{"id":21850,"date":"2018-06-18T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T19:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21850"},"modified":"2018-06-18T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T19:00:25","slug":"how-apple-can-fix-3d-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/how-apple-can-fix-3d-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"How Apple Can Fix 3D Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eliz Kılıç<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not all of these buttons can be 3D Touched. How are you supposed to know which is which? The only possible thing you can do is try 3D Touch and remember it. And to make things worse, 3D Touch is not a gimmick anymore. You need to know you should be pressing hard on the “4 Button Control” to access “Personal Hotspot” or “AirDrop” toggles.<\/p>\n

Now that we know what the problem is, here is my solution. Like we did with the link texts years ago on the web, we should visually distinguish 3D Touchable buttons.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

My solution is adding a line on bottom-right of things that can be 3D Touched. Let’s call them Force Decorators (with reference to Force Touch).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Total agreement from me on this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Craig Mod<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Not only is 3d touch undiscoverable but it only reliably activates about half the time (less so on home screen icon grid). 3D touch and the touch bar are two of the most inscrutable apple design decisions in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s been three years since Apple debuted pressure-sensitive screens and I still have conversations with my family about how to access what should be simple features … features that just so happen to be gated behind a firm press gesture.<\/p>\n

Apple’s usage of 3D Touch throughout the system is inconsistent. that they artificially wall off features with 3D Touch gestures, when they aren’t needed at all. In Control Centre, you should be able to long-press on the platters to open them up. There’s no reason for this action to rely on pressure. Another case of this kind of misappropriation is the ‘Clear All Notifications’ button in Notification Centre. A long-press could serve the same job, and it doesn’t. That’s weird.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eliz Kılıç: Not all of these buttons can be 3D Touched. How are you supposed to know which is which? The only possible thing you can do is try 3D Touch and remember it. And to make things worse, 3D Touch is not a gimmick anymore. You need to know you should be pressing hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-18T19:00:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"6dc452b9-c93d-48b6-81e5-0050cab43fc3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-06-18T19:00:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AbcRSuck9SLaB5QBQyrQ_ww","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1272,1569,77,31,1472,111],"class_list":["post-21850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3d-touch","tag-control-center","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-notificationcenter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21851,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21850\/revisions\/21851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}