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

[AxiomaticRubric]

Apple QA strikes again! 👏🏼

 

[TheShadowKnows!]

Honest questions:
Does Matthew work for Apple?
Or did he dig into the OS codes?
Otherwise, how is his answer official?

Simple [you had the answer all along, dude]:
Because he always "Keeps Right" /s

 

[BugeyeSTI]

then why does my iPad Air 2 support haptic touch on notifications?

Your Air2 has long press not haptic touch..It doesn't have a vibration motor or a taptic engine

 

[Apple_Robert]

While it would be nice if it worked, I don’t have a problem swiping left for access.

 

[ghanwani]

The SE was built for those who are upgrading from older devices, not for those who are downgrading from an iPhone 11!

 

[supergt]

SE 2020 folks get less notifications so they don’t probably won’t care. /s

 

[Loosey101]

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.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

“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

This is your post right? Post #47

then why does my iPad Air 2 support haptic touch on notifications?

 

[benji888]

Tap to Wake is a good example.

Tap to wake is for no bezel Face ID devices. No Touch ID devices have this feature, to my knowledge.

 

[GuruZac]

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.

 

[dms_91]

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.

Sure will

 

[GuruZac]

Tap to wake is for no bezel Face ID devices. No Touch ID devices have this feature, to my knowledge.

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).

 

[falconer.]

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"?

 

[bryanios]

Sure will

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.

 

[mi7chy]

I don't think they've ever arbitrarily held back features from a new device, have they?

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.

 

[kiensoy]

Your Air2 has long press not haptic touch..It doesn't have a vibration motor or a taptic engine

My iPad Pro has Haptic Touch, it's in the Settings and it doesn't have a vibration motor or taptic engine.

 

[I7guy]

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.

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?

 

[BugeyeSTI]

My iPad Pro has Haptic Touch, it's in the Settings and it doesn't have a vibration motor or taptic engine.

I noticed they list it as haptic touch in settings not long press, I always equated haptic feedback with haptic touch

 

[BF1M]

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?

Even if one single person did then mission accomplished for Apple.

 

[I7guy]

Even if one single person did then mission accomplished for Apple.

Unless you can prove it, it didn’t happen. Someone who claims to have done this wasn’t interested in the 2020 se anyway.

 

[BF1M]

Unless you can prove it, it didn’t happen.

I bought the 11 over the SE just today because SE didn’t have night mode.

 

[satchmo]

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.

 

[turtle777]

Yeah, this is the Apple of late.

Occasionally, they are just @#$%ing with you, for no good reason.
And then they might reverse course, or not.

-t

 

[I7guy]

I bought the 11 over the SE just today because SE didn’t have night mode.

Proof looks like a picture of a receipt dated today.

 

[mi7chy]

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?

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?