iPhone 11 Haptic Touch Is Not a Replacement for 3D Touch

[SegNerd]

I’m disappointed in the way Apple has marketed Haptic Touch as a replacement for 3D Touch. The fact is that Haptic Touch is basically just renaming the long-press that has been around since the first iPhone.

I’m not necessarily disagreeing with the decision to nix 3D Touch. It seems to add so much weight and cost that getting rid of it may well have been the right choice. But Haptic Touch does not have the same capabilities as 3D Touch, and I don’t like how Apple seems to want us to believe that it does.

If you ask me, this is kind of like announcing a new car and saying,

You don’t need AC anymore, because our new model features Turbo Velocity Air Circulation Technology!

*which means you can open the window

 

[russell_314]

I’m disappointed in the way Apple has marketed Haptic Touch as a replacement for 3D Touch. The fact is that Haptic Touch is basically just renaming the long-press that has been around since the first iPhone.

I’m not necessarily disagreeing with the decision to nix 3D Touch. It seems to add so much weight and cost that getting rid of it may well have been the right choice. But Haptic Touch does not have the same capabilities as 3D Touch, and I don’t like how Apple seems to want us to believe that it does.

If you ask me, this is kind of like announcing a new car and saying,

You don’t need AC anymore, because our new model features Turbo Velocity Air Circulation Technology!

*which means you can open the window

I'm not sure what your question is but if you're wondering if Apple is ever going to bring back 3D touch I'm going with no and no

 

[SegNerd]

I know Apple isn't going to bring back 3D touch. What I'm disagreeing with is the marketing of something we already had as a replacement for something we are losing.

 

[EM2013]

People complained when it had 3D Touch.

People complained when they removed 3D Touch.

 

[AppleHaterLover]

Hi OP, this ship has sailed. Save your breath.

 

[throAU]

I agree it's not really a replacement but 3D Touch was kinda sketchy sometimes and not very discoverable anyway.

Haptic feedback is a lot easier to discover.

As an iPhone 7 user I've never used 3D Touch. I used it occasionally on the watches and its kinda not great there either.

 

[1rottenapple]

It’s not but that feature is long gone.

 

[44267547]

It’s kind of an exhausted discussion, but 3D Touch is a feature that Apple failed on many levels to actually show it’s worth to consumers. And for those who actually appreciated 3D Touch, understood How to invoke its actions. But for the majority of consumers, it was confusing, without any type of background tutorials, etc.

 

[russell_314]

It’s kind of an exhausted discussion, but 3D Touch is a feature that Apple failed on many levels to actually show it’s worth to consumers. And for those who actually appreciated 3D Touch, understood How to invoke its actions. But for the majority of consumers, it was confusing, without any type of background tutorials, etc.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Apple failed to get the average customer to use it at all. Sure tech nerds on here were loving it but exactly what percentage of iPhone users hangs out in the MacRumors forums on a daily LOL. Perhaps they should have had some type of pop up explaining how to use it and pushed harder for app devs to have better integration. I could see the forum posts complaining about this pop up though... "Apple is pushing ads on us".

I'll miss it but pretty much every person I've talked to who had an iPhone had no clue what 3D touch was. It just became not worth it to add hardware that increased the cost and bulk of a phone that so few people were using.