If that's the case, then 3D touch is more exaggerated than I thought because under iOS 12, haptic touch vs 3D touch on the XS and my friend's 7+ acted no different from each other.
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iPhone 11 Pro Long press vs 3d touch
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The iPhone 6S, 6S+, 7, 7+, 8, 8+, X, XS, XS Max all have the hardware necessary for 3D Touch. Any iPhone before the 6S as well as the XR and the new iphone 11 series don’t have the hardware hence they received long press or haptic touch. Your friends 7+ should of acted exactly like the XS because they both have pressure sensitive screens and 3D Touch
I believe so. I don't own an XS, but I've played with the 8, XS, and XR in stores for hours at a time for a solid week before buying my XR.
the move from 3D touch back to haptic boils down to this: 1-handed operations to now needing both hands, for example copy and paste is no longer easily done with 1 hand. the new copy and paste gesture requires 3 fingers to pinch in and pinch out, which requires something else to hold your phone (namely a second hand). although it is possible to tap tap tap to get to copy and paste, it takes at least 2 if not 3 times more inputs than before.
XS Max. I actually switched to long press on the spacebar for cursor movement pretty quickly. It feels much more natural than hard press. I also never use hard press on the Macbook Pro trackpad, could easily see it gone there also.
As for complaints about copy&paste - you do realise, that old way is still possible, there is only now a new option to use gestures.
As for complaints about copy&paste - you do realise, that old way is still possible, there is only now a new option to use gestures.
You do use iOS, or are you just a regular troll?
1. Input windows.
You had do select text first. Before you could use 3D touch and perform two hard presses to select text. Now you do a long press and swipe. With both after finished a black menu pops up for c&p operations.
2. Address bar Safari. No changes. Press to select, black menu pops up.
3. Everything else long press to select, 3D touch was not possible before.
yea no, the xs obvs had it prior to ios 13, but i still have it after, and i sure hope they don't remove it with 13.1...
Sure I use iOS. Troll, no; you a smartass or nah?
Was genuinely asking because I knew how to hold finger on keyboard and drag cursor around then press slightly harder to select a chunk of text(on XS Max); when I had replied to this I had literally spent some time earlier in day trying to select a block of text inside a block of text and had been unsuccessful(on my Pro Max). I was curious as to how folks were doing it; hence me trying to get more info.
Thanks for the info; ironically was what I had been trying to figure out. Next time save your **** ass attitude for someone else
I think Apple had trouble implementing 3D Touch into iPads so they decided to adopt long press on all devices for cohesiveness.
True. Not forced to upgrade but then need to choose over security upgrades. We’re talking hundreds of millions devices or more. ip6 to ipxs
Matter of opinion. Personally I find long press and haptic feedback a much more intuitive interface and will gladly trade 3D touch for a larger battery.
3D touch was a great demonstration of Apple's technical superiority, but without a good practical implementation.
Just ask yourselves - if it was so great, why did nobody copy it after all these years?
No need to ask friend. Very simple: it’s a patented technology. Something totally unique to iPhone that they abandoned in my opinion. You can bet that when that patent expires, you’ll be seeing force touch on future android phones.
Like we're seeing touchbars on PCs? Not everything Apple does is great. 3D touch is one of those things. Useful for moving the cursor, pretty much useless for everything else.
Never said everything Apple does is great. Universal consensus is the touchbar sucks. And they’ve misfired many times over the course of their history. Nevertheless, just because you find it useless doesn’t make it so. There are plenty of people that enjoy 3D Touch and will miss it going forward.
How many non-tech people do you know, who use 3D touch? Most people I know are simply annoyed by not differentiating between a long press or a hard press.
It's not intuitive. And general consensus is that it sucks also. So it was axed finally.
How is long press any more intuitive?
What’s your source for this? Apple never said why it was axed so any reasons people give are pure conjecture.
Those that didnt use 3dt or comparing to android long press don’t understand that long press will never replace the functionality 100% nor be as on the mark as 3dt. Some, like this post have blinders on and don’t understand. It shows.
How to spin the headphone jack? Marketing as well?
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