hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and I want to talk a little bit about 3d
touch now we know that it's sort of went away with the iPhone 11 Pro the iPhone
11 pro max and the iPhone 11 where Apple actually physically removed the
pressure-sensitive layer under the display so that 3d touch is no longer
pressure sensitive and they've replaced it with the word haptic touch and what
that means is you just long press on an icon and you get a little menu from that
and so it's sort of like a right-click on a computer but with their previous
phones if you're not familiar with it or maybe you haven't used one of the older
phones it actually has a pressure-sensitive layer under it so you
would just push down and push a little bit harder in order to get that menu to
pop up and it's a lot faster than the press and hold so if I show you this
side by side you'll see I can do it at the exact same time and it's just much
faster on the iPhone 8 plus for example that actually has the 3d touch built in
but Apple actually changed the way it behaves with iOS 13 so that it was less
noticeable on the newer devices and what that means is when you used to press a
little bit on an icon it would sort of fan out and then if you let go it would
come back and you can see this a little bit if you go into the menus for 3d
touch on an iPhone 8 plus or something else below that that has 3d touch or
even a XS or a XS Max or an iPhone X so if we go into settings and then we'll
go to our touch settings now in the 3d touch menu used to be able to see this
if you pushed a little bit and then it would pop out a little bit and then go
back but now you can't really do it you can just do it ever so slightly but
they've basically removed 3d touch altogether now also 3d touch is more
convenient when you're typing so if you're on a website for example and you
want to type another web address or you want to move the cursor all you need to
do is push a little pressure in the middle of the keyboard and you can move
your cursor around on a non 3d touch device it doesn't work like that so if
we go to Apple the same thing here and we want to move our cursor around if I
put my finger down in the middle of the keyboard it doesn't do anything but if I
put my finger down on space and hold it then I can move the cursor around so
it's not that difficult but it's something that's chain
and it was a feature that a lot of people really liked that they removed
and so the reason I want to talk about this is because there has been a recent
development in the world of Android where Google did the March pixel update
and brought a very similar 3d touch like feature to the phone using just software
so they use their AI or their learning algorithms to actually understand how
your finger spreads out as it presses the display so if you 3d press or just
press quickly on on say Twitter here it just pops up very quickly and to show
you a comparison for speed now they did have a long press before but now it's
about the same speed so I think Apple can actually improve this over time with
the same sort of learning and it feels the exact same as 3d touch so if you're
familiar with that it would be great to have them do something like that if we
could have the ability to have them use maybe their neural engine to understand
how your finger fans out as it pushes on the display harder so it would be great
to have something like that back and then have that brought over to an iPad
as well where the glass is so big that you can't really press on it the same
way and those pressure-sensitive layers don't work well so it would be great to
see them bring it back based on something like we had with the pixel
software but instead do it on the Apple side where it's nice and safe and secure
and works like 3d touch now I don't know if they could bring the keyboard feature
back but I would love to see them bring everything else back since it's so
helpful now some apps still allow you to do the
pressure-sensitive 3d touch moves but for the most part it's gone all
throughout the OS it's more of just a press and hold and that's fairly
unfortunate but hopefully they can fix this and bring it back but I would love
to hear what you have to say about it with iPhone 12 I don't know that they'll
bring it back but they could do it with an OLED display or they could do it on
an LCD display they have the option to do that and with the iPhone 9 or se 2
they most certainly could do it if it's like an iPhone 8 because it'll be an LCD
and so if we have that sort of set up that's the same there's no reason they
couldn't bring it back with iOS 14 or iPhone 12 and I think a lot of people
would really appreciate that and whether it's a supply
issue a manufacturing issue or something they have planned in the future to get
rid of it I think it would be great to bring it back and I think it's a great
feature that I missed quite a lot so I wanted to hear what you had to say about
this and if you're still watching at this point I really appreciate it but I
wanted to get your feedback as far as follow-ups now I talked about this on
Monday where I do sort of news reviews over the past weekend and the week but I
thought maybe we could talk about issues like this on Friday but let me know what
you think about it in the comments below it kind of breaks up talking about iOS
updates and things like that but let me know your thoughts in the comments below
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