Actually, in the phone app: if you keep a list of favorites, the top 3 people on the favorites list in your phone app will be the people that show up when doing 3D touch.
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Not true. One of my 3D Touch contacts isn't in favorites. The other two are but they're in the middle.
I think and hope it is just the proactive feature in the iOS trying to learn the behavior of the users. A couple of times I have seen a contact that I never text. Then the rest of the time it's my recent text. Maybe it wil get better or maybe it just needs a update to fix it.
I'm sure it will. Or maybe just time for it to learn.
It's a brand new feature. I'm sure that it will be improved with future updates.
But I agree, some documentation of how the criteria that cause the people to be selected would be helpful. Otherwise, it just becomes a useless feature, rather than a beneficial one.
Okay after reading everyone's posts and playing around with it this is my guess at what is happening:
3D Touch on the messages app will bring up 3 contacts that you have been conversing with via iMessage. On top of that it looks at the intervals of the messages to determine frequency. So if you iMessage someone on a daily basis but only send 2 messages a day then it might not make the list. If you communicate with someone twice a week via iMessage but in those 2 instances you send each other heaps of messages within a 20 minute (random number) duration then it will make the list.
For those of you who are experiencing random contacts, my guess is that either:
A: you don't have anyone that you communicate via iMessage with;
B: the iMessage conversation message intervals are not close together enough; or
C: both of the above.
That's my guess, keen for you guys to test this theory out and let me know how it goes.
3D Touch on the messages app will bring up 3 contacts that you have been conversing with via iMessage. On top of that it looks at the intervals of the messages to determine frequency. So if you iMessage someone on a daily basis but only send 2 messages a day then it might not make the list. If you communicate with someone twice a week via iMessage but in those 2 instances you send each other heaps of messages within a 20 minute (random number) duration then it will make the list.
For those of you who are experiencing random contacts, my guess is that either:
A: you don't have anyone that you communicate via iMessage with;
B: the iMessage conversation message intervals are not close together enough; or
C: both of the above.
That's my guess, keen for you guys to test this theory out and let me know how it goes.
The problem is 3D Touch is supposed to make things faster.
If you 3D Touch the messaging app and you are not presented with the contacts you think you are going to get or got yesterday or an hour ago and then end up opening the app anyway then there is no point having force touch on the app.
A better option would be to be able to set the contacts you want As the shortcuts. Most people have a select group that they would use as favourites.
I'm not saying 3D Touch is amazing and is making our messaging more streamlined. I was merely trying to present what I think is happening in the background, whether it's useful or not is separate topic.
I do agree with you in the sense that it's pretty pointless that it doesn't:
A: give us the most recent contacts we messaged; or
B: let us select favourites like the phone app
I swear mine pulls from emails too. I have a contact that I only email, and they are showing as a "top 3"
Even the last 3 people you've messaged isn't that brilliant. If you don't message for 12 hours you'll forget who you messaged last.
It should be a user selectable option.
It should be a user selectable option.
It really just needs a different function. I think it should just show you a preview of the last message or last few messages.
Personally, I would like a preview of the most recent message, and just "peeking" making the badge go away.
I'd like to see it work as a shortcut to your conversations with unread messages even if those aren't your most frequently used contacts.
Interesting. So if you don't normally talk to anyone during one part of the day it'll appear blank. Hah!
Don't know about blank, but Apple is trying to be more predictive based on your usage.