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.

    • Yoast
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

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

      • Landericus@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idM
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      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


    • Rev. Layle@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

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