Trying to navigate through several layers of interface with taps and
swipes on a small display is frustrating, for sure, and the Gear S takes a good long while to «figure out.»
Not exact matches
AssistiveTouch floats a
small menu
on your
display (which you can move about
on the screen to wherever suits you) that allows you to carry out gestures such as pinching or multi-finger
swipes with a single finger, offers quick access to a variety of functions, and even allows you to activate Siri without pressing the Home button.
I know many users hate Samsung's Home button
on their smartphones, however, it really saves a lot of
swipes to get back to the home screen
on the
small displays found
on smartwatches.
There is also a
small selection of gestures available, which includes things like double tapping to lock the device and sliding to adjust the volume, which you can do by
swiping two fingers up
on the
display to turn the volume up and
swiping two fingers down to turn the volume down.
Additional gestures include Attentive
Display for keeping the screen
on while you're looking at it, putting the phone
on its face
on a surface to activate Do Not Disturb mode, muting the ringer when you physically lift the phone and
swiping from the bottom bezel upward to shrink the screen to a
smaller size for one - hand use.