Hi mary,

Thanks for this.

Does anyone else think this is bloody stupid considering multitasking is one of 
the features apple was pushing for the newer devices and os’s

But I do see that the app switcher using the double tapping of the home button 
is still there.

From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] 
On Behalf Of Mary Otten
Sent: Saturday, 1 July 2017 11:59 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Removal of 3D Touch app switching gesture in iOS 11 confirmed as 
intentional change

Well, this is from a public source. So hopefully it's OK to post here. Bummer. 
This and the loss of the ability to return to the previous app you were in from 
another app or unfortunate. I use that last feature a lot to go back to mail 
when I've gone to a website. I wonder why they're doing this.
Mary
Removal of 3D Touch app switching gesture in iOS 11 confirmed as intentional 
change
9to5Mac  /  Benjamin Mayo


[https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/3d-touch-ios-10-removed.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600&h=799]<https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/30/ios-11-3d-touch-app-switching-gesture-removed/>

Whilst iOS 11 includes a lot of new stuff to enjoy, there are also a few 
features that have been left behind. One such example is a lesser-known 3D 
Touch gesture that enabled faster access to the iPhone app switcher and a quick 
shortcut to move back to the previous app. Both of these elements are no longer 
present in iOS 11 and a bug report appears to confirm that this was an 
intentional removal rather than an outstanding bug.

Bryan Irace filed a Radar about the removal of the 3D Touch convenience gesture 
and posted the Apple engineer’s reply on 
Twitter<https://twitter.com/irace/status/880794987914563585>.

Short but sweet, it unfortunately states that the feature has been removed on 
purpose and will not be returning: ‘Please know that this feature was 
intentionally removed.’

In case you aren’t aware exactly what feature we are referencing, try it out 
for yourself: on an iOS 10 device with 3D Touch, iPhone 6s or iPhone 7, press 
deeply at the left edge of the screen to open the app switcher.

Instead of lifting immediately, drag across to seamlessly switch from the 
current app to the previous one. This was much faster than double-tapping the 
Home Button and dragging between open app ‘cards’, but will simply stop working 
when users upgrade to iOS 11.

Apple engineering has confirmed that 3D Touch multitasking was intentionally 
removed in iOS 11. I am livid. 
pic.twitter.com/kiCcLq9XMB<https://t.co/kiCcLq9XMB>

— Bryan Irace (@irace) June 30, 
2017<https://twitter.com/irace/status/880794987914563585>

You can see Craig Federighi demo the gesture at the original iPhone 6s event 
below, which heralded 3D Touch as a marquee feature. It’s fair to say that the 
functionality was not a critical part of the iOS experience; it was meant as a 
power user shortcut to a very common action.

It’s unclear why Apple would remove something that was so useful — perhaps it 
interferes with the gestures of the upcoming bezel-less iPhone 8 somehow, 
although it’s hard to envision how it might clash.

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Original Article: 
https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/30/ios-11-3d-touch-app-switching-gesture-removed/


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