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Tip: Adjust 3D Touch sensitivity to 'Light'

thatJohann

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Go to Settings, Accessibility, 3D Touch - > change from medium to light.

Even on light I'm still struggling to do the 'pop'. I just get the peek and then I push as if I wanted to break the screen to get the pop.

I feel it needs a new sensitivity called 'Ultra Light'.

Anyone else having a bit of a trouble doing the 'pops'?
 
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thatJohann said:
Go to Settings, Accessibility, 3D Touch - > change from medium to light.

Even on light I'm still struggling to do the 'pop'. I just get the peek and then I push as if I wanted to break the screen to get the pop.

I feel it needs a new sensitivity called 'Ultra Light'.

Anyone else having a bit of a trouble doing the 'pops'?
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Great tip!
 
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Great tip, don't feel like I have to push my finger through the screen now...

Settings--> General--> Accessibility--> 3D Touch==> change touch sensitivity from Medium to Light.
 
3D Touch still sounds a bit gimmicky to me, and more so if you need to really push hard onto the glass.
 
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Some people on reddit are claiming they've already shattered their screen by pressing too hard on it trying to activate "pop"! Everyone should follow this tip IMMEDIATELY.
 
Any issue differentiating a 3D touch from a standard long press (e.g., long pressing on an icon to get them to jiggle so you can rearrange)?
 
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TG1 said:
Any issue differentiating a 3D touch from a standard long press (e.g., long pressing on an icon to get them to jiggle so you can rearrange)?
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Yes. Long press is just that - you don't need extra pressure. Though I think many of us were used to that.I definitely was. lol. It took a little bit to get used to it. 3D touch, you need to press down a little bit. To get icons to jiggle, just hold your finger on the icon for a while. Small learning curve but once you get it, it's easy. I also adjusted the 3D touch to light.
 
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TG1 said:
Any issue differentiating a 3D touch from a standard long press (e.g., long pressing on an icon to get them to jiggle so you can rearrange)?
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No it's easy to differentiate once you activate 3D a couple of times.

One is press & hold, the other is press firmly into... if that makes sense.
 
Although I have no problem triggering peek and pop, this makes it way easier. Thanks.
 
thatJohann said:
Go to Settings, Accessibility, 3D Touch - > change from medium to light.

Even on light I'm still struggling to do the 'pop'. I just get the peek and then I push as if I wanted to break the screen to get the pop.

I feel it needs a new sensitivity called 'Ultra Light'.

Anyone else having a bit of a trouble doing the 'pops'?
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Pop is definitely too hard. I also adjusted to Light (first thing I did with my new iphone) but Pop is mostly unaltered by this setting, just the Peek.

Agree that a second slider for Pop would be highly appreciated.
 
Light has worked best for me. Feel like I'm gonna break the glass on medium.
 
3d touch does take some getting used to. Surprisingly, it's the light setting that helped me with separating a peek from the jiggle mode. When more developers update their apps for 3d touch, I think people will find it worthwhile as long as there's some uniformity between apps so that you know what to expect, the way we know what will happen with a right click on the PC. If it's inconsistent like Apple Watch's force touch, things will be bad.
 
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