Double click speed for Apple Pay on Apple Watch

I feel as though I could have written this. I also have a disability and can't do this. It's about my only complaint about this watch.

Siri doesn't work. It can open the app just fine (which you can do by pressing the crown and finding it anyway), but you still have to "Double Click To Pay" which I cannot do fast enough. I seriously hope they address this, from the date stamp on your post it seems unlikely.

Stay strong.

Downstarj-

I just tried holding the digital crown and got Siri. I then said "Open Apple Pay" and it opened up to my credit card. Would that work for you?

Rich

Downstarj wrote:

Hopefully the problem will be addressed in a update , like on the phone you can change the double click speed

Submit your feedback to Apple requesting such a feature here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Hopefully, Apple will be able to accommodate.

One thing I'd like to point out. Once you get Apple Pay up on the screen, you generally have to turn your wrist at what I find to be a rather awkward angle to tap the watch on the payment scanner. I hope that doesn't present a problem.

Just in case this would help. When I got my first Apple watch I could not, for the life of me, get the Apple Pay function to work. All I ever got was the Friends feature to appear. Finally I realized that the speed is not as important as in lifting your finger off the button at the end of the second press. I was leaving my finger on the button after having done the two presses and that apparently was being interpreted as a third press launching Friends. Ever since making sure to pull my finger off the button after the second press I haven't had a problem even with my "speed" varying a fair bit.

Siri is a good option if that doesn't help you but you're right that it should be easier. I even had tried launching the Passbook app to get to Apple Pay that way but that still requires a double press as well. In my opinion if you've already launched Passbook then only one press should be needed.

Downstarj wrote:

Thanks but i have full movement just a bit uncoordinated which i why i use a watch cover! thanks for your reply

That's great!

Thank you SO much for this tip, I was so frustrated not getting to Apple Pay, I even had a Genius Bar appt. they had no idea!

Whether I take my finger off the side botton or not, the double click brings up friends twice more often than Apple Pay. This is VERY frustrating. I hope Apple is aware and that a fix will be released for what seems to be a bug.

I don't believe it's a bug. When I first posted about my problems in getting Apple Pay to come up every response I got was that no one else was having an issue. That was when the watch first came out. I couldnt get it to work properly to save my life. I thought I was just spastic. All I could ever get was Friends to pop up.

As soon as I made sure that the screen was active and then doing the double click, pulling my finger off the button after the second push I almost always get Apple Pay launched. In the last 8 months or so I've only had Friends come up once or twice. It's not a bug, but they could change the software to allow just one push to activate it. I have found though that the screen must be active when you first push the button. If you do the double push when the screen is black the first push wakes the screen and the second one will just launch Friends.

Hi Pat

For comparison / guidance purposes: in order to activate Apple Pay via the side button on Apple Watch, the double-click needs to be significantly quicker than the slower speeds at which a double-press on the iPhone's Home button can be used to display previews of all open apps.

It is not necessary to first wake the screen from sleep.

To familiarise yourself with the required speed, you can practice launching this screen on your watch at any time. To exit back to the Home screen, press the Digital Crown once.