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3D Touch is gone, kinda..
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Phone app: what happened to favorites shortcut with long press?
In iOS13 when you long pressed the phone app icon it would display your favorites so you could call right from there. In iOS14 that seems gone, long press now just gives you the options to view voicemail, create/search for contact and view most recent call. I can still get to favorites by...
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Just a few years ago 3D Touch was supposed to be the next big feature, and it was the main feature highlighted of the iPhone 6s.
It is amazing how quickly Apple dropped it.
It is amazing how quickly Apple dropped it.
On the plus side, you can actually 3D Touch and hold finger, drag, and let go above a selection, and it will work. Unlike iOS13 which killed even that.
But yes, big RIP to 3D Touch, probably my most loved feature.
But yes, big RIP to 3D Touch, probably my most loved feature.
Ultimately seems like what the OP posted isn't so much about 3D Touch itself as it is about the options that appear for the Phone app when 3D Touch (which is still there) or Haptic Touch is used.
It is because they have removed the phone app favorites today widget (actually they have removed all first-party today widgets) and has nothing to do with 3D-touch.
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Actually it has to do with both. I got rid of my 11 and bough an XS Max because I disliked Haptic Touch. I can understand why Apple switched to Haptic Touch because most iPhone users had no idea what it was or how to use it.
I didn’t think Apple would abandon support for it 🤷🏻‍♂️
Well, 3D Touch is still there, it's just that what it does in some places has changed (similar to Haptic Touch too).
That is the point of my post.
Apple biggest sell from 5 years was quickly abandoned for half baked alternatives that try to simulate the feature.
That was already happening when things were going to Haptic Touch back in iOS 13 if not even earlier days. Unfortunately it seems that 3D Touch didn't quite catch on as well as it could have or should have, but that's a somewhat different discussion.
The part about the options that are available when 3D Touch or Haptic Touch are used on the Phone app that the OP posted about, that's something new in relation to iOS 14 (and isn't all that related to 3D Touch being different given that it's like that with Haptic Touch as well).
Yup, I understand.
Sounds like 3D Touch is gone, but kind of still around in iOS 14, at least in spirit.
I believe in that respect it's been more or less like that in iOS 13 already as well.
It was in almost all cases. You couldn't just keep holding finger on the screen, had to lift it up (as per Haptic Touch) to then tap to select something.