I love 3D Touch. I use it all the time. It’s one of the handiest shortcuts on the iPhone. And now, with the iPhone 11, it’s gone. But I don’t care. Why? Because Haptic Touch is almost as good. Even ...

Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac Apple may or may not be ready to euthanize 3D Touch. My view is that it sticks around, neglected and unloved, forever more. Like Dashboard on macOS. (Yes, Dashboard ...

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 ...

You scroll on your iPhone, flick and tap your Apple Watch, and "touch" content using Apple Vision Pro—all different ways to interact with Apple’s ecosystem. But there was once another method, one that ...

Some people may not think of the iPhone 6s as a device that changed everything, but it did bring some important improvements such as the first 4K camera on an iPhone, Live Photos, and 3D Touch. While ...

Here's a hot take: The 3D Touch feature, available on the iPhone 6S all the way through the iPhone XS, was more useful than iPhone 14 Pro's new Dynamic Island. Six months after the iPhone 6S was ...

Users can now speed up the iPhone's haptic feedback thanks to a new setting in iOS 17, and at its fastest, it comes close to how the old 3D Touch used to work. Apple abandoned its hardware-based 3D ...

“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 ...

As Apple continues testing its iOS 17 beta, users and developers have discovered a new feature that resembles the beloved but discontinued 3D Touch. The faster Haptic Touch option enhances the user ...

Stand back, folks, this take is comin’ in hot. The Dynamic Island introduced with the iPhone 14 Pro is really clever. Apple turned boring sensors into an interactive element that’s very marketable and ...

This past November, Instagram started experimenting with integrating 3D Touch advertisements into their iOS app. Following this venture, the company has continued to make use of the recently trending ...

With iOS 10, Apple has focused on expanding 3D Touch functionality to make it more relevant to users, in the hope that they eventually come to see it as second nature. If you have an iPhone 6s or ...