I'm confused, why do people need to miss the feature? If it's that important to them, just don't buy the newest iphone.
My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
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Re: My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
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As if they put any effort whatsoever into teaching or UI discoverability these days. If there was a tutorial app I would have used it, but I have repeatedly had to use Google to find unrelated blog sites describing how to accomplish things in the iOS interface. Cynically, it feels like they think everyone should already "just know" how the various gestures work, which is obnoxious and user hostile.
>if there was a tutorial app I would have used it.. Isn't that the Tips App? I'm pretty sure it gets recommended every time you set up a new phone. Mine has a tip on using Haptic Touch with the keyboard to move the insertion point.
I just looked at that for the first time, there's some neat stuff. Didn't know you can define actions for tapping on the back of the phone, even works with my case.
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#354I 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…
I will probably soon add an old 3D Touch iphone to my small Human Machine Interface hall of fame along with the old click wheel iPod Classic. They probably removed it because nobody was using it and they couldn't figure out how to teach people, while spending extra $ to add it into phones.
I suppose it’s indicative of why the feature was removed, that I wasn’t aware of most of the features mentioned in the article
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#355Long touch/force touch etc are all terrible for anyone who has lost fine motor control in their hands. I guess because the people who design these interface are all young and dexterous they don't realize a single tap can take over a second, and modulating the amount of pressure on the screen can be impossible.
Then don’t use it? Why restrict products to a subset of features just because some people are unable to use them? Apple has always provided accessibility settings to disable 3D Touch if people had issues with accidentally triggering the feature.
Many people have no choice but to use long touch because they can't tap fast enough. Are you able to navigate to the accessibility settings using only long touch? I don't know. But I bet not.
Re: My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
#356The real kicker was when they removed it from watchOS, where it was used extensively in the OS.
So one day your “3D touch” enabled watch (as it was called) no longer supported those functions. (Yes the OS provided alternatives, but unlike the iPhone the functionality was removed entirely even for people who still had the hardware.)
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I’ve been so sad since upgrading my 6s about the loss of 3D Touch. I didn’t know that you can hold on the space bar now!!! Thank you for making me love my 13 mini even more now :):)
> Oh you like the mini? Well we're taking that away next. – Apple
Works for me. I tend to keep my phone for 5-7 years! I had a 4 -> 6s Plus -> 13 mini.
Never been able to get the same size phone twice even if I wanted to.
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If I tap twice it selects the whole word. Leaving more time between taps has the same result as one tap. iOS 15.1.
Don’t double tap. Tap once, wait a sec, tap again in center of word.
Doesn't work, maybe it's model-specific. I'm on a first gen iPhone SE.
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FWIW, the iPhone SE still has the home button - https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/ Although, they've overloaded it's use - single press for home, double press for app switcher, fingerprint sensor, etc. (Or maybe that's what you were referring to with iOS 6/7?) Agree with you in general, though: the single, physical home button that always did what you expected was great. Android's back button usually takes you back to…
The need to press back multiple times to get back to where you were before entering an app seems to be becoming the norm in many apps of late. I'm pretty sure it is yet another 'engagement trap': the app makers don't want you to leave so they can show you more ads, collect more data about you to sell on, etcetera.
Hmm
That seems a valid and desired behaviour.
If I want to exit app, I press home button.
But if I want to go back one step... I press back button. It takes me back one step. It's like the Go-mode of undo :-). Previous page or form in a browser, back several layers of menu in app or game. I may be writing an email then press back to go back to main mail screen. Etc
Basically for me, Android back button does exactly what I want it to do, in OS, games, programs and Web, zero sarcasm. And home button to "take me to where I was before I entered the app".
The back and share pipeline of Android are like it's super powers as far as I'm concerned (and I say this as somebody forced to use iPhone for work last 4 years, so get to experience both daily)