iPhone X app switching not using 3D Touch! :(

I believe...and someone can correct me if I’m wrong...that 3D Touch was temporarily removed and is not active in the version of iOS being used on the reviewed X models. It came back in a beta build that I am using now.

 

You don’t have to hold your finger there after you slide up. You can slide up a tad up the right and let go. No need to stop. People are doing that on the reviews.

 

We don’t know what version they ship with.

 

11.0.3

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There is absolutely no reason to believe it won’t have the 3D Touch enabled app switcher.

 

I don't think the iPhone X comes with 11.1 since it was released today if thats the case then once you install 11.1 3D Touch multitask should start working.

 

You can swipe horizontally against the bar at the bottom to app switch. I think it's easier.

 

...that’s because it isn’t active in 11.0.3. It is in 11.1, which you can upgrade your iPhone X to on Friday.

 

It might just be me but I don't care if that little 3D touch multitask feature is on the X or not. That little swipe up and over gesture to do the same thing seems better to me.

 

No iPhone has it on 11.0.3. 3D touch gesture comes back on 11.1. It's likely to exist on the X.

Regardless, the new swipe left/right is going to be faster to switch between recent apps, but I bet the 3D touch gesture is quicker to invoke the actual switcher than the slide up and wait.

 

For the record, I just learned about this gesture from this trend. And here I was double tapping home to get to app switching.

 

I didn’t know about the 3D Touch shortcut for this until recently, but I never use it. It’s on the wrong side of the screen for me. Guess I’ll be able to reach across easier with the X though!

 

Good. I hate the 3D touch multitasking and personally think they should drop 3D touch altogether. It makes the screens too difficult to manufacture and barely adds any value.

 

It’s actually much faster to do certain tasks with 3D Touch

 

3D Touch on the keyboard and it becomes a mouse cursor to quick navigate your text entry. Invaluable.

 

I’ve heard but I just never use it. I may be the minority.

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Yea but can’t the iPad do the same thing? Could implement without 3D Touch. I’m sure some people love it, but I just don’t have any uses for it.

 

I use an iPad Pro 10.5" and the same gesture is sloppy, inconsistent difficult to pull off without 3D Touch. It's two fingers, and it doesn't always trigger right.

They're definitely not going to remove 3D Touch.

 

iPhone X will actually ship with iOS 11.1.

 

Based on what information? The carrier allocation of units have been in US warehouses since at least Saturday. The review units that were a part of published reports yesterday had only been in their hands for about 24 hours. The units being shipped from China did so before 11.1 was released and the dev version was still in testing. How exactly do sumize that the 11.1 GM somehow made it on to devices?

They will arrive in people hands on Friday with 11.0.3.

 

They were assembled and boxed before 11.1 had a GM build and all the review units are 11.0.3 - you'll probably need to update it right out of the box to accept your backup.

Although you know, it's pretty unlike Apple to release the 11.1 build, have everyone update, and then force all iPhone X buyers to set up as new, update, erase all content and settings, and restore the backup. Maybe there's a trick up their sleeve.

 

Apple does internal testing of iOS versions on upcoming hardware all the time. Look at this Geekbench score from September 14 and the version of iOS used: