Assistive Touch for the Apple Watch works like magic. It lets you use your watch with gestures with the hand of the same arm you are wearing your watch on. No need to use your nose! If you don't have it on, is because you don't know about it.
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Apple recommends in their guidelines a minimum tappable area size of 44x44 points for all controls. A lot of times this can be corrected in an app without changing how it looks, but making it objectively easier to interact with for everyone.
If your watch app has good VoiceOver support, chances are you'll also have good Assistive Touch support. But an improvement you can make is to implement a quick action (triggered with a double pinch) when there is a main action you can perform.
To capture the gesture, you can override the accessibilityPerformEscape() function. In there you can dismiss your view, and return true if you could successfully handle it. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/nsobject-swift.class/accessibilityperformescape()
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