The Apple Vision Pro are about to arrive on the market and will thus begin a new stage marked by an operating system, visionOS, which will give wings to developers to navigate in virtual reality and spatial computing. One of the most used gestures with the Apple Vision Pro is the Double-tap with your fingers to access applications and change window sizes, For example. However, with the arrival of watchOS 10, double tap was also introduced to the Apple Watch. There is no problem: iOS 17.4 and watchOS 10.4 will introduce an option to bypass double tapping while the user is wearing the Vision Pro.
watchOS 10.4 will introduce an option to bypass Vision Pro’s double tap
The new double tap gesture of the Apple Watch Series 9 is based on the analysis of the blood flow that passes through the user’s wrist, unlike the rest of the generations which is based on the gyroscope. This new double-click gesture allows you to perform an infinite number of actions in watchOS 10: access widgets, answer calls, reply to messages, stop timers, take a photo remotely with iPhone, control playback, etc.
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It is likely that this double tap on the Apple Watch Series 9 served to lay the foundations for the double tap on Apple Vision Pro, a gesture that allows you to control a large part of the visionOS interface. However, if you think about it, if a user is wearing the Apple Watch and Vision Pro at the same time, both devices will think that this gesture is being done to control one device and not both. To avoid confusion, Apple introduced an option in watchOS 10.4 which will avoid this double tapping on the watch as long as the user is wearing the Vision Pro at that time. Here is the text that accompanies the option:
When enabled (the feature), the double tap gesture will be temporarily ignored when using Vision Pro.
As we mentioned, these options were found in both watchOS 10.4 in its beta 1 version as well as in the first developer beta of iOS 17.4. This means that until these new versions launch around March, Apple Watch users who purchased a Vision Pro are going to have some issues and it is recommended to disable the gesture on the watch to avoid unwanted issues.
