Older iPhones had a screen that could interpret the pressure of your touch, giving the ui the ability to do multiple things based on how hard you press.
The best feature was pressing hard into the keyboard to get a cursor and then pressing lightly again to highlight text, all with just one thumb. It was super good. There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.
What I don’t understand about what we have now is that you can’t “undo” your highlight like you used to be able to. So if you overshoot the highlight using the new system and select too much text, well, screw you.
With the 3D Touch way you could really dial in your selection back and forth. It seems like you should still be able to do that with this new space bar version, but, alas, no.
I have no idea which IOS version this was but, I miss the 3D Touch.
I remember using it a lot back when it was still available.
As far as I know, if you have an iPhone X or older, 3D Touch is still supported on current software.
I’m pretty sure they removed it even on the devices that had it. The watch definitely lost it. But I might be misremembering.
3D Touch is still working on my XS Max.
I’m gonna sorely miss it when I upgrade.
What was that?
Older iPhones had a screen that could interpret the pressure of your touch, giving the ui the ability to do multiple things based on how hard you press.
The best feature was pressing hard into the keyboard to get a cursor and then pressing lightly again to highlight text, all with just one thumb. It was super good. There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.
Yes! That feature alone kept me from upgrading my iPhone X until the 12 Pro came out. The alternative is severely limited, and annoying to use
What I don’t understand about what we have now is that you can’t “undo” your highlight like you used to be able to. So if you overshoot the highlight using the new system and select too much text, well, screw you.
With the 3D Touch way you could really dial in your selection back and forth. It seems like you should still be able to do that with this new space bar version, but, alas, no.
A whole 2 years …
3 years, actually. It may not seem like much, but many people upgrade every year. Especially those of us who are into tech
It was on the iPhone 6s to iPhone Xs