Does anyone ever actually use force touch?

[Tarek]

When I was buying this laptop, I was told that it has the force touch trackpad like on the new MacBook generations, and to be honest I have not found one benefit for it except looking up a certain word for definition and synonyms. Are there are any actual beneficial uses for it?

 

[Caviar_X]

yeah i use it a lot

 

[Cindori]

When most people are using mouse, there is little incentive for developers to add special functionality for Force Touch.

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

Not yet. I haven't found any uses for it yet, but maybe I should look a list up?

 

[azpekt]

yeah

 

[Closingracer]

I use it a lot.

 

[jerryk]

I never use it. At this point, you have to run Apple applications and I never do that.

 

[xb2003]

I like it. I have a poor vocabulary and it will define words for me. Also, I can make calendar events, and the feedback is nice when adjusting faders in Logic.

 

[leman]

I do! The dictionary thing is very useful. I wish more apps would have support for force touch.

 

[Barry01]

Yes. And IOS10 is really capitalizing on this

 

[!!!]

Yes. And IOS10 is really capitalizing on this

This is for the MacBook Pros with Force Touch trackpads.

 

[JackieInCo]

I think I've used it five times in the 15 months I've owned my MBP. I don't even use it on my iPhone.

 

[LOLZpersonok]

I've been using Force Touch mostly just because I can. I've only actually found it useful a few times. The most use I'd get out of it is finding definitions of words or statements without having to go to a dedicated website or application for it.

 

[Barry01]

Force Touch for maps is great

 

[Tarek]

I looked up a list of the things you can do with Force Touch and the only interesting one that I actually tend to use frequently is the dictionary look-up feature. I am guessing it can become more useful when more 3rd party applications start utilizing it rather than just stock Apple apps, as mentioned here previously. Thanks for your input, guys!

 

[lewdvig]

never, only posts like this remind me that i even have it. LOL

 

[JustinBW]

I use it for the dictionary feature exclusively and sometimes that doesn't work (notably in Google Docs, which is likely not Apple's fault).

 

[Spudlicious]

I don't use a mouse with my Mac and I use Force Touch all the time. For me the track pad is the supreme hardware advantage of Mac over any Windows laptop.

 

[Tarek]

@Spudlicious I agree with you regarding the track pad being the best in the market of laptops, however my question was specifically regarding Force Touch which I find practically useless.

 

[Cougarcat]

The dictionary feature isn't even new, I've been using it for years on my ancient MBP with the key command (command-control-D).

 

[poorcody]

Out of curiosity, does anyone have any ideas on how it could be applied to tasks to make it more useful? It sort of seems underutilized to me... for example, I would like a "deep click" to open a web link in a private tab...

 

[Spudlicious]

@Spudlicious I agree with you regarding the track pad being the best in the market of laptops, however my question was specifically regarding Force Touch which I find practically useless.

My main point is that because I don't use a mouse with my Mac I find Force Touch excellent, but I can see that for someone with a mouse under their hand it's irrelevant.

 

[CE3]

Don't you technically use force touch every time you press the trackpad and it clicks?

I mostly use a mouse on the MacBook, but as far as trackpads go it's the best one I've used.

 

[savagewatts]

I use it all the time.

 

[tubeexperience]

Nope.