In 2015, when Apple launched the iPhone 6S, it also debuted a new iOS interface called 3D Touch. This feature uses the iPhone’s pressure-sensitive surface to help you view, navigate, and control some ...

There have been rumors for a while that the iPhone 11 will not include a pressure-sensitive 3D Touch screen. iOS 13 certainly supports that direction as 3D Touch gestures in iOS 13 are effectively non ...

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iOS 17 doesn't offer many new features, but it has many little secrets that people are uncovering during its beta cycle. With the second test version now available, lots of people pointed out that ...

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Three years ago, Jason Snell wrote about the problems with 3D Touch, after six months on the market (Apple introduced it with the iPhone 6s). His conclusion: 3D touch is not ubiquitous enough to be ...

Users can now speed up the iPhone's haptic feedback thanks to a new setting in iOS 17, and at its fastest, it comes close to how the old 3D Touch used to work. Apple abandoned its hardware-based 3D ...

Apple announced the iOS 17 in the WWDC 2023 event this year. For those who missed the event, just know that Apple introduced a lot of new features at the event. And as we are slowly approaching the ...

As Apple continues testing its iOS 17 beta, users and developers have discovered a new feature that resembles the beloved but discontinued 3D Touch. The faster Haptic Touch option enhances the user ...

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When Apple introduced 3D Touch with the iPhone 6s, I was impressed by what a great job the company did in implementing the feature. The careful detection of forceful presses on the screen, combined ...

“With [3D Touch], it was only at the moment where we finally got a design experience that’s like, ‘Yes! This is what we want,’” said Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Software Engineering, in ...