How to bring a handy future Pixel feature to any Android phone today – Computerworld

It also goes hand in hand with another common Android gesture: the ability to double-tap anywhere on a screen to turn it on when the phone is resting. This one’s already built into Pixels, Samsung Galaxy gadgets, and other Android devices, and it’s an incredibly handy way to get into your device in a jiffy. (Try it out to see if it works on whatever phone you’re using right now — and if it doesn’t, try searching your system settings for double tap to find the associated setting and make sure it’s enabled!)

But strangely, the double-tap move to turn off a screen has traditionally been less readily available and emphasized across Android — particularly within the Pixel universe, where Google’s core Android operating system is present in its unadulterated form.

It’s good to see that Google’s ready to address that — but hey, this is Android. And you’re a smart and enlightened Android Intelligence reader. Here, anything’s possible, and you definitely don’t have to wait for Google to officially give you a feature to enjoy it.