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Re:iPhones and action discoverability by vineyardmike on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:19AM (#32970162)
> Note that enabling "Back Tap" will cause a daemon to run in the background all times taking a couple percent CPU

Is this true? I was under the impression that iPhones (and most modern high end devices) had dedicated hardware to monitor these sort of features, and triggers a system event in the OS (the same way you don’t need a daemon to check for a keyboard or power button).

Re:iPhones and action discoverability by saagarjha on Sunday September 25, 2022 @07:26PM (#32977538)
It is, the process is named "AccessibilityUIServer". There is a dedicated motion coprocessor but when the events come back the are plumbed through CoreMotion to a framework called Phoenix, which runs a ML model on them.