Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority
TL;DR
- An Android Authority teardown has revealed that Samsung is working on a double-tap gesture for the back of Galaxy phones.
- This feature currently requires users to download a Samsung Good Lock app, but we’ve discovered it in a leaked One UI 8.5 build.
- This discovery suggests that you can double-tap the back of your Galaxy phone without downloading a separate app.
We’ve seen a few smartphone brands offering a back-tap gesture in recent years. This lets you double-tap the back of the phone to activate certain apps or features. Samsung also offers this gesture with the aid of a downloadable app. Now, we’ve discovered that the company is working on integrating this feature into One UI itself.
We dug into the latest internal build of One UI 8.5 and discovered that Samsung is working on a “double back tap” feature. Newly found strings, seen below, include the “double_back_tap” name and specifically describe the gesture.