Learn how to use the new wrist flick gesture in watchOS 26 to silence calls, dismiss alerts, snooze alarms, and more without touching your Apple Watch screen.
How to use the new Wrist Flick gesture on Apple Watch

Learn how to use the new wrist flick gesture in watchOS 26 to silence calls, dismiss alerts, snooze alarms, and more without touching your Apple Watch screen.
When Apple announced watchOS 26 at WWDC 2025 on Monday, one of the takeaway features that stood out to me was that they were adding a new gesture to dismiss incoming notifications that doesn’t require the use of the touch screen.
Learn how to hide all engagement buttons such as likes, reposts, comments, shares, views, and bookmarks from your X (formerly known as Twitter) timeline and interact with posts using left and right swipe gestures.
Around a year ago, we showed you a jailbreak tweak called SquidGesture that allowed you to perform various handy actions with gestures performed on the Status Bar or at the bottom of the display. The tweak, compatible with jailbroken devices running iOS 14, 15, and 16, was free to download and became somewhat popular.
Apple could build upon the double tap gesture from the latest Apple Watch models with additional hand gestures, such as fist clenching and wrist rotation.
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Anyone looking to elevate their music listening experience on the iPhone would do good to consider using a new jailbreak tweak called Gestune by iOS developer uzra.
watchOS 10.1 enables the new double tap gesture exclusively on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, offering time-saving shortcuts for everyday actions.
The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 bring the double-tap hand gesture to the forefront. Here's how to set up and use this feature on older watches.
Home Button-equipped devices are just hanging on by a thread as Apple moves to totally stop supporting them with iOS 17 and beyond, but for those who own them and recognize their worth in terms of hobby hacking, there’s a new MacDirtyCow exploit-centric add-on in town called Gestureify by HackZy that may captivate your attention.
One of the things that a jailbreak tweak should be able to do is make using your iPhone or iPad easier, and that’s one reason why the community has made so many gesture and shortcut-based tweaks over the years.
When you get a notification on your iPhone, you will receive a banner with a preview of the contents of your notification either at the top of your screen or on the Lock Screen.