Older iPhones had a screen that could interpret the pressure of your touch, giving the ui the ability to do multiple things based on how hard you press.
The best feature was pressing hard into the keyboard to get a cursor and then pressing lightly again to highlight text, all with just one thumb. It was super good. There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.
What I don’t understand about what we have now is that you can’t “undo” your highlight like you used to be able to. So if you overshoot the highlight using the new system and select too much text, well, screw you.
With the 3D Touch way you could really dial in your selection back and forth. It seems like you should still be able to do that with this new space bar version, but, alas, no.
There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.
Walt, is there a better way than long-pressing on a word and then clumsily moving the little markers to where you want your selection to start/end?
If there is I need to know, because I hate how janky selecting text often is.
I have no idea which IOS version this was but, I miss the 3D Touch.
I remember using it a lot back when it was still available.
I don’t know if you’ve tried it yet, but setting the “Haptic Touch” option to “Fast” gets you a bit closer to what you could do with 3D touch.
It’s under Accessibility -> Touch -> Haptic Touch
Personally I like it better vs the default setting.
What was that?
Older iPhones had a screen that could interpret the pressure of your touch, giving the ui the ability to do multiple things based on how hard you press.
The best feature was pressing hard into the keyboard to get a cursor and then pressing lightly again to highlight text, all with just one thumb. It was super good. There’s an alternative to that now, but it pales in comparison.
Yes! That feature alone kept me from upgrading my iPhone X until the 12 Pro came out. The alternative is severely limited, and annoying to use
What I don’t understand about what we have now is that you can’t “undo” your highlight like you used to be able to. So if you overshoot the highlight using the new system and select too much text, well, screw you.
With the 3D Touch way you could really dial in your selection back and forth. It seems like you should still be able to do that with this new space bar version, but, alas, no.
A whole 2 years …
3 years, actually. It may not seem like much, but many people upgrade every year. Especially those of us who are into tech
Walt, is there a better way than long-pressing on a word and then clumsily moving the little markers to where you want your selection to start/end? If there is I need to know, because I hate how janky selecting text often is.
It was on the iPhone 6s to iPhone Xs