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I actually used to turn 3D Touch off on my older iPhones. I just always use that long press on the space bar to move the cursor. 3D Touch is interesting from
by Lio 4y ago
I actually used to turn 3D Touch off on my older iPhones.
I just always use that long press on the space bar to move the cursor.
3D Touch is interesting from a technical point of view but it makes manufacture more complex and using the phone more complicated than it needs to be. I was always activating it by accident.
When it was first announced I was excited that haptic feedback would allow us to feel the edges of the virtual keyboard keys and improve typing accuracy. That's not what we got and I've found very little utility in the current implementation sadly.
It also makes it harder to get the screen replaced. Since I don't live near an Apple Store that's important to me. I want to be able to pop into a local locksmith and get them to change a broken screen while I wait. The alternative is either a long drive or sending the phone away for days on end.
If Apple really wanted to impress me they would replace the dictation key on the keyboard which I regularly trigger by accident with something useful like an Undo button. I have never used dictation so this is just a daily irritation to me.
- nishs 4y ago> I just always use that long press on the space bar to move the cursor. So the cursor navigation feature activates on long press of the space bar, in iPhone models that don't have 3D touch?
- Lio 4y agoYes, it works in all iPhones with or without 3D Touch.
- ericabiz 4y agoI co-own third party repair shops (we are not Apple certified since we do more complex repairs) and the screens for the 6S-XS have 3D Touch on them even if they’re not replaced by Apple. I will say this, in 50,000+ 3D Touch iPhone screen repairs (conservative estimate) I don’t recall any complaints about non-working 3D Touch. I think probably 0.1% of iPhone users even knew it existed.
- NonNefarious 4y agoKinda like lack of a real Delete key on Apple laptops. Point that out, and iPologist dweebs always jump in with "Nyeahh, Command-delete!" NO. Not only is this ridiculously cumbersome, but it's not marked on the keyboard. So 99+ % of Apple users undertake DOUBLE the keystrokes to arrow the cursor past the letters they want to delete and then use Apple's mislabeled Backspace key to get rid of them. I've been in the Apple store and heard a customer come in and ask if there's some way to configure the keyboard to have a legitimate Delete key. Meanwhile everyone else manages to provide a real Delete key, even on SMALL laptops.