Taptic time on Apple Ultra 2 not working as expected

By Dennis D, 5 December, 2023

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watchOS and Apple Watch Apps

Since I received my Apple Ultra 2 watch the taptic time is not working as expected. My expectation is that when I double tap the watch face, I will get the appropriate taptic vibrations to let me know the current time. Well this sort of works. The problem is that the time is spoken before the taptic vibrations start. This defeats the purpose for me. I am in bed and do not want to wake my spouse. I double tap the watch and there is the time spoken, then the vibration starts. Why bother? I have had Apple watches since version 3 and have no problems with the taptic time. I checked in settings and the taptic time is turned on. Any help?

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By Holger Fiallo on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 05:02

Did you check to see if rist up is off, If I have my rist up VO will tell the time. If I am in bedd and my rist is on my leg it does not. If I put my rist near my heart VO will tell the time.

By Brian Giles on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 05:02

This happens to me ever since I upgraded my series 5 to WatchOS 10. I can't get the vibrations to happen consistently. I'm thinking something is up with the double tap having to be faster to register, so if you do it slower the watch thinks you're just tapping the screen and the time or whatever is on your watch face speaks. Don't know if that made sense lol.

There has been a similar bug on the phones with iOS 17 where double taps don't register in the same way. On the watch though, there's no setting to change the double tap time out, which some people here have said mitigates the problem. I haven't tried this on my iPhone though.

By Brooke on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 05:02

For me, haptic time starts with a triple tap to the screen. Double tap just seems to speak the time.

By Chris Hill on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 05:02

I have wrist up turned off, always have had, and tripple-tap isn't doing haptic time anymore most of the time. Maybe next version.

By Dennis D on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 05:02

In the past up until my latest purchase of the ultra 2 watch, the double tap worked as expected. I did turn off raise to speak and that did not make any difference. Tripple tap makes my watch do some things but not taptic time for sure. I thought it was me but it seems like it is a potential bug in the software. Anybody have anything else?

By SSWFTW on Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 05:02

My coworker is dealing with the same problem and I was just looking to see if anyone had found any solutions? Let me know

By TheBllindGuy07 on Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 05:02

If I understand this correctly, with any apple watch on watchos 10 (probably?) and especially 11, 3 taps gives the full time, and 4 taps (like once every 300-400ms) gives only the minutes. It takes sometime to get used to it but after it's very reliable. But I too get voiceover to speak with only just 1 or 2 taps and it's indeed frustrating.

By Holger Fiallo on Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 05:02

Unless they change how haptic time gives the time with 10 and ultra. I just tap 2 times with 1 finger and got the time with my watch 9. Gave me the hour and minutes.

By Holger Fiallo on Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 05:02

Forgot to mention Using OS 11.1 beta 4.

By SSWFTW on Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 05:02

When the screen is off on the watch you tap anywhere on the screen twice and then receive the full-time in vibrations. Then to get the minute vibrated out to you you do a one finger triple tap while the screen is locked. Let's say you already know the hour and just want to quickly check how it is progressing and you know it's only been a few minutes, you could do a one finger triple tap just to receive a quick update

By TheBllindGuy07 on Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 05:02

How come can some of you have 2-3 taps instead of 3-4 which is painfully slow? I'm on the latest beta of watch os 11.1 on my se2. Is there a setting to change??

By SSWFTW on Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 05:02

We messed around with several of my coworkers settings we could not get it to be the two taps. Very strange. He even reset his device and set it up as new and same thing. It seems like a small thing but why the difference?

By Jonathan Candler on Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 05:02

There is a speed feature with haptic time in settings somewhere. I don't have my watch on me right now but I'll check and find out where that is soon that is if someone doesn't get to it first Lol. For me, running a series 8 and double tap with one finger when the watch is locked does it for me. I have raise to wake or whatever that thing is turned off and VO don't speek when I use haptic time. Also, strange question, could any of you perhaps have zoom turned on by accident? I've been hearing that has been doing some funny things with VO on the watch when turned on. Worth a look no? I've got zoom turned off here.