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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chop chop flashlight is the very best feature of the Moto series

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Honorable mention to twist twist camera

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And to twist for switching between main and selfie camera.

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For real. I moved over to Samsung a while back and I miss choppy choppy light light.

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And shake for camera

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Should 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


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It’s been six years since I switched from an X2 to a pixel 2 and I still miss the flashlight chop

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I 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.

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I still chop chop the Teracube I’ve had for a while and then go “oh yeah…”

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I went to pixel because the last couple of moto phones were just meh, but chop chop flashlight was the greatest thing ever

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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!

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Pixel phones also have this feature, called quick tap. Quite handy to turn on and off flashlight for example.

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I use it for quick notifications

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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.

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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.

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Cool. It’s incredibly useful. Didn’t know Pixels had this too.

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yep. have it on the fold. its not perfect but its pretty good!

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