Users can now speed up their iPhone’s haptic response thanks to a new setting in iOS 17, and at its fastest, it’s almost identical to how old 3D Touch works.
According to Apple Insider, Apple abandoned the hardware-based 3D Touch feature with force-sensitive screens in 2019. At the time, analysts said that few users used the feature, but those who did like it It
As an alternative, Apple has adopted haptic feedback, where the screen is not pressure sensitive but responds artificially and is never lifelike. That’s mainly because 3D Touch works very quickly when a user taps on an app to open a pop-up menu. Now that Apple has released the second developer beta of iOS 17, it looks like it has attempted to recreate 3D Touch.
First spotted by Twitter user AppleIntro, the modified Settings app now includes a section actually called “3D & Haptic Touch”. In the first beta, searching for that name took users to the old Haptic Touch settings, but it’s now been renamed to list both. In the Accessibility section of this Settings, the old Haptic Touch section is also available but allows the user to choose whether the haptic touch responds to fast or slow taps.
Now the same section has a 3D Touch option with a slider to choose the amount of pressure required to activate the feature, it also slightly changes the touch duration setting, there is now a Default option, next to Fast and Slow. All will be confirmed after iOS 17 is officially released next September