Thanks for the posts, all.
Not sure if anyone mentioned this, but I’m still unclear whether or not 3d Touch now works differently on different generation iPhones (that have 3d Touch hardware).
I have an iPhone 7 Plus, but it came with iOS 13 out of the box, so I can only compare it to the feature presented on the 2015 September keynote. My experience :
- some gestures are still there. I can still hold and press on the edge of the screen to get to the task switcher
- you can still peek, but no more pop. Eg in photos, I can press in to get a preview of a photo, but I cannot press further to go to that photo. I have to remove my finger and do a regular tap. The same with links. From the keynote, you can press to preview the link, and press further to open it. With iOS 13, to go to the link, I have to remove my finger and do a regular tap.
- all icon shortcuts from the home screen are still there
3D touch was still available as a hardware feature on the iPhone Xs. The XR was the first iPhone that uses haptic touch.
If you're used to the original SE, I don't think you'll miss 3D touch. With Apple going with haptic touch on all new iPhones, I would just forget about 3D touch and embrace haptic touch.
Thanks for being specific. The details is what I’m trying to get. It’s all about the details.
A couple questions to clarify..
So you can’t press hard and instantaneously get the app switcher anymore? If there’s a delay, isn’t that really haptic touch?
Do you happen to know if 8 works exactly the same as 7?
Yesssss exactly. Let’s move on. We’ve been terrorized with non stop commentary with people lamenting the loss of the headphone jack for years, we still to this day get people that bitch about it here and there. 3D Touch is dead. It’s an unnecessary business expense that most people never appreciated or knew was there. Apple can somewhat be partly to blame for not really pushing it. regardless, from a business standpoint it was the wise thing to do.
I don’t know how any of this relates to this thread. I’m trying to gather info.
It's alive and kicking on my Xs Max, although it's severely crippled. When you lay your finger on an icon as opposed to pressing you can see a significant difference in how quick the context menu pops up. There's like a .5 sec delay when you just touch as opposed to press. I can also still use the press to get the cursor trick on the keyboard.
Also 3D Touch is still slightly faster than Haptic.
So 3d Touch is still instant or did they introduce a slight delay, but just not as much as Haptic Touch?
There is 3d functionality still active on ios 13. As ian87w said you can log press on the side of the screen for the app switcher, you can long press on ‘settings’ app to quickly access wifi, bluetooth and mobile data to turn them off etc, and also other apps to quickly access aspects of that app etc.
It sounds like you’re describing Haptic Touch if you have to long press, though. 3d Touch, at least when introduced, was an instant hard press. Is there now a delay? But isn’t that what Haptic Touch is? I’m getting confused.
Does haptic allow you to press & hold on the sliding scroll bar to quickly scroll up & down a web page (as 3D Touch still allows my 7+ to do)?
I don’t know how it works for 3d/Haptic Touch, but on my original SE once you see the scroll bar you can grab and immediately move it. No need to long press. Though it is a little finicky, the grab usually happens on the second attempt. Or maybe I’m doing it wrong.
My Xs is on the latest version, and 3D touch is working.
Any details on how it has changed, if at all, from previous iOS versions?
