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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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.
Pixel phones also have this feature, called quick tap. Quite handy to turn on and off flashlight for example.
I use it for quick notifications
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.
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
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Reading the comments, it looks like there are lots of other phones doing this.
Personally I use it to turn on the flashlight on my Pixel 6.
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.
yep. have it on the fold. its not perfect but its pretty good!
Quite a few phones have similar features. Samsung users can use GoodLock to use the back tap too.
But when I tried in the past, I didn’t like it, too many false triggers.
On other devices, you can use Tap, Tap but it may not work as well
Requires root or a compatible Pixel device…
it’s not necessary anymore, I’m using it on a non-rooted phone
Yeah just tried it and it worked!
I miss my Motorola phones.
Had nothing but Motorolas since my very first Android. Absolutely loved the gestures and hands free interaction. Went through a series of Moto phones over the years until I accidentally destroyed my last one and needed a new device ASAP. Ended up with a Samsung S21 which is a perfectly fine phone,but it doesn’t have the personality of any of my old Motos. It does have a much better camera though than any of my Motorolas.
I don’t want to buy a new phone any time soon, but I definitely want to go back to Motorola.
This works on Pixels. I have mine set to flashlight.
Xiaomi has it also
The two underneath it are lifesavers too.
Yeah both are brilliant design ideas. Only someone who has used a moto phone knows what we mean.
The ROM i’m using has it
Which rom and which phone?
Evolution X Poco X3 NFC
So if I flip it, will I have to DM or will the phone do it for me?
