Force Touch, a new feature of the Apple Watch that I wouldn’t mind seeing on the iPhone and iPad

Apple Watch, las tres formas en las que los desarrolladores conquistarán nuestra muñeca

This is how Apple describes on its website the so-called Force Touch , the second novelty in interaction methods of the Apple Watch together with the Digital Crown. The system is quite promising, either offering a direct access to the selection and customization of the watch faces avoiding the classic settings panels, or saving space by eliminating the need for a button dedicated to the secondary actions of the app we are in.

Force Touch, a new feature of the Apple Watch that I wouldn’t mind seeing on the iPhone and iPad
Force Touch, a new feature of the Apple Watch that I wouldn’t mind seeing on the iPhone and iPad

The whole screen hides a big “right button” waiting for a stronger than normal keystroke to display this menu of actions. This makes Force Touch a perfect interaction method for a device as small as the Apple Watch, but its possible implementation in the rest of the devices on the block would offer equally interesting opportunities. Especially if left to the developers.

The electrodes on the display detect the difference between a touch and a pressure and give you immediate access to different types of controls

With the WatchKit API Watch Apps developers can only define a list of one to four actions that are displayed in the pattern of the radio buttons you see above, but in the next generations of iPhone and iPad it could improve our productivity enormously by including a wide range of context controls .

It’s hard to predict when Force Touch will arrive on screens larger than those of the Apple Watch, but I think that’s the question, when it will, not if.

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