Kept double tapping my iPhone screen to wake it because my old Samsung did that, then I flipped one switch in Settings

Harper Murphy · 2026-09-18T07:45:04.950569+00:00

For about two years my habit was double tap to wake, left over from a Galaxy I carried back in 2017. When I moved to an iPhone the screen just sat there dead every time I tapped it, and I figured Apple was never going to give me that. Then my brother in Phoenix watched me poke at my phone at a gas station and told me to check Settings, Accessibility, Touch, and turn on Back Tap. I set it to double tap and now the screen wakes every time, no button, no swipe. Is there a back tap shortcut you set up that I should steal?

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