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3D Touch is what the long press should have been all along

September 10, 2015

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It’s going to happen, again and again. It has to happen. Today, Apple executives unveiled the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus at the company’s annual keynote, and just as the rumors had suggested, one of the biggest changes made to the new smartphones was the addition of Force Touch — or rather, 3D Touch.

Apple went on to showcase some of the practical uses of 3D Touch, from accessing additional menus, to previewing images and emails, to creating new ways of interaction in mobile games. Of course, as is always the case with Apple news, Android users are taking to the social feeds to brag that “Android had it first,” citing the long press as the same feature, but is that really true?

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