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Barclays: All 2019 iPhones May Lack 3D Touch, New AirPods and Lower-Priced HomePod to Launch Next Year

I use 3D touch daily and I really hope it stays. I didn't realize how much I used it until I had to use an iPhone 6 for a few days. It seems unlikely that they would get rid of it as it seems like they're adopting it in more and more of their products. Even more so considering that there's rumors of them removing physical buttons from the Apple Watch and being replaced with solid state ones...which I'm sure is based on their 3D touch technology?
 
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Agit21 said:
3d touch is useless, press and hold works better.
In iOS 12 there is zero reason for 3d touch since you can press and hold the spacebar and move the cursor around.
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I had no idea! That is my favorite 3D-touch feature, so with that being available, I am far less heartbroken about losing it. My only other use case is making a call by a hard press on the phone icon to pull up my favorites and quick actions. I would still miss it. Hope this isn't true.
 
Barclays says it's "widely understood" that 3D Touch will be removed from iPhones [...] However, they caution that the plans aren't finalized yet, so they could change.


Barclays says it "does see the potential for the new iPhones to support pen input,"
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What a load of opportunistic hot air. They want to take credit for own or others’ predictions while covering their a$$es if in the end they don’t happen. Better to shut up, Barklays !
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There are two things I do with 3D touch that would need another way to do it.. getting to wifi settings quickly from home screen, and getting to favorite contacts quickly from home screen. Long press would not be able to replicate these actions since it would simply make the icons jiggle.

I also use the text cursor all the time, but long press can replace that. Well, partially, at least. It can't do text selecting like 3D touch can.
 
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A friend of mine recently asked me to demonstrate 3D Touch and I’m like oh I guess I don’t really use it…
 
Long press can't replace 3D Touch:

  • You can simulate the cursor without 3D Touch, but you can't simulate the text select without 3D Touch which is a major loss
  • No shortcuts on home screen icons, like going to call a favourite directly by 3d touching the phone app, going directly into battery, wifi, bluetooth settings etc
  • Peek and pop in Safari on url links, which is especially useful on forums like Macrumors. I just peek and pop into threads to see if its interesting to read through otherwise I dismiss it.
  • Opening links in the background in a tab in Safari is a way faster action with 3d touch and upswiping than long pressing and waiting for the context menu to come up
 
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I use 3D Touch to move the cursor around all the time, I find it a total pain on my iPad to do what I can on my 6S with ease.
And I use it to add calendar appointments, because trying to work it out within the calendar app is tricky, but 3D Touch the icon and bam the options right there.
 
The only issue with 3D Touch is discoverability. So few people seem to know it exists.

I'm a photographer and often AirDrop photos to clients and I can't remember the last time any of them knew how to get to AirDrop by 3D touching the WiFi square in Control Centre. After they see me do it and ask me how, they're surprised about all the 3D Touch actions on app icons and within apps.

3D Touch is unique to iPhones and Apple Watch. No other manufacturer has been able to produce devices with it en masse. There's so much potential to creating a three dimensional UI.

I hope Apple keeps pressing on...

...that was a pun :rolleyes:
 
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chrizzz09 said:
Long press can't replace 3D Touch:

  • You can simulate the cursor without 3D Touch, but you can't simulate the text select without 3D Touch which is a major loss
  • No shortcuts on home screen icons, like going to call a favourite directly by 3d touching the phone app, going directly into battery, wifi, bluetooth settings etc
  • Peek and pop in Safari on url links, which is especially useful on forums like Macrumors. I just peek and pop into threads to see if its interesting to read through otherwise I dismiss it.
  • Opening links in the background in a tab in Safari is a way faster action with 3d touch and upswiping than long pressing and waiting for the context menu to come up
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Thank you. All of these posts claiming you can now simulate it in iOS12 by using the space bar have never fully used the 3D Touch Cursor. It's more than just moving the cursor, but being to select a word OR sentence quickly is a game changer for me.

Additionally. short cuts for app screen icons Just today I used the following short cuts with 3D Touch:
  • Phone->Call a Favorite that shows up
  • iMessage->New Message or open up "recent" contact
  • Reminder-> New Reminder in an already existing list
  • Notes->Scan Document
  • Maps->Search Nearby
  • Photo->Record Video
  • Facebook->New Post
These are just the limited few. Doesn't include the Control Center, Responding to Notifications, Peek and Pop (emai, text, Safari). I use 3D Touch extensively daily and it's become second nature how I use it. And it's not close to a long-press. I also have an iPP on iOS12 so I use some of the newer long-press actions and the feedback is so different.
 
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BMcCoy said:
'long press' on my iphone SE does the majority of the things '3d touch' does on the X..

not all, but the majority.
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As noted here in iOS 12 even older phones got 3D Touch functionality for example in Control Center, It can first sign that Apple is preparing to more different way. They may have difficulties with technology and some new display or found that only small number of users use it and use it way you can do with long press. And it may be more idiot proof to have long press then learn right level of force.
And it may be just too pricey.
 
If true it is not because Apple has found "some new way" to implement 3D Touch without the same components as previous.

It is because Apple has devised an entirely new software UX for navigation and menus that is completely new and different.
 
This report is full of crap, as evidenced by them saying “plans are not finalised yet”: er yes they are, the phones are rolling off production lines as we speak and the hardware specs will have been locked down months ago. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
 
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Grim that different phones will have different features rather than form and capacity. That really would have Steve Jobs turning in his grave and is completely un-Apple.

Started with the camera and only going to get worse.
 
While nifty to have, that 3D Touch component takes up a ton of space. I wonder how many people will change their tunes if Apple were to replace the 3D Touch motor with more battery?
 
Steve would have hated 3D Touch. I find it bizarre from a ux standpoint Apple have buried it and avoided using it for any essential actions. It’s removal will not affect anyone for long and it would be quickly forgotten.

I suspect, the savings would be multiple. A thinner screen stack would allow under screen Touch ID to be possible. It would reduce costs and allow for a deep battery design and bigger capacity in its place. It might also allow for cheaper screen replacements for when the enevitable happens.
 
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