Perhaps the smartphone camera is one of the most important updates in recent years and also many users like it, but in the end, camera updates are not creative, they are in the end changes in the hardware and it is not easier in technology, so you will find that the camera jumps annually are much greater than the rest of the features of the devices. It seems that the feature that is really the most important feature of the new iPhone is the feature of 3D Touch or XNUMXD Touch. Let's see what this feature is.

XNUMXD Touch

What is and how it works?

3d touch screen sketch

2007D Touch is Apple's attempt to reinvent or introduce a new concept of touch. As Apple did before in XNUMX, and the first use of multi-touch in smartphones, it caused a buzz and changed the ways in which user interfaces were developed. With the Apple Watch, the company revealed a feature called Force Touch and developed it in MacBook devices, and here it is reaching the iPhone where the user can click on the screen to perform various functions within the applications. The modus operandi is that the device feels the depth that has been elicited from the glass based on the force of the user's pressure on the screen, which enables the device to perform multiple functions.

To clarify the difference between long touch and pressure, if you touch and hold the Twitter icon, for example, the icons will vibrate and the option to delete will appear, but if you do the same with clicking, you will have new options.

Features in Apple's system

3D touch in mail app

Apple has added several features in its system to support the feature. Some of them are at the system application level such as:

  •  In the Mail app, you can press a little on a message to quickly see the content, then you can swipe up to bring up commands such as flagging the mail or forwarding the message. If you increase the pressure on the message a little, you will be taken to the full page of the message readers (as shown in the image above).

3D touch home screen shortcuts

  • In the main screen, you can press deeply on the application icons such as the camera application to take a quick selfie in an emergency 😃 and the phone application to show several options, including the favorite contact and then just swipe to reach it and the call is completed. You can long-press the Maps app for quick options like sending your location to a friend, directing home, or registering your current location.
  • There are also features Apple has integrated into the system itself apart from apps. Where you can press deeply on the left side of the screen to move the phone to the multitasking view, and you can press deeply on the keyboard to move the cursor between the letters just as you can do on the iPad using two fingers.

All of these features can be felt on your finger using Apple's Taptic Engine, which applies a slight jolt under the screen to make you feel as if the screen is moving under your hand, but it is in fact steady. The period of tremor with it ranges from fifty milliseconds to ten milliseconds.

Bet on developers

Developer

As Apple usually does, no matter how advanced and distinguished the new features it offers in its system, their biggest bet is that it provides raw material for developers to innovate in and create new uses for the feature within their applications. Adding a new layer of methods to control the iPhone allows developers to put endless features. Applications that may benefit from the feature directly are drawing, design and note-taking applications, as well as games. A game that takes advantage of the feature was presented at the Apple conference, but the uses can extend to all applications of all kinds.

Obstacles

Nothing is easy is it? Of course, with the magnificence of this feature and its availability for a new generation of phone and application control, not all iPhone devices have the feature of course, but few users will have the ability to take advantage of the new functions. Here, an iPhone user of any previous generation, especially the 6 and 6 Plus, who were the most recent two phones a week ago, will not like the availability of important features in the applications exclusively for 6S phones only, and this is of course the most what the developer thinks about. So we expect app developers to fall into three parts. The first section is the one that will support the feature with unique features in its device and it is expected that this number is small. The second section is what will add some features, but sub-features that can be replaced with other things without touching in 10D, as Instagram developers have done. And the third category is those who will not be using the feature in their application in the first place. Of course, the proliferation of devices will attract developers, and a developer may ignore a feature available in 100 million devices, but if they become XNUMX million, it is difficult to ignore it.

Will the feature spread?

fingerusing 3d touch

After Apple introduced multi-touch for the first time, other companies took the feature and included it in their phones because it became a necessity in the use of smart phones and not just an exclusive feature. There is a good chance that the same thing will happen with XNUMXD Touch since a wider horizon is provided for developers on all systems. Of course, Apple will file lawsuits against companies as happened before, but if other companies adopt this feature and Google included it in Android, it will not become exclusive to Apple devices, but it will contribute to the spread of the applications that you use more often because many developers want to provide their applications in all systems with the same quality. . (It should be noted that Huawei's support for a similar feature differs from the way Apple supports it and is minimalistic, and the feature will not see the light well in Android phones unless Google officially supports it in its raw Android system).

What do you think about the redesign of the user interface based on this new generation of touch?

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