In 2015, when Apple launched the iPhone 6S, it also debuted a new iOS interface called 3D Touch. This feature uses the iPhone’s pressure-sensitive surface to help you view, navigate, and control some ...

There have been rumors for a while that the iPhone 11 will not include a pressure-sensitive 3D Touch screen. iOS 13 certainly supports that direction as 3D Touch gestures in iOS 13 are effectively non ...

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When Apple introduced 3D Touch with the iPhone 6s, I was impressed by what a great job the company did in implementing the feature. The careful detection of forceful presses on the screen, combined ...

Not convinced by Apple’s ugly iPhone 11 and oddball iPhone XR2? Apple has just spelt out something else you’re not going to like. In releasing its first iOS 13 beta this week, Apple might as well have ...

iPhone XR carries the same A12 Bionic chip as iPhone XS. You can adjust the iPhone’s flashlight brightness with 3D Touch. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac Apple kind of ...

“With [3D Touch], it was only at the moment where we finally got a design experience that’s like, ‘Yes! This is what we want,’” said Craig Federighi, senior vice president of Software Engineering, in ...

Three years ago, Jason Snell wrote about the problems with 3D Touch, after six months on the market (Apple introduced it with the iPhone 6s). His conclusion: 3D touch is not ubiquitous enough to be ...

iOS 17 doesn't offer many new features, but it has many little secrets that people are uncovering during its beta cycle. With the second test version now available, lots of people pointed out that ...

The second beta of iOS 17 that Apple released to developers yesterday includes a setting that makes the haptic feedback feature activate faster than before, which some users may prefer. An ...