I'm having the same issue with Twitter. I hold it down but no pop in or peek and pop options come up. I can feel it vibrate and it highlights the icon, but that's it. What did you do to activate it?
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Hands-On With 3D Touch on the New iPhone 6s Plus
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I'm having the same issue with Twitter. I hold it down but no pop in or peek and pop options come up. I can feel it vibrate and it highlights the icon, but that's it. What did you do to activate it?
I must be missing something. I have the 6s+ and giving the 3D Touch a spin, but I don't see how to activate the Task Switching feature other than double-tapping the Home button.
Can someone show me what I'm missing?
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Jesus give it time. Can't expect developers to get it going this quick.
My phone arrives Monday (pins and needles) so today I'm going to the Apple Store to play with its cousins. If I can get in.
Press on left edge of the screen, hold down and swipe to the right a little
Press to get it to register 3D Touch, then begin pressing down harder with progressively more force. It should then open up the contextual 3D Touch menu and vibrate when it does so.
As far as appeasing the pundits. I have an Apple Watch with Force Touch and I totally understand that 3D Touch has more levels of pressure sensitivity... But in the Watch's case, there just isn't anything that couldn't be done with a long press. I find it takes me just as long to finally push hard enough on the watch.
I'm guessing this is different on the phone, as you have more leverage when holding the phone and can press hard with your thumb. The watch requires you to stab the screen with your index finger if you wanted Force touch to be faster than a long press.
As far as other people saying they wish this was software based, I still believe a good deal of these features could have been done in software. The Spotify app is a great example of how long presses can mimic this kind of "peeking".
The conflict was clearly in the long press to move and delete apps.
But when it comes to 3D Touch within 3rd party apps, I'd like to see developers use long presses for older devices. This way they can put new functionality into apps and still keep them backwards compatible... As most developers won't use 3D Touch in a meaningful way until the majority of users are using a device that supports it.
I'm guessing this is different on the phone, as you have more leverage when holding the phone and can press hard with your thumb. The watch requires you to stab the screen with your index finger if you wanted Force touch to be faster than a long press.
As far as other people saying they wish this was software based, I still believe a good deal of these features could have been done in software. The Spotify app is a great example of how long presses can mimic this kind of "peeking".
The conflict was clearly in the long press to move and delete apps.
But when it comes to 3D Touch within 3rd party apps, I'd like to see developers use long presses for older devices. This way they can put new functionality into apps and still keep them backwards compatible... As most developers won't use 3D Touch in a meaningful way until the majority of users are using a device that supports it.
You didn't provide a thing. Saying "other variables" does not provide support for your statement. It's like me saying: with other variables I can make an iphone2g be a 6Splus with software. Lol
Press hard on the left side border of the screen in an area where there is no text; try to even touch the border of the bezel to make sure you are in the border. It will bring it up. Is still way faster to just press the home button twice though.
I don't think there was a conflict thought. They just wanted a new gimmick to sell the new iPhones. I would prefer to choose what long presses do for my phone instead of having he hard press. Make the hard press the wiggle to delete but then people wouldn't care for the feature. I bet when a jailbreak comes out I will be able to set up 3D Touch to work like what I think it should have been. More sensitive to pressure and change actions. Now idk the hardware limitations of the pressure sensitivity though.
It's not apple that's clueless here. Force touch has one level of hard press as on the apple watch. 3D touch has two levels of hard press. That's why they have two different names. Guess what. Sometimes the user has to actually learn something about what he/she is using. The old sentiment about the vcr is flashing 12:00 and "I don't know how to fix it" is forever gone. Anyone with that low level of technical know how is going to have problems in today's world.
The advantage of being able to get to the app switcher with 3D Touch is that there finally is a software replacement for every thing the home button does (except TouchID) so this one step toward being able to remove the home button.
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I don't think 3D Touch is necessary on a MacBook trackpad because the pointer is controlling where the "force" is applied on the screen. On a phone the screen is essentially the "trackpad" too so it is necessary.
It's actually interesting to note that the Apple Watch can sense different levels of pressure. Apple just hasn't made use of this.
You can test this out yourself if you have a Watch. When on the Watch face, press lightly and slowly apply more pressure. You can see the watch face gradually start to depress as you apply more pressure.
All in all, I think "3D Touch" sounds better than "Force Touch" (which personally sounds like some sort of troubleshooting technique
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I've already seen NUMEROUS 3rd-party apps updated to support 3D Touch.
And the iPhone 6S only came out... yesterday.
Sure it will take some time for more developers to come on board... but the APIs are out there. Like I said... some apps are already using it.
And more will come. This is not a feature Apple will abandon next year.
Yeah, I know. I was just hoping the 3D Touch for app switching would have been a bit more convenient. I'll probably stick to the home button method for now and practice the 3D Touch method a bit more.
I agree with you 100%. I just wish it were a bit more convenient as the other 3D Touch tasks are.
Just tried it out at the Apple Store. It's neat-ish but I actually was more impressed by the force touch on Apple laptops. Has a more satisfying click feel. I'm fine with waiting a generation or two of refinement before I worry about having it on my phone.
The most hilariously gimmicky feature of the 6s is the live wallpaper though. It only triggers with force touch on the lock screen. And the super fast Touch ID means you have to go to a fair amount of effort to use it (reach up to the wake button, then press hard on the screen). Hardly the beautiful ambient feature I'd thought it was.
The most hilariously gimmicky feature of the 6s is the live wallpaper though. It only triggers with force touch on the lock screen. And the super fast Touch ID means you have to go to a fair amount of effort to use it (reach up to the wake button, then press hard on the screen). Hardly the beautiful ambient feature I'd thought it was.
One web feature that's taken a back seat because of mobile devices is the rollover, which was always specifically a mouse function. I wonder if 3D Touch now could be implemented to allow that feature to work on mobile devices.
3D touch will be useful when we get 3D screens. Up until then it's a bit of a gimmick. iPhone's menus are straightforward and get you to the task in few steps anyway. They also need to figure out a way for the user to know that there is a 3D touch menu without pressing all over the screen to discover for yourself.
I really enjoy the new feature on my 6s. Looking forward to 3D-Touch in Whatsapp (Quick-Reply to unread messages, favorites, etc.) Facebook and GoogleMaps.