A quick look at Universal Gestures on the Galaxy Watch

Samsung’s new One UI 5 Watch Beta is based on Wear OS 4. Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 5 smartwatch users in the US and Korea are enjoying the new features by joining the Beta program. Meanwhile, here’s a quick look at Universal Gestures on the Galaxy Watch.

With its Wear OS 4-based One UI 5 Watch software, Samsung brought Universal Gestures to the Galaxy Watch. Once enabled, this feature sets the Galaxy Watch to rely on changes in your muscles caused by hand movements to scroll and select like you would with your finger.

If you have a Galaxy Watch running Wear OS, you will be able to access this function in the coming months. This can be activated on command, letting you use the watch as normal until you need to turn the feature on. It detects changes in your watch-bearing arm and signals the Watch to perform action.

How to turn on Universal Gestures

• On your Galaxy Watch 4/5 (running One UI Watch 5 beta), swipe down and tap Settings
• Find and tap on Accessibility
• Now, tap Interaction and dexterity
• Here, you should get Universal gestures, simply turn it on
• You should follow the tutorial which appears once you activate the gesture

Gesture – Action

• Shake your wrist twice — Turn on Universal Gestures
• Pinch your thumb and index finger — Next item
• Double pinch — Previous item
• Make a fist — Tap
• Make a fist twice — Open the action menu

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