When you press against it, it provides the same physical feedback you feel when you use 3D
Touch on an app icon: a small vibration, and that's it.
You'll feel a slight vibration, just like the haptic feedback you feel when using 3D
Touch on an app icon.
Not exact matches
Tapping the house
icon in the corner of the widget or tapping the program's shortcut
on the
apps menu launches Social
Touch.
Galaxy Tab 8.9 has no buttons marring its bezel — all navigation and menu access buttons are located
on the
touch screen: Back, Home and the Samsung TouchWiz Task Manager
touch icons in the lower left of the home screens,
app and a customization view (a «+» sign)
on the upper right.
To start searching, just
touch the microphone within the Google
app or press the mic
icon on the Google home screen widget.
Unlike the iPod
touch, the Galaxy Player 5.0 features a built - in FM radio, whose
app you launch by tapping a convenient
icon on the music player's first home screen.
You'll find widget
icons for screen lock you can put the device to sleep without hitting a physical button), and for muting sound and microphone with a single
touch; a link to Lenovo's
App Shop (more
on that in a moment); and an overhaul of Honeycomb's standard basic home navigation buttons.
The second screen allows users to fill two of the eight spaces with their own favorite
apps, and the Android
icons on the bottom of the main screen (which sports a 320 × 480 HVGA resolution) are also
touch - activated.
So even if you don't have the ScanSnap with you (
on a business trip, for example, and you don't want to have to remember where you put that dinner receipt)-- just open the Evernote
app, —
touch the camera
icon, — snap the picture, — label and tag it (optional), — and toss the original in the nearest recycle bin.
More novel ideas include emotion monitoring devices where an employee
touches an
icon on an
app to indicate whether they are feeling happy, sad or angry.
Apple made the first step towards a wider adoption of 3D
Touch by adding support in its own
apps, so for example, when pressing the Mail
icon harder, you get options such as all inboxes, VIP, search, and message, while doing the same thing
on the camera
icon lets you take a selfie, record video or slow - motion, or shoot a photo instantly.
Next, if you have a 3D
Touch - enabled device, such as an iPhone 7, you can use 3D
Touch quick action shortcuts
on the Home
app icon to quickly access favourite scenes.
This point release includes a host of improvements like shortcuts when you long - press
on app icons (similar to 3D
Touch on iPhones), seamless system updates, and a Night Light mode to reduce blue light coming from the display late at night.
For example, as Patently Mobile reports, a user could
touch an
icon on the edge area of the phone so that the
app will be open once the device is unfolded.
One Apple feature I've been excited about using
on a regular basis is 3D
Touch, which presents you with options after a long press
on an
app icon.
Using the new 3D
Touch technology (more
on that in a bit), you can also press and hold the Camera
app icon and instantly choose to take a selfie shot with the 5MP front - facing camera.
You can then
touch the contacts
icon (looks like a person outline)
on the top right of the conversations screen (I suspect this user flow will improve with a future release of the Alexa
app).
To remove an
App from the Watch, you can touch and hold an app icon on the home screen and then tap the «X» to remove
App from the Watch, you can
touch and hold an
app icon on the home screen and then tap the «X» to remove
app icon on the home screen and then tap the «X» to remove it.
You can access the voice assistant by either long pressing the search
icon in the
app navigation tray or you can
touch that and press the microphone
icon on the search page.
Spotted in certain Google
apps by enterprising hackers, these shortcuts let you perform a gesture
on an
icon to access shortcuts to different areas of that
app — similar to 3D
Touch on the iPhone.
As you can see from the short video below, 3D
Touch on Android might be similar to the iOS version, at least when it comes to deploying
app shortcuts that would be available
on the screen, when performing a specific gesture
on an
app icon.
All it takes is a deep press
on an
icon or link to discover all sorts of shortcuts, and there are a decent number of games and
apps that take advantage of 3D
Touch, too.
The 3D
Touch display first introduced with the iPhone 6s and featured in all but one model released since then is smart enough to sense pressure, allowing you to take quick actions from the home screen just by long - pressing
on an
app icon.
If you have an older version of Android, you can always
touch the microphone
icon on the Home screen or in the Google Search
app to launch «OK Google».
As for the iPhone 6S Plus, we get a new technology called 3D
Touch, which uses a pressure - sensitive layer below the display, that allows for hidden menus to be shown when pressing
on something like an
app icon with a bit more force.
As a bonus, Meizu has built in a pressure - sensitive layer into the screen to enable 3D
Touch - like features, giving you the option to press hard
on app icons to bring up bespoke quick actions.
If you
touch and hold
on the top of any of these
apps, it will run windowed
on your home screen, where you can drag it around or minimize it into a floating
icon.
Prior to Alexa's tie - in with the the HTC U11, the best Alexa integration could be found
on the Huawei Mate 9, which also had a bespoke Alexa
app but with the major caveat that you needed to physically
touch an
icon in the
app before you could speak to the assistant.
You can still long press
on app icons to bring up quick actions or long press
on links and images to get a preview, but you can also use 3D
Touch to interact with your notifications.
As opposed to static
icons that are merely shortcuts to
apps, home screen widgets offer a variety of additional functionality, namely access to zero -
touch information that is updated automatically without any effort needed
on the user's part.