3D Touch for cursor movement not always working..

[WilliamG]

My wife and I really like using 3D Touch for moving the cursor around (i.e. turning the keyboard into a trackpad when typing etc).

It works MOST of the time. But there are occasions where no matter how hard we press on the keyboard (she has the 6s, and I have the 6s Plus), it refuses to turn into trackpad mode. Very annoying. I was hoping this would be addressed in 9.1, but it doesn't seem to have been.

Anyone have thoughts on this?

 

[cchunk]

Same issues happens to me. I'll just not touch the screen for 2-3 seconds and it usually works after that

 

[DesertSilver]

I've been annoyed by this issue also since the 6s came out. I think it may have something to do with the OS not registering 3D touch on the right side of the screen (see this thread I posted about it https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/3d-touch-not-working-on-very-right-side-of-screen.1924718/).

It's such a great feature but this annoyance is causing me to not use it.

 

[sunking101]

It's the same with copy/select all. Sometimes the function just isn't available and I have to press 'done', lose the keyboard and then start again. I'm tired of simple and obvious bugs cropping up in every single new version of iOS.

 

[I7guy]

I think it's a timing thing at least in my case, between the time you touch the screen and how fast you depress the screen. I had to practice to get the timing right and now with practice, the trackpad pops-up every time.

 

[bheathain]

This is my favorite feature of 3D Touch and my biggest annoyance since it doesn't work part of the time. At first I thought it was just happening on keys that have modifiers available (like long-pressing on "n" might bring up accent marks), but that was ruled out. I'm just hoping it's software-related (assuming so).

 

[jpgr15]

I've had the same issue - definitely annoying. I don't think it's a bug but probably a feature in Apple's eyes. Kind of like the palm detection in the new iPad Pro - I think when this happens it's attempting to prevent mistakes. Timing between my last key press seems to impact it.

Still don't care for it.