Dinside.no: The best news of this year’s iPhone is the so-called 3D Touch technology, where the phone is no longer just records where you’ve placed your finger, but also how hard you press.
A feature we know both from Apple Watch, and from the trackpad on the new MacBook.
A new way to navigate
It makes that Apple now has enriched user interface with its own 3D touch features, which are also made available to third parties.
For example, you can touch an icon on the home screen to then squeeze your finger into an extra notch, and thus it will in many apps pops up a speed dial menu, so you can jump directly to a specific function in the app.
This is also a lot to preview venues throughout the operating system. You can touch and squeeze into an email, a website, an SMS, one Instagram account or whatever, and then preview what’s behind in a separate window.
You can also swipe preview upward, to the right or left to perform new functions – deletion, sharing and so on. And squeeze it another notch into jumps into it. This feature kalller Apple “peek and pop.”
Read more about what 3D Touch can be used in our review of iPhone 6s.
PS: See video of how it all works in practice in the video at the top of the article.
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Our favorite shortcuts
As noted in our iPhone 6s reviewer’s 3D Touch very well implemented in the operating system. Third parties have also started to use the function in their apps.
There are already some one can do with 3D Touch. Here are some of our favorite shortcuts so far.
Preview emails: Being able to see what an email message contains without having to press through it is very convenient, especially for us who receive a lot of mail during one day. Extra fun is it to be able to delete the message directly from the preview by swiping to the left.
keyboard as trackpad: To try to place the cursor on the iPhone keyboard can be challenging, perhaps especially for those with big fingers, but with 3D Touch goes a breeze by just tap anywhere on the keyboard, so that it becomes a trackpad. Then you can use a cursor to select and modify text.
Instagram: With 3D Touch we can upload a photo directly from the home screen, but snokegenet in us like extra well that we can preview images and users in both picture and activity stream in the app. We hope this kind of functionality coming soon to Facebook too (since they are the Facebook who owns Instagram).
Shazam: Android users have long been able to launch Shazam straight from the home screen via a widget. Now iPhone users can also identify a song without having to open the app itself. Just push hard on the app icon and select Shortcut “Shazam Now”. It opens albeit app, but it goes a little faster than before.
Dropbox: We load constantly up pictures (screenshots) from iPhone to Dropbox. With 3D Touch will not process as tedious as before (ok, we save perhaps a few taps, but everything makes a difference). Now we just need to press hard on the app icon, and select “Upload picture”.
Launch Center Pro: We have previously discussed this brilliant app that lets you get your own startup center on iPhone. That means you can create shortcuts to apps and features you frequently use on your phone, so you will save time.
With 3D Touch can get these shortcuts almost right on the home screen, be it whether you want to start the camera in Instagram, do searches in Google Maps, open a webpage in Safari, writing a message on Twitter and so on.
3D Touch for all?
But Apple is not the only ones to bet on pressure-sensitive screens. Just before iPhone 6s was launched, unveiled Huawei Mate S, also with touch-sensitive screen. During the launch, they demonstrated including how to use the monitor as weight.
The company Synaptics also showed recently presented 3D Touch-like technology called Clear Force, which probably will be able to emerge on other smartphones in the beginning of next year, writes VentureBeat.
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The matter was originally published at DinSide Read here.
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