Does anyone ever actually use force touch?

yeah i use it a lot

 

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

 

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

 

yeah

 

I use it a lot.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Yes. And IOS10 is really capitalizing on this

 

This is for the MacBook Pros with Force Touch trackpads.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Force Touch for maps is great

 

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

 

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).

 

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.

 

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).

 

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...

 

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.

 

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.

 

I use it all the time.

 

Nope.