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Apple Expected to Remove 3D Touch From All 2019 iPhones in Favor of Haptic Touch
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Replying to messages on the lock screen without unlocking is a very useful feature. Peek and pop in links on websites and pictures is even more useful. Far from a novelty
Most used for Instagram, saves you time for actually popping into the picture. Most don’t even know about it but it’s so useful for that.
Yep, the Control Centre still uses the older, quicker 3D Touch, but app icons have a noticeable lag.
I’m seriously fed up with Apple now. It was bad enough when they slowed down the home button, now this. Screwing over existing customers for thinness and profit. Just go Tim Apple!
When I had my 7 and with my current XS Max, I turned off 3D Touch. I found it of no use to me. Can't say I'll miss it.
Great. That’s what we need is to make glass thinner. Aren’t they brittle enough?
Terrible news if the rumor turns out to be true. Haptic Touch is garbage compared to 3D Touch and I use it all of the time, especially for the keyboard. I love being able to scroll through text with one amount of pressure, then actually selecting text with another amount of pressure. That alone will be a great loss to me. It was the biggest reason I would jailbreak back before they released that feature officially. The software one sucks and it doesn’t allow you to select text, just scroll through it.
Maybe they are removing it to reduce production costs, so they can introduce a price cut on the new models.
One feature I thought 3D touch would give me is to “open in new tab” in Safari. I can never do that. It’s just a preview of the webpage. They could have let us customize the behavior to distinguish between touch and press. But those two actions give the same result. Why bother keeping it. I couldn’t care less if 3D touch is eliminated.
So does this mean Haptic Touch is integrated to opening opens and shortcuts the way 3D Touch has been? I assume this will be integrated in iOS 13 and enabled on iPhone XR and up on all Haptic Touch compatible phones?
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You get all the same Haptic feedback with Haptic Touch. All the clicks, scrolling, trackpad, notifications. Apple expanded the functionality quite a bit for XR owners back in iOS 12.1.1. I imagine if this rumor pans out, we will see all of the current functionality 3D Touch offers come to Haptic Touch.
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This! I have said it over and over, I will not upgrade from my XS if they remove 3D Touch and I’ve upgraded every year since the 4. However, if they implement haptic touch to react the exact same way as 3D Touch does then I’m all for it.
If it acts the same way as it does on the XR, I will be keeping my XS for a very long time.
I wonder if haptic will be introduced on the 2019 iPad Pro's. Product features always seemed disjointed and the experience to go from one iOS device to the next and then macOS seems frustrating at times.
I am willing to see it go, if it means the user experience is comparable amount the devices and ecosystem.
FTR, I do like using 3D Touch it comes in handy a lot and I miss that the iPad does not have these feature/function.
Am I the only person who struggles when trying to do the "hard press" thing to rearrange icons on the home screen?
It always thinks I'm trying to do a 3D Touch gesture when I press hard, and if I press soft, it does that annoying thing where the area around it expands and then contracts. It's sometimes hard for me to get it "just right."
It always thinks I'm trying to do a 3D Touch gesture when I press hard, and if I press soft, it does that annoying thing where the area around it expands and then contracts. It's sometimes hard for me to get it "just right."
I would think that this could be a good way for them to offset the expense of making the iPhone to either increase their revenue or to perhaps decrease the cost of the phones for consumers. Since almost all functionality can be implemented without 3D Touch there is really no reason to have the hardware in the phone.
I really don’t need or want a thinner iPhone since I end up putting a case around it anyway because the damn things are mostly ceramic and glass now. Give us more battery.
My iPad Pro has the same haptic touch features that an XR has... Edit, I misspoke, the iPad Pro doesn’t have the haptics, but it has the long press features, and to me that is the same. I don’t need the phony vibrate as long as I have the functionality.
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