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For what it’s worth, I use 3D Touch pretty much every day. The number one usage for me is moving the cursor around while editing text. I actually did it while w
by nilkn 8y ago
For what it’s worth, I use 3D Touch pretty much every day. The number one usage for me is moving the cursor around while editing text. I actually did it while writing this post; I decided I wanted to add a comma after “worth” at the beginning and did so easily with this feature.
- stiGGG 8y agoSince iOS12 you can do this by holding the spacebar on devices without 3D touch
- krrrh 8y agoOn devices with 3D Touch you can also press harder to activate text selection, which is something I use daily.
- cpuguy83 8y agoLong press does this.
- randomdata 8y agoBut you are already long-pressing in order to use the cursor?
- canuckintime 8y agoWith the spacebar alternative method you can also activate text selection.
- Matthias247 8y agoTried it on my iPhone 8 (by disabling 3d touch). It seems to be a lot less precise for whatever reason. And one issue is also that the swipe always starts at the lowest end of the screen and it's not easily possible to scroll downwards with it, since one starts at the spacebar which is at the very bottom of the screen. With 3d touch one starts the gesture somewhere in the middle of the keyboard, which provides room in every direction.
- dragonsky67 8y agoThat's amazing, thank you. I had no idea this was possible on my iPhone SE. I'm assuming that there is a lot of other things that my phone can do that I am completely ignorant of.
- wahnfrieden 8y agoiPhone X with 3D Touch enables: the space bar longpress worked for me. This is actually more convenient as the 3D Touch hurts my finger and sometimes activates the alternate letter options.
- IggleSniggle 8y agoThat’s odd. On my iPhone, moving the cursor is activated with long touch, and 3D Touch does nothing...and yet I do have 3D Touch
- Joky 8y agoYou need to do 3D touch on the keyboard itself.
- Itaxpica 8y agoI had no idea that existed and it is a game-changer. Thank you!
- jlarocco 8y agoDitto. I complain a lot about Apple software lately, but have to admit I'm turning on 3D touch for this.
- diegorbaquero 8y agoThis is one of the best things I've learned this month! Thank you
- IggleSniggle 8y agoThis is really great, thank you. I wish Apple’s weird “intuitive” gestures were more discoverable, on both macOS and iOS. They are often good, but they lack the visual hinting that you get from keyboard shortcuts.
- RandallBrown 8y agoThe long touch cursor movement is different than the 3d touch cursor movement. With a long touch, it brings up a loupe that magnifies the text. With 3d touch it lets you use the keyboard almost as a trackpad to move the cursor around.
- Lio 8y ago
- songco 8y agoI also use 3D touch many times every day. Mainly for mobile payments, example: 1. Pay for bus fare: unlock->find app->3d touch->select "show payment barcode" 2. Instant payment in restaurant: unlock->find app(e.g. wechat)->3d touch->"show payment barcode"/OR "scan barcode" to scan restaurant's bar code for payment Without 3d touch you need one more step to open the app, and maybe more steps to find menu for payments(depends on apps you use) edit: just found some apps(not all) provide widget to access features like payment...
- RandallBrown 8y agoWhoa. I just thought to check my train ticket app for 3d touch options and sure enough, I can launch straight to my ticket!
- cpuguy83 8y agoMost (all?) 3D Touch actions can be handled by a long-press these days.
- askafriend 8y agoThis exact function is duplicated by long pressing on the space bar. This has been there since iOS 11, I believe. So you don't actually need 3D Touch to have the benefit of the awesome cursor UX.
- wlesieutre 8y agoDrag space bar is new in 12, but two finger drag on iPad has been around a bit longer. It’s a bonus for SE users without force touch. Seems obvious to include this, but I assume the reason they went back and bothered with it is the new XR taking force touch back out.
- saagarjha 8y ago> but two finger drag on iPad has been around a bit longer Since iOS 9. Early in the betas this feature existed for non-3D Touch iPhones as well, but then it was removed and restricted to models with 3D Touch.
- tomaskafka 8y agoWhaaaat? I'm on my 3rd iPhone and I never found this, I just assumed that Apple was punishing people who wouldn't upgrade to 6s by denying them this feature.
- tk75x 8y agoFun fact, before Apple so graciously incorporated this feature into their software, it was a tweak you could install after jailbreaking the previous versions of iOS. Same with the "quick reply" from notifications and a dozen other actually useful features. This behavior from Apple reinforced my belief that all they do is absorb other's innovations, make them shiny, and then sell at a ridiculous markup. I agree with the author that the iPhone is hard to use
- kipchak 8y agoTo use more charitable marketing speak Apple definitely strongly uses a second mover advantage, maybe with some secret sauce thrown in.
- ngcazz 8y agoThe ideal scenario imho would be for every interaction to require pressure.
- etatoby 8y agoThat's a great idea! With a configurable amount of pressure and haptic feedback, preferably.
- Khaine 8y ago3D Touch is great when it works. But sometimes it just doesn't. I know on my 6S, there are times where 3D Touch stops working until I restart my iPhone. It is so frustrating that it sometimes works/sometimes doesn't and if you push to hard it's another gesture altogether.
- dkonofalski 8y agoDid you get your screen replaced by a third-party? My friend has this same issue and the only thing we can think of is that it's his mall kiosk screen replacement.
- Khaine 8y agoNo. It happens on two iPhones I have, one has the original screen and the other has had the screen replaced by Apple twice.
- pvinis 8y agoI also use it every day, but for apps. Many of the apps I have on my home screen, have "shortcuts", not in the new siri way, but in the "do something/go somewhere quickly in the app" way. I used it to call a person, I use it to open a new tab on Firefox, I use it to add a new todo item, I use it to go to a specific tab on an app. I would be very sad if it goes away at some point..
- tk75x 8y agoSamsung manages to include the "shortcut" functionality you mention AND the ability to reorganize apps through a simple long press. Like a commenter above already mentioned, 3D touch was most likely a solution looking for a problem.
- chadlavi 8y agoSame here. I was really surprised to find that most people don't use/know about/want it.