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I wonder if reliability was a factor in ending this feature. 3D touch malfunctions badly with a slightly swelling battery pressing against the lcd backplate inside the phone. Or a bend in the phone chassis. The 6s case was bent for every person who carried it in their back pocket. I saw malfunctioning 3d touch several times every week back when I was in phone repair. Especially with carrier insurance refurbs, where t…
I had a feeling this was gonna be about 3D Touch just from seeing the title. It was definitely one of my favorite features, and Force Touch isn't a drop-in replacement. With 3D Touch anywhere on the keyboard, you could apply pressure to start moving the caret (text cursor) around, but what was even more useful was being able to apply a little bit more pressure to start selecting text with incredible precision . With…
That is not how I remember it. I remember text being selected left and right at random for no apparent reason when trying to move the cursor.
I wonder if reliability was a factor in ending this feature. 3D touch malfunctions badly with a slightly swelling battery pressing against the lcd backplate inside the phone. Or a bend in the phone chassis. The 6s case was bent for every person who carried it in their back pocket. I saw malfunctioning 3d touch several times every week back when I was in phone repair. Especially with carrier insurance refurbs, where t…
It has a cracked screen (dead OLED is slowly spreading out from the top-right corner), shattered back glass, battery at 81% health, and the earpiece speaker doesn’t work properly so to make a call I have to use a headset or speaker mode.
But 3D Touch still works perfectly!
It was a feature with 1% of users who knew about it and who were its passionate defenders. This is exactly the sort of feature you should RUTHLESSLY kill off. If you do not, the end state of your software is that it is a collection of features, all of them known to 1% of your users, all passionately defended. Kudos to Apple.
Most of the improvements that I can think of for the iPhone (and iOS apps in general) would involve removing features. An example, there is a gesture that will open the camera app, I don't know what it is, but it triggers in my pocket all the time, draining the battery. I get why it's there, but most of the time it just makes things worse. I haven't used Android enough to know if it's the same issue, but the main pro…
It was a feature with 1% of users who knew about it and who were its passionate defenders. This is exactly the sort of feature you should RUTHLESSLY kill off. If you do not, the end state of your software is that it is a collection of features, all of them known to 1% of your users, all passionately defended. Kudos to Apple.
Only 1% of computer users do programming. Command lines, compilers, and any method of editing code should be ruthlessly killed off otherwise we risk having a collection of features. Just give me a phone with a bunch of pictures and mandatory like buttons. That’s 90% of computing’s use case and all we need.
I didn't even knew that my favorite iPhone feature was listening to the music I want until Apple introduced forced shuffling, playing titles alphabetically and started disturbing built-in music player UX in order to push their online offering. It's a typical Cook's Apple experience to listen to 10 tracks from different albums, all called "Outro", after album chosen by me finishes playing with a track called "Outro" a…
However, for playlists, I think it is nifty, but afaik you can't have it both ways.
It really should be a per playlist toggle at the bottom "continue on radio when all songs in this playlist have finished playing."
3D Touch was a big UX problem, there was never a way to show the user that you could do it and where you could. Apple has a problem with discoverability in quite a lot of features. There's many small little things in iOS that users don't know about and likely will never find out about, perhaps because they want to keep the UI clean.
Why do they refuse to give you a manual? Why are there no instructions. Drives me crazy.
Yeah, missing this 3D Touch. The input experience (or AI supported typing) is getting worse and worse for me on the iPhone. Especially, if your are using different languages in parallel. For me it is my mother tongue German and my most second language English and sometimes using Spanish. In an (for me) unpredictable way, there are words replaced to "correct" typos. But, independent of the used keyboard language, whic…
– iPhone 6S
– iPhone 6S Plus
– iPhone 7
– iPhone 7 Plus
– iPhone 8
– iPhone 8 Plus
– iPhone X
– iPhone XS
– iPhone XS Max
The feature was discontinued with the release of iPhone 11. [2]
[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/does-iphone-have-3d-touch
[2]: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-discontinues-3d-touch-...
Yeah, missing this 3D Touch. The input experience (or AI supported typing) is getting worse and worse for me on the iPhone. Especially, if your are using different languages in parallel. For me it is my mother tongue German and my most second language English and sometimes using Spanish. In an (for me) unpredictable way, there are words replaced to "correct" typos. But, independent of the used keyboard language, whic…
- The two word replacement pattern is immensely frustrating and leads to typos, e.g., where “AI” seems to think it knows better what I was trying to write and changes the previous correct word based on what it thinks I am trying to currently type/swipe. A good example just happened below; I tried typing “mid word” below, once I started swipe typing “word” iOS thought it would be a great idea to change “mid” to make it “miss words”. Thanks for the unhelp Apple.
- The random capitalizations for no apparent reason, sometimes even mid word, and no, not from accidentally hitting shift, even during swipe typing.
- The infuriating overbearing and downright evil efforts at speech and thought control. For example you can’t swipe type certain things Apple has clearly designated as wrongthink; assuming of course that the only possible reason someone would want to use the sequence of words Apple has designated as wrongthink is for purposes that violate their perspective of narrow utopian authoritarian society.
- That for some reason sooner rather specific acronyms seem to be prioritized over the most common words in the English language through inaccuracy. One example; try swipe typing “is” with some inaccuracy and you get “OSS” instead, ab rather obscure acronym to replace “is”, or OSS it?
- The concatenation of “a” (I think there are others I can’t recall) rather than automatically adding a space when there is a hyper (I think that’s what it’s going on), so e.g., “it’s a” turns into “it’sa” … “he’s a” “what’sa”
- I too have gotten the sense some of it may even have to do with or is exacerbated by using multiple keyboard languages. I love when the autocorrect “AI” substitutes words from a different language altogether, that’sa (that was organic, but left for sarcastic effect) really great feature! (Yes, that’s more sarcasm)