChopin_ ( @FredericChopin_@feddit.uk ) English4•1 year agoThey 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.
Earl Turlet ( @EarlTurlet@lemmy.zip ) English9•1 year agoThe 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.
Solar Bear ( @bear@slrpnk.net ) English4•1 year agoSamsung 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.
inspector ( @inspector@gadgetro.id ) English4•1 year agoBack 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
shitescalates ( @shitescalates@midwest.social ) English2•1 year agoAsus has some of these.
FlyingPiisami ( @FlyingPiisami@sopuli.xyz ) English1•1 year agoSo if I flip it, will I have to DM or will the phone do it for me?