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> I was happy to learn it’s still there! Now you do a long tap on the space bar to activate it. It's not though. The feature implemented with haptic touch only
by Shank 7y ago
> I was happy to learn it’s still there! Now you do a long tap on the space bar to activate it.
It's not though. The feature implemented with haptic touch only lets you long press on space bar and move the cursor. You have to use a second finger to start selection and control the bounds, and it's far less accurate.
With 3D touch, you could press down once to start cursor mode, again to start selection, and again to stop. You could also reset the selection while staying in cursor mode. I was able to, quite frequently, change entire sentences and edit text really efficiently with a single hand holding the phone. That's impossible now.
I'd be really happy if Apple went back and improved the spacebar cursor system, but right now it's objectively worse as it requires two fingers rather than one to select text.
- manaskarekar 7y agoAlso, 3D Touch was almost instantaneous, "haptic touch" introduces a lag.
- mstade 7y agoAdd one datapoint to the discoverability argument made in the article: I have had 3D Touch enabled iphones for a long time now and had absolutely no idea that the feature you're describing existed. I just tried the new long tap version of this feature on my iPhone 11 pro and it's just as you say kind of awkward because of the multi touch requirement to select, I can definitely see how 3D Touch would've made this better. Now I wonder what other actually useful 3D Touch features I missed because I never discovered them. The only ones I did find where pretty useless and more often than not just got in the way, e.g. rearranging home screen icons.
- pault 7y agoThat is awesome, and despite using cursor mode for years I never knew that you could make selections too, which I guess illustrates the dichotomy of 3D touch UX. :)