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PSA: iPhone SE's Haptic Touch Doesn't Work With Notifications and It's Not a Bug

Thank god Macrumors picked this up. I mean, it has to be a bug right? I posted in the forums about this, as it was one of the first things I’ve noticed.

Anyone that’s been utilizing 3D Touch/Haptic Touch since the 6s would have noticed this missing feature. Makes responding to messages super fast.

If Apple intentionally neutered this one specific feature, I’m returning my SE.
 
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bryanios said:
“I received my SE yesterday and very quickly realized that ‌Haptic Touch‌ is not supported on notifications. I am not seeing this reported anywhere, haven't seen one review mentioning it, no video I watched mentioned it. ‌Haptic Touch‌ works for peek and pop, and on icons on the home screen but if you are on the lock screen or Notification Center and try to long press an email to archive, or a text to quick reply you are out of luck.”

do you even read an article or just read a title and assume whatever you just think in your head
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This is your post right? Post #47

then why does my iPad Air 2 support haptic touch on notifications?
 
Since it’s all software based and the iPhone SE has the Haptic Engine this is surely going to be added through an SE specific software patch.
 
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benji888 said:
Tap to wake is for no bezel Face ID devices. No Touch ID devices have this feature, to my knowledge.
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In a round about way, the TouchID solid state button is kind of like tap to wake. It’s a piece of glass that doesn’t actually move (a la the display).
 
This is such a stupid limitation. On the new iPhone SE, you can haptic touch to expand a notification if it slides down over an app while you have your phone open, but you can't do the same thing from the lock screen/notification center? How could that possibly be "working as intended"?
 
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Sure will
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ikr. Idk why this is posted on apple forum when Steve Jobs’ philosophy behind the iPhone was all about the strength of software, “Hardware doesn’t change when it’s shipped“. It’s kinda sucky to see on this forum tbh.
 
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Westside guy said:
I don't think they've ever arbitrarily held back features from a new device, have they?
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No night mode on iPhone SE 2020 when the equivalently priced $399 Google Pixel 3a has night sight and Gcam app has been ported to non-Pixel budget devices. It's a software feature so no technical reason the iPhone SE 2020 with the latest flagship A13 SoC can't do it except for upsell gimping.
 
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mi7chy said:
No night mode on iPhone SE 2020 when the equivalently priced $399 Google Pixel 3a has night sight and Gcam app has been ported to non-Pixel budget devices. It's a software feature so no technical reason the iPhone SE 2020 with latest flagship SoC can't do it except for upsell gimping.
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Do you believe a person interested in the $399 SE 2020 is going to turn around and spend $1200 on a phone because of the lack of night mode?
 
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I mean who in charge thought this was a good idea?
To take away this minor feature is so petty and simply makes Apple look like a jerk.
 
I7guy said:
Do you believe a person interested in the $399 SE 2020 is going to turn around and spend $1200 on a phone because of the lack of night mode?
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Do you believe a person would spend money on a brand new iPhone if he knew performance on his existing iPhone would be unthrottled with a new battery?
 
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