just about everything 3D touch could do can be done with long touch. 3D touch was a gimmick from the start to claim "innovation"
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Haptic Touch vs 3D Touch: What's the Difference?
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just about everything 3D touch could do can be done with long touch. 3D touch was a gimmick from the start to claim "innovation"
Reminds me of jailbreak tweaks for the iPhone 6 and older.
Was it a gimmick if I used it daily and absolutely loved it? And I'm sure I have users on this forum to back me up on that.
My ‘work’ iPhone is the 8 Plus. Let me tell ya😁....
I use 3D Touch everyday. Peek/Pop for notifications/emails/third party apps/photos, ect. It’s a brilliant feature. The problem with 3D Touch on why it failed.....was because Apples lack there of marketing. Most consumers had no idea what 3D was or how to use it. And for those who actually understood 3D and how to execute it, appreciated for everything it had to offer. Apple dropped the ball per se, because if they actually had taken more initiative to make 3D Touch marketed properly, I think it would have had a larger welcoming of its intended features.
I use 3D Touch everyday. Peek/Pop for notifications/emails/third party apps/photos, ect. It’s a brilliant feature. The problem with 3D Touch on why it failed.....was because Apples lack there of marketing. Most consumers had no idea what 3D was or how to use it. And for those who actually understood 3D and how to execute it, appreciated for everything it had to offer. Apple dropped the ball per se, because if they actually had taken more initiative to make 3D Touch marketed properly, I think it would have had a larger welcoming of its intended features.
And yet plenty of people found it useful and consistent enough to make good use of it.
3D Touch has been almost deactivated with ios13 on all devices that support it. In safari for example, a stronger press on link doesn’t open it, it only stays at the preview window and it doesn’t matter how hard or long you touch the icons of the apps, it still activates the time extra menus the same time it needs with a very light touch. Apple paves the way to make us forget 3D Touch existed. Stronger press on the keyboard activated the cursor though and it’s the only thing I will miss.
Many things can be done, but by far not everything. And even quite a bit of what can be done often enough is done in a more awkward/limited/slower way.
3D Touch ALL day, everyday! Haptic Touch in its current state doesn’t even come close in terms of speed.
Haptic Touch vs 3D Touch: What's the Difference?
The difference is 3D touch was better
The difference is 3D touch was better
What iOS 13 have you been using? Mine gives a preview when I 3D Touch a link.
You can still have the keyboard cursor with Haptic Touch, just with a long press on the spacebar.
Supposedly that's still there with Haptic Touch in a somewhat different fashion: using a second finger/hand to it.
Upgraded from a 7 to 11 Pro and it’s hardly taken any time to get used to haptic touch. It actually works each time instead of guessing if it’s going to work or not, the way you want it to.
There’s enjoyment of the physical press via 3D Touch but it was mostly a gimmick.
I still have my 7 on iOS 12 to keep 3D Touch as it is and I guess time will tell if haptic touch has fully replaced it.
There’s enjoyment of the physical press via 3D Touch but it was mostly a gimmick.
I still have my 7 on iOS 12 to keep 3D Touch as it is and I guess time will tell if haptic touch has fully replaced it.
Haptic touch is absolute garbage in general, had to do such a long press, not to mention activating icon / app arrangement is horrendously bad with it.
So many times I wish I can do right click / selection on mail app, it did Haptic open instead. 3D Touch allows me to press down to activate it, Haptic touch will trigger as long as your finger is on it.
Feels like a downgrade in iOS 13, with all these instability problems.
So many times I wish I can do right click / selection on mail app, it did Haptic open instead. 3D Touch allows me to press down to activate it, Haptic touch will trigger as long as your finger is on it.
Feels like a downgrade in iOS 13, with all these instability problems.
Almost debating just turning off 3D Touch on my Xs and getting with the program since they gimped it on the older phones anyway.
It’s just worse now. Often times when I tap on a link in Safari it will automatically open up in app (if I have the app installed). Even long pressing on the link still opens in-app. As far as I know there’s no way to have the default be open in Safari. And when you do long press on a URL it takes forever for the preview to load. So annoying.
I gave up 3D touch last year when I got my Xr. Don't miss it one bit, and the haptic touch changes in iOS 13 make it even all the better. Don't really find it awkward or slower, if anything less awkward to me not having to press into the glass screen.
Really? 3D Touch on my XS running iOS 13 betas was never as good as it was with iOS 12.
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BS. It was way better than long press.
I’m an iPhone 8 Plus user ( by choice over newer iPhones) Can anyone confirm that they have crippled 3D Touch now and made it one level the same as haptic touch on iOS 13? I have been playing with it for a while. I can’t seem to do any second levels of touch anymore. I just get one level. It’s not a feature that I used much but it annoys me that they would cripple a feature I have over newer phones with software. Anyone else notice this?
i guess for you it is. Do you have the setting set to fast touch for the haptic? I'd like to see video comparisons, but there doesn't seem to be any difference in speed to me.
Right. A worse option. If Apple is going to take away a feature they need to replace it with something as good/better.
Yes it is set to fast. I just get annoyed when people call 3D Touch a gimmick or claim that it’s just a long press. That’s not true. Don’t like 3D Touch? Fine. But it’s not just long press at all. And for those of us who liked it, haptic touch is a regression. Both Jason Snell and Myke Hurley said the same on the Upgrade podcast.
No doubt it was for cost reasons. Would Apple pass on any of the savings to the consumer? Of course not. Prices for the 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max remain exactly the same, and the 2015 6s had 3D Touch and cost less than the 11 (non-Pro) does now...
Increasing prices and/or decreasing value of Apple products has been the trend lately. The removal of 3D Touch fits perfectly with that.