Hands-free Watch advances and a screen that stays awake at the loom
Version 1.1.0 is for weavers who keep their phone on the bench and their watch on their wrist. Two quality-of-life features landed together. Advance your draft with Double Tap on Apple Watch. Keep the screen awake during threading and weaving so wrist sync does not drop when the screen locks.
Double Tap to advance on Apple Watch
Double Tap is for one-handed control at the loom. On supported Apple Watch models running watchOS 11 or later, pinch your index finger and thumb together to advance to the next pick or thread group without touching the screen with your other hand. That makes it easier to stay in the zone while threading or weaving when one hand is on the heddles, tie-on, or shuttle.
The watch still shows one gemstone bead at a time and stays in sync with your iPhone session. If Double Tap is not available on your watch, tap and swipe work the same as before.
Need help setting up Double Tap? See Apple's guide to hand gestures on Apple Watch for device support, setup, and troubleshooting.
Keep Screen Awake during sessions
A new Keep Screen Awake toggle lives in Session settings. It is on by default. While you are threading or weaving, your phone or tablet will not dim or lock from idle timeout.
Beta testers flagged a frustrating pattern. The phone would sleep mid-session, the watch would lose sync, and advancing on the wrist would stop until the phone woke up again. Keeping the screen awake fixes that without asking you to change system Auto-Lock for the whole device.
You can turn Keep Screen Awake off anytime in settings if you prefer to save battery between sessions. Double Tap uses the system hand gesture shortcut and respects your watch accessibility settings.