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watchOS 7 Removes Force Touch Support From Your Apple Watch, Here's Everything That's Changed

If Apple does not know how to market the feature, then they get rid of it by software even though the hardware is still capable?

If the management don't know how to sell a product, you don't get rid of the product. You get rid of the management!
 
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After using  Watch since the first original  Watch, I’ve decided to go back to mechanical watch as my daily driver. They haven’t updated the design for 5 years, no major new features except the larger display they applied to the Series 4. It just looks stale and unexciting now, it’s everywhere and everyone has the same looking watches.
Force Touch is what got me interested with the Watch at the first place. I don’t know how to put it, with the tactile feel of Force Touch, the tactile feel is what make me feel the watch is very closely “attached” to me and I can interact with it and it’s reflexive. It doesn’t give you the sentimental relationship like that of the mechanical watch but at least it has that tactile feel. It’s what make me feel that an  Watch is different from other smart watch offer from Android Wear. With Force Touch removed, that tactile feel is gone, the watch just became a piece of tech gear with a touch screen you strap on your wrist just like all other smart watches. The contrast of the feelings is somehow similar to the differences when you compare a digital Casio to a mechanical watch.
It has been a good 5 years with smart watches but for now I’m just going to keep my Series 4 and use it as a sport accessory when I run or hike, and get back to collecting mechanical watches.
 
Does anyone know how to delete handwritten stickers on Apple Watch? I did so on iPhone but Watch ones still there
 
This article proves why force touch is not necessary, it's easy enough to replace the functionality in an obvious way to users.

While some people used it a lot, I don't think most users actually ever use it, and it just becomes a pointless piece of extra hardware at that point.

Like anything, people will adjust, just like they do with any change in interface.
 
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I like 3D Touch. It’s interesting that they’re dropping it. It was noticeably uncomfortable to use at times.

I do think paired REALLY poorly with long touch though. Pick one.
 
ZipZap said:
They should not be allowed to remove a feature (hardware) I paid for in a previous model.
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But did you read the entire T&C when you bought your Apple Watch? It will invalid your rant. And features on the watch are ran by software. I really do wish people would read the T&C before coming here saying what Apple should not be allowed to do.

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Veinticinco said:
No it doesn't unless you're still running iOS12. They silently disabled it (on the X/XS/8/7/6S) with the release of iOS13, lowering the common denominator to the 1-year old haptic-only XR and new SE2 and 11s. The exact same stunt they've pulled yet again with watchOS7 update for those with AW5/4/3. The removal is bad enough but to do it silently without warning via an OS update, is utterly reprehensible.
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Yep, it is wrong. And under Australian Consumer Law they must remedy, as it was advertised as a feature when purchased. It's basically a false advertising case here in Aus since you cant revert to WatchOS6.
Maconplasma said:
But did you read the entire T&C when you bought your Apple Watch? It will invalid your rant. And features on the watch are ran by software. I really do wish people would read the T&C before coming here saying what Apple should not be allowed to do.

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This doesn't hold up in some countries that have Consumer Protection laws that override any Ts & Cs.
 
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joelhinch said:
This doesn't hold up in some countries that have Consumer Protection laws that override any Ts & Cs.
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You've gotta be kidding! Seriously? Consumer protection laws are for when something is defective. Nobody would have a chance winning in any courts against Apple. It's the consumer's responsibility to read software licenses (If they are going to complain) and no judge would side with a customer for Apple removing features in future software the consumer never owned in the first place. The T&C is legal and binding.
Now unless you have 100% concrete proof please feel free to post a link to these countries that Apple offers their products in who's consumer laws automatically invalidate Apple's software license.
 
I miss Steve Jobs. Apple has lost its ingenuity. Too many different cables and adapters. Some lightning. Some USB-C. MacBook Pro and Air with crappy cameras. A watch that has basically stayed the same for years with an awkward design.

Now Apple wants us to pay to upgrade for a pulse ox that older watch models have but Apple doesn’t enable. It’s a scam. All of it. Steve Jobs wouldn’t have allowed this. He was progressive and forward thinking. He didn’t try to sell you last year’s product with a twist. #mytwocents
 
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I'm not sure how this isn't going to result in a class action lawsuit... When Playstation removed the ability to load Linux on the PS3, they got sued and lost. If you remove a hardware feature with a software update, you're just asking for litigation.
 
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You've gotta be kidding! Seriously? Consumer protection laws are for when something is defective.
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Defective is not exclusive to hardware. It’s the same as Apple not advertising ECG capabilities anywhere on the Australian Website. Does the watch have the hardware for it? Yes it does, but they’re not falsely advertising as it is DISABLED in software. This is exactly the same, except Apple has some the reverse here. As they DID intentionally advertise force touch as a feature and have now taken it away.
 
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parfy said:
What does that even mean? Literally makes no sense. LOL
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Right? Its not even remotely the same. It's more like buying a 2010 iMac with DVD drive, then an OS update disabled the DVD drive because Apple released iTunes Movies.
 
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Never been a fan of 3DTouch, as it didn't make it to the entire lineup and from a developer perspective, this is bad. I didn't take time to implement it on the iPhone as my counterpart iPad app would miss it.
On the Watch, it made more sense. Anyway, instead of pressing hard on the screen you can still long press and have the same functionality, for example try to edit a watch face, it only takes a long press.
If they manage to make the devices thinner, or put more battery because the force sensor is missing, that's good news
 
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Never been a fan of 3DTouch, as it didn't make it to the entire lineup and from a developer perspective, this is bad. I didn't take time to implement it on the iPhone as my counterpart iPad app would miss it.
On the Watch, it made more sense. Anyway, instead of pressing hard on the screen you can still long press and have the same functionality, for example try to edit a watch face, it only takes a long press.
If they manage to make the devices thinner, or put more battery because the force sensor is missing, that's good news
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Can't dismiss notifications anymore, long press does nothing.
 
I used it once on my 8 plus , that was enough for me . Felt gimmicky and also wasn’t easy to use imo . Not missed
 
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