Other than the fact that haptic touch's basic input is the long press, an input found on Windows, Android, iOS, and most touch friendly operating systems of the past 10 years. Pretty universal staple and not unknown by your typical user.
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Other Loss of 3D touch: makes me not want to ever upgrade to new iPhone
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You only need to hold the space bar to activate it - as soon as it activates you can quickly move your finger to the middle of the keyboard and then you have the full range of movement for the cursor.
Is there still any convenient way to select text with the keyboard? Used to be easy to apply just a bit more pressure to select a word and then drag if you want to select more. All one cohesive motion.
You need to use another finger to touch the track pad while you’re in cursor mode although that’s not working for me since I updated my Xʀ to iOS 13!
I thought it was going to be an issue. I was negative about it, but it’s a non-issue to me after using the phone for a couple days. Haptic touch works well enough for what I do and I think it will be improved upon.
Once you adapt to it, it’s fine. Less refined and useful, but fine. Kind of the same experience I had when TouchID was axed, but I think the current iteration of FaceID is as fast as TouchID was at its prime.
The battery improvement alone is worth it to me.
Once you adapt to it, it’s fine. Less refined and useful, but fine. Kind of the same experience I had when TouchID was axed, but I think the current iteration of FaceID is as fast as TouchID was at its prime.
The battery improvement alone is worth it to me.
If you updated to iOS 13 it's a near moot point. They're pretty similar on 13 from my findings.
Even as a fan of consistency most of the time, I'd rather have sometimes better, sometimes worse than consistently worse. I like that they brought the 3D Touch menus and previews over to iPads via long press, but it's still not as intuitive as 3D Touch and likely never will be.
Frankly, I don’t miss it at all. I thought it would be a bigger deal than it turned out to be in practice after using the phone for more than 2 weeks now.
The removal of 3D Touch that was mostly associated with a very thin layer under the screen made that much of a difference? Seems like for a noticeably bigger battery that wouldn't be something that would make much of a contribution.
I mean, you're increasing the thickness of the battery, so a little big goes a long way
I'd be curious to see how much of a long way would really be attributed to a very thin screen layer.
Between removing a thin "screen layer" and thickening the device, you gain a ton of battery space. The batteries are really small.
I understand what you are saying, I'm just curious how much the removal of something along the lines of a thin screen layer actually contributed to that compared to everything else.
So far it doesn't seem like much has come out about the particular details of which particular changes and to what degree they contributed to the increased battery size. It's seems like it would be at least somewhat hard to say how much of a meaningful contribution to all of that was specifically made by removal of 3D Touch.
Oh, you gave up on the 6S after your 9 install got corrupted? I still can't express in words how terrible that is, 6S on iOS 9 is great.
I didn't use Peek and Pop much actually, I mostly used it on the home screen or in Control Center.
I felt the same way until I switched to iPhone 11 pro and to be honest I like haptic touch more because it’s less effort. Just lightly touch and hold. Pressing down hard onThe glass Is harder
It's interesting that Apple still has this page up: https://developer.apple.com/ios/3d-touch/
The problem with 3D is it's no longer 3D touch with iOS 13 and 3rd party apps. Many apps like Slack have removed all of the peek and pop functionality unfortunately.
There is no option other than to just move on, unless you keep your old device and not upgrade to iOS 13.
There is no option other than to just move on, unless you keep your old device and not upgrade to iOS 13.
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