Snooze Double Pinch Apple Watch PopUp in watchOS 9? (Fix!)
Snooze Double Pinch Apple Watch popup
Snooze Double Pinch popup is displayed on Apple Watch every time you raise your wrist. The prompt is showing up at the top of the screen and for a brief second and then disappears by itself? This appears to be a day-one watchOS 9 bug!
Snooze Double Pinch Apple Watch Popup
This issue has been reported by Volodymyr on our watchOS 9 review page:
“Snooze double pinch popup always appears even when the alarm is stopped!”
Problem has been also confirmed by elly:
“Snooze double pinch notification appears whenever i wake the watch. Assistive Touch is glitching out for sure!”
Indeed I was able to replicate this bug by turning On a new watchOS 9 AssistiveTouch feature in:
Settings -> Accessibility -> AssistiveTouch
How To Fix Snooze Double Pinch watchOS 9
Apparently you have to initialize this Assistive Touch gesture the first time you enable the feature:
- 1. Open Settings and scroll for Accessibility.
- 2. Scroll for AssistiveTouch and turn it ON (if it’s already enabled you can skip this step).
- 3. Go back to Accessibility and open Quick Actions.
- 4. Tap the blue Try it out… link.
- 5. Double Pinch quickly as shown in the animation until you get the Double Pinch Recognized message.
Fixed: That’s it, the Snooze Double Pinch should stop popping up at the top of the screen! Does it? Fix is permanent and the popup won’t re-appear if you reboot the watch!
Other Snooze Double Pinch Workarounds
I’ve seen this issue reported on other websites like Reddit with users recommending to tweak Quick Actions -> Appearance to Minimal. But that will only replace the Snooze Double Pinch popup with a blue line!
Others suggest to turn Off Assistive Touch and restart Apple Watch. This is only a temporary fix though, because the problem will show up the next time you enable Assistive Touch.
Have you managed to fix Apple Watch not working on Apple Watch? Did the above tip help out? Do you have a better solution? Share it in the comments.
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My Series 7 watch has been displaying a Stop Double Pinch popup every time I raise my wrist. I followed the instructions above. That solved it for approximately 15 mintes. I’ve also restarted twice. If I find a way to downgrade to Watch OS 8, I’ll do it until this bug is fixed.
Thanks for your feedback. It hasn’t comeback since for us. Can you share more details? Is AssistiveTouch turned ON? Can you spot what action triggers the snooze double pinch popup to re-occur?
Thanks, Patricia. AssistiveTouch is on. The popup occurs every time I raise my wrist. I tried with different faces to be sure it wasn’t caused by a complication. It occurs when the watch is displayed, or a timer, or a podcast app, etc. I’ve been unable to determine any specific action that causes it. The first dozen times it happened, I thought, “stop what?”
I turned AssistiveTouch off and it recurred. Then I restarted my watch and the popup has stopped. According to the article, it will recur if I turn AssistiveTouch back on. I want it on, but I’ll leave it off until there is a solution.
Have you followed the tip from the article which requires you to open Quick Actions and tap on the Try it out… simulation and perform the Double Pinch gesture until your action is recognized.
First time it didn’t work for me, but that’s because I didn’t complete step 5 and get the Double Pinch Recognized message. I double pinched, but apparently it was not recognized. I turned off accessibility and was still getting the pop up. So I followed these steps again, this time waiting for the message on step 5 (took 3 tries at double pinching) and now it is off. So if it isn’t working for you, make sure you complete the steps exactly, making sure you get the message Double Pinched Recognized. Thanks for the fix!
You’re welcome Martin. Thanks for confirming it!
Like Patrick I’m also seeing an unwanted Stop Double Pinch popup on series 7 watch since updating to OS9. The fix recommended for Snooze Double Pinch works for me if I don’t try double pinching when prompted to do something like stop a timer alert. I have assisted touch turned off.
Thanks for the feedback. Haven’t seen the Stop Double Pinch popup yet. Are you using Alarms with your AW7? Snooze and Stop seem to be the standard call to action when an Alarm plays out. We will continue to test this and see if we can manage to replicate the problem.
Do you have Quick Actions enabled, with AssistiveTouch turned Off?
I am not using alarms. To ensure no unwanted popups I have both Quick Actions and Assistive Touch turned Off.
OK. Well this is normal. If you want to use Assistive Touch you can set Quick Actions appearance to Minimal and avoid the popups.
I tried repeatedly to get it to recognise the double pinch especially once I realised it was with the watch hand and not a tap/ pinch movement of the other hand but I don’t get the double pinch recognised screen and the constant appearance of the “snooze double pinch” and “ resume double pinch” is very annoying.
Yes, this can be frustrating. I managed to get it recognized if I pinched really quickly back-to-back as shown in the animation.
Wow, talk about a just in time fix! Set up my very first Apple Watch yesterday and immediately noticed the “Stop Double Pinch” popup. I figured I’d find a fix in the user’s guide but then I thought someone might have posted about it and found this post. Problem solved. Thanks so much.
You’re welcome Tom. Glad we could help!
Thank you so much, this worked for me. It was getting pretty irritating to receive this notification.
You’re welcome! Glad we could help.
It wasn’t working at first at it said double pinch recognized. I powered off and back on and it has stopped. Apple Watch 6 watchOS 9. Assistive touch is on.
Thanks for sharing your feedback Brian.
Thank you! It worked
You’re welcome! Happy to help.
Thanks for the fix. I tried ‘trying it out’, but it wouldn’t register the double pinch. Turned Quick Actions off then restarted the watch, turned them back on and tried again. This time it worked. I hope this helps others.
You’re welcome. We appreciate your feedback too!