{"id":171052,"date":"2025-06-09T19:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171052\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:38:12","slug":"watchos-26-adds-a-new-wrist-flick-gesture-to-quickly-dismiss-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171052\/","title":{"rendered":"watchOS 26 adds a new \u2018wrist flick\u2019 gesture to quickly dismiss notifications."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Jun 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>watchOS 26 adds a new \u2018wrist flick\u2019 gesture to quickly dismiss notifications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">At WWDC 2025, Apple just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2025\/06\/watchos-26-delivers-more-personalized-ways-to-stay-active-and-connected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showed off<\/a> a new update coming to its wearables this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/679225\/apple-watchos-26-wwdc-features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watchOS 26 is available<\/a>, Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 wearers will be able to dismiss notifications, silence times and alarms, and ignore calls just by turning their wrist over and back like this (below), in addition to the existing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23928706\/double-tap-apple-watch-series-9-ultra-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">double tap<\/a> gesture.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"kqz8fh1\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/Apple-WWDC25-watchOS-26-Wrist-flick-gesture-250609.gif?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" data-pswp-height=\"800\" data-pswp-width=\"800\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img alt=\"Animated GIF showing a person\u2019s arm turning to dismiss a notification on an Apple Watch\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"x271pn0\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Apple-WWDC25-watchOS-26-Wrist-flick-gesture-250609.gif\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>watchOS 26 \u2018wrist flick\u2019 Image: Apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Jun 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM UTC watchOS 26 adds a new \u2018wrist flick\u2019 gesture to 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