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One of the issues with the 3D Touch replacement (“long press”) is that if I accidentally hold a finger on the screen for too long (e.g. I’m touching lightly to
by thih9 4y ago
One of the issues with the 3D Touch replacement (“long press”) is that if I accidentally hold a finger on the screen for too long (e.g. I’m touching lightly to scroll, but pausing for a moment to finish reading), then I’m unintentionally long pressing something. This wouldn’t happen with 3D Touch.
Another one is that the illusion of pressing a tactile button is gone. 3D Touch would give tactile feedback only if the screen was pressed with force; this was realistic enough to simulate actual buttons on iphone7/8. The long press has no way of measuring force, so it accepts light touch too and still responds with haptic feedback; this doesn’t happen in the real world and the illusion is gone.
- ntauthority 4y ago> I’m touching lightly to scroll, but pausing for a moment to finish reading Just checked on my own behavior in this regard, and I seem to have grown a habit of just scrolling slightly enough to not make it appear to be a long press before actually resting my finger on the screen. This might be a more common habit and would explain the consensus of long presses not being seen as too problematic.
- thih9 4y agoThe device quickly teaches you to do scroll like that, otherwise you get an unwanted “tap”, almost like negative feedback. Anecdotical, I remember not having to do this initial micro scroll as a more comfortable scrolling experience.