What does Apple's 3D touch mean?

3DTouch is a three-dimensional touch technology, which is called a new generation of multi-touch technology by Apple. It is ForceTouch used on AppleWatch, and the screen can sense different pressure-sensitive touches.

On April 38, 2065+September 15, Apple announced the 3DTouch function at the new product launch conference.

On the basis of the original ForceTouch tap and tap, 3DTouch adds the function of re-pressing this dimension.

Traditional two-finger tapping, sliding, opening and closing gestures have changed the way we browse and experience the digital world, but Apple is not satisfied with this. The pressure touch technology applied in AppleWatch and MacBook products extends the operation mode to three-dimensional level. .

ForceTouch and 3Dtouch are actually based on the same technology, both based on Apple's Taptic engine, but whether you admit it or not, 3DTouch is really better than ForceTouch.

The 3D Touch function first appeared on the iPhone 6s, and Apple tried to create a new interactive way with pressure-sensitive operation in addition to regular clicking, sliding and long pressing. The simple application is as follows:

① Press Quick Preview again, press Open again, press again and slide up to bring up the shortcut menu. This function is particularly useful in the photo album email circle of friends, which changes the high-frequency repetitive operation of opening-closing two steps into re-pressing open-opening and closing.

② Complete more operations with fewer steps. Wechat quickly scans the code, pays, adds friends, and text messages to quickly open unread conversations.

③ Press the right slide on the left edge of the screen again to switch the task to the previous application, slide a short distance to the right or press it again to enter multi-task.

④ Press the keyboard again and move the cursor quickly. This way of moving the cursor can not only move horizontally, but also move between lines in the vertical direction, and the cursor is completely followed manually. Unlike most input methods, the feedback of cursor movement is not clear, it is impossible to determine how far to slide to make the cursor move one grid, and there is no acceleration algorithm.

There are some advanced operations that are not easy to demonstrate, such as:

① 3D touch drawing, we can't control the thickness of the brush when drawing on the mobile phone normally, but we can control the finger strength to adjust the thickness of the brush after feeling oppressive. There are few apps for this function, and memos, screenshot annotations and photo annotations are all supported.

② 3D Touch Play Library Band. For example, when playing the piano, you can use 3D Touch to control the piano playing strength. (In fact, before the advent of 3D Touch, Apple had already controlled the sound of musical instruments according to the change of finger touch area).

③ The application in the game, the 3D touch cancellation skill in the glory of the king can effectively avoid the embarrassing situation of skill cancellation by mistake.

3D Touch is a great exploration of Apple's new interactive mode. It has a lot of practical value, and it has faster and clearer feedback than long press.

Extended data:

Pressing an icon with 3dtouch will pop up a translucent menu, which contains some shortcut operations under the application.

Pressing hard on the mailing list can also quickly pop up a window to view the mail. In the mailing list, press a message in the mailing list hard, and the complete message content will be displayed, and then it will be closed without sliding left and right.

Tap the phone to see the nearest contacts, press the camera to take a quick selfie, and press the photo gallery to browse the big picture quickly.

Tap the pop-up window to preview the message. Increase thumb pressure, and it will be full screen. Press the flight information lightly and forcefully in the timetable to display the flight information in the pop-up window.

Press and hold the map icon to pop up some shortcut options. It can be said that 3D-Touch greatly improves the efficiency of mobile phone operation.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia -3D touch