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I use the back tap feature for shortcuts and have my iPad auto-answer FaceTime calls when I’m out so I can check in on the dogs.

Lots of neat features hiding beneath the surface!

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I have the back tap trigger a shortcut to give me a list of my most used things. I’ve used gestures to let me use a remote keyboard turn the pages on an ebook and I’ve also used it to let me remotely swipe short videos. I’ve used the vehicle motion cues. I’ve set an action to bring up the TTS reader. I even had the eye tracking do stuff for me.

Eye tracking is not something I’ve considered! Neat!

I didn’t know auto answer was a thing until now

It’s great, but there’s really no way that I’ve figured out for granular control. So it’ll just auto-answer everyone.

I forgot to turn it off and it auto-answered an AI spam bot and apparently they had a 10m conversation with my TV yesterday.

Maybe combine with the do not disturb focus settings? You can allow only certain numbers to get through (I think anyone you have as a favorite)

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