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Craig Federighi Says 3D Touch App Switcher Gesture Will Return in Future Update to iOS 11

840quadra said:
Being the leader of a company requires far more than just charisma, and a knack of implementing good features. I’d say Tim is doing a great job by letting people like Craig, and many other team leaders within the company shine. Many of them are new to us after Steve Jobs Passed on.

The company is doing darn good, considering all of the negative press and gripes over (often trivial) issues.
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Craig being new? NEW?! He's been there in the very beginning starting at NeXT, then Apple, went to Ariba as Chief Technology Officer in 1999 and returned to Apple in 2009. He's been there longer than Cook and Williams combined ( they both joined Apple in 1998 at the same time after working at IBM together, and went to the same college ). He graduated at University of Cali, Berkeley which shows he's the 'embodiment' of Apple's spirit.

Jeff Williams after Cook would make a bad CEO. There's something about him I don't trust. Craig, at least, is more down to earth and a bit honest.
 
Awesome they are planning to bring it back as it's been my primary way of switching apps since the feature came out. Double tapping the home button is so clunky in comparison.
 
Lion007s said:
How hard were you swiping when going back? Because it actually requires pressure exerted just on the edge. This would mean when you initiate a swipe you'd actually be pausing on the edge and applying pressure before continuing the swipe motion. A fluid swipe without pressure would solve this issue for you.
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"You're touching it wrong"

Sounds like my companions circa age 17... lol
 
Good.

Now...

Dump swipe up for home and use 3D touch instead

Get control center back to swipe up on all iPhones
 
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citysnaps said:
Why? Be specific, outlining his credentials and suitability.

He's doing a really good job as SVP Software. But that is far different than being a CEO of a company the size of Apple..
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Agreed. He's probably better suited where he is overseeing software engineering efforts. To move him to CEO could set things back and just frankly probably isn't his wheelhouse. The CEO must deal with everything from hardware, software, to financial, personnel, acquisitions, etc. This guy has better things to do with his time, frankly.

Leave the PR and overall company management to Tim (or whoever). No need to lose usable talent within Apple making Craig CEO.
 
citysnaps said:
Why? Be specific, outlining his credentials and suitability.

He's doing a really good job as SVP Software. But that is far different than being a CEO of a company the size of Apple..
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The idea is that he would bring his priorities with him as the CEO, i.e. emphasize openness & technical competence. This would be opposed to the marketing/retail heads stepping up and bringing along their priorities. And Jonny Ive doesn't need the distractions of corporate leadership, which is why he restructured his position in the first place. Don't get me started on Eddy Cue. Jeff Williams is pretty good, but he isn't nearly as good a presenter as Craig, and that's actually a big part of being the head of Apple since SJ set such a high bar.

Right now, no one has the full experience of leading Apple as CEO besides TC. That doesn't mean others can't step up.
 
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I like to imagine Tim Cook updating and noticing the gesture is gone. “Meeting now.”
 
Geert76 said:
Craig should be CEO of this company (not just because of this email)
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Hmmm I personally don't love the current state of ios and the way new features have been added and really simple ones don't exist or have been removed.

I mean 10 years laters, phones have gotten much larger and we still have pulldowns for notifications (I'm predicting the two sided pull down on the X is going to be a nightmare one handed), notifications that aren't grouped by app, a spring board covered in icons auto arranging top left and very little ability to customize. Dont get me wrong it's still a very good OS is super efficient smooth, aesthetically pleasing enough and especially now, a performance beast with Apple hardware so devices at least 3 generations old are very much usable. I just find it a lot less intuitive (granted as you add more features this will always happen) and far less efficient to navigate around the OS vs. Android or Forstall's iOs.

That being said between all the execs at Apple Craig seems more into learning what users want so he'd be my first choice of who's available.
 
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Pilgrim1099 said:
Craig being new? NEW?! He's been there in the very beginning starting at NeXT, then Apple, went to Ariba as Chief Technology Officer in 1999 and returned to Apple in 2009. He's been there longer than Cook and Williams combined ( they both joined Apple in 1998 at the same time after working at IBM together, and went to the same college ). He graduated at University of Cali, Berkeley which shows he's the 'embodiment' of Apple's spirit.

Jeff Williams after Cook would make a bad CEO. There's something about him I don't trust. Craig, at least, is more down to earth and a bit honest.
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Said many of them are new, didn’t say Craig was. But thanks for the refresher on his work history ;) .

zombierunner said:
No please kill 3D touch. It's not useful at all and difficult to remember it even exists.
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Thankfully they don’t implement features based solely on your opinion. Glad 3DT is here to stay!
 
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The issue with that is it won’t be easy to discover. IMO apple has chosen the correct UI except for some unnecessarily wasted space.
 
Hm, I am beginning to think I may be using 3-D Touch on my iPhone without realizing it. That's the only explanation I can think of to explain why I will be on my iPad Mini 4 and poking on the screen very firmly and then feeling vaguely confused and surprised when nothing happens. :confused:
 
Oh man this would be perfect if they brought this feature back. It is sorely missed.

For myself and those who absolutely love this feature, thank you Apple!
 
Wow! Somebody is actually listening the the install base. One down, many more issues to go.
 
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