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New iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro Models Ditch 3D Touch in Favor of Haptic Touch
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Cool, didn't know about the second finger. Thanks!
However, that really sucks though. Have to wait a second, then wait even longer and awkwardly have both fingers on the keyboard (so can't use it to select text like a trackpad like I do now, since you need the entire space of the keyboard to move around).
Huge usability loss, but I guess as long as there is still a way to do it.
And I know, I know, that it's only losing a few seconds off usability of the phone, but I can argue, why make things faster then if we don't care about making it easy to use and having to wait an extra few seconds to do some tasks... I always felt this was the heart of apple, attention to detail and small things like this that make using their products just oh so much easier.
And I'm superficially complaining, no one is forcing me to upgrade to an 11 pro, or even an iPhone for that matter. Slomo selfies or having 20 camera's in the back not really worth the upgrade imo.
Pfft.
I’ll come back to this after I upgrade in 2 years time. If this ****s up my PUBG ill be pissed.
Its a sad day for the iPhone lovers.
The most ugly iPhone ever.
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The most ugly iPhone ever.
Send Apple a e-mail and say it to them: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
3D Touch was actually a bad idea imo. I hold my phone in a lose grip and make delicate taps, then have to adjust my grip when going for a 3D Touch.
A pressure sensitive display seems way more fluid to use than a single long press
It would be like using a mouse with one side button that brings up a prompt to do multiple things vs multiple side buttons shortcuts.
Or drawing on a Wacom using varying pressure vs one static pressure and adjusting brush size, flow, etc.
Well that is thoroughly disappointing. Along with the peeking at messages, what will happen to accessing the flashlight on the lock screen? The 3D Touch implementation was perfect for that.
That's exactly the point, now your delicate touches are going to randomly activate features that were meant to be initiated intentionally, like the flashlight, or the camera on the lock screen.
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I know it was always a hated feature by most people but I always really liked it and use it a lot all the time. It would feel like a downgrade at this stage to lose it.
I don’t need of want a better camera which is all the new models really seem to offer.
I don’t need of want a better camera which is all the new models really seem to offer.
I will miss 3D Touch. Use it all the time.
I've been using iPhone 6s and X, and never touched a XR. From what I've read about haptic touch, it's just long press with haptic feedback, then how does it distinct peek-and-pop from regular long press? Like in the home screen, how does it tell whether I'm using the context menu or I want to delete the app? On my iPad, deleting an app requires a much longer press than on my iPhone, regular long press only lets you move an app around, is that what haptic touch is? Shorter long press brings out context menu and longer long press is regular long press?
I don't play games on mobile, but I've been told some shooter games use 3D Touch to fire, and some racing games use 3D Touch to control throttle, those kind of things are impossible with long press.
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I don't really need a better camera either, but iPhone 11 doesn't have an OLED screen, which is quite important to me. That being said, I haven't decided whether I'm willing to pay 300 bucks more for OLED.
I don't play games on mobile, but I've been told some shooter games use 3D Touch to fire, and some racing games use 3D Touch to control throttle, those kind of things are impossible with long press.
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I don't really need a better camera either, but iPhone 11 doesn't have an OLED screen, which is quite important to me. That being said, I haven't decided whether I'm willing to pay 300 bucks more for OLED.
I guess I should be happy that back in 2015 I bought the iPhone 6s and last year I bought the iPhone XS. I will take good care of them. I think the only compelling reason for me to upgrade my iPhone would be 5G but seeing how slow 5G is expanding I should buy my next iPhone in 2022 or 2023 by then my iPhone XS should be 4-5 years old if Apple is planning on supporting it 5 years like it did so far.
I'm currently on a XS Max so have OLED at the moment. I usually upgrade each year but the loss of 3D touch is very significant to me. There doesn't seem to be much else besides camera and the usual chip upgrade to make me want to this year. I'm not bashing the new models, they look fantastic, I just don't think there's quite enough there to warrant upgrading from my current XS Max.
Mind you, I thought i'd really miss Touch ID and I don't at all.
I will miss it too and I think a lot of time will have to pass until Apple brings something new to the market that will really please most people.
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Only because people didn't adopt it (devs or users). This could've been the touch equivalent of right-click. Alas... (I'll miss peek and pop!).
In iOS 13 Peek and Pop is mostly replaced with a new context menu that is similar to Peek. The 3D/Haptic Touch context menus on the home screen now include an option to rearrange apps which you can use to delete, or you can just continue long pressing until the icons wiggle.
I love 3D Touch and use it everyday. Is it still going to be supported on iOS 13 for devices equipped for it? Otherwise, that’s one reason to not upgrade from iOS 12.
it offered GREAT tangible and efficient benefits:
accurate mouse/pointer control for text selection and insertion between letters. magnifying glass was getting too long in the tooth.
Peep n Pop - like the TouchBar without useful applications of the tech, and much like BlackBerry/RIM of old failing to advertise technology means nobody is aware of it.
.3/5mm drop in screen thickness will barely amount to 1mAh of battery storage increase. Apple just is pinching wherever it can to save a buck/unit. OLED surely can implement 3D Touch.