Apple Watch Feature Request: Support double tap to play/pause

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  bikrrr · Member · December 1, 2023 at 10:45 pm

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  Just upgraded to an Apple Watch Series 9 and was excited to use the new double tap gesture to play pause podcasts one-handed. It was one of the first things I tried, and I was really disappointed when it didn’t work. 😔

  Any plans to support double tap? I rather not use the limited functionality of the stock Now Playing app.

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  bikrrr · Member · December 2, 2023 at 6:29 pm

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  Oh, and I am triggering the gesture as I do get the “ah ah ah“ double tap icon shake:

  

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  staff-fred · Staff · December 7, 2023 at 4:15 am

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  @bikrrr Thanks for sharing your feature request with us! I noticed that we already have an open request for this feature. So, I’ve just cast a vote for it on your behalf.

  As a small team, we use these votes to help our developers prioritize which features to build next.

  I’ll leave this open so others who are interested can also upvote this.

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  aleahtking · Member · December 29, 2023 at 1:37 am

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  @bikrrr, it’s like I could have written this post myself! I was most excited about using double tap on Apple Watch Series 9 with Pocket Casts. Super disappointing that it doesn’t work but hopefully that will change!
  

  @staff-fred please upvote this feature on my behalf too, thanks! 😊

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  staff-frank · Staff · January 8, 2024 at 10:20 am

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  Hi @aleahtking! I’ve added your vote to this feature request.

  You can stay up-to-date on changes and enhancements at our blog: https://blog.pocketcasts.com/

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  groverfarms · Member · September 8, 2024 at 10:43 pm

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  +1 for me… This feature is long overdue and would be very helpful.

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  staff-cara · Staff · September 9, 2024 at 7:00 am

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  Thanks for adding your vote, @groverfarms! I’ve made sure to record it 😄

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  busbymitch · Member · September 30, 2024 at 5:02 pm

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  Putting in a vote for this feature as well – got my new watch last night and a bit surprised and disappointed that this hasn’t been added already as its a pretty perfect use case, though I guess it relies on people having fairly new watches.

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  g8kepr · Member · October 1, 2024 at 7:04 am

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  Perhaps you’ve seen it, but Pocket Casts was just updated and now includes the double tap feature!

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  busbymitch · Member · October 1, 2024 at 5:45 pm

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  @g8kepr well that’s embarrassing for me 😅 thank you for the heads up!!!

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  staff-dexter · Staff · October 3, 2024 at 8:15 am

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  Thanks for the update @g8kepr. I’ll go ahead and mark this as resolved.