Feature Request: Shake to dictate instead of shake for backlight

[andiohn]

I'd love this. A quick shake between the hours of 7am and 930pm would turn on the dictation, outside of those hours, turn on the backlight.

[idavydov]

I might be wrong, but I think watchfaces are free to handle shakes as they like. So this doesn't need changes to the mobile app.

[andiohn]

I respectfully disagree because I dont want to be limited in watch face choice? Shake light is enabled for all watch faces, couldn't the same be enabled for dictation?

[idavydov]

Right, the point I was trying to make: you don't necessary need wait for changes to the mobile app to implement something like this yourself if you wish to.

Of course it would be nice to be able to customize this. Maybe quicklaunch/settings could have custom shake action.

Though practically speaking:

• that would break certain watchfaces which rely on these events, not sure how big of an issue that is
• I suspect for dictation specifically you might get too many false positives (but it's up to the user to decide of course)

[andiohn]

Ya, a quicklaunch setting with a schedule and what it does would be really cool.