Apple’s giving you good vibrations

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All about Haptic Touch for iPhone and how it differs from the older screen technology 3D Touch.

HAPTIC TOUCH GIVES YOU TACTILE FEEDBACK WHEN YOU LONGPRESS YOUR SCREEN

KEY FACT

The word haptic comes from the Greek “haptesthai,” meaning to touch; the word was anglicized to become “haptic,” which means “relating to the sense of touch.” In tech, haptics is an umbrella term for technology that utilizes touch for input or to provide feedback to the user. Those little taps your Apple Watch does while navigating? That’s haptic feedback.

REMEMBER 3D TOUCH, Apple’s technology for iPhone screens? It’s gone, replaced by a technology Apple calls Haptic Touch. The results feel very similar, but the two technologies are very different.

3D TOUCH VS HAPTIC TOUCH: WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Apple introduced 3D Touch in the iPhone 6S in 2015, and the technology was used across the iPhone range up to and including the iPhone X, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max. The idea behind 3D Touch was to make additional options available to you if you pressed harder on your phone’s screen.