David Hanak 3D Touch technology has been a part of iPhones for the past few years, and it seems that its life cycle is coming to an end. So far, it looks like 3D Touch will be replaced by a technology called Haptic Touch, which is found in the iPhone XR, among others.
The new iPhone XR no longer supports 3D Touch due to the technological complexity of applying this solution to an already complex LCD panel. Instead, the new, cheaper iPhone has a feature called Haptic Touch that somewhat replaces 3D Touch. However, its use is considerably more limited.
Haptic Touch, unlike 3D Touch, does not register the force of the press, but only its duration. To display contextual options within the user interface, it is sufficient to hold your finger on the phone's display for a longer time. However, the absence of a pressure sensor means that Haptic Touch can only be used in limited cases.
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A long press on an app icon on an iPhone's unlocked screen has always allowed icons to be moved or apps to be deleted. This functionality will remain. However, iPhone XR owners have to say goodbye to extended options after using 3D Touch on the application icon (i.e. various shortcuts or quick access to specific functions). The haptic response was preserved.
Currently, Haptic Touch only works in a few cases – for example, to activate the flashlight or camera from the locked screen, for the peek&pop function or in the control center. According to server information The Verge, which tested the iPhone XR last week, Haptic Touch functionality will be expanded.
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Apple should gradually release new functions and options associated with this type of control. It is not yet clear how fast and to what extent the news will increase. However, it can be expected that the next iPhones will no longer have 3D Touch, as it would be nonsense to use two similar, albeit mutually exclusive, control systems. In addition, the implementation of 3D Touch significantly increases the production price of display panels, so it can be expected that if Apple figures out how to replace 3D Touch with software, it will definitely do so.
By removing the hardware limitation associated with 3D Touch, Haptic Touch could appear in a much larger number of devices (such as iPads, which never had 3D Touch). If Apple really got rid of 3D Touch, would you miss the feature? Or do you practically not use it?
Yes, it would be missing if all the functions capable of 3D touch were not replaced. But I don't know what makes anyone conclude that 3D touch ends. Not a single iPhone in recent years has received it. And if I assume that the successors of iPhone 6-7 and 6plus-8plus are iPhone xs and xs max, which continue with 3d touch, then iPhone Xr replaced only iPhone SE, like the cheap iPhone, which continues without 3d touch, with the same ppi of the display etc.
She was definitely missed, especially for working with text. Scrolling through text, copying and marking text using how I press on the display is great ????
This great feature also works without 3D touch. On any iPhone, just hold down the spacebar and the keyboard turns into a scrolling surface just like with 3D touch. And the same works on iPads, with the fact that the iPad can turn on this function with the touch of two fingers.
I didn't know that either. Thanks!
I was going to write that it still lacks tagging, but when I clicked with my second finger, it started tagging.
Still, using 3D Touch makes marking more efficient.
• One dent marks the whole word.
• A second press marks the entire sentence.
• A third indent marks the entire paragraph.
>> And then, with movement, other whole words, whole sentences or whole paragraphs are indicated.
Also, with 3D Touch I don't have to look for where the space bar is, I start anywhere on the keyboard.
And all it takes is one finger.
Personally, I would definitely miss 3D Touch.
Well, personally, I would see it rather the opposite
The XR had to be worse, but not by much, and 3D touch together with a better camera are exactly the features that will ultimately make the customer wonder if it's worth the extra CZK 10.000 for the XS