I really enjoy the bonus feature. True, I could live without it, but it is a fun time savor.
I use it most on the phone app for quickly calling favorites. If I open the phone app & 3d touch on a favorite, then I can choose from the list, if I say, want to FaceTime. Another instance where I use it often is calendar. 3d touch on the calendar is a quick way to add a new event. I just noticed with the latest update, I can 3d touch on weather & add a new city or look at one of them in my list. Lol! In fact, I felt certain I’d want the iPhone 5SE, because I prefer a smaller phone, but I’m not sure I want to give up 3d touch. ;) Surprise surprise! Traci > On Mar 25, 2016, at 10:50 PM, Gordan Radić <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > I use iPhone 6S Plus and I was rather curious how the 3D Touch will work > before I got the device. > And, like the author of the article said, it could be useful and it has some > features which fasten the usability of the phone but it is nothing I can't > live without. I have a three years long experience of using the phone without > 3D Touch and frankly, I just didn't adopt the new feature. I'm doing things > in the old mannor and just keep forgetting I can hard tap on the Contacts to > call some favorite or push on the Messages to continue some recent > conversation. > Perhaps folks for whom the 6S models are the first iDevice ever will embrace > this technology with more enthusiasm but for the old users like me it's not > so important and I'm thinking on turning it off. > > S poštovanjem > Gordan Radić <mailto://[email protected]> > <nemoviz_animated.gif> <http://www.nemoviz.org/> > <email.png> <mailto://[email protected]> <facebook.png> > <http://www.facebook.com/nemoviz> <twitter.png> > <http://www.twitter.com/nemoviz2014> > 26.3.2016. u 1:45, Mary Otten je napisao/la: >> In light of the recent discussion about the new iPhone and 3-D touch, I post >> the following. >> Mary >> Opinion: Will limited device & app support lead 3D Touch to wither and die? >> 9to5Mac / Ben Lovejoy >> >> <http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/25/3d-touch-future-opinion/> >> When Apple launched >> <http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/09/apple-iphone-6s-iphone-6s-plus/> the iPhone >> 6s/Plus <http://9to5mac.com/tag/iphone-6s/>, 3D Touch >> <http://9to5mac.com/tag/3D-Touch/> was one of the headline features. Apple >> devoted a full four-minute video to showing what it does and how it works. >> Even today, visit the Apple website and click on the iPhone 6s >> <https://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/>, and it’s the first thing you see. >> Apple’s summary of the phone is ‘3D Touch, 12MP photos, 4K video.’ >> >> The first tab at the top of the screen is 3D Touch. The first video linked >> is the one for 3D Touch. Scroll down the page for the detail of the phone, >> and 3D Touch – ‘the next generation of multi-touch’ – is again the first >> feature to be shown. Clearly Apple thinks it’s a big deal. >> >> And yet, the company just this week unveiled not just one but two new iOS >> devices, neither of which offers the feature. This is perhaps understandable >> in the case of the iPhone SE <http://9to5mac.com/tag/iphone-se/> – Apple >> needed some tech distinctions between its flagship phone and its new budget >> model. But it’s an odd omission from a brand new iPad >> <http://9to5mac.com/tag/ipad-pro/> … >> >> >> I’ve heard two theories about why Apple hasn’t rolled out 3D Touch more >> widely. The first is that yield rates have been poor. That would limit the >> volumes in which the system can be produced, and make it an expensive >> feature to add. If that is indeed the case, it adds a second reason for >> Apple to withhold it from its cheapest ever iPhone. >> >> The second is that there are significant challenges involved in scaling-up >> 3D Touch to larger screens, and that this is the reason we haven’t yet seen >> it on an iPad. >> >> While both suggestions are unconfirmed, I think they are likely true – >> because otherwise, Apple’s behavior doesn’t make sense. There’s no other >> reason I can see to hold back from the latest iPad a feature the company >> champions so strongly. >> >> But even if it’s manufacturing challenges holding back the wider rollout, it >> still effectively places the feature on hold for a large chunk of iOS users. >> >> >> >> Nor is hardware support the only issue. While we have seen an increasing >> number of apps adding support for 3D Touch, it has still been adopted by >> only a minority of them. I haven’t seen any hard numbers, but if you follow >> the ‘View 3D Touch apps in the App Store >> <http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=63a07a52744236d41fdbc4c922cc5a7a&type=bk&u=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2FWebObjects%2FMZStore.woa%2Fwa%2FviewFeature%3Fid%3D1051123013%26mt%3D8%26ls%3D1%26app%3Ditunes>‘ >> link on Apple’s website, it shows only 56. >> >> Clearly there are many more than that, but a random sampling of the >> third-party apps on the first two screens on my iPhone shows that just 9 out >> of 37 of them support 3D Touch. Whatever the overall percentage, it’s low. >> >> If adding 3D Touch support to an app was a complex task, you could >> understand developers deciding not to bother until Apple makes it available >> on more devices. But it’s not: adding Home screen actions is extremely easy. >> For whatever reason, developers don’t appear to share Apple’s view of the >> importance of the feature. >> >> And it’s not just third-party developers who haven’t fully embraced the >> feature: there are still native Apple apps that don’t. The Activity app, for >> one. That’s a pretty crazy state of affairs. >> >> >> >> My sampling of my own apps brings up another big problem with 3D Touch. The >> only way I could tell which ones support it was to force-touch each one in >> turn. Trial-and-error. There’s no other way to tell. >> >> As Forbes contributor Gordon Kelly <https://twitter.com/GordonKelly> put it >> in a Facebook discussion we were having yesterday: “For the record, I like >> 3D Touch, but it needs to be implemented in a way that removes the guesswork >> of what is and isn’t 3D Touch enabled.” >> >> I’m going to be a little less polite than him. Just think about that from a >> UI perspective: an app may or may not support a headline feature of the >> phone, and the only way I can tell is by randomly stabbing at apps with my >> finger like a deranged monkey. That is utterly appalling UI design, and >> there’s no excuse for it from anyone – far less from Apple, which prides >> itself on usability above all else. >> >> I would argue it’s also poor UI to have an operating system feature that may >> or may not be available depending on the device you’re using at the time. >> Sure, I understand that older devices may not be able to support all of the >> latest features, and that there are some features only practical on a larger >> screen. But someone switching between the flagship iPhone and the very >> latest iPad should not be seeing a feature on their phone that they can’t >> use on their iPad. >> >> >> >> So 3D Touch seems to be trapped in a Catch-22 situation. App developers are >> seeing what looks like half-hearted support for it from Apple, and not even >> bothering to do the pretty trivial work involved in supporting Home screen >> actions, while Apple can’t really make too much fuss about a feature that >> some of its high-end iOS devices don’t have at all, and others have in only >> a relatively small percentage of apps. >> >> This seems to me to call into question the future of the feature. Even if 3D >> Touch makes it into iPads in the next release, it will by then be such old >> news Apple can’t really hype it to any significant degree. And there will be >> a whole new generation of iPhone owners – those attracted by the ability to >> buy the very latest iPhone at a far more affordable level – who will never >> have experienced it. >> >> One final personal point. When I first experienced 3D Touch, I was extremely >> impressed with it. I said at the time >> <http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/25/iphone-6s-diary-day-one-first-impressions/> >> that I saw it as a good reason to upgrade from the iPhone 6 to the 6s. But I >> do have to say that the novelty has somewhat worn off – in part, because of >> ‘stabbing monkey’ syndrome: it gets annoying force-touching an app that does >> nothing, so I’ve largely stopped bothering. My use of 3D Touch is limited to >> those apps I use most frequently. >> >> I do still think it’s a good feature. I like being able to upload a photo to >> Facebook right from the Home screen. I like the ease of being able to >> message a recent contact, resume a recent podcast, instantly recall the most >> recent photo I took, send a tweet or add a new note. But I’m not sure it’s >> the must-have feature I thought it might be, especially when I can’t use it >> on my iPad. >> >> The real test for me will be when I try an experimental switch >> <http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/23/iphone-se-diary-before/> to the iPhone SE. I >> do think 3D Touch may be the thing I miss most. But I also suspect I’m going >> to be able to live without it – and I think the way things have gone so far, >> I may not be alone. >> >> What’s your view of 3D Touch? Must-have feature, nice-to-have or meh? Does >> it annoy you to have it on your iPhone but not your iPad? Do you think it >> has a future? 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