New Apple Watch Gesture in watchOS 26 Limited to Newer Models

You whitethorn person missed it, but prime Apple Watch models are gaining a caller Wrist Flick motion successful watchOS 26 that allows users to disregard notifications and instrumentality to their ticker look with a elemental wrist movement.


The motion works by turning your wrist implicit and back, utilizing the accelerometer and gyroscope to observe the motion. With the gesture, you tin disregard incoming notifications, mute calls, soundlessness alarms and alerts, and instrumentality to the ticker look without needing to usage your different hand.

Wrist Flick joins the existing Double Tap motion arsenic different one-handed power enactment for Apple Watch users. The diagnostic tin beryllium toggled connected oregon disconnected successful Settings ➝ Gestures ➝ Wrist Flick.

The caller motion is lone disposable connected Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 – the aforesaid models that enactment the Double Tap gesture.

Apple doesn't accidental precisely wherefore older models don't enactment the feature, contempt having the aforesaid sensors, but it does usage a caller instrumentality learning model, suggesting that lone the newer chips recovered successful caller Apple Watch models are almighty capable to grip it.


The watchOS 26 beta is presently disposable done the Apple Developer Program, with a nationalist beta coming aboriginal this month, followed by a wide merchandise successful the fall.

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