Latest iOS 17 Beta Makes Haptic Touch Faster

[MacRumors]

The second beta of iOS 17 that Apple released to developers yesterday includes a setting that makes the haptic feedback feature activate faster than before, which some users may prefer.

An Accessibility option, faster haptic feedback can be activated in the Settings app by going to Accessibility > Touch > Haptic Touch. From there, the options are Fast, Default, and Slow. Toggling on Fast speeds up Haptic Touch, and the duration can be tested using the image in the Settings app.

In iOS 16 and the first beta of iOS 17, options for Haptic Touch included Fast and Slow, with "Fast" previously being equivalent to the Default option in the new interface. The new Fast toggle is a step up in speed compared to the old Fast option.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1671778695088943104

Setting Haptic Touch to Fast makes a noticeable difference in how quick haptic menus pop up under the finger when an icon or on-screen element is long pressed. The speed brings Haptic Touch interactions closer to 3D Touch interactions.

As many iPhone users might remember, 3D Touch was an interactive haptic feature that Apple introduced in 2015 with the iPhone 6s and used prior to the iPhone XR. With the iPhone XR in 2018, Apple transitioned away from 3D Touch and instead implemented the simplified Haptic Touch. 3D Touch supported multiple levels of pressure for different interactions depending on how hard you pressed, with Apple implementing "Peek and Pop" gestures. Comparatively, Haptic Touch supports just a single level of pressure for the long press gesture.

Haptic Touch has always worked slower than 3D Touch because of the two levels of pressure that 3D Touch allowed for. The first 3D Touch pressure level activated quickly when pressing on the display, so those who became used to 3D Touch may have found the Haptic Touch replacement to be too sluggish. On Fast mode in iOS 17, Haptic Touch is quicker and feels more sensitive.

It's still not entirely clear why Apple got rid of 3D Touch, but it has been speculated that Apple eliminated it in order to bring gesture parity to the iPhone and the iPad. 3D Touch was always an iPhone-only feature, but Haptic Touch is available on both the iPhone and the iPad.

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[Apple Fan 2008]

In my opinion, Haptic Touch was already 99% the same thing as 3D Touch.

 

[IceCool]

I think you meant that Haptic Touch was introduced in 2018 with the iPhone XR. 😅

 

[TFK.]

And it locks your iPhone by its own.. As something is triggering the lock button Hmmm

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I'm loving this. iPhone is well-responsive and fast. You can really notice a difference.

It feels like 3D-Touch is back on iPhones that are running iOS 17 Beta 2. I really hope Apple does not remove this feature in future beta releases.

 

[KaliYoni]

3D Touch was an interactive haptic feature that Apple introduced in 2018 with the iPhone XR

3D Touch dates back at least to the iPhone 6s (2015):

iPhone 6s - Technical Specifications - Apple Support

support.apple.com

 

[alternamelka]

I know we're all thinking it but GOD do I miss 3D touch 😭😭😭 The little tease you could do with it to see whether you wanted to commit fully to the action 😭

Bring her back!!

 

[alexandr]

In my opinion, Haptic Touch was already 99% the same thing as 3D Touch.

No, it was noticeably slower — I toggled it on and off to see when I was ready to upgrade my XS. However this feature brings it closer to that 99%.

 

[alexandr]

I know we're all thinking it but GOD do I miss 3D touch 😭😭😭 The little tease you could do with it to see whether you wanted to commit fully to the action 😭

Bring her back!!

I don't think they'll bring 'er back, but this is certainly an improvement!

 

[Kylo83]

Can we speed up overall system animations would be nice

 

[ScreenSavers]

Article states: “As many iPhone users might remember, 3D Touch was an interactive haptic feature that Apple introduced in 2018 with the iPhone XR and used prior to the iPhone 11.”

Incorrect. It was introduced in 2015 with the iPhone 6S.

 

[T-Bob]

I think you meant that Haptic Touch was introduced in 2018 with the iPhone XR. 😅

News poster edited previously correct post to include this inaccurate one or are they both off? edit: Yes seems they are saying 3d touch instead of haptic, which was always there but gutted 3d by 2018 odd.

Also ‘3D Touch‌ was always an iPhone-only feature, but ‌Haptic Touch‌ is available on both the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌.’ the effect worked on apple watch as well, I am unsure if that also required extra hardware but at a similar time they stopped feature working in watchos.

 

[palev]

Just upped the speed to fast on my XR. It really does make it faster. Nice little update.

 

[winxmac]

2015 iPhone 6s - 3D Touch
2018 iPhone XR - Haptic Touch

 

[Octavius8]

I loved how I could make a call to a favorite contact y 3D Touch from the phone app. Sorely missed. 3D Touch was the last great innovation at Apple.
By the way, I just tried the famous Huawei camera in their latest phone, I took some photos of my wallet in the office and it blew away my 14PM!. Even in pro raw 48MP the default photos of the Huawei were more color accurate and captured A LOT more the texture of the leather. Honest. iPhone photos are so poor in comparison. Like 5 years behind.

 

[jdavid_rp]

I think you meant that Haptic Touch was introduced in 2018 with the iPhone XR. 😅

That or that it was introduced with the iPhone 6S because the other details of the paragraph talks about 3D Touch.

 

[Surf Monkey]

In my opinion, Haptic Touch was already 99% the same thing as 3D Touch.

I wish it was, because 3D Touch was an excellent feature.

 

[Unami]

I always hated that feeling of pressing down on a hard surface, but at least it was responsive and not as slow as f*** like haptic touch. So, yay, best of both worlds, maybe.

 

[Surf Monkey]

News poster edited previously correct post to include this inaccurate one or are they both off? edit: Yes seems they are saying 3d touch instead of haptic, which was always there but gutted 3d by 2018 odd.

Also ‘3D Touch‌ was always an iPhone-only feature, but ‌Haptic Touch‌ is available on both the ‌iPhone‌ and the ‌iPad‌.’ the effect worked on apple watch as well, I am unsure if that also required extra hardware but at a similar time they stopped feature working in watchos.

How can it be “haptic” when iPad doesn’t have a vibration engine?

 

[mongobongo]

I loved 3D touch and was very sorry to see it go. Haptic touch will never be quite as good but this news sure sounds like a nice improvement!

 

[alexandr]

I loved 3D touch and was very sorry to see it go. Haptic touch will never be quite as good but this news sure sounds like a nice improvement!

It is! I've had to learn how to live without 3D Touch and obviously came to terms with it, but this does make a difference!

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Anyone can calculate how long it is in ms ?

On my Samsung I'm able to change it as low as 0.3ms which is a blessing from the gods

 

[Paddle1]

In my opinion, Haptic Touch was already 99% the same thing as 3D Touch.

The flashlight and camera toggles on the lock screen and keyboard trackpad are probably where 3D Touch shines the most.

 

[alexandr]

Anyone can calculate how long it is in ms ?

On my Samsung I'm able to change it as low as 0.3ms which is a blessing from the gods

In ms it's sf (super fast)!

 

[macduke]

I still miss 3D Touch. At least once per day I think about how much better it was, such as when I go to select text on the spacebar. I recently learned about the secondary tap trick to actually select when moving the cursor, but that's more clunky and doesn't seem to work as well for me either, but it's better than nothing.