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Haptic Touch vs 3D Touch: What's the Difference?

mcfrazieriv said:
I bought the iPhone 11 Pro Max ... and I absolutely hate Haptic touch. 3D Touch was useful and it made sense. It made no sense to remove something that has usefulness.

One example is how distorted the long press feels now to gain access to the keyboard cursor. They even had to limit the thing to the spacebar to activate and scrolling left to right sucks.

The other is in order to delete an app you must first "Rearrange" them in a submenu. :\
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I agree with you on haptic touch. To remove an app though, you just keep holding and ignore the pop up menu, then it switches to ‘jiggle’ mode to let you remove apps.
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Agit21 said:
Glad 3D Touch is gone. A long press does the trick for me. No difference.
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Says someone who never used 3D Touch. If you had you would realise how clunky haptic touch is.
 
lazyrighteye said:
For me, THAT ☝ is one of the more noticeable misses.
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Using Haptic Touch (longpress) on the spacebar try to lift your finger quickly after the trackpad functionality turns on and move it higher up on the trackpad.
 
tennisproha said:
Bring back 3D Touch! So much more useful.
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yes...
With 3D Touch on my iPhone 8, when checking Notification Center and the phone is locked, I can peek in the full message/notification (it will ask for Touch ID, I have the touch only authentication selected hence no need to press, just touch) without the other end knowing I even checked the message...can we do that with haptic touch? Personally, I keep my finger on the notification but nothing is happening. Hence, haptic touch is not working everywhere 3D Touch is, at least for me...
 
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scottcampbell said:
I'm glad this article exists; hopefully won't have to keep explaining to people that they're not exactly the same.

Still enjoying 3D touch on my 6S, by the way :p One of Apple's few innovations in recent history.
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I noticed on my 6S the option is called 3D and Haptic Touch. So it's still there. Barely!
 
I tried haptic on my GF's 11 and then 3d on my XS. I can't tell the difference. If anything, I thought her phone felt more positive.
 
I never liked 3D Touch. It never seemed to work correctly for me. The XR not having it was a contributing factor towards choosing it last year. I'm really happy that they're ditching it altogether now.
 
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Apple needs to bring back 3D Touch as a compliment to Haptic Touch so the 3D Touch and Haptic Touch working together can make sure it’s not accidentally selected as without 3D Touch they have been many times it pops up because I left my finger down too long when scrolling or pressing a link, with 3D Touch it could of been used on them devices as a miss prevention and both together working as one would of felt like pressing an actual button on screen.

well done Apple you blew it big time.
 
Craptic Touch is a massive step back. Slow, less intuitive, offers less functionality, is less user friendly. I will miss the ability to highlight words and sentences once I upgrade from my iPhone X. Even controlling the cursor with the space bar is a horrible alternative as it is much slower and gives you less space to operate on (e.g. holding the space spar when needing to scroll down a lot is impossible as you instantly run out of screen to scroll on).
 
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Will my iPhone SE, which support iOS 13, give haptic feedback with the old vibrator, or no feedback at all?
 
C DM said:
This is coming from someone that saw a potential fraction of a second slower response from the home button as something that just completely ruined a device, given that Haptic Touch performance is certainly more noticeable than even that? Quite an inconsistently.

And much better battery life?
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If you are using the phone one handed it takes effort to press hard on the screen for the right click menu to pop out. THis increases your chances of dropping the phone. Use your phone naked and its an accident waiting to happen with that slippery back. It also results in your screen getting smudged a lot quicker. With Long Press which is essentially haptic Touch, it requires less effort and because the phone can be navigated with a very light press, there are very less smudges on the screen. Haptic Touch does 95% of what 3DT did without the extra hardware and the lower battery life. Android had always done it right from the beginning with long press.

I just bought an 11 Pro Max and it has 5 hour better battery life than the XS Max because of removal of the 3DT motor. Only a fool would pick 3DT over 5 hours of extra battery when long press does 95% of what 3DT did.
 
Great article.

I favor 3D Touch.

Regarding the whole new logic around rearranging and deleting apps. WTF?

Apple took something that was 1 tap and made it require 2-3. That was very Microsoft-ish move. Sucks.

Don’t get me started on the new cursor movement around the change. Haptic touch is awful trying to select / highlight specific text or a single letter.
 
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Voyageur said:
offtop:
how to turn off night mode on macrumors? I cant find it, it turns automatically
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Turn off Dark mode on your iPhone. If you are viewing on desktop you can change the colour on the absolute bottom right of the screen.
 
Voyageur said:
offtop:
how to turn off night mode on macrumors? I cant find it, it turns automatically
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Bottom of the page click on 'MacRumors Autodetect' then choose your preference.
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jaisonline said:
Regarding the whole new logic around rearranging and deleting apps. WTF?

Apple took something that was 1 tap and made it require 2-3. That was very Microsoft-ish move. Sucks.
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Im with you but you are wrong (or the article is) you press and hold on an APP and ignore the pop up, keep holding and then it enables 'jiggle mode' so you can remove apps etc.
 
I thought haptic touch would be better than the current 3D touch that I am used to. I was wrong, I had to disable haptic touch and just live without either now (iPhone X).
 
With iOS 13 on 8 plus, when I long press (not 3D Touch) on something I want to open in a new tab, I’m met with the annoying vibration. Is there a toggle for this? Gets annoying.
 
If I long touch on messages to bring up Quick Actions, then select "New Message" it brings me to a screen where I can type the recipient's name. But if I tap on the messages app, it brings up my most recent eight or nine threads, one of which is most likely to be the person I want to message. So in that case, the quick action is actually slower than just opening the app.

The contextual menus need to get smarter. Why can't QA learn which are my five most frequently texted contacts and offer them?
 
I really miss 3D Touch. I was a fan of it from day one on the 6s, though I felt they should have done a much different job with its implementation.

It was always hidden and would give features not possible on other iPhones or iPads. I thought they should have used it to replace a long press, kind of like how they are doing in iOS 13, this way you get the same behaviour whether using a phone with 3D Touch or an iPad without it, for example.
 
mikeleeuk said:
Does anyone know if it’s possible to have “System Haptics” turned on (in Settings > Sounds & Haptics), but turn off the horrible glass-clinking sound every time you long press anything with the ringer volume turned up? 🤢 I love having the additional vibrates, e.g., when turning on silent mode or trying to turn the ringer volume down when it’s already at the minimum level, but that sound really sets my teeth on edge.

Sorry if I’ve ruined anyone else’s life by helping them discover this “feature”, btw... 90% of the time I have my phone on silent so I only found out about it when I saw people were returning their phones because of the awful sound their taptic motor was making... Nope, turns out Apple hasn’t really understood the point of haptics and has decided they need to make a grating sound every time you use them, as well. 🙄
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welp. Apple fixing something that's not broken, again.
 
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Haptic touch is a step backwards and I absolutely noticed it was gone. 3D touch was quick and responsive! People who say that 3D touch was useless didn't realize they were using it. Example any time you clicked the flashlight or camera icons from the lock screen or moving icons on the home screen.. The Haptic touch is so extremely slow it's making me dislike my brand new iphone. It's like having wooden tires on a brand new car.. maybe a bit of an extreme analogy but you get my point.
 
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